Along the way during my adventures into rare loot I've found others, companions, associates. The other crazies. The malcontents who run the same content over and over again to find a drop that eludes them to make a character whole. These players not surprisingly enough farm on teleporters. Characters that can cover distance way faster than a dasher or a flier. I run a flier, Ms. Marvel. Not the quickest but a top contender for speed kills on target mobs and survivability.
You can get there fast, but can you survive?
The top two crazy player choice characters are Deadpool and Loki. Nightcrawler gets around the fastest but can't a hit like the other two. I've run multiple hours worth of Kurse runs alongside all three and I have to say that the Deadpool cares less about taking damage and more about speed than the other two mentioned heroes. Why do you ask? If we look at comical character stats, Deadpool is unkillable, Loki is a God and Nightcrawler is a mortal with some damn good combat sense. Game wise, Loki is pretty damn good at defense, Nightcrawler has virtually none and Deadpool remains oddly the same in videogame form. A teleport plus nigh unkillability? Seems like a good choice to spam a boss with.
I've mentioned how fast I can clear a Kurse terminal by myself. Picture the teleporters in half the time. When grouped I will take down one Lieutenant by myself right after the they will take down two. It's rather annoying but if you wanna do 2/3 the work yourself then by all means, work it.
We convene on Kurse and proceed to lay the beatdown and what a beatdown occurs. Kurse summons adds, adds fall down within moments of appearing. Half the time of a solo Kurse fight goes by and we scrounge through the loot pile hoping for the appropriately named brown text box that tells us we've found it! But no, its usually not the case. Its a rare drop for a reason.
After being disappointed we zone out. Whoever has the faster computer zones back and we repeat the process. Over and over again. The farm is rote. Hours go by and you almost feel bad for Kurse. Then you realize he still has something you have and you get mad at again and keep farming with your current crazy partner. But hey, you're not alone at least, right?
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Methodical Madness
Today we talk about how to farm Kurse for his oh so precious Gem of the Kursed. Fortunately its rather simple. Be thankful for that because if you take up this task you're going to be here for a potentially looooong time.
Kurse resides in Odin's Palace in the terminals of MH. To farm you'll need to choose either Red or Cosmic. Supposedly Green works just as well but I'm not too terribly sold on that idea being true so we're sticking with grinding out Red terminal. Its the easiest to solo for me personally but if you can wreck up a Cosmic on your own, by all means do that too.
The layout of Odin's Palace is the same. It never changes and its pretty small. I couldn't find a map on Google to show as an example so you'll have to take my word on it. The enemies inside consist of dark elves and frost giants and there's A LOT of them. For such a small zone they packed them in tight. Unlike all the other terminals Kurse isn't just waiting around for you to arrive and smack him upside the head for his loot. You have to defeat his 3 lieutenants first.
Bolverker the Raider. Boltorn the Wicked. Vidurr the Horror. If you're farming Kurse you'll either get rather acquainted with these three or you'll turn them into a puddle so fast and often you'll forget that they even have name tags. These three can appear in up to 4 different spots on the map but as there are only 3, they'll only take up 3 spots so one option will be empty. After stomping them into the dirt we can now finally take on Kurse!
Kurse isn't exactly a pushover like other bosses. *cough* Dr. Octopus *cough* He hits fairly hard even on decently geared heroes. He has a number of moves to try and defeat you but only two are really worth worrying about.
Move 1: Summoning Cannon Fodder. He summons a small number of dark elves to aid him. You may never notice this move with proper AOE because they fall over almost too fast to notice.
Move 2: Summon Dark Circle. He summons a damaging dark circle that shouldn't be stood in. Basic rule of gaming, did the ground change color? Yes? Then don't stand there.
Move 3: Leap Slam. He leaps forward and slams the ground where he lands which is usually on you. He's surprisingly accurate with it. It hurts but it can be avoided. .
Move 4: The Wind Up Punch. He charges up a punch that cleaves the area in front of him and it hurts, a lot. Don't stand in front of it. He telegraphs the punch for about 2 seconds so you have time to move.
