AV Developers Strategy

[Shadotter]

and as far as other superbosses are concerned, the main reason why AV is so legendary is because even the people with the best gear and the best strategies couldn't beat it even after 2hr locking was discovered. We had to wait until Alexander became available before we could beat him in a way that wasn't considered a glitch or cheating.

[Atomic_Skull]

SE stated it was killable with only 18 75s at the time. The video they posted was very vauge as hell and still left a lot of people confused as to what they were trying to show us.

They were just trolling.

[Kaisha]

I'd still love to see the full video of them killing AV that they spliced into that 2min 'hint' video.


And when they do that, I picture the next thread of this kind being "Wtf was the dev team thinking of making PW an 18hr+ endeavour initially". Actually on that note, I'd probably prefer a blog post or something documenting their thought process for creating these ludicrous beasts and how they go about play testing them.


Last time I remember the devs speaking about their creation process was ages ago with the special effects crew.

[Twille]

AV is a joke.

[Raesvelg]

Ignoring the bg burnout. How many linkshells actually defeated av pre abyssea? I only know of apathy on remora and chocobogordo on ragnarok did it.

It happened a few times by way of various exploits; each time it happened, SE would fix the exploit and it would be back to square one.

When they readjusted AV/PW to be killable within a more reasonable time scale, a lot of shells Souleater zerged it down, but that doesn't really count; it was another exploit, effectively, just one that SE should have seen coming and as a consequence nobody got punished for it.

At the time, of course, we were concerned that it might land us in trouble, so we only did it the once.

Count me in as one of the people who would love to know what the trick was supposed to be, prior to the various added player abilities and AV nerfs.