This is how we stand now - but this is FAR from over, no matter how desperate the situation looks like!
I know the event was implemented at a very user-non-friendly period: during the week, and it'll end in the middle of sunday European time (our U.S. and western friends will thus have until 6:00 am sunday...technically, a single weekend's day to compete!), meaning that apart from our Far-Eastern fellow gamers, we will have only a stripped, short period to act. But this can be done!
The two main reasons are both simple, utterly so:
1. you get points WAAAAAY over your stamina usage!
...I got this near-30k from just over 11k stam. HOWEVER! 4k stam was used to specifically hunt zombie brew potions, and to focus on the mission of killing 1000-1000 vapors and other thingies (VERY unoptimal for the event!). I barely made 5000 points from my first 4k stam - then however, I activated conserve(175 only), animal magnetism(again 175), and global booster (only lvl 250 instead of even better options!) - and got the last 25k for 7k stam. And even this was with killing loads of revenants - not specifically focusing on the emaciated fellows. So all in all, even with such a pathetic buffage and unoptimized hunt, a...
...3.5 kill/1 stam usage can be achieved!!
2. Exactly due to the weekend - and being on standby for titans/etc, most of the players have been holding back their stam to this moment! Only to unleash hell in a matter of moments!!
Quite a few players have stated this in chat, and a few more from my guild, that they'll be hammering the mobs tomorrow. The numbers are decieving-we really have got the core of assistance to achieve what it'll take - but we need MUCH MORE HANDS ON THE DECK! WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO HAVE YOU WAITING FOR OTHERS TO GET THE JOB DONE - WE NEED YOU HELPING, TOO!
Here's what we need:
26.000.000 more kills.
Calculating the nearly worst-case scenario, with a 3.5 kill/stamina ratio, 7.428.571 stamina will have to be burned to achieve our goal. This may seem a lot...but if we break this down, then...
- 1.000 players with 7.500 stamina each, or
- 750 players with 10.000 stamina each
...should be more than enough to pull this event off! That's not a lot!
Now, we know that some big guns are still waiting, with far more than 10k stam, and quite probably aiming for the top 100, or so. Hope that happens, and this less-than-1000-needed-players base will be reduced even lower!
Here are some tips to work:
-Read the news about Oidhche Shamhna III in the news archive, where to start the mission and how (Mountain path, Cathedral of Ways)
-find a small realm, so you don't have to walk a lot! Cathedral of ways, Spook central was perfect for me.
-ONLY kill Emaciated Fellows - they give a HUGE bonus (5 kills x your global booster per kill)
-use conserve, naturally, and light foot's also good
-Global booster 250 is VERY cheap in AH now!
-Animal magnetism is especially useful if many of you are in one place-I kept refreshing my block and mobs kept popping up like crazy due to massive player activity.
Just a wild thought: The ruby box gives the regular super-hunting-buff pack (am 500 and conserve 500, of prime concern here). If anyone has any leftovers from last time, and wants to make sure (s)he gets more this occasion, then this could be used! Any Emaciated Fellow you come across will remain there for the duration of your hunt (choose a big realm where there is little chance of anyone bulging in on your single mob), and along with a zombie brew, the effect of conserve would be 575 (28.75% stam saving).
If we multiply 10.000 stam with the reciprocal value of the 71.25% of regular stam usage con 575 grants (this is almost exactly 1.4), then we can see that the thus-usable 14.000 stamina of the original 10.000 stamina grants a staggering _70.000_ kill points (Emaciated fellows grant 5x kills)!
Due to AM 500+ granting a 100% respawn, it doesn't really matter what global booster level you use, but it's pretty scary to calculate what a 100k+ stam player could do...xD
Anyways, please, to all in doubt, or to all who we could reach out to in this last day...please get them all aware, and grinding on those mobs! A maximum of 1 hour of using up 7.500 stamina for 1.000 more players at most shouldn't be something our community can't achieve!
Please, if you know of any heroes that will step up in the next few hours (or day!) to save us all, feel free to post their endeavours here, or direct anyone (individuals, guilds, etc.) here, and see how close we actually are to getting this done!
GET SMACKING!
Edited by NicramDuel, 01 November 2014 - 03:15.
We might really be able to do this!
