Saturday April 12, 2100 GMT http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
Please check out that link to figure out your time zone compared to 2100 GMT.
2100 GMT
-4 hours GMT for EST so 5pm
-5 GMT for CST so 4PM
And so forth. Please see the URL above if not familiar where you stand vs GMT time.
Ok, Saturday April 12 at 2100 GMT, TheFallen will try our 1st real defense for diad fortress. Members from TheFallen, HeartnSoul, Eden and IslaDeMuerta shall join us in defending the fortress. 1st I like to give my thanks to all that shall attended or cannot make it but would have been there if they could have.
All right let’s move on to siege information and strategy. 1st I will start with some basic information on how mops will siege and what to look for. 2nd I will hit on some basic idea how I would like to go about the siege.
1st off The siege will last for the full 2 hours of the time allotted some from 2100 GMT till 2300 GMT. At the start of the siege Both DE bosses BARAS and KUNOS will spawn with a group for about 12 DE each.
DE’s will always agro the tower 1st before they will go for a player. Even after Baras and Kunos have been terminated, DE’s will keep spawning for the full 2 hours of the siege. Yes this sucks and will not be something that is done often unless there is a nice reward for such an event. Once we manage to defend the castle it will be the 1st time on Any US server that I am aware of.
All right now let’s get into a bit of my idea for this Defense attempt. Any member that wish to join in on the defense will have a chance to join TheFallen for the defense. They will be allowed to join up to 48 hours prior to the siege if they feel they cannot make it on Saturday before the siege. Once the siege has started I will no longer be able to join any members to the pledge. After the siege I will give player 72 hours to leave the pledge and return to their own pledge.
***Note non related Diad stuff*** Some of my members expressed concerns for this idea. The reasoning behind this is for the fact anyone in TheFallen Can just use a Return to Home scroll and already be in Diad Fortress and will have easy access back to the tower to help defend it. For some members it would be rather hard to have to Venz from being over whelmed or a D/C and have to take about a 15 min run each time back to the castle. Spawn traps are higher near the gates of the Fortress. To avoid this I came up with the idea listed above. If anyone in TheFallen does have a big issue with anyone that wishes to join please talk to me. Let me know your input and I can talk to you about it and if you have a good reason why there is a good chance I will listen to you and make changes for you.
If any Non pledge members that wishes to join for the siege. I ask that you do not bring any fights you have into my pledge. If you do I will not only remove you but bring a fight to you. I try to be fair to all but I do not tolerate such actions. As my pledge members can vouch for I do what I can to work on things. If I say anything that offends them they can bring it up to me. If you do not feel you can please talk to someone about it or give me a chance. I do say many things that come off the wrong way, if you need clarification just ask and I go farther into it or retract what I said all together. ***END NOTE***
With in 1 minute of the siege start time Baras and Kunos will spawn with a DE pack each. This should be the only time the tower should take so much damage. Once they any DE spawns it will auto target the tower. At this point Elf’s will take the lead to start to attacking any archers that spawn. Tanks will deal with rest of the spawn.
Elfs- Pimary attack DE Rangers and DE Theifs
Tanks- Pimary attack all other DE.
Mages- will support all other classes as well as use their Summons to take care of mops.
All members of the siege will be around the tower with it about midway on screen. I would like to try to make a square wall around the tower to Prevent any Dark Elf’s from nearing it but I fear this might be too hard to keep all in place. I will change the strategy based on the amount of players that can attend.
Main Target for ALL CLASSES is any Dark Elf’s attacking the Tower. The tower must not be hit!!!
This is where Elf’s shall take the lead to take the evil NPC off!!
2nd option I might try is each Elf with have 2+ Tank to guard them. This way Elf’s can attack all mops they see and the tanks can kill them as they draw near the elf they must worship and protect!!
(P.S I leave Karmoth to guard a pack of 3 elf’s as he just love them to death!!!) This is the option I feel might work the best.
As this has gotten a little bit long I will leave it at this for now. If anyone has idea or need me to reword anything please post a comment on it! Thanks!
I would like anyone that is able to log onto lineage Team Speak server. I will have a channel for the siege created for us to join. This will be used for 2 main reason and 1 sub reason.
Lineageone Team Speak info can be found at this link TeamSpeak
download it from www.goteamspeak.com
-[1st main reason to help defend the castle!!!
-2nd To pass the time as it’s a 2 hour siege!!
-1st sub point to make fun of Karmoth for being a noob.
This is a SS of Diad Fortress. Just to give all an idea how the map is layout is.
How are we gonna do this for
How are we gonna do this for the 2 bosses. Will they both spawn near the tower? Who will kill them?
p.s Heal pledge will be insane!
good luck, wish i could be
good luck, wish i could be thier =/
..:: ReAnimated Blog ::.. Last Update M23
From my experience defending
From my experience defending Diad (we made it about an hour and 15 minutes before the tower fell) I'll offer three suggestions.
1) Make sure you have plenty of people will to commit the two hours. Our numbers reduced by half after the first 45 minutes because people had to go or got bored or whatever.
2) Make sure you have plenty of elfs and instruct your melee to have said elfs kill the ranged attackers. When your melee leave the tower to chase, they bring in more mops but they also leave the tower exposed for the generals that seem to usually spawn right after the archers spawn.
3) If the tower starts taking damage, have a mage blizzard to immediately pull all attackers off the tower. Then have them AB or heal themselves while the rest of the team kills the mops. You can REALLY cut down on the damage being done the tower with a blizzard mage.
Good luck!
One more thing ... I heard
One more thing ... I heard there is a nice payday if you defend the castle. Let me know if that turns out to be true.
Shall do! That mage idea is
Shall do! That mage idea is something I wish to use but it matter if the 3 Main mages in my bp log on that can do it. If not I use my own mage to F-blizz the mops if I have to.
I would have a Bliz mage on the left and right side of tower. and they take turns casting Bliz when mops hit the tower.
www.lineagedb.com
Casting blizzard and tanking
Casting blizzard and tanking hits would be hard for a mage. Hp will go down so fast. Tho, it all depends how many mops there is on the screen. If we can block acess to tower, mage should stay inside to be hit only by archers.
Will we have 12 good tanks? that would only leave 4 cell in the middle of them tho.
My lowly int/wis mage
My lowly int/wis mage handled it ok. Immune, blizzard, AB ... by the time the AB runs out enough of them are dead that you can keep up with lesser heal and by the time immune runs out, they are pretty much all dead.
Blocking off the tower is important anyway because it keeps the generals off the tower, and they do the most damage to it. So if you have the people to do that, you might as well keep the mage(s) inside.
Not sure how many good tanks
Not sure how many good tanks we will have to be honest. I like the box idea to be honest. Mostly for mages and Elf's to stand at. Tanks would be out of the box to move around as necessary.
www.lineagedb.com
Well hun you know if you
Well hun you know if you need some extra help just let me or my bp know and we'll do are best to be there. ^.-
StaryNight
That will be the location
That will be the location we are at.
www.lineagedb.com
Gratz on the Defense,(saw on
Gratz on the Defense,(saw on boards)
I ususly dont expect to be compensated for participating at a siege, its about the fun that im thiere for.
..:: ReAnimated Blog ::.. Last Update M23