https://discord.gg/UDnt8PX - INVITE TO UOR PUBLIC CHAMP GROUP DISCORD UOR Public Champ Group will be hosting a PUBLIC HARROWER on the 28th of June (US zone) at 9 PM PST / 11 Central / 12 EST / 5 AM UK / 12 PM Hong Kong! UO AM password will be "publicharrower" NEWBIE's guide to getting platinum at a Harrower event: How do you become eligible for platinum? With the current Harrower system, the top 45 damage dealers will earn plat. If you score under 500 damage, it is considered a negative score and you will not be eligible for plat. With this new system, it is probably best to bring a tamer. Archer: Very easy to do some damage. I recommend having 2 bows, an orcish bow and a magic bow. For stages 1 and 3, just stand a couple tiles away from the harrower and shoot. Expect to be teleported onto the harrower and attacked, so be at full stamina and paying attention because your life depends on you immediately getting off of the harrower's tile. Why is this? Well it has to do with monster AI and tile distance. While the harrower is teleport any random character in 12 tile range, it will only ATTACK the closest attacker. Take a gander at the screenshot below and lets use our imagination. The green holiday coins are the harrower. If you get teleported onto the Harrower, your distance is 0 which essentially means your about to die since you are likely the closest attacker. For stage 2, switch to the orcish bow since it has increased range, and you can fire away at the tentacles non-stop while being un-teleportable. Great phase to rack up a lot of damage. Non-Archer Dexxer: Seems sketchy huh? But again, look at the above screenshot. The gold coins are a distance of 1 from the Harrower, so you are possiblly being attacked if you stand there. The platinum coins are DIAGONAL relative to the Harrower, and come out to a distance of roughly 1.6 tiles from the harrower. This is important because there is inevitably going to be a swarm of dragons around the harrower, filling up all the gold tiles, and taking the brunt of the harrowers damage. If you are using a non-archer dexxer, just make sure to stay on a diagonal tile. Or put more simply, if you want to plat, stand on the plat. You will still be eligible to be teleported onto the Harrower, so pay attention and be ready to move when it happens. Tamer(BEST DPS/SAFETY): Say all kill and target the harrower for stage 1 or 2, or both. You can call your pets if they are getting low but that would mean you would need to run up, putting yourself in teleport range of the harrower. Just let the UO gods decide the fate of your beloved pets and stay out of teleport range. The only way you don't get platinum on a tamer is if you get teleported in and are dead when the harrower dies. Eval mage: Evaluating intelligence is basically required if you want to get platinum on a mage. Just cast energy bolt on the harrower. Always get out of teleport range while you meditate, and repeat. As an eval mage you also play an important role during phase 2 in killing the tentacles. Stand out of the tentacle aoe range and meteor swarm them. You can and often will have to target a few tiles away from the tentacle your aiming at. The Harrower (in both forms) will periodically teleport characters onto him, melee them, drain their stamina, and cast spells on them. I have never been teleported while invis or hiding. This gives tamers an advantage as you can attack with pets and then invis. Reactive Armor will mitigate much of the initial attack and gives you an opportunity to survive if teleported. Stamina Pots and Heal Pots will also help you survive. Knowing the above, if you stay buffed w/ Strengthen and full stamina and watch your clients carefully, you should be able to survive a teleport and heal up. 5. That being said, you will occasionally have characters get teleported and die - happens to all of us. Your damage dealt is not erased when you die. Quickly walk to another character of yours and resurrect yourself. You could still get plat. Do not expect other people to resurrect you. Be prepared and do it yourself. 6. Thieves will be waiting to steal your plat off your characters. Invis / hide your characters when the Harrower gets to 5% or lower HP. Carry a player made lockable box on each character. Cast Magic Lock on it. (Alternatively an armouir cannot be snooped) Make sure the box has at least 20 lbs worth of stuff in it. Tip: A halberd works well. When the Harrower dies, immediately tab to each client and move the platinum into the locked box. Tip: You can create a macro to have organizer agent do this on a loop. 7. Stay within 15ish tiles of Harrower, preferably hidden for when he dies. Leave quickly when you get your plat. Either gate out or recall out to a safe location. WITH THE CURRENT PLAT SYSTEM ONLY THE TOP 45 DAMAGERS WILL PLAT!!! Personally I just recall and drop my locked box immediately in the bank. Losing 20-60 plat to pick up a few thousand gold worth of gold, regs, and/or gems makes. n o. sense. Your pets are similarly not worth the trouble. Leave them and come back for them. (This guide was copied from @elhorno, who copied it from @Gideon Jura 's guide)
Thank you raven ! As for transparency of the current stock of skulls (held by @Labeler & @RavenMagi ) i have made a sheet with read only to everyone. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wSiLqly8I-yO76eHr04JRMJCYyVu4yc6rZY2TbT2wBE/edit?usp=sharing if you would like to see more details / info's on the sheet.. please do not hesitate Pm-ing me on forum or discord. thank you.
Here are some practicalities: we will be launching from Moonglow, everyone should stack or park themselves North of "The PS Brewery Co." sign. the gate to the event will be located just by the sign. (see screenshot) how do we plan to launch: Raven & Labeler will attempt to summon the harrower. if the star room is ambushed, we will need forces to win it back once the harrower is summoned a gates will be provided from the dungeon to Moonglow. please do not block the rune. this will not be appreciated. (if we get lucky, we might get a green event gate up) rules: please do not attack grey players or grey pets unless they show clear hostile activities. it can always happen to anyone by accident they turn grey by healing a mob instead of their pets, or by attacking a fellow player due to the chaotic running around. just play nice & fair. we do expect resistance by PK's individual or larger groups. do not bring anything you are not prepared to lose. misc: Archers should have their orcish bows in their gear. they will come in handy in the tentacles phase. personally we want to have a fun event so i would like to request to leave your boms home. Meteor Swarm is one of the old Classic techniques and we should all pursue that mechanic.
