Hunting season! (summer forest pvp event)

Oh, >.< fail... ahh well I should be there for the first half at least.
and sunlight blade and chugs? if so it was him
Just got red phantomed like you did... only problem is I was in the middle of new londo at the time and I lost ... >.>

This weekend I'm going to be re-training myself as a forest hunter. I think a few laps around the forest and a couple shieldless/magicless invasions as well.

^ Ooof, I wear the grass crest but normally I dont use a sheild... my last hour of FH was full dragon body with a dark hand shield

Good news everyone! I just got confirmation that the Darkstalkers will be aiding us in this endeavor.

Excellent more the merrier and such what we really need Is out of forum support... gona start trying to gather people in a week or two.

I have been having the following conversation with cloudyeki.

The ideal situation is no allies in the darkroot forest. Only gravelords.

The curse range is +/-10 plus 10%. So if gravelords are at 120 the curse will reach all the way up to 142 and all the way down to 98 Anything in the forest at that range will be subject to the curse.

Last time I emphasized this but only forest hunters obliged. Everyone else invaded from the forest.

Maybe DMBS and DWS should invade from the gate to Sif. Different spawn point. Maybe the peer to peer mechanism looks for the closest players physically too.

Best advice is to avoid the forest all together but if you cannot you cannot.

Edit:

I am not worried about fighting each other or invading eachother what I am worried about is that BP will spawn in the worlds of allies not in the worlds of gankers.



Last edited by DxV04 on Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:17 pm; edited 1 time in total

^ This

A hundred times this

Gamertag: MusteaKrakish

I'll be there probably. Don't wanna talk, or chat, or anything, not even rewards. I'll be there, you see my name, we 2v2 /2v1 those kids.

REVENGE.

So.. i wasnt sure if i wanted to join in on my hunter or DW or GL, but yesterday i was like half way done with my new int GL build and tried it out a bit inthe forest and spread some misery .
And damn i had alot of fun last night! I killed like 14 guys before they decided to gang up and 3v1 me for revenge of killing them so many times i guess. The one thing i noticed is that i only had 4 guys invading through my GL sign and the rest where all hunters, no biggie since i was in the forest i expected that to happen, and i chose the forest to get some more action instead of waiting around for SoV to invade my GL sign. I was only SL 60 when i started maybe thats why i didnt get much SoV to invade me i dunno..
If i get a dried finger will i get more SoV invade me through my GL sign or will it only affect the hunters?

And on another note, i was really dissapointed to get gangbanged by the forest hunters... i can understand they wanted revenge for me killing them over and over but still i thought better of my forest bro's who face the gank every day!!!

GL's are really useful to us hunters, but often we can't get over to the mushies and make use of them, or even notice them at all.

Quarik wrote:GL's are really useful to us hunters, but often we can't get over to the mushies and make use of them, or even notice them at all.

Ye i know the BP mushrooms in the forest are a bit out of the way of the pvp grounds lol.
I just wanted to test the GL mechanics in a high traffic pvp area .
Since im only on ng and not ng+ yet i cant go spread misery in the place i want(the burg or parish) since i killed those bosses.

But one time when forest hunting on my first toon i noticed the BP mushrooms and lured the gankers to them and that host got 1shot by a BP daddy punch to the face, was an epic and most satisfying moment for me

Edit: after that happened i messaged him: badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM! he went pretty mad then haha

Bamjam wrote:So.. i wasnt sure if i wanted to join in on my hunter or DW or GL, but yesterday i was like half way done with my new int GL build and tried it out a bit inthe forest and spread some misery .
And damn i had alot of fun last night! I killed like 14 guys before they decided to gang up and 3v1 me for revenge of killing them so many times i guess. The one thing i noticed is that i only had 4 guys invading through my GL sign and the rest where all hunters, no biggie since i was in the forest i expected that to happen, and i chose the forest to get some more action instead of waiting around for SoV to invade my GL sign. I was only SL 60 when i started maybe thats why i didnt get much SoV to invade me i dunno..
If i get a dried finger will i get more SoV invade me through my GL sign or will it only affect the hunters?

And on another note, i was really dissapointed to get gangbanged by the forest hunters... i can understand they wanted revenge for me killing them over and over but still i thought better of my forest bro's who face the gank every day!!!

