Hakai

Yes, I don't think Ethereal is coming.

Get Opal to join instead.

@Opal three v. one duel. You, me, Macradon v. Ssendom in the dueling arena.

Azide's case is different-

His build relied solely on evasion to avoid taking damage. He didn't use any buffs either and Rohk was an abnormally strong boss for such a low floor.

The thing was immune to stun and para, thorns damage in all variants were halved against it, crits were halved, and it had high evasion to ensure normal attacks miss as well as really high accuracy buffs to make sure its attacks landed. Not to mention the killer AoE that could hit EVERYONE in the battle and the ability to heal itself...

Needless to say there were a lot of close calls in that fight.

The problem is that we had poor planning going into the fight, and the healers weren't in a position to be able to help anyone, and then the boss got to stun people and act 4-5 times before a player could act once. All it would have taken was Azide (or anyone) being able to use a heal crystal. He got attacked 3-4 times without getting an action and died without being able to do anything. The fact that the boss AoE was on Natural 10s meant that evasion builds were useless (as is often the case, unfortunately).

It's just another in a long lists of death that weren't because of player skill (though was exacerbated by poor planning), but rather because of unwieldy turn control.

I was a part of the planning for that fight, although I didnt have much influence. The plan was to put all the dps in front and finish it before it got a chance. We knew how hard it was going to be. However, they neglected to really create a formation after the first party.

Turn order is good, it makes it so that people dont feel rushed when their making their posts.

True true... anyways, sorry I'm late. I had to run out. posting now...

Yeah I like turn order so I don't get skipped or anything so let's keep it that way. I'll post soon.

i bet hakai is kayaba irl

Sounds interesting. I'd join, but it doesn't really fit with my character's personality. Maybe I'll create another character and join.

Rowan will not join unless something bad will happen (probably the master mind know to to make him join, hope he won't figure it out :D )

I'm not gonna get into the PKing stuff because it's old news that was handled ages ago. But, because I consider myself to be rather against mindless whining without offering a solution; what sort of "actual logic" would you like to see introduced that would result in fewer of these cases?

@Oikawa First off, i never said anything about easy fixes. Secondly, are you guys Kayaba? Do you not have empathy for others? Im going to assume yes, as the majority of people do. So, yeah, while this is a 'death game', its also a forum rpg that people dont force themselves to play, and do for fun. 

"  I also told you that when the Rebirth system came into effect it wouldn't affect your character Hakai. " Id like to see a screen shot of when you told me this. Because i dont remember it and im pretty sure that i would remember that.

And its true @Ratatosk, both what Oikawa is saying and what you said. Pking is an old issue, especially the pkings of Ebony, Manta, Zelrius, and Dom. And yeah, there was a lot of BS involved in that. While the issue still isnt resolved, staff would rather that you forget about it. However, rules have been put in place to prevent further BS pking. They dont want past unresolved issues to come back up, so most of staff would probably rather have me quit the site. You may have gotten the illusion that the issue was resolved, but it wasnt. It just seemed that way because i was banned.

Rules never being retroactively enforced? Ive heard that before. Thats the biggest lie of all. A few months ago, when i went back and pked Teayre after my own pking, as the rules actually allowed back then, I got a ban.  Teayre was consulted on her side of the story, but when it came to me I had to contact Shark myself after hearing about it from a friend. The long of the short is that I got a ban for causing drama, because they couldnt actually pin me for pking her back. In fact, in that same conversation i got them to revert the pking. (I would point out that this is also a retroactive enforcing of the rules, although it makes complete sense in this case.) 

I think theres a big problem between real issues being seen as drama. Theres a big difference. Maybe my being upset about not being able to use the rebirth system for Hakai is a bit full of drama, but only because i was upset, and because im a human being with lots of emotions. There are real people behind ever message and status post, real, feeling, hurting, thinking people. I think we all forget that sometimes. I planned to pk Zel way way back, i built my whole build around that, but when i got to the point where i could actually do it, if i landed a hit, some weird stuff happened. I ended up joining AB. That wasnt the turning point, but the fact that they had a guild skype chat was. So i talked to the person that i hated, and i found out that i liked the person behind them, the one that you cant really see on a forum through a rp character. My point is that you cant know someone without having a conversation with them.

Staff, i said it before, but i feel like you guys all read right over it. You guys all did an incredible job from what ive seen in the patch notes. Ive also noticed that the community as a whole has been improving. Good job with that too. 

I'll PM you in skype and hope to resolve this matter. Locking this for now like I said.

Do you guys mind if my IC wife joins in?

Not really

I has antidotes as well

I always carry Antidotes :)

IMHO, Uniques should be very specific. They shouldn't be better in ALL situations, but they should be better than anything else in THEIR situation.

