Droughtman's Challenge

[Glitch]

Well, they announced it on the officials finally. With an extended price tag...
So who's going to pay the price?



GS4-SIRINA
NIR+1
Droughtman's Challenge - Shattered on 07/27/2011 06:24 PM CDT

We will run a smaller scale tournament in Shattered (due to your population) of 10 runs, 10 contestants each, with a finals round for the 10 winners. The grand prize will include the airship (mobile property).

The dates for the event will be compressed into one weekend, August 26-28, and the finals round will be the evening of August 28. Times will be spread in the evening and afternoon, so hopefully there will be a time that will work for most people.

I hope to have tickets on sale sometime Monday, August 1. Ticket price will be $35 each, which is $5 higher than the prime price, because you have 10x the chance to win the grand prize!

~Sirina

Addendum: Tickets will be limited to one per account for the first week in order to give anyone who is interested a chance to buy one. After that, any remaining tickets will be available for anyone to purchase, in case people want to stack the odds in their favor.

[GodSatan]

haha fuck that expensive shit

[raith]

im not paying it even posted that on the officials

have fun if you do

[Fallen]

Hopefully, that also means they will cull the prize hopper to only the best stuff so only good items are released. There is a whole lot of, "Meh" mixed in with the awesome.

[Nostradamus]

Well, they announced it on the officials finally. With an extended price tag...
So who's going to pay the price?



GS4-SIRINA
NIR+1
Droughtman's Challenge - Shattered on 07/27/2011 06:24 PM CDT

We will run a smaller scale tournament in Shattered (due to your population) of 10 runs, 10 contestants each, with a finals round for the 10 winners. The grand prize will include the airship (mobile property).

The dates for the event will be compressed into one weekend, August 26-28, and the finals round will be the evening of August 28. Times will be spread in the evening and afternoon, so hopefully there will be a time that will work for most people.

I hope to have tickets on sale sometime Monday, August 1. Ticket price will be $35 each, which is $5 higher than the prime price, because you have 10x the chance to win the grand prize!

~Sirina

Addendum: Tickets will be limited to one per account for the first week in order to give anyone who is interested a chance to buy one. After that, any remaining tickets will be available for anyone to purchase, in case people want to stack the odds in their favor.

Im interested in the gear that it drops. I mean wouldnt it be awesome to be able to script in your mobile home right in your hunting area?

Why swim in and out of Nelemar if you have a supernode right inside. Although Im not specifically sure of the stats on the airship but im sure there are tons of possibilities.

But I will be using that money and paying for 3 months sub to rift instead. Im not attending.

[Fatsix]

But I will be using that money and paying for 3 months sub to rift instead. Im not attending.

Nostradamus could have a real ark...

[Inspire]

LOL, one of you is getting the dead cat.



Unless they put only self-ammo bows or 606/919/219 trinkets, etc. It's not worth it. And even then, do you really want an OP weapon to use for someone else to steal?


Add weapon bonding for all professions, or when you're disarmed, you don't drop the weapon, you only use all benefit from it and THEN maybe introduce nice weapons.

[Drunken Durfin]

LOL, one of you is getting the dead cat.

Unless they put only self-ammo bows or 606/919/219 trinkets, etc. It's not worth it. And even then, do you really want an OP weapon to use for someone else to steal?

Add weapon bonding for all professions, or when you're disarmed, you don't drop the weapon, you only use all benefit from it and THEN maybe introduce nice weapons.

Nobody is really stealing weapons anymore, we've run off most of the overt assholes.

As for weapon bonding, even that is not 100%. I lost weapons now and again even as a bonded warrior.

Unless they swear they have taken stuff out like the "forever crystal amulets" and such I'm not going.

[Sheikh]

I'm going to be reactivating my accts and getting some tickets.

[Inspire]

Nobody is really stealing weapons anymore, we've run off most of the overt assholes.




Katze? He had a pretty big collection of stolen weapons and was still accumulating when I left.

[Drunken Durfin]

Katze? He had a pretty big collection of stolen weapons and was still accumulating when I left.

I said most.

[Inspire]

1 person is all it takes to make weapons worthless.


They just need to change disarm to disable. You lose all benefit from the weapon, but it doesn't leave your hands.

It's retarded to be able to lose $1500 so easily.

[waywardgs]

I don't see anything being worth $1500 in shattered.

[Sheikh]

Nothing in shattered has ever sold for anything near $1500

[Stry]

With only 110 loot spots to fill, it should be very easy to fill the hopper with selective stuff.

A bandolier would be one of the better weapons to have in shattered.

[Inspire]

With only 110 loot spots to fill, it should be very easy to fill the hopper with selective stuff.

A bandolier would be one of the better weapons to have in shattered.