Don't use the dried finger, it will only attrack hunters (if you are in the said section) or wraiths.
If you want to spawn mushrooms and giants you can do so from outside the hunter forest. On the bonfire side of the artorias door.
That forest bonfire is a very high traffic area and you won't fight any hunters.

Thansk Skarecrow.


Well anyone else care about this?

DxV04 wrote:I have been having the following conversation with cloudyeki.

The ideal situation is no allies in the darkroot forest. Only gravelords.

The curse range is +/-10 plus 10%. So if gravelords are at 120 the curse will reach all the way up to 142 and all the way down to 98 Anything in the forest at that range will be subject to the curse.

Last time I emphasized this but only forest hunters obliged. Everyone else invaded from the forest.

Maybe DMBS and DWS should invade from the gate to Sif. Different spawn point. Maybe the peer to peer mechanism looks for the closest players physically too.

Best advice is to avoid the forest all together but if you cannot you cannot.

Edit:

I am not worried about fighting each other or invading eachother what I am worried about is that BP will spawn in the worlds of allies not in the worlds of gankers.



Last edited by DxV04 on Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:17 pm; edited 1 time in total

Dxv: i would stay outside the forest door to GL if i didnt already had killed the butterfly.. . So i got to stick to the forest grounds, and i also like to fight some hunters while waiting for the EoD to kick in haha.

I just had another great session of about 1and a half hour and made 7 EoD, but i notice that when the EoD starts working, the more SoV i kill the faster they start invading me and somehow all these guys i met today gangbanged me... I managed to win the 2v1 and 3v1 till i ran out of spells and the fog gate just didnt go down anymore lol.

Also on your post above, i guess when hunters invade GL's they could drop EoD or something and just BC out of there. i can remember we did something like that at the forest of the damned event. And on the infecting allies world thing i think most hunters dont care since they stay at the bf to invade.

Bamjam wrote:Dxv: i would stay outside the forest door to GL if i didnt already had killed the butterfly.. . So i got to stick to the forest grounds, and i also like to fight some hunters while waiting for the EoD to kick in haha.

I just had another great session of about 1and a half hour and made 7 EoD, but i notice that when the EoD starts working, the more SoV i kill the faster they start invading me and somehow all these guys i met today gangbanged me... I managed to win the 2v1 and 3v1 till i ran out of spells and the fog gate just didnt go down anymore lol.

I did PvP inside the hunter forest area in the first event. And my experience was just like yours. But most forest hunters don't understand the truce they should have with Gravelords.

Bamjam wrote:Also on your post above, i guess when hunters invade GL's they could drop EoD or something and just BC out of there. i can remember we did something like that at the forest of the damned event. And on the infecting allies world thing i think most hunters dont care since they stay at the bf to invade.

Thats the problem FH don't need to be in the forest to invade. They can invade from anywhere in the world.

Again, any friendlies that are in the forest in their world are subject to the curse if they are in the soul range.

Where do you want to curse to go to friendlies or Gankers?

Forest hunters put on your rings outside the forest and wait to be called by alvina.

DW DM should make a forest hunter toon and do the same. Other wise invade from Sif's door.

DxV04 wrote:Thansk Skarecrow.


Well anyone else care about this?

DxV04 wrote:I have been having the following conversation with cloudyeki.

The ideal situation is no allies in the darkroot forest. Only gravelords.

The curse range is +/-10 plus 10%. So if gravelords are at 120 the curse will reach all the way up to 142 and all the way down to 98 Anything in the forest at that range will be subject to the curse.

Last time I emphasized this but only forest hunters obliged. Everyone else invaded from the forest.

Maybe DMBS and DWS should invade from the gate to Sif. Different spawn point. Maybe the peer to peer mechanism looks for the closest players physically too.

Best advice is to avoid the forest all together but if you cannot you cannot.

Edit:

I am not worried about fighting each other or invading eachother what I am worried about is that BP will spawn in the worlds of allies not in the worlds of gankers.



Last edited by DxV04 on Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:17 pm; edited 1 time in total

Dx - good information as always bro. If you will be participating as DM or DW please take note of the information.