After besting the villain known as Kurse you now get loot! The sole reason for being here! You will always get a medkit. Yay! A Kurse medallion! Yay! Some useless green or blue! Yay. . .? Occsionally an artifact that isn't the one you're looking for to get your hopes up and crush them in the same second! Booo! .5% drop chance is a bitch.
Don't fret though because if you're serious about farming you'll be back in less than 30 secs to try your luck again! And again! And again. And again. . .*sniffles*
Kurse resides in Odin's Palace in the terminals of MH. To farm you'll need to choose either Red or Cosmic. Supposedly Green works just as well but I'm not too terribly sold on that idea being true so we're sticking with grinding out Red terminal. Its the easiest to solo for me personally but if you can wreck up a Cosmic on your own, by all means do that too.
The layout of Odin's Palace is the same. It never changes and its pretty small. I couldn't find a map on Google to show as an example so you'll have to take my word on it. The enemies inside consist of dark elves and frost giants and there's A LOT of them. For such a small zone they packed them in tight. Unlike all the other terminals Kurse isn't just waiting around for you to arrive and smack him upside the head for his loot. You have to defeat his 3 lieutenants first.
Bolverker the Raider. Boltorn the Wicked. Vidurr the Horror. If you're farming Kurse you'll either get rather acquainted with these three or you'll turn them into a puddle so fast and often you'll forget that they even have name tags. These three can appear in up to 4 different spots on the map but as there are only 3, they'll only take up 3 spots so one option will be empty. After stomping them into the dirt we can now finally take on Kurse!
Kurse isn't exactly a pushover like other bosses. *cough* Dr. Octopus *cough* He hits fairly hard even on decently geared heroes. He has a number of moves to try and defeat you but only two are really worth worrying about.
Move 1: Summoning Cannon Fodder. He summons a small number of dark elves to aid him. You may never notice this move with proper AOE because they fall over almost too fast to notice.
Move 2: Summon Dark Circle. He summons a damaging dark circle that shouldn't be stood in. Basic rule of gaming, did the ground change color? Yes? Then don't stand there.
Move 3: Leap Slam. He leaps forward and slams the ground where he lands which is usually on you. He's surprisingly accurate with it. It hurts but it can be avoided. .
Move 4: The Wind Up Punch. He charges up a punch that cleaves the area in front of him and it hurts, a lot. Don't stand in front of it. He telegraphs the punch for about 2 seconds so you have time to move.
After besting the villain known as Kurse you now get loot! The sole reason for being here! You will always get a medkit. Yay! A Kurse medallion! Yay! Some useless green or blue! Yay. . .? Occsionally an artifact that isn't the one you're looking for to get your hopes up and crush them in the same second! Booo! .5% drop chance is a bitch.
Don't fret though because if you're serious about farming you'll be back in less than 30 secs to try your luck again! And again! And again. And again. . .*sniffles*
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
By reason of Insanity
"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Boy was he ever right about that.
I'm a Marvel Heroes player. Some of you might have seen me around in game by the name of Phearos. Its a very entertaining game for me and I'm not afraid to say that I love it. Like every game it has its ups and downs but Gazillion, the company that makes Marvel Heroes, is doing a fantastic job of minimizing the downs and consistently handing out the ups. In that regard its becoming a fantastic game all around and I encourage anyone reading this who hasn't tried it to check it out.
Marvel Heroes is an Action Role Playing Game or ARPG for short. Part of the ARPG game design is to constantly strive for the best equipment you can slap onto your character to make them the deadliest, tankiest, or fastest character you can. This involves doing what is known in the gaming community as farming. Farming is a weird slang term in this context. You as the player are not actually growing anything. You as the player are doing the same content over and over again and hoping what you want falls out of the boss' or specific mob's pockets and into yours. Its repetitive, its tedious, its doing the same thing over and over again and expecting diffe. . . .yep. . . you as the player are insane.