Bandoliers, the quivers, magical trinkets, possibly DB.


What other non-junk came out of droughtmans?

[Drunken Durfin]

1 person is all it takes to make weapons worthless.



That one person is not bothering anyone these days.

[Fallen]

Bandoliers, the quivers, magical trinkets, possibly DB.


What other non-junk came out of droughtmans?

An animate dead wand might be cool for scripting at cap. The spirit returning orbs would also definitely help Wrackers stay out in the field longer. Those tokens too.

[Stry]

Maybe they'll throw out all kinds of crazy 10x Masterfully padded/weighted stuff? It's not like they need to worry about 'balance' in shattered.

10x permablessed MCW javolin bandolier anyone? Haha.

that'd get people buying $35 tickets. Granted I'm sure they will sell anyhow.

[GodSatan]

If they tell us that the prizes are going to be awesome, and no junk like a forever crystal amulet, then MAYBE they'd get a ticket from me.

[Michaelous]

The prizes better be super uber to justify that price hike. Everyone in shattered has better items than all of the prizes from the prime droughtman, so if they are going to motivate us to pay, then they better have like spirit stealing look of death items n ish

[Drunken Durfin]

The prizes better be super uber to justify that price hike. Everyone in shattered has better items than all of the prizes from the prime droughtman, so if they are going to motivate us to pay, then they better have like spirit stealing look of death items n ish

But...you get an increased chance to win the airship!

I totally agree with you, and so do the rest of us. Saddly, I believe this is why the chain got yanked on the GM's that were giving us nice toys. I'm sure that someone at Simu said something to the effect of "If you keep giving them stuff they won't pay for events."

Oh, and to the person that wins the airship, I'll give you 100mil silvers for it.

[Sheikh]

Bandoliers, the quivers, magical trinkets, possibly DB.

None of this can be stolen.......

[Fortybox]

The airship is nothing but a heavy dose of virtual viagra for max e-peen. No way am I paying for 35 bucks unless the items are super duper cool. I could care less about that piece of crap airship. lrn2chrono/go2

[Michaelous]

id pay for a chance to win 10x/10x td/ds full plate

[Sheikh]

If a bottomless quiver comes out, I will pay out the peepee hole for it in trades, silvers, cash.

[raith]

if some one gets a HCW or better short sword ide be willing pay for that as well.

at 35 bucks im not paying for a chance at something i may want/need and 100mil from winning the airship(not likely as i think one of the capped charactors will win it hands down) would be nice but its not like i would have much to do with said silvers

[Drew]

(not likely as i think one of the capped charactors will win it hands down)

Clearly you did not run DR in prime.

[raith]

Clearly you did not run DR in prime.

that would be correct. i havent logged into prime since march

[ThatDamnTep]

Being durable is an extreme disadvantage based on the way the maze works. The more hit points you have, the longer you have to sit through other character's attacks, scarabs, and the other damage dealing, multi-round stunning effects you can encounter just for trying to win the damn maze. Dying and re-spawning in 10 seconds is so much better than sitting there for 10+ rounds because a void hit you in a non fatal area.

Take the lowest level character you can, with tanked con and no PF training. You'll be happier for it. I think the magic number for dying instantly to scarabs was 15 hit points.

[Inspire]

Being durable is an extreme disadvantage based on the way the maze works. The more hit points you have, the longer you have to sit through other character's attacks, scarabs, and the other damage dealing, multi-round stunning effects you can encounter just for trying to win the damn maze. Dying and re-spawning in 10 seconds is so much better than sitting there for 10+ rounds because a void hit you in a non fatal area.

Take the lowest level character you can, with tanked con and no PF training. You'll be happier for it. I think the magic number for dying instantly to scarabs was 15 hit points.



LOL, I thought about using a fixskills just before the maze to test this but I did not. Glad to see my thinking was correct.

[NeJaeden]

if some one gets a HCW or better short sword ide be willing pay for that as well.

at 35 bucks im not paying for a chance at something i may want/need and 100mil from winning the airship(not likely as i think one of the capped charactors will win it hands down) would be nice but its not like i would have much to do with said silvers

make a perfect short sword, enchant it as high as you can and then hand it to a merchant.

In Shattered, when a merchant is present, they usually give you 1-2 "turns" where you can add HCP to armor, HCW to a weapon, add an enchant, add some resistance to armor, or just alter the item / feature. Still pretty generous if you ask me.

[raith]

make a perfect short sword, enchant it as high as you can and then hand it to a merchant.

