Queen Ant Raid Saturday 5/22

[silrev]

Hey all I wanna have a Queen Ant raid on saturday... meeting same time as usual, 8pm GMT in Floran (12pm PST).

More info to come.

[Dan]

ooo..i'll try my best to make this one..c'mon everyone let's do it!!!!

[m0rt]

Ill be there

[Larsson]

Roger that

[Tessa]

it's sad that some of us cant make it like goronath and maybe suniel, i hope they can . I am up for it though

[Dan]

goro requests the raid to be on friday morning

[Furen]

Of course I'll be there ( I think ;D). I hope we will meet in Floran or something, so we dont get followed by random people. Dont forget to get swift atk pots, healing pots, SS/SpS and arrows (if you need them).


Anyway, here are some things I want to point out:


First:

DO NOT hit the Queen until it is announced that we are ready. If someone does hit the queen we'll probably have to retreat a bit and regroup or things will get nasty, fast.

Second:

Expect to die, a lot. I certainly dont want people to suddenly 'have to leave' or to simply disconnect because they are dying too much. If you do come I ask you to stay until the raid is over.

Third:

Since a lot of people WILL die, they will invariably drop stuff. Since this is going to be an alliance-only raid, I certainly hope all the drops will be returned to their owners.

Fourth:

Since it seems that Silrev wants to try sleeping the nurses (last time I saw this done it didnt quite work but we'll see) we need to keep EVERYONE WHO CAN CAST SLEEP alive. That means, if you can save one of them by dying, do so. If the nurses start healing the Queen we certainly wont be able to kill her.

Fifth:

As much as some of you liked the finder's keepers looting of the first BQ raid (you know who you are I certainly hated it and so did everyone in my clan. So for this raid we expect the loot to be fairly divided amongst all the participants.

Well, that's all I can think of right now, I'll add more stuff if I think of it and I hope to see you all on Saturday.

[Goro]

yea... sadly i wont be able to participate on any saturday events in the near forseeable future, I could try to make early friday or late sunday but ... sigh

well assuming the time can't be changed i wish all of you luck

[Dave]

I'll be there. I am so excited to try the ant queen for my first time =]

Here is a basic picture with the raid strategy:

The damage dealers would be on the queen like 187, Axelfollie etc.

Archers do only 30% damage to her, so they should keep guards and local ants under control. Groups 3 and 4 would be some tanks and archers.

The queen casts and AOE poison 6, same as bloody queens only hits everyone. Position yourselves on all sides of her to minimize targets hit.

The key strategy is keeping the nurse ants slept at all times.



If we do get any good drops I can pay for them at orphus price (untaxxed) right them... I am that rich =p. Then the piles of cash can be split between groups of 9.

EDIT: I read that the game might have been patched so that the nurse ants can't be slept or rooted, also Silence would do the same thing (axelfollie), but this may have been fixxed also.
sources: [ftp]http://www.l2orphus.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13098&hl=ant+queen[/ftp]

www.l2orphus.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13468&hl=ant+queen

From these findings maybe our best bet would be to drag the nurse ants far outside and not kill them, if we are able to, or pull them into the back chamber and make a wall of people to keep them from leaving when we are ready to hit queen.

[alex]

from my previous experience
nurses dont move and they respawn mad fast

if gms dont fix my problem by the time of the hunt i cant join.

gms are so worthless

[Tessa]

Yea as far as i know nurse and queen dont move at all. I do like your plan dave. Sounds good enuff for me, i hope we can manage to sleep em this time.

[Dan]

FAILURE!!!!!

3 clans.

approx 30 people

we couldn't even scratch it....


lol, it was quite the experience....
it was actually pretty cool getting to knw the other alliance members.

[alex]

damn i couldnt wake up in time

[Dan]

FAILURE..but fun!

hehehe

there's 8 nurses instead of 4...

nurses have super insane go-through-any-carbonbased-lifeform ability so they can't be blocked.

sleep, root, etc etc...nothing works on the nurses.



note:
nurses go and help protect the larvae. They gorup there, and u can kill them all at the same time. We tried this, but we couldn't synchronize the attacks on the queen. But it seemed to us that if the queen had 1 less hp than full, the nurses will heal it.

there's a 10 second window time to kill the queen btwn spawns.

or..

kill the queen by the time the nurses get done healing the larvae and come back to heal the queen.

in the 10 seconds we dealt damage to it, i finally saw the queen's life bar go blip...like a couple pixels over....

then came the nurses...






why put the larvae there in the first place? We attempted the bait and switch technique, but it didn't seem to work..so why is it there?!?!..

the only other option we see is BRUTE FORCE...have like 2-3 archers/DD assigned to each nurse spawn..once it spawns...kill it immediately...

We didn't have enough people, damage output to handle the nurses and the ensuing ant mob that comes out...

that guard ant mob keeps coming. There's no stopping it. Once you hit the queen, they swarm in onto the first attacker.


so...i wonder if we can get 40 DD's and hit the queen all at once, ..

backstab! doubleshot! all at once!..hopefully doing 100k+ dmg in the process...


Me and tessa is currently looking @ how dragon family alliance is doing it...

they're not doing it any better than we did....lol kinda funny to look @ them and "relive" the struggle we went through just to find out 3 hours later..."uhh this isn't possible guys heh let's leave"

[Goro]

lol, damn you guys couldnt do it? sorry i couldnt have been there to kill the queen for you guys, it's easy for me =p... heh

anyone die? heh at least i'm glad u guys had fun