As a Marvel Heroes player, now referred to as "MH", I want the best I can get for my character or characters. MH has a 30 character roster but I only really play two or three. How does one go about finding the best equipment, now referred to as "loot", for one's character of choice? Why you kill/defeat/knockout enemies in the game for a chance to drop loot. The best loot drops of specific enemies or a least it can. MH has a tendency to drop loot off of everything. Looked at a pigeon wrong, drops loot. Kicked over that trash can, drops loot. Another player two screens over kills a pack of enemies, drops loot for you.
Specific loot comes from specific enemies. Say you're looking for a sweet, sweet item called Gem of the Kursed. Where does it drop? Simple research leads us to Odin's Palace and a boss called Kurse. Or as all the other people in MH farming him for his loot, Kurse You Because You'll Never Get It. He's a jerk. More research tells us that there's a .5% drop rate on Gem of the Kursed. That's per defeat. Always half of a percent. That's ridiculous. No one in their right mind would keep trying you might say to yourself and you would be right. Farming for loot is insanity. Keeping track of that effort is insane too. Hi. I'm insane apparently.
This blog is about the journey and time it takes to get such a rare item. Times defeated will be tracked, items gained while besting Kurse will be tracked, actual time spent not so much because only so much info needs to be tracked that removes motivation from the end goal.
That my friends is what I'm looking for. Now I could probably cheat and trade for one but that's not really earning it. Its a shortcut and this blog would be done by the time I hit publish for the first time. I will put in the hopefully not depressingly long time to earn my own and then we're done. . . .just kidding. Then we're off to another abysmally small drop rate on another piece of equipment! Wooo!
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Boy was he ever right about that.
I'm a Marvel Heroes player. Some of you might have seen me around in game by the name of Phearos. Its a very entertaining game for me and I'm not afraid to say that I love it. Like every game it has its ups and downs but Gazillion, the company that makes Marvel Heroes, is doing a fantastic job of minimizing the downs and consistently handing out the ups. In that regard its becoming a fantastic game all around and I encourage anyone reading this who hasn't tried it to check it out.
Marvel Heroes is an Action Role Playing Game or ARPG for short. Part of the ARPG game design is to constantly strive for the best equipment you can slap onto your character to make them the deadliest, tankiest, or fastest character you can. This involves doing what is known in the gaming community as farming. Farming is a weird slang term in this context. You as the player are not actually growing anything. You as the player are doing the same content over and over again and hoping what you want falls out of the boss' or specific mob's pockets and into yours. Its repetitive, its tedious, its doing the same thing over and over again and expecting diffe. . . .yep. . . you as the player are insane.
As a Marvel Heroes player, now referred to as "MH", I want the best I can get for my character or characters. MH has a 30 character roster but I only really play two or three. How does one go about finding the best equipment, now referred to as "loot", for one's character of choice? Why you kill/defeat/knockout enemies in the game for a chance to drop loot. The best loot drops of specific enemies or a least it can. MH has a tendency to drop loot off of everything. Looked at a pigeon wrong, drops loot. Kicked over that trash can, drops loot. Another player two screens over kills a pack of enemies, drops loot for you.
Specific loot comes from specific enemies. Say you're looking for a sweet, sweet item called Gem of the Kursed. Where does it drop? Simple research leads us to Odin's Palace and a boss called Kurse. Or as all the other people in MH farming him for his loot, Kurse You Because You'll Never Get It. He's a jerk. More research tells us that there's a .5% drop rate on Gem of the Kursed. That's per defeat. Always half of a percent. That's ridiculous. No one in their right mind would keep trying you might say to yourself and you would be right. Farming for loot is insanity. Keeping track of that effort is insane too. Hi. I'm insane apparently.
This blog is about the journey and time it takes to get such a rare item. Times defeated will be tracked, items gained while besting Kurse will be tracked, actual time spent not so much because only so much info needs to be tracked that removes motivation from the end goal.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#vhf9tFRjPcs4oGqK.99
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#vhf9tFRjPcs4oGqK.99
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#vhf9tFRjPcs4oGqK.99
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#vhf9tFRjPcs4oGqK.99
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#vhf9tFRjPcs4oGqK.99
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