Gaming: Ragnarok “Monsters Strike Back!” Event
Big Fish Internet Hub is hosting an event for Ragnarok Online this coming Friday, June 8, 2007! The cafe is along E. Rodriguez in Quezon City. I’m trying to get the cafe owner to give us a map so we can post it on the official website. We were thinking of doing another BTA but it’s getting really old. We’ve been doing it the entire summer and we wanted to try something new. Instead of just doing a BTA, we’ve come up with a completely new live event called the “Monsters Strike Back!”. Oh yeah - we’re giving away an headgear that you won’t find anywhere else - the Valkyrie Feather Headband! More details on the event and the headgear after the jump.
These mechanics are directly quoted from the Ragnarok official website.
How to join:
Qualification/Requirements
• No class and level limit
• Item Limit “Banned Itemsâ€
o Kafra Card
o Yggdrasil Berry
o Yggdrasil Seeds
o White Slim Potions
o Mastela
o Fly Wing
o Coca-Cola
o Godly Items
o Boss or Mini Boss Card (Others: Alice Card and Abyssmal Knight Card)• Sign-up at the registration counter for this event.
• 20 slots will be available for every server.
Rules and Mechanics:
• Participants must obey the officiating GMs at all times. Incessant violations of this rule will result in a disqualification.
• Participants must meet the qualification requirements required by the event. Verification and summoning of qualified participants to Tournament Arena will proceed as scheduled. Please check the schedule above. Once inside the Tournament Arena, you must sit down and remain seated until the Event GM shouts “Ready!â€.
• The Survival event will be held in the RPC Arena. Participants will be summoned into the RPC arena. Once inside, you must sit down immediately or risk disqualification.
• Time Limit
o Every monster wave will last for 5 minutes after which the next wave will be summoned. Till the last wave is summoned.
o Participants will be given 10 minutes for the last wave of monsters.• How to win. Survive 5 onslaughts of monsters. In the event that more than 8 survive the onslaught of monsters. 3 minutes will be given the participants to survive each other until a suitable amount of survivors emerge.
• Disconnections/PC problems. If a participant gets disconnected or encounter’s PC problems (Updating anti-virus, etc.). He will not be re-summoned to the tournament arena.
• Winners
o Strike Back Survivor. This if only 1 survivor emerge.
o Strike Back Fighter. If 2 – 3 survivors emerge.
o Strike Back Rebel. If 4 – 7 survivors emerge.
o If 8 or more survive the Strike back siege. No winner will be declared.• If there is a situation that is not covered by the above rules, the Event GMs will make a call, and that decision shall be final.
Prizes:
Strike back Survivor
• 1,000.00 Php
• 1,000.00 Top-up card
• +9 Premium Headgear of Choice with the title “[Event Location] Survivorâ€Strike back Fighter
• 500.00 Php
• 500.00 Top-up card
• +7 Premium Headgear of Choice with the title “[Event Location] Fighterâ€Strike back Rebel
• 100 Top-up card
• Valkyrie Feather Headband [1] “Event Exclusive Headgearâ€
- A hair band made by feathers of Valkyrie’s wing. It makes a wearer feel the part of Valkyrie’s power.
- INT + 1
- Auto spell Heal skill 1 is available by a certain chance while being attacked
- Upper headgear
- [1]
Hope to see you guys there! Cheers!
June 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
@Wauks
Walang Makasiege sa Urdr dahil walang guilds lahat. Wala namang ibang nagcocomplain ibig sabihin maaring kami lang apektado. Pano na ang Agit Lords?
June 5th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
OT po
kelan po ung headgear from OST
kelan cya malalagay sa account
June 6th, 2007 at 2:23 am
remid me of Warcraft Maps, i mean you know, those.. like “Spiral Defense” maps /gg
June 6th, 2007 at 7:03 am
chief,
nde mkalogin… maintenance b ngaun o bks p?
June 6th, 2007 at 7:36 am
@wauks, dapat lang makasurvive. low level pde. eh di dead agad un.
panu ako gusto ko sumali. level 53 palang ako T_T deds agad! help gusto ko din sumali e
June 6th, 2007 at 7:38 am
wala pa po bang times?pasukan na e…la pa din
June 6th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Valkyrie Feather Headband [1] “Event Exclusive Headgearâ€
i bet lalabas nanaman sa hypermart yan… again just fame for the first one to get it then wala na lahat an meron…
June 6th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
umm pede ba +9alice doll ?? or +7alice doll ??
anyway is it possible that no one can be a winner ??
June 6th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
@wauks
i clear ko lang, to win this event, you only need to survive until the last wave and until the appropriate number of survivors are left. you can use any skill and any character no matter what the level is. we don’t need to kill the monster we just have to survive them. am i correct?
June 6th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I can already guess five classes that’ll win:
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* Ninja (Cicada Skin Shed + Mirror Image + mDEF gears and Hide + Shadow Leap + SP pots)
* Soul Linker (SP pots + DEF gears + magaling mag pilot = unkillable)
* Biochemist (AB spam + super efficient pots + tanker [Homunculus])
* Professor (Heal Clip + SW + Hide Clip
* High Priest (+10 gears, Heal, SP pots, Assumptio, Basilica)
Others just need overupped equips + White Pots, but these are the top 5 I can think of when it comes to survival probability. If most of the summons would be demon/insect/boss property however, I’d say Prof’s out, Ninja’s in danger but can still match the SL + Biochem + HP.