@Bamjam - sorry about the bangs from the hunters.I guess some hunters cannot fight the urge for revenge or hunter PTSD after getting serially banged before they invaded you. Over the past couple of days I have been summoned as a red in the forest by a couple of other players I know in an attempt to demonstrate to hunters how they should deal with honorable hosts in the forest. Plus to get additional battle training for the mass invasion in few weeks. So far the results have been so so - I think more of the lower to intermediate SL hunters are doing majority of the banging. Most of the higher SL hunters simply want a good duel.

Okay, to clarify does anyone know another bonfire that you can invade from out in the world, I am aware that invasions will keep going if you are at the darkwood forest fire, however the parish one opposite sens you cannot invade directly from. so in short anyone know a good spot ?
and forest hunters will still end up invading gravelords sadly, but we can only hope they notice Pity gravelord evil aura is so subtle xD

and I am still really sorry about attacking you broke >.< I dont know why I did, I thought the only Reds I attacked on the spot were one who looked exactly like a guy who BS'ed me (fairly sure it was the same guy so not you, especially since I killed him xD) and one who was a tree and as such I could not see what colour till I had hit him (he didnt break cover) sorry :/

dancash1808 wrote:
Okay, to clarify does anyone know another bonfire that you can invade from out in the world, I am aware that invasions will keep going if you are at the darkwood forest fire, however the parish one opposite sens you cannot invade directly from. so in short anyone know a good spot ?
and forest hunters will still end up invading gravelords sadly, but we can only hope they notice Pity gravelord evil aura is so subtle xD

and I am still really sorry about attacking you broke >.< I dont know why I did, I thought the only Reds I attacked on the spot were one who looked exactly like a guy who BS'ed me (fairly sure it was the same guy so not you, especially since I killed him xD) and one who was a tree and as such I could not see what colour till I had hit him (he didnt break cover) sorry :/

You can invade from any where in the world that is open for PvP. You cannot invade for example the bonfire by andre because that is cut off from PvP.

There is no advantage to invade from the forest bonfire.

Brokewilly invades from sunlight altar. FH do not need to be at a bonfire to invade.

Sunlight altar sounds good, and invading from a bonfire helps if you dont run repair powder and dont want to spend time trekking back (especially if you use a katana.) the other thing is as broke has mentioned you will get summoned as a red occasionally, if you lose your soul drops where you are.

I invade from the Sen's bonfire, Sunlight Altar, or upper Undead Burg. Why those areas? All three offer different hollow enemies. For any down time between invasions I practice parrying and dodging the enemies. At Sunlight Altar you have a 3v1 with the crossbow guys. See if you can kill all three with one hit before they scratch you (hint: the Great Scythe helps)

Well I currently use the forest cause I can stock up on blossoms in between invasions, but I shall not on the day

dancash1808 wrote:
Okay, to clarify does anyone know another bonfire that you can invade from out in the world, I am aware that invasions will keep going if you are at the darkwood forest fire, however the parish one opposite sens you cannot invade directly from. so in short anyone know a good spot ?
and forest hunters will still end up invading gravelords sadly, but we can only hope they notice Pity gravelord evil aura is so subtle xD

and I am still really sorry about attacking you broke >.< I dont know why I did, I thought the only Reds I attacked on the spot were one who looked exactly like a guy who BS'ed me (fairly sure it was the same guy so not you, especially since I killed him xD) and one who was a tree and as such I could not see what colour till I had hit him (he didnt break cover) sorry :/

No problem about attacking me Dan - I could feel the deadly intent eminating from you when you first warped in. I think I may have to post that vid - it was actually kinda funny - if I only could have screamed "Wait, Stop, Don't - I'm one of you! Alvina, enough with the jokes!" LOL. Hopefully I will be able to get some invading in tonight so hopefully we get a chance to shed some campers blood together.

Like Dx says I invade from the Sunlight Alter for many reasons: easy access to bonfire (for repair, resupply, warping to other areas, etc), peace and quiet (once you kill the praying hollows - I hate the noise they make) and the decreased likelihood of being cursed by GLs trolling the forest. Plus a wonderful view.

Do post the video I really want to see this as I dont remember xD (Perhaps I go into berserk forest hunter rages, it would explain why hours seem to disappear out of nowhere when playing )

The sunlight altar is great because you've got the 3 rats to farm humanity while you wait. I usually get up to 30 within 2-3 hours while hunting, which is good to have a stock of 10+ at all times.

I hunt with 95+ nowadays, used to use zero tried 99, decided it was worth it