I had an absolute blast yesterday fighting spectres and sand giants in the
Oasis for the first time in my career, but I can also attest to the fact
that the lag and warping were quite troublesome yesterday.
I was chain/fearing an SG while a druid in my group was blasting it and
suddenly it vanished...poof...10 seconds later out of nowhere, CRUNCH!
CRUNCH! CRUNCH! I am at 1/4 of one bubble heath as I stagger across the zone
into South Ro. Whew! Those who play with me on E'ci would have recognized
the all-telling "/em wipes the sweat from his brow with the back of his
hand" that only appears when I have narrowly escaped having a RL heart
attack.
I managed to survive the afternoon's fun and we dropped about 5 or 6 SG's
and nearly 2 dozen spectres. The funniest thing that got me in stitches
every time was when I ran up on top of a spectre and feared it, then chased
it around the desert smacking it. Nothing beats having "death" fleeing in
terror from you for an ironic laugh.
Oh, and since I have written this much and realized that no one probably
cares, I may as well add that I GOT A LAMBENT STONE! This adventure in
Oasis was the most fun I have had in a long time and it was quite satisfying
to /shout TIMBER! as my first ever SG kill fell at my feet.
Cheers!
Faras
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Schuldes [mailto:jgs@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 12:19 PM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: [eqbards] Lag -ugh!
>
>
> From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
>
> Yesterday, the lag was incredible. Constant 15% to 35%,
> surges and spikes
> into red with 50% to 80%. Other players all complaing. Some
> guys getting
> dumped and coming back only to be nekkid and bind spot -
> never seeing a
> fight.
>
> So, rather than venture into some hard dungeon, I was helping
> a group do
> HG's off the wood bridge in North Karanas. Staying back,
> buffing and mana
> song. So, then I decide ok, let's try Denons with horn and
> see how he likes
> it. Great - he's wincing away nicely.
>
> Then my friend Kaldivar comes by and asks about fenne's and
> charms. So, I
> say follow me I can show you a Grifxxxx spawn spot - do you
> know where the
> named treeant is? (By now you should have a pretty good idea
> of what is
> coming next.)
>
> On the way there, I cant get selo's to lock and stay up. I
> click, it trys,
> then stops. I start whining about lag and how weird this is
> a cant make my
> songs play, etc. etc. Just as we get to that little tower, I
> look up and go
> "hmmm, wonder why the tree is moving around like that?"
> Followed shortly by
> "you are burned" and whoof 2 plus bubs of hp dissappear.
> Btw: Kaldivar says
> "oh I dunno, he is red to me" Hehe - I start running away and
> frantically
> yelling "ZNE, ZNME, ZONE!!" You are burned. Another 2 bubs gone and a
> glimpse of the goodie werewolf hunter chasing me as well.
>
> Now I am keying and clicking Selos very, very fast and
> desparately trying
> for a zone. Praise the Gods! It finally stuck and I escaped
> to the Western
> Karana.
>
> So, all I can think of is Denons was locked on - due to some
> lag bug? Selos
> would not start and since there is no icon and were no other
> mobs being hit
> - there was no screen message to see. But seems even wierder
> than that. I
> scrolled back to see what spell he was casting and do not
> recall seeing "a
> Xannthoulos winces" message. Not that is some strong "bard
> hate" when stuff
> that likes you attacks you!!
>
> After a bit, the lag seemed to settle enough so I went and
> helped my group
> kill spectres. Even with 3 and 4 of them getting pulled, it
> seemed almost
> too easy. Of course we did have an enchanter handling the
> crowd control.
> She could park them as necessary while we feared (although
> not the bard
> fear) and killed the others. Hehe, spectres are too easy.
> Never thought I
> would be saying that.
>
> Sylly Songsynger
> <Spirit of the Moon>
> Bard of the 34th song
> somewhere on Innoruuk
>
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