EZ Server

Basic Event Information:

This event consists of an epic battle with Rallos Zek, and some of his most famous disciples. It is an incredibly challenging fight, and will require some coordination between the player groups in order to successfully complete. In order to allow some preparation, here are a few things to expect:

•Teamwork•
○ For this event, your group will be grouped up with several other player groups. This will require that you coordinate amongst yourself the various aspects of a more dynamic fight than you are accustomed to on EZ. This means aggro control, off tanking adds, healing coordination etc.

•Preparation•
○ Several parts of this fight may require some modifications to spells, speedkeys and abilities that you may be used to using. If your normal attack key has a taunt component built in, that may become inconvenient, should you taunt something immediately before a frontal AE rips your group's face off. Mass resurrection is blocked, so creating a button for your healers to rez downed party members might be smart as well.  This event is by no means designed to completely ruin your speedkeys, however the rewards are quite good, so the little bit of preparation and coordination will be worthwhile.

Additional Notes:

• As we found with our test this past Sunday, the zone cannot handle the number of players we expect at one time. So players will be grouped together, and will be required to work together to get through this fight.

• This fight is quite different than what you are used to on EZ, but before anyone panics, this type of complexity is only because it was planned to be a server-wide event, so this won't be the new normal for boss encounters. That being said, I have learned quite a bit on what does and doesn't work with bosses, and boxed groups, so certain ideas will certainly be used in the future, and boss difficulty will be elevated. This was planned in VP, however the mechanics tended to break down there, and are typically irrelevant. I have found more reliable mechanics.

• Level 75 required to join event* -- this has a bit of a caveat, in that the items available to be purchased with the awarded tokens is max level gear, with the exception of a few things. While a level 75 group may not be very effective, they can still provide utility with rezzes and healing, and whatever DPS they can provide. Because of the expected value of the tokens, anyone 75+ who can attend, and is does what they can to help, will be rewarded either way.

• Underpowered groups. As I have mentioned, somewhere, if a group turns out to be a little underpowered for the event, I have several players who will be available to provide additional DPS, healing, or tanking, to increase the chance of success. However, success in this fight is not guaranteed, and some of the mechanics, adds and overall damage are very unforgiving.

• Loot distribution will be a bit clunky this first time, but will get sorted out for future events.

• This isn't a stand around and wait for your group to kill the boss for you-type fight. If you are not active during this fight (from information gathered via parsing), you will receive less, or no loot depending on your characters activity. This will require the collective group to give maximum effort, and that will be looked at prior to loot distribution.

• Finally, this type of fight may not be for everyone. I know that many players enjoy EZ because while grindy, it's not overly complex...this fight is. It's nothing that I believe can't be overcome with proper coordination, but it's closer to a raid encounter than anything we've done before on EZ.

I hope everyone enjoys themselves, it was a lot of fun to work on, more content will continue to be released as we work towards T11.


For Akkadius & Rent,
-Draca
EZ Admin Team

NEW SPELL & ZONE FILE SOON

Prior to the event, likely Saturday evening, I will be posting a new spell and potactics zone file, so check back here for that information.

thanks draca xoxo

Wonder if we'll see Rallos waiving a Canadian flag in the end.

On a more serious note: thanks again for your dedication. This is not something you smash together in a minute. It will be awesome, I'm sure of it!

 :o :o ::) ::) ;D ;D

Additional Note:

There is a portion of this fight that you'll likely only want to use ranged attacks/spells on, so working out a good ranged damage setup would be a good idea as well.

Looking forward to it, thanks for the event, Draca.

Uh if a ranger is needed, I have one but that means I won't be able to bring my lvl 75+ army to bear as usually the army is run on computer and the ranger does her range on a separate computer nearby. But I usually count on the main army to be fully engaged with the MQ2 auto attack and pally healing before I use the ranger to turn the target into a pincushion.

Won't this make me completely useless and worse yet get only 1 lewt instead of 1 lewt for each toon in my army?

No, no, Serra, it's just a part of the encounter where ranged/spell damage is HIGHLY recommended...it will by no means disqualify you. I just want to give people a chance to adjust speedkeys where being in melee range may not be ideal. Just gives everyone time to adjust/add to their keys prior to actually being in the fight.

Good luck all. Hoping to join the next event.  Thanks for making this happen, Draca!

Very cool event, loved all the story.

Very well tuned fight imo, scary adds even with Sarthin there.

Thanks Draca!

event was pretty bad ass. i was super pumped irl afterwards lol. really nice work. enjoyed kiting the adds and tmax.

Was super fun time, Thanks for all the hard work you put in to it all, from mob work to the script work, I didn't see any terrible grammar!

Tank

What to say here....

This is totally the best server wide event I have ever witnessed on EZ. Not that we've had that many to be fair :D Maybe we'll see more in the future with this success  ;)

The amount of hours you put behind this with tuning, details, event dialogues and what not.. truly epic!

Can't really thank you enough for all this.

Thanks for the event. It's really cool to have something where the players are working together on something. It was clearly a labor of love for the server that you put in. Hope to see more stuff like this.

I agree with the above sentiment - this event is very well scripted and planned. It was also exceptionally awesome to see so many folks online and engaged for what, 5 hours or more? Awesome stuff!

A lot of fun. A lot of work for Drac A lot of Gratitude from us players who were fortunate enough to participate.

Awesome event Draca, I can honestly say this is some of the best fun I've had on EZ in a very long time - That said, don't you go scripting all kinds of nutty multiplayer content, we still do love our solo grinds, but this was GREAT! :)

Thanks for everything you do, and have done <3

//Ekiir

Thanks for the event Draca! It was a ton of fun! While I was mostly cannon fodder. I did tank some adds for a short while. Was a lot of fun to have everybody in Discord chatting. The lore bits were a nice touch, really polished.

Very nice event took screenshots of the event. Thanks Draca.
The Plane of Tactics returns to peace and serenity once again.

Looks like a great time was had by all. Congrats to all that participated!  And kudos to Draca for putting it together for EZ Server! May we have more sooner than later, hoping not to miss the next ones :)

There are several players who I know wanted to participate, but weren't able too, for whatever reason. I'm going to get with them, and try to sort out a time to get them together and give it a run.  I know that this type of multi-player event isn't typical for EZ, so I'll try and accommodate those who missed the window yesterday.

Also, thanks to everyone who came out yesterday, and to those players who hung around and helped some lesser geared players go through the encounter as well. We had a bit of an over tuned issue to start, but quickly got that sorted out, and it turned out about how I expected.

I am working on the loot token handouts now, so I should get those out today. I will post with info on how to use them when that happens.

-Draca

Holler if you need fillers for the other people to have a go jefe I don't mind attending and poking things.

Tank

Video from last night's event is now up. Last night was busy and I had limited time to setup the recordings between full zone and what not, so some of it runs a bit choppy with low framerates..
 
https://youtu.be/7GetQdT8bxQ

Thanks again, Draca!

Awesome I'd love to get the opportunity to do a make up when i get my login sorted out.

Wow tha'd be great! Won't be able to make it until Saturday though.  Either way I'm just happy to see EZ server active  :)

yeah i would to love to enjoy it !!! missed yesterday !

Apologies for the delay with the rewards, been doing some testing on the available items to make sure they work as they should, and are balanced.

Thanks for the update!