Gimp Power!
Mar. 31st, 2003 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothSo, Flyken and Terra (Speckles and my AC2 characters we normally play together, barring cheating by one of us [glower]) were levelling up on Moarsmen, and hit 25 doing so, and suddenly found ourselves in possession of the Moarsman curse. So, with a level 24 tonk of some flavor (possibly an invoker, although at 24 he didn't have any pets) along for the ride, we went to sanctuary and got together a burun hunting group to lift the curse. It's a quest -- you're at -100 hp until you kill a laundry list of Burun, after which you're at +50 hp for a few hours, and with 80k xp to boot.
So the mismatched group got together and ran around killing burun. Somehow, Flyken and the level 24 ended up leading (by virtue of their superior impatience) even though they had no clue what they were doing. Eventually, working in concert, they managed to aggravate two large groups of Burun including an entire village led by a Burun Immortal, and the group panicked and scattered, and mostly got killed.
I (Terra) was one of two survivors, by virtue of my superior 'running away' expertise. I'm really pretty good at running away in every MMORPG I've ever played in. If only running away gave XP!
So, there I was, a level 25 Sorcerer with a level 30 Bounty Hunter, of all things. In case you don't know, Sorcerers and Bounty Hunters are the most maligned classes in all AC2, with the possible exception of Alchemists and Zealots.
What most people might not know, even if they know that, is that both classes are debuff-based. With only the two of us, we were forced to be careful, and under the combined might of our water and poison and ataxia and whatever else the bounty hunter was doing, the poor Burun barely got a hit in...
Eventually, I got killed, when an extra non-debuffed Burun spawned on top of us (they tend to do that, it's why you really want a large group hunting Burun), but someone (don't know who) killed the very last critter on the list and we all got XP... well, except for the level 24 who'd been shouting into the void of a lagged chat system. We heard his angry screaming and insults about 10 minutes later, after he'd already logged off in frustration.
So the mismatched group got together and ran around killing burun. Somehow, Flyken and the level 24 ended up leading (by virtue of their superior impatience) even though they had no clue what they were doing. Eventually, working in concert, they managed to aggravate two large groups of Burun including an entire village led by a Burun Immortal, and the group panicked and scattered, and mostly got killed.
I (Terra) was one of two survivors, by virtue of my superior 'running away' expertise. I'm really pretty good at running away in every MMORPG I've ever played in. If only running away gave XP!
So, there I was, a level 25 Sorcerer with a level 30 Bounty Hunter, of all things. In case you don't know, Sorcerers and Bounty Hunters are the most maligned classes in all AC2, with the possible exception of Alchemists and Zealots.
What most people might not know, even if they know that, is that both classes are debuff-based. With only the two of us, we were forced to be careful, and under the combined might of our water and poison and ataxia and whatever else the bounty hunter was doing, the poor Burun barely got a hit in...
Eventually, I got killed, when an extra non-debuffed Burun spawned on top of us (they tend to do that, it's why you really want a large group hunting Burun), but someone (don't know who) killed the very last critter on the list and we all got XP... well, except for the level 24 who'd been shouting into the void of a lagged chat system. We heard his angry screaming and insults about 10 minutes later, after he'd already logged off in frustration.