[ The only monsters I'd worry about would be those that spam spells and skills like crazy, but those are extremely rare and VERY far between... and pretty much anyone who can solo tank bosses (without boss cards and such) could pass this easily... ]
PvM survivability is pretty much a piece of cake, if you just know how (of course, I’m guessing that a lot of players who’d participate would have been PvP addicts + todo bot for so long, they’d probably have forgotten how to fight monsters…).
Star Gladiators with the right build + lots of HP / SP pots can also survive, basically killing monsters off before they could damage him/her
I hope there’s a PvP/PK function during the survival match, THAT would prove interesting
June 6th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
^Yralyn
you forgot a character that has the most chance of surviving even with the strongest mvp. hahaha
June 6th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
well if PK functions are enabled almost nobody will win since they have to deal with Boss monsters as well And I think probably they will summon at least 3boss ? or more
and yeah lots of boss cast skills like crazy XD
anyway if you really don’t need to kill them then the best bet is novice with play dead
June 6th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Bet ko High LUK Assassin Cross with Perfect Dodge Equips~
June 6th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
sir wauks dpt indi nyo sinali mga bio chemist para masarap laban hehehe
June 6th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Champion with Stone Skin na timing sa last round = GG
June 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
well it does really feel pretty bad if you get p0wned by some biochemist’s pokemon.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
pde bang +9 AR Hat? /heh
June 6th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Ah, yeah, Big Fish. That’s where I first played the closed-beta of Perfect World. Haaay. Memories. Lolz
June 6th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
how bout a paladin na my Heal at mataas ang vit? hehehehe. my guard na tapos my reflect shield pa. tapos ganda siguro kung gamit sasquatch armor ka or dark frame armor. Froze or stone curse. my card ba na my jupitel thunder? ganda din un. hehehe
June 6th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
As long as I remenber boss monsters can’t be frozen/stone curse and other statues stuffs
June 6th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
paladin dn ang bet ko, oh well wala p rng map boss wauks?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
@ Yralyn, God, Nazgul, Hellboy
There is one job class that beats all of your suggestions as to the one that has the highest survivability for this event.
And I GUARANTEE that after I mention it here, either:
1) The event mechanics WILL CHANGE
2) The event will GET CANCELLED altogether
3) Or if they choose to continue with the event with the rules written above, then there will be no winner because almost EVERYONE will survive (or at least more than 8 survivors).
Gosh, it’s SO SIMPLE that I find it utterly ridiculous that whoever conceived the event mechanics didn’t even think of it. They probably don’t know the game as well as they should. I’m nowhere near being an expert on RO, but it’s obvious even to someone like me.
Anyways, without further ado here’s the answer you’ve been waiting for. The absolute BEST job class for this event is none other than a… *drum roll*
…plain old Novice. Just like those that beg from you in Prontera.
The reason? Two words: PLAY DEAD
He doesn’t even need to be high level. Job level 7 will do. All you need is to fill him up with SP pots and you’re set to survive this event with no difficulty at all. If you want, you can even equip him with a +9 Maestro Ribbon, +9 Superior Sandals and whatever else can increase his total SP so the Play Dead skill lasts longer.
Sheesh…
June 6th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Oh, I didn’t notice that Keth already posted the best class for the job earlier. Kudos to you!
June 6th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
^^
haha, all this time i kept myself from letting everyone know about that haha. well anyway, now everybody knows it and they would probably change the rules. haha
June 7th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Does Play Dead work against boss monsters? Because if it does then yes a whole slew of level 9/7 Novices who got Play Dead would basically destroy the whole event.
Oh RIIIIGHT. Just found this: http://www.ragnainfo.net/wiki/index.php/Play_Dead
If anyone tries to go Novice -> Play Dead I think a Prof can go Dispel them, and the LK who has +10 equips and tanks bosses for a living can just Provoke the Novice to get rid of them. Nuisance character solved ;)
June 7th, 2007 at 3:38 am
Play dead works with Boss as well As long as I remenber in bio3 where I was leeching to lvl 99 (weee)
I was just using play dead all day long and suddenly a LK mvp attack our party and proof they all died expet me !!
and yes I dispel can do that but I think he will be more focused on Surviving ranther than doing that and you can’t use provoke on a player unless is PK unabled…
And I think the mechanics will change or something
June 7th, 2007 at 4:58 am
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June 7th, 2007 at 6:18 am
@Yralyn
Thanks for pointing that out. We’ll have to rule out the “Play Dead” skill.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:25 am
i think pwede din ang palladin sa ganitong pagkakataon sila ang pinakamalaking life, may shield reflect and may peco para tumakbo
or champ na naka steel body… or champ na reloc ng reloc
@sir wauks
since nasa PVP room ang mga players, pwede ba sila magPK or bawal?
baka sa sobrang dami ng monsters and monsters skills di kayanin ng pc
June 7th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
pde namang mag undead armor ang novice para nde ma provoke dba
June 7th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Can you actually kill the monsters? Or you just stand there and wait for them to attack you?
June 8th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
shet e2 ang ayaw ko eh.. bigla nalang nag lag nung GM eh heheh… alam ko na kung anu isusumon sa 1st wave.. at 2nd wave hehe
e2 advice lang
dapat mag ka party kayo dyan
nid nyu h.wiz paladin HP yan buhay na kayo nyan heheh ..
e2 isa pang magandang party
Sin X - Grimtooth , HP , Paladin or LK HP Sin X , basta may tanker kayo ok na yun :D