Also IMHO, elemental damage is directly in contradiction to canon/lore, so they should be removed. There were DoTs in the game, but they were by weapon type, such as "Piecing DoT" or "Slashing" DoT

So burn, Blight, Holy, Infernal, etc... should be eliminated. Poison I'm fine with as long as it's applied via consumable, or only a unique enhancement

"They shouldn't be better in ALL situations, but they should be better than anything else in THEIR situation."

This is the point I was attempting to make. Right now I think bleed is actually even with Blight, and better than envenom.

*green hair intensifies*

Well, all the cool kids are doing it...

its pretty much a status symbol for peak coolness tbh

Now there are tree other people here....

I would have said she's all bark and no bite! 

Stop dogging me.

I've got rank two lock picking if you guys want a chest picked ^^

No good at combat tho

You can find us our dungeon. ^~^

Ye!

I can DOS for you. Just tell me what you want dead >:)

Yee, I'm still up for it! :D

Heres the thread. No rush posting, but try not to forget about it please. ^~^

whaddap boi

its dat boi

I don't care.

http://www.sao-rpg.com/topic/15501-pp-f3-drama-queen-macradon-illia/

I'm always down for one, lemme know :3

if you are still looking for people, I am a Martial Art user. I can help you out

Awesome. Ill get it started up and put a link here.

http://www.sao-rpg.com/topic/12381-pp-f2-this-rocks/

I just finished rolling 2 perfects. I'll make em into the safeguard and damage potion if you want em. :3

I just finished rolling 9 perfects. Will make them into your order :)

:v

Neesan how u do dis?

You'd be surprised how crazy some people can be. 

It doesn't. And now I'm at the weird portion where I'm unsure if I fall with the type of people who have a "psychological disorder" since Kaluluwa developed an inability to show emotions due to PTSD of child abuse (and PTSD is considered a psychiatric/psychological disorder). Of course I was planning to have a character development using this (either through Gemini or Calming the Soul) so this update is a concern of mine.

In my opinion, it does not make sense for the psychological disorders to not be permitted. The full dive VR system basically just intercepted the consciousness and simulates the 5 senses. Physical deformities are fixed and are able to let amputees use their body parts because the game intercepts impulses to find out if the person would be attempting to move a body part. So if someone was brain dead, they would not be able to play the game as they are unable to make mental decisions out of the basic needs for survival which is to breath and to produce the necessary hormones for daily processes.

Mental Disabilities were focused more MPD than anything else. PTSD is something commonly associated with SAO and the overall theme of the game. Other mental disorders such as Tourrette's, Epilepsy, Autism, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Bulimia, Deviant Sexual Disorders, and similar disorders are also not permitted. Many of these mental disorders beg the real world question of how and why your IRL character (likely a teen with concerned parents) attained one of the 10,000 copies and a device that is known to specifically affect the mind.

Long story short, if your character absolutely hinges on some mental disability, please make your case with a member of staff and we will evaluate it on a case by case basis.

1.6 percent to be precise, with a +1 CD. Its doable, and for unique enchantments, worth it, in my opinion.

We'll agree to disagree. Hopefully you won't see the frustration with it I've seen (even with the bonus). It was a system designed to fail, unfortunately.

No worries, Hakai. I'll call upon my father, RNGesus so you get a unique enchantment every single tiem.

In terms of reliability and durability, Asur are handy.  If you're into moderate pc gaming, Asus would be there for you.  I can't remember any others that are not Alienware and such, though.

It pretty much depends on what you are going for, if you wanting to do some gaming ASUS is a great computer to do so, however the older it gets the worse it gets when it comes to playing a game like League. However I have played League on Toshiba on Dell before, and ASUS does a much better job than those two.

*also owns a Asus and is pretty happy with it*

Goodbye, You definitely will be missed.

Good bye @Hakai! I may not have known you personally, but I wish you well on your quests outside of SAO. ^_^

That is sad to here Manta (yeah, you will always be Manta to me). I wont try to make you change your mind but I will miss you. Have roleplayed with many of your characters and Ive enjoyed writing with all of them(on and off site). I wish you the best of luck in your life and will miss you.

Bye and love

/Zandra Zvift

Over-Ruled.

Nice! Congrats!

Nice! Good work.

way 2 go! 

Only if when you finally succeed, the familiar is a Salt Elemental. Only then may you rage.

This is my third thread attempting it and probably the 7th or eighth roll. @Baldur So it sounds like i'm entitled, at this point, to sueing for emotional trauma.

Cyberbullying by the system itself. Br00tal.

Agreed. xD

Same

Calrex-senpai noticed me.

AYYYYYY WELCOME BACK!

owow, she's back!

So this keyboard actually works. XD My typing skills are a bit rusty. Sooo... Im looking to get more into the writing side of things rather than the grinding and fighting stuff. More character interaction and longer better thought out posts. Anyone want to do a thread with Hakai? 

My condolences 

Haha. First I saw this I red window. We like wtf? Is a window a name for something?

Seriously thou, rest in piece Sierra, We'll pronably see you soon.

*uses mouth spray*

Soooo.... single? =D