In Shattered, when a merchant is present, they usually give you 1-2 "turns" where you can add HCP to armor, HCW to a weapon, add an enchant, add some resistance to armor, or just alter the item / feature. Still pretty generous if you ask me.

i have 2 perfect short swords all ready both 1 is 4x 1 is 3x
just need to get a GM around when i can be around.....
not always an easy task

[Spooky]

Reland is coming back to shattered soon! (In a couple days hopefully)

And is signing up for droughtmans! (1 ticket, all I can afford right now)
(Reland is on welfare like welfare katze)

Question: I'm going back again. I'm going to set a set time limit on outlook to play, couple hours a day. If I miss a merchant for an event, I miss it. Oh well. It's not the end of the world and I'll always have other opportunties. Its alot better than not playing at all. It's not worth wasting my life over just to get 1 extra merchant, you know?

Anyway, I had a couple days left (about less than a week) before my 30 days were up . I was going to use my fixstat (within the 30 days) to change my stats. I did quit before the 30 days, so when I sign back up, am I screwed or will the days since I de-activated not count?

Thanks

[raith]

Reland is coming back to shattered soon! (In a couple days hopefully)

And is signing up for droughtmans! (1 ticket, all I can afford right now)
(Reland is on welfare like welfare katze)

Question: I'm going back again. I'm going to set a set time limit on outlook to play, couple hours a day. If I miss a merchant for an event, I miss it. Oh well. It's not the end of the world and I'll always have other opportunties. Its alot better than not playing at all. It's not worth wasting my life over just to get 1 extra merchant, you know?

Anyway, I had a couple days left (about less than a week) before my 30 days were up . I was going to use my fixstat (within the 30 days) to change my stats. I did quit before the 30 days, so when I sign back up, am I screwed or will the days since I de-activated not count?

Thanks

your screwed but you can reroll make a new charactor if you want. ohh and the way draughtmans is setup you will brake your couple hours a day rule that weekend all the runs should be done in a two day period( including finals)

And RuRu said i should tell you NOU!!!! dont do it!!!!

[Fortybox]

Reland is coming back to shattered soon! (In a couple days hopefully)

And is signing up for droughtmans! (1 ticket, all I can afford right now)
(Reland is on welfare like welfare katze)

Question: I'm going back again. I'm going to set a set time limit on outlook to play, couple hours a day. If I miss a merchant for an event, I miss it. Oh well. It's not the end of the world and I'll always have other opportunties. Its alot better than not playing at all. It's not worth wasting my life over just to get 1 extra merchant, you know?

Anyway, I had a couple days left (about less than a week) before my 30 days were up . I was going to use my fixstat (within the 30 days) to change my stats. I did quit before the 30 days, so when I sign back up, am I screwed or will the days since I de-activated not count?

Thanks

Gemstone is not good for you. Please don't come back...for your health.

[Fatsix]

Gemstone or http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa347/baronb63/BOOB-1.gif

[Drunken Durfin]

I vote http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa347/baronb63/BOOB-1.gif

[Drew]

I think the magic number for dying instantly to scarabs was 15 hit points.

One of the voids did 13 HP damage. I know cause I got caught out on a 15 HP character and had a 6 round stun instead of just 15 seconds of death RT. That was rare though, ~15 HP is the way to go. Haste wizard is best.

[Glitch]

For those who don't check the officials.

Re: Droughtman's Challenge - Shattered on 08/01/2011 08:08 PM CDT

Yes, I will be filtering the prize pool, so there will be a lot less repetition. There won't be any new prizes though - they will be the same prizes as prime saw, just fewer of them overall.

~Sirina

[raith]

For those who don't check the officials.

Re: Droughtman's Challenge - Shattered on 08/01/2011 08:08 PM CDT

Yes, I will be filtering the prize pool, so there will be a lot less repetition. There won't be any new prizes though - they will be the same prizes as prime saw, just fewer of them overall.

~Sirina
so only 1 of the crap prized not multiples sounds great......

[Drunken Durfin]

so only 1 of the crap prized not multiples sounds great......

As well as some of the mid-range good stuff I would imagine as well.

[Glitch]

Droughtman's Challenge 08-01-2011 12:17 PM glitch... anything!!! what the fuck is this? a fucking spring? you think this is fucking funny, you fucking... whatever the fuck it is you are? dot almost broke her fucking neck!! :[

I'm so confused by this rep that I'm just going to giggle a little and move on.

[Spooky]

Update:

The prizes from the finals round (ethereal string, weightless container, etc) will still be the finals round.

No new prizes (already stated, but apparently needs repeating). :)

I do plan to filter on a ratio - there will not be 100 TOP prizes, but there will be a significant portion of them, plus mid-range, and I'll try to weed out the lower end prizes. This, of course, means that this event will NEVER be run again, because then we'd be left with only low-range prizes. So I guess if you're interested, you should get your tickets now. Future runs may be run for fun and treasure, but not prizes.

Thanks for the limited douchebaggery so far. Keep up the good work. :)