omfg... besieged is getting harder...

[Tirrock]

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My physical blood pacts were doing about what I expected. Spinning dives a consistant 800. It was just incredibly hard to get leviathan out and finish the blood pact before either dying or running out of MP.

We're still waiting for mamook to reach our gates. But trolls/lamia are already at 75, and they attacked less than an hour ago. ><

[Caspian]

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So I shouldn't even show up at lvl 50?
When are they anyway? Are they random or timed, and how often?

[Thachsanh]

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They are incredibly hard now. Tooks Fairy over an hour to defeat all 3 level 5 attacks.

Player took massive dead, they allow us to get back in though, most people just HP and come back. If they don't we are so lost to these attacks.

[Anaki]

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heh just did this :x they got up FAST like 1 per ingame hour so 4 real hours to about 100 :x.. went trolls ---> undead ---> mamool undead was sorta easiest i thing :x i did most effective on em :D (as drg o.O) trolls were hardest because no one thought theyd do anything D: then we all died :D otherwise wa sufn gotta see some imperials soldiers fight

[Tirrock]

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No exp lost, so if you want to try there's no real harm in it Caspian. I don't know how well you'll do though. I can't really answer the question on when they attack very specficially though... They train until 100 and march sometime afterwards.

Totally getting attacked right now... I was trying to grab my accuracy gear and it took me about 2 minutes to zone into my mog house. >< By the time I got out they had started the attack.

Double Post Edited:
Uh...okay. So the mamool were pushed over fairly easily. I didn't even get in that fight.

...and I got 20 exp for standing around doing nothing except casting carbuncle once. >_>;

[Mesha]

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We had all 3 invade on Carbuncle tonight. I was in sky farming with my LS getting reports, wishing every second I could be in Al Zhabi (bad, bad me hehehe).

First was Trolls, I was getting /tells left and right about how much harder they were, how many people were dying, and a check of the area showed 350 people in Al Zhabi. Second was Mamool Ja about 1 minute after the Trolls retreated. Again swamped with /tells about how many people were dying and how hard they were to kill.

At this point sky farming was over, so I used the Olduum ring and rushed to get to Al Zhabi (kicking myself the whole way for setting my HP in San as a low lvl job). As I was running, the Mamool Ja retreated and sure enough, the Undead attacked. I thought I wouldn't be able to zone into Al Zhabi once it started, and thankfully I was wrong.

Got inside and after everyone finally loaded.. dead bodies everywhere, I ran around and counted 10 unclaimed mobs, numerous others being fought. I tossed out cures, sent Carby to a skelly, died, reraised, died, reraised. cured, died, reraised.. you get the picture! LOL It was by far the funnest Beseiged I have been in. I'm mad I missed the first two, but the one I made it too was very worth it.

I don't know if any of them took any prisoners, I forgot to check before logging off.

And though I didn't think I'd get the IS or any xp for not being in the zone when it started, I did walk away with 700 xp and 700 IS points.

[Tirrock]

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Oh yeah.. There were about 500 people in the zone for the 3 attacks on al[tab]. Was difficult to do -anything-. The trolls and undead both carted off a prisoner each, including the warp taru. They've both been saved already.

[zagex]

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Joined 3 consecutive besiegeds as a 70 Rdm on Midgardsormr. It was pretty hectic, as the cutscene finishing the first attack was immediately followed by the cutscene initiating the 2nd attack. Between the 2nd and 3rd attacks, we at least had 5 or so minutes to raise and run into the MH for healing.

After I used tier 1 -ga spells for mostly 1 damage, sometimes 0, though somehow 58 dmg snuck in there, I gave up on doing damage and decided to play healer, so I just cured and raised people. This was from the 1st of the 3 attacks, so we weren't really organized and a lot of people died as they broke through the first set of gates. It seemed difficult to cure people even when they were in the alliance. When one of our pts wiped out, I was trying to raise the whm, but I couldn't target her, even with "/ta WHMname" and "/ma Raise WHMname"

But I ended up getting 700 xp from the first fight, 550ish from the 2nd (I got trapped in the homepoint area and couldn't figure out how to get back to the frontlines, plus I got disconnected partway through), and 670 from the 3rd (which was rather short compared to the other 2)

I'm sure whoever I cured appreciated it, and hell it cranked up my xp and IS compared to the ones before the maintenence, when I could only get 200-300 xp from tier 1 -ga nukes

[Initial Cat]

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Personally I had a freaking BLAST with the new Beseiged... a ton of people showed up and we had like 3 consecutive invasions, and we won each time :D If you die, so what, just HP (hopefully in town) with no xp loss and kill more baddies for Imperial Standing AND xp :D I got about 900 IS and XP total after the two successful invasions Diabolos server fought off. It is gooooooooooood fun IMO lol.

Edit: Favorite moment: Hundred Fisting a ultra-tough Merrow Blue mage with a ton of other people lol.

[Fayttt]

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God that was crazy. All 3 non-stop level 5 on Diabolos lol. A Mamool Ja did Sommersault Kick on everyone at the gate, and i swear to god 150+ people just dropped down dead due to 1500+ damage to everyone. When I died, I figured it was just because my HP isnt a lot lol, but then right after a bunch of others died.

Then they were running up, and made it all the way to the home point area in Al Zahbi. In the middle of that part of the fight the trolls started marching. Finished off the mamools and we had to fight the trolls & undead swarm with no rest in between lol. I got the mamool fight on video XD

[Kafeen]

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I fought in a level 5 undead attack last night. Mobs have ALOT of HP now. People were hitting for 1200+ damage with nukes / summons and only taking off 1% of the mobs HP.

We started off with arround 200 people and the mobs managed to breach the gates into the larger area. More people arrived and we got up to about 300 and managed to hold them were they were. 30+ people per mob and their HP was still really slow to go down.

I thought we might have lost for a while but eventually they retreated

[Kirsteena]

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Yesterday on Bahamut we had a level 1 troll attack immediately after maintenance was over, and we barely won. I warped straight back into Al Zhabi to see piles of dead bodies, 2 hours flying about, turncoat goblins... Actually - it was huge fun. Blm were getting seriously resisted, melee were taking 5 mins to destroy one cockroach thingy...

[SMc2]

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Garuda had mamool ja at 5, then about a 30 minute break, then the trolls (lvl5) immediately followed by the undead (lvl5).

496 people were in the zone during undead attack.

It was amazing. just... uncanny.

what I loved the most was that no one cared who you are, as long as you are there to help, you'll get invited. No drops = no drama.

Major resists. I saw thundaga IIIs do 75 damage from fully merited BLMs. I switched to Fire spells for undead and noticed much less resists.

oh, and a tip, DO NOT HOME POINT.
supposedly you loose any points from the battle if you zone.
since there is no XP loss in besieged (god bless you SE), use RR1. it's quick, cheep, and just as effective. Weakness sucks, true, but I'd hate to see folks missing out on what they earned because they HPed.

[Dragonly]

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last night on midgar we had a simlar thing happen last night, lvl 5 undead attack first they got to the main area with the NPCs, it was horrible level 75 falling down everywhere. Then right after trolls attacl lvl 5 most people were stuck on the other side of the gates then finally the mamool's attacked lvl 5. it was one hell of a night.

[pearlsea]

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I have a few question about besigded, what is the minimum recomended lvl, how often and when does it start, and how do you get the aht urgan verson of the signet?