stage 7 - surprise at Barracoon
after burning through a stack of heartwood runics, I finally got a nice scorpion slayer, went to The Labyrinth with a nice little Miasma script. As the admin is a friend of mine, I bought him a drink and he let me have my way. No jail, no fail, you know how that works ("corrupted shard lol").
So it took me like a week to collect 12kk there and spend them in the Britain Library on the Mace and Shield Glasses, basically just for the extra stat points. Anyway, I'm not sure if this item really is so important, there are so many alternatives for the head slot.
Let that sink in for a sec - 12kk for Mace and Shield! I dare the whining part of you guys to do some research in the pricing section to compare this to Demise. It's uplifting
I thought, yay, now Barracoon is all mine, let's grind DOZENS of times right now.
So I went.
I saw.
I failed.
Not once, but dozens of times.
fucketyfucketyfuck.fuckfuckfuck.
What an awkward situation. I mean, you can google this one, and while humankind is very good at disagreeing about EVERYTHING, the one thing that 7 billion people on this planet seem to agree on, is that Barracoon is the easiest champ ever and can be handled by mentally challenged three year old kids with only one hand and no eyesight.
But not me on my 127.0.0.1 shard.
So I tried to disassemble this issue, pulled the admin over for another drink, called Barracoon into Luna Arena, tried all sorts of different combos on him (but not lifting any skill above 100, since this was the point in going champ spawn), and ever failed.
Reading up on champ attributes, I found that Barracoon seems to have weaker stats on Demise than on servUO. Seems as if servUO copied the precise values that uoGuide.com has.
On uoGuide, they say Neira has by far the lowest stats of all champs. Also I noticed that Undead Slayer property is pretty frequent with HW saws, so in very short time I collected some quarter and black staffs, and took on the Unholy Terror Champ Spawn.
Here too I died, since it took me 4 hours instead of one on Demise to hack everything in sight to pieces.
The hard part was the last tier. I was used to just rip through it, so I ran straight into groups of rotting corpses and lich lords, and died reliably.
'Divide et Impera" saved me, isolating smaller groups of foes ultimately led to success.
Neira herself was no match at all. She went down like butter in the sunshine. I acutally AFKed this.
wow. (translate this to british english: jolly me, I'm flabbergasted.)
I'm not so sure how to continue. I'm reluctant so spend another 4 hours at Neira's, so I think I would have to gear up. Unsure about the ways, though.
If you guys have any ideas, let's discuss!