Are the bosses really that tough ?

Cerberus

You stupid boy
think they mean 18 hours game time, not real time. could be wrong though. Also I spent more than that in one AV once. before they made av shit
 

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
real time according to the report:
"they stopped when peopel started passign out due to extreme tiredness"

That's only 3x the length of a pre-1.3 nerf scholo 5 man....
 

Gottaa

Full Member
Yeah, but that wasn't one boss, you could get in clear and area move on, log out, sleep, log back in and hope everyone else was on time and carry on. This is killing one boss :eek:
 

MarkS

Full Member
Longest boss kill i can remember being a part of was the last boss of Galladoria, the Hibernian Shrouded Isles raid dungeon in DAoC - It had a phase where only Nightshades an assasin class could damage the boss, and Nightshades were about as popular as Merly at a buffet.. so you ended up with 3-4 people chipping away at this boss while 90 people stood around scratching their heads, i remember going to bed, getting up 6 hours later and they were still at it.

Damn hibbies.
 

Vigilia

Mrs. Scudley
That was 18 REAL hours that that linkshell tried to kill Pandemonium Warden and they still failed. It's impossible at the moment to kill, a cruel joke or something by Square-Enix. There's another currently undefeatable boss as well in FFXI, Absolute Virtue. Square-Enix went as far as to release a video of their development team fighting to try show how it's done but they edited it all weird so the continuity didn't make sense- players were using 2-hour timed special abilities in much too fast a succession and plenty other loopholes in it. Every linkshell that tried to go fight it based on SE's dev team strategy also failed, only way Absolute Virtue is killable is by abusing a graphics glicth that locks it inside a wall... but if you get caught doing that the GMs will stop you. Few linkshells (guilds) have managed it though with the slight cheat.

Normal boss fights in FFXI are pretty reasonably short.. maybe an hour vs. things like Odin. Really shitty guilds take 3-4 hours to kill large wyrms and mobs like Khimaira, our current guild does them in 45mins-1hr.
 

Ritter

Demon of Razgriz
The linkshell that attempted it was a very skilled one containing a lot of very good players I was reading about their attempt on their live journal. They had 8-9 relics between them (best weapons in the game). http://rukenshin.livejournal.com/

Rukenshin believes that the fight would take up to 24 hours if you read that link youll see he mentions how fast they were killing the mobs and how they dont believe they could do anything particularly different.

It took them 18 hours of killing the other forms to get PW to pop and from there he believes that it would take an extra 3-4 hours to kill that.

Its really stupid I like the idea of having very tough bosses that seperate the best shells in the game from others but at the same time a whole day fighting one monster without the chance for breaks and so on is just retarded.
 

Zeus

Full Member
things like that dont seperate out the best guilds though - they seperate out the ones that a) dont have to work, and b) account share so that their freind can take over for a few hours when they get some sleep :p
 
Top