Who's Shadow anyway? And the burrowing idea is good. Aaand, I had a better picture of Vivi, remember?

I don't think so. I'm a level 60 lucidian with okayish armour, and cosmic/ritual defenses, and I can take out the goats one at a time with careful use of flying. I can even kill one that has it's buddy with it, with a lot of patience (one hit before I have to run). I really don't like going beyond Capricorn, though.

Capricorn is actually one of the hardest spheres in my opinion, though my racial susceptibility to fire may play a part in that.

Actually, I find the Astral to be much easier to hunt alone than in groups. In groups, you have to add the idiocy/inexperience/fumblefingers factor for more and more people. Then, if nothing else, you tend to have multiple creatures hitting one person from time to time, as well as slightly more time wasted in random defs/post-kill healing, little timewasters here and there.

The only groups I've seen have sufficiently offsetting advantages for grouping in the astral are warrior groups (armor is a -huge- difference for hunting Astral) and flying groups (for certain areas).

Practical experience accounts for a lot. I've been trying to teach various Celest citizens about hunting Astral, but the knack is hard to teach when the situation differs so much from solo hunting.

Actually.. i hunt Astral in a group of two as much as i hunt it alone, and i like the group better
But well, that's probably only because he -can- hunt. I don't have to watch out for him not to die and visa versa. There is no idiotcy, Eldanien. We ran into a group of four or five virgins once and they never seriously got me into the red. Even though there was a point where i had to tank four Hail the mighty Puella!

As for group hunting in general i say two people are best. I can usually tank two mobs alone and if theres someone else that only means i get hit less often and have to use way less health vials, none most of the time. .. And with that stupid ban refill that's really great.

So Eldanien, if you hunt with someone who -can- hunt then there shouldn't be a problem (nothing against Elaria, but she admitted herself that, as a Faeling she can't really tank much..)

@Richter: Where's the point in knowing who i am ic?

I'm assuming you fall into the 'has armor' category, then.

Even so, hunting alone, I only have to sip health when the original creatures star returning. Hit and run is rather efficient when one has Puella.

I prefer hunting in groups if only because... well, this is a MUD. Multiple User... yeah. Go team play!

Not more than you. Chainmail and Greathelm/shield..
But i do have putrefaction, so fire is about the only thing that really hurts me.. makes me wonder, do Celestines have an equivalent for putre?

Numen, which is better than Putre, but takes 4 power and lasts just shy of a minute.

The Coning/bashing groups I've been part of have done reasonably well. Three of us Moonbursting, and one standing back healing whoever is tanking the most