For the Glory of Alvina

DarkW17 wrote:Also on the topic of stunlocks I read somewere on the forums to quickly toggle your right hand weapon to evade it and I have been trying this and it works for sure if anyone didn't know that!

befowler wrote:There's ways to turn the idler to your advantage if you have patience and if the farmers can't find the idler (sometimes the idler will be wearing ring of fog, or head away from the spawn point before they idle again). I had a couple last night while I was scouting around in the lower basin re archery, and the result is that nobody else invades. You may get the occasional darkwraith invasion, but otherwise you have both forest cov slots filled (idler, and you), which frustrates the farmers to no end. As I was already down in the basin when it occurred to me that nobody had invaded for a while, I decided to watch the clock and see how long it took the farmers to get tired of it. First, at about the 9 minute mark with no action happening, the hosts's two phantoms black crystalled out. Then, he spent a while trying to summon more, and then at the 25 minute mark he suicided.

This can be boring for most people, and I only did it because I was stuck in the basin already and they wouldn't follow me down, but remember that the goal of the farmers is to kill as many phantoms as quickly as they can. You can deny them this by killing them outright of course, but trolling them by refusing to play into their little plan is a legit alternative. Not only did we keep this guy occupied for half an hour, but when he suicided he reset all the mobs, which had previously been cleared out. So hopefully other forest hunters were able to use those against him in his next life. If you go into fights with an eye towards making their farming as painful as possible even if you don't kill them directly, it can really be a lot of fun. The 800k souls I got from his suicide wasn't bad either, heh.

Tolvo wrote:By the way, I have a tactic for dealing with BS. But I'm not entirely sure if I should post it or not. Because while there are ways to avoid BS or punish it, I'm talking about literally cancelling the BS animation from happening. The issue is it might fall under the glitch category, so I'm pretty torn about posting it. I haven't gotten to test it with many weapons yet, but I'm pretty sure any build can do it so do you guys think I should post the information or keep it to myself?

Tolvo wrote:By the way, I have a tactic for dealing with BS. But I'm not entirely sure if I should post it or not. Because while there are ways to avoid BS or punish it, I'm talking about literally cancelling the BS animation from happening. The issue is it might fall under the glitch category, so I'm pretty torn about posting it. I haven't gotten to test it with many weapons yet, but I'm pretty sure any build can do it so do you guys think I should post the information or keep it to myself?

EDIT: Actually I think I'm going to talk to the mods about this one, and see their view of the tactic.

befowler wrote:That's a good point, although my experience has been that most farmers get their kills from BSs, and aren't that great in open field combat (unless you count 3v1 greatsword spam). At the same time, I backstabbed someone a few days ago 3 times with my claymore and still didn't kill him due to his huge level. So we'd probably benefit more from it than them.

I was sort of joking about the PMs, but in seriousness if you want to tell someone, tell brokewilly and he could probably decide who in forest cov might deserve to know. The group that received the last batch of uber protip PMs held water quite well until some of them were discovered independently. That would ensure it stays in the right hands.

DarkW17 wrote:To Skarekrow13- I had something simliar happen to me I was having a great duel with a phantomless host (often rare so far lol) when out of no were another hunter runs up and spams fire tempest roasting him...so of course I get the hate mail...2v1 isnt fair ect. So I msg back saying...dont worry I will always being hunting so you will have your chance for revenge again. Not long after I invade him again and he has a phantom this time I bring them to the scrubs plants and cast CHSM and time a CSS just right were it all hits the phantom and OHKO's him then after a good battle I end up stunlocking and beating him with my claymore. It was pretty funny and he msg'd me saying good fight and we fought 1v1 several time afterwards...I won and lost he was a good fighter and we had alot of fun in the end.

Tolvo wrote:I feel something. It's, it's as if a thousand hunters just cried out, then were silenced.

Rules are rules befowler, sorry. Maybe I'll invest some further time into talks about it but I don't want to try and push them into letting me post it. That will probably kill it instantly.

skarekrow13 wrote:Ooh....top secret stuff. Count me in if I'm a worthy hunter. I'm an investigator for a not for profit which really just means I'm secure in my belief that everything is my business

Forum Pirate wrote:cheesy as it sounds, my main strategy is being to proud to let them demoralize me. They WILL DIE, because I AM KING ****!!!! is the kind of thought i have when i deal with farmers. Think the effect war cries have on soilders, the rally to the cause type thing.

Tolvo wrote:Confidence definitely helps in the forest, you kind of need it to face down three enemies at once. However I think there's a difference between getting pumped up enough to take action, and letting it go to your head causing you to make mistakes.