Toe-to-Toe with an Ancient Wyrm

[Panthor the Hated]

proof that macing pwns

[Jason]

good fight, also nice to see i am not the only one who gets dire ancient wyrm loot

[Panthor the Hated]

dire loot?

[Zelek Uther]

I wonder whether this is still possible, now that Weapon Damage is T2A accurate?

Reference: Patch 140b excerpt

Patch 140b:

• The bonus to weapon damage based on the wear of the item has been adjusted. The formula previously used was the pre-T2A formula, and found to be inconsistent with the T2A era, and other adjustments to weapon damage that were made in early T2A, prior to our timeframe.

Reference: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26483

So overall all fully repaired/brand new melee weps do 20% less damage than before the patch?

Yes

[nightshark]

I wonder whether this is still possible, now that Weapon Damage is T2A accurate?

Actually, when this was done we didn't have the 125% damage bonus for fully repaired weapons. That was in place for maybe 6 months tops.

[Zelek Uther]

Ah! Thanks nightshark, I didn't know that!

So Mikel123 doesn't have to come out of retirement and slay the Ancient Wyrm again... I was kindof hoping he would!

Mikel, your "King of PvM" title is secure.

[archaicsubrosa77]

Mikel, your "King of PvM" title is secure.

Unless someone is up to the challange to beat his time.

[Mikel123]

nightshark is correct - this was before that boost.

Actually, I did retire after this video. Then I came back (we always do) and did it again for fun. I tried to record it in .avi format for some Youtube leetness, but it causes some tremendous client lag and was unplayable. And the resulting video is so choppy it's not worth it either.

My time is probably beatable; I don't think I paid too much attention to red potions and stamina. Working in my favor though, I did have the bug in which you could cast Protection and stack a jewelry of protection on top of it (check out that AR!). Working against me though was the reflect jewelry behavior. At the time, equipping a reflect jewelry would actually cast Magic Reflect on you, and you'd have to take it off and re-equip it to put another casting on yourself. So you could reflect more than one spell in a 5-second span, but it also took precious actions, which with bandages and potions and whatnot are in precious short supply. Currently you can throw on a reflect item and probably reflect every spell without using a single action.

I spent a lot of time testing weapons and their damage formulas, and I can say I'm pretty sure the war axe is the best macing weapon for this. But you'd definitely get a quicker kill with a war fork. Even a broadsword, probably. I just tackled it with the war axe for defensive stamina-lowering purposes.

[Sandro]

I just tackled it with the war axe for defensive stamina-lowering purposes.

This is most likely why you were able to survive. While war fork would do a considerable amount of extra damage, the wyrm would be at full stamina the entire fight and I don't think a fencer would be able to go toe-to-toe with this beast.

[Panthor the Hated]

The truly amazing part is hes done this like 5 times and tg hasn't ganked him once. They're always checking the AW room.

[Clyde-]

The truly amazing part is hes done this like 5 times and tg hasn't ganked him once. They're always checking the AW room.

Which makes me wonder...something seems a little fishy about that! heh

[chainsoar]

hahaha, I'm going to do it with a swordsman, I'm the best. Watch this space.

[Pied Piper]

*starts watching*

[chainsoar]

http://my.uosecondage.com/Status/Player/163695

In training, no macro style.

[Mikel123]

The truly amazing part is hes done this like 5 times and tg hasn't ganked him once. They're always checking the AW room.

Fun fact: TG doesn't call it the Ancient Wyrm room, they call it the mikel123 room.