I started to get bored of AK, as did everyone else I would run it with, so one day I decided to spice it up a bit.
Instead of going the train to gate/die/rez route, which is lame imo, I went the pull tons of mobs and AOE the hell out of them route. This cut the run down to 20-25 minutes, depending on DPS. Video link below!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0QYz...ature=youtu.be
AK Speed Run - Warrior Style
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10-01-2013, 11:21 AMKoltikAK Speed Run - Warrior Style
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10-01-2013, 01:54 PMJokingCat
it begiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiins
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10-01-2013, 04:37 PMRaijin
that whm carried the run so fucking bad
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10-01-2013, 08:42 PMKoltik
You need amazing heals to pull this off, that's a given due to the number of mobs involved. You actually need everyone to be on the A game, because if you lack anything then you will wipe. Good DPS makes the healers job infinitely easier.
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10-01-2013, 08:56 PMstudionevermore1why.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koltik
why speed run.
What is the effin rush.
what is with this "OMGZORZ I mUsT g3T aLl dA l00tz"
take your time, chat , be socialable. sheesh... -
10-01-2013, 08:59 PMKoltikAfter you've run AK 70+ times then maybe you will understand. It's not about loot, it's about finishing it and getting it over with so that we can move on to do other things. The only way you can get myth tomes at this point is to farm AK, so here we are.Quote:
Originally Posted by studionevermore1
There's so much to do in this game, why wouldn't you speed through repetitive things to move on to something else? -
10-01-2013, 09:42 PMHiirNoivl
Nice work! Really ace stuff. :)
Speaking of carrying runs, lol, I had a blast this morning carrying a couple of goofball archers through the run. Only WARs can do this. -
10-01-2013, 09:50 PMKanash
Good job there.
Just came outta a run in AK myself. Had PLD, 2 brd and sch, all with relic and almost full DL. Finished in 27-28 min, so not as fast as you, but it felt extremely fast lol. Demon wall didnt even finish moving forward the 2nd time, before it died. Well, maybe it did, but we never saw the bee's come out.
And yeah, once you run AK over and over and over, you really just wanna get it done as fast as possible. I'm not big a fan of speed runs, but I'm an even lesser fan of grinding the same damn dungeon 100+ times. -
10-01-2013, 10:01 PMKoltikThanks Hiir! I completely agree that only Warriors can do this effectively; a Paladin would not be able to keep up with the AOE's that are going out. Even I have problems with aggro & TP if I am not careful. If a PLD were to do it, the DPS would need to be watching their aggro (which would slow things down).Quote:
Originally Posted by HiirNoivl
Sounds like you had some power DPS - nice! You should try doing what I do in the video and see how it goes - it definitely makes the zone less of a snooze-fest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kanash
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10-01-2013, 10:25 PMIzumiRaito
If u have to run something that many times, standard speed running will not bring fun anymore, especially with unworthy trash monsters. The only entertaining things left could be:
1. Trying to beat personal/fc/world speed record.
2. Completing with non-standard party composition.
3. Completing with crap gear. -
10-02-2013, 02:04 AMxxalucard
Woulda been faster with a summoner
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10-02-2013, 02:36 AMPinchI haven't watched your video at all, but I do 18~20 minute AK runs on my Paladin, and we AoE pull 2-3 packs at a time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koltik
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10-02-2013, 03:23 AMdragonflyseksparade
Not too impressive tbh. Any group with 2 relic dps can run it just as fast without going out of their way to pull stuff and aoe. The last group I was in with 2 relic DPS easily killed demon wall before any bees spawned.
The only difference between your video and a normal quick run is that your WHM spent the entire time healing whereas normally a whm will spend 50%+ time dpsing. -
10-02-2013, 04:06 AMKoltikHaha - at first I didn't notice it was you Joy! You know when I grouped with a BLM and told them I did it with a SMN as AOE DPS they were like "what, summoners can AOE?". There are way too many bad summoners in this game; many don't know their DPS potential.Quote:
Originally Posted by xxalucard
Interesting - and here I was thinking Warriors may have actually had a niche. Way to rain on my parade!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinch
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10-02-2013, 04:32 AMRhazeCain
Sometimes you can have fun in AK with bad groups.. Rarely, but for example: I had group die except me with Demon Wall at 10-15% health. Got to solo finish it as Warrior. Tank DPS + self heal: let's see a PLD do that. =P
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10-02-2013, 08:21 AMTaruranto"I'm going to pass my judgment on this high level content I don't even know with my level 28 Gladiator"Quote:
Originally Posted by studionevermore1
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10-02-2013, 01:10 PMsaber_alterdid it!Quote:
Originally Posted by RhazeCain
rest of the group died, ended up popping most of my def buffs to kill it.