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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I_Abibde posted...

Committed a very old school D&D mistake yesterday by misjudging the blast radius of a fireball. Of my wizard, only the pointy hat remained, but all the Undead he was attempting to blow up had similar luck. Entire party had a good laugh at that mishap. ... Will have to play a barbarian next, I think.

I just liked how, when the Acq Inc guys were still playing in 4e, their Wizard used to deliberately cast Fireball centered on the Fighter, so it would hit everyone around him. Which they were actually building up by having a bonus for casting that way, and giving the Fighter fire resistance.

Fun story. Ages ago, there was an MMO called Pandora Saga. For a short time it was run by Atlus, and I got sucked in. I tried to take others from SBA with me, but Raven and...somebody else whose name escapes me at the moment (beef)-related names in-game really stuck around.

Obviously I don't play well with others, and my own guild fell apart quickly. I had short tenures with other guilds, despite actually being the highest ranked Archer on the server as a freelancer for like a year and a half out of it's 3ish year run and that included a 6 month ban...

Long story short, during a brief stint with a particular guild we'd found a way to...use my odd build to essentially break the game. I had what amounted to one of 3 of the strongest bows on the server and one of the only 2 with an elemental + that was worth a damn..

There was an exorcist class which could swap buffs from one player to another. This is where it gets interesting.

I was a str/Dex Archer with gear that was so tanky it was effective on my 2h sword alt. There was a skill where I could basically toggle my ability to move in exchange for a 20% atk boost. I could add poison to my attacks with pots I could make. There were fire and holy elements 2 other classes could buff me with. There was a dark self-buff other Archer builds and assassin's could access. There was a buff for the 2h sword class that boosted atk 20% for 3 attacks, and another that gave 20% for the first swing at the penalty for opening them up to like 40% dmg taken until that swing was taken.

The elemental buffs each had their own % chance to proc my weapon effects which were lightning (stun) and 2 4% chances to slow the target.

You could also get a tank to take your damage for you.

See where we're going with this yet?

A few of us were really, really into theorycrafting to say the least.

Without getting into the particulars of my batshit build and the minutae of my gear...we put a party together with 2 exos, a 'sin, a juggernaut, a tank, a chanter, a summoner, and a mounted pally.

We head down to the PK map with a really really twisted idea looking for a perfect target for shits and giggles.

Who do we find farming mobs right in front of our base on the PK map, but one of the most obnoxious mages from a rival faction farming with his personal follw-tank?

Halconen mode...engage

I give everyone my speed buff, and hit the nest trigger. The tank covers me. The chanter hits me with holy, the mage with fire, the sin hit his dark and the jugg hit his self-buffs. The exos swap the dark buff and the jugg's self buff which I should *never* have onto me. One exo casts the skill that puts an AoE protective carpet around me, the healer buffs my defence.

I run my standard attack rotation and vaporize both of them before the third tick of my arrow rain lands because we got both of them from behind. I hit hard on my own, but with the absolutely absurd attack buffs switched to me...I was doing 3x my normal damage for the first 3 shots off, and like double on the other 3 in the rotation... (Cont)
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