How great is PAS?
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:11 am
I was curious as I was jumping around shards on different characters this morning so I checked it out.
For those experienced enough (or old enough *grins*) to remember the Brit invasion of 2005, they will appreciate these stats.
For those who weren't ingame back then, here's a quick summary:
North of Brit in the mountains, the GMs spawned groups of monsters, along with generals and other nasties that had cool items on them. The spawn was by zones, and if I recall, there were 6 zones, each one closer to Brit, until the last one was as far south as the west bank brit (the entire invasion was on the west side of brit).
Bank sitters were pissed and this is why most people moved to Luna as their bank of choice.
Anyways, you had to kill enough spawn, and fast enough, and the monsters got tougher with each "level" in each spawn. So we had to beat about 5 levels of spawn in one general area to "win" that spawn and stop monsters from spawning.
Then we moved a few screens north to the next zone, etc until we "won" the last spawn north at the mountains.
it was a very grueling event, and we started at 8pm cdt and when we won it was usually midnight cdt. So that's 4 hrs to finish, and of course we lost PAS as the night progressed due to their time zones, etc.
I never saw any guild actively fight the spawn other than PAS, and when we came we usually had 25 PAS with us. When we got there, the others that were trying to kill the generals for their loot hooped and hollered because now they had help.
It also turned into a great recruiting tool as we added about 15 players into PAS as they saw how we helped everyone, not just PAS, and had an awesome time with it.
Just outside the brit bridge west of west bank brit on fel and tram is a statue with stats on how many monsters were killed, how many invasions were won, etc.
Here's the count in order:
Napa 26
Sonoma 25
Chesepeake 24
Lake Superior 20
Great Lakes 20
Atlantic 19
pacific 12
Catskills 11
Baja 10
not too shabby for a shard as small as Sonoma!
The moral of this story is that PAS not only rocks Sonoma, but when the chips are down, and a monster invasion shows up, PAS rocks UO!
KD
For those experienced enough (or old enough *grins*) to remember the Brit invasion of 2005, they will appreciate these stats.
For those who weren't ingame back then, here's a quick summary:
North of Brit in the mountains, the GMs spawned groups of monsters, along with generals and other nasties that had cool items on them. The spawn was by zones, and if I recall, there were 6 zones, each one closer to Brit, until the last one was as far south as the west bank brit (the entire invasion was on the west side of brit).
Bank sitters were pissed and this is why most people moved to Luna as their bank of choice.
Anyways, you had to kill enough spawn, and fast enough, and the monsters got tougher with each "level" in each spawn. So we had to beat about 5 levels of spawn in one general area to "win" that spawn and stop monsters from spawning.
Then we moved a few screens north to the next zone, etc until we "won" the last spawn north at the mountains.
it was a very grueling event, and we started at 8pm cdt and when we won it was usually midnight cdt. So that's 4 hrs to finish, and of course we lost PAS as the night progressed due to their time zones, etc.
I never saw any guild actively fight the spawn other than PAS, and when we came we usually had 25 PAS with us. When we got there, the others that were trying to kill the generals for their loot hooped and hollered because now they had help.
It also turned into a great recruiting tool as we added about 15 players into PAS as they saw how we helped everyone, not just PAS, and had an awesome time with it.
Just outside the brit bridge west of west bank brit on fel and tram is a statue with stats on how many monsters were killed, how many invasions were won, etc.
Here's the count in order:
Napa 26
Sonoma 25
Chesepeake 24
Lake Superior 20
Great Lakes 20
Atlantic 19
pacific 12
Catskills 11
Baja 10
not too shabby for a shard as small as Sonoma!
The moral of this story is that PAS not only rocks Sonoma, but when the chips are down, and a monster invasion shows up, PAS rocks UO!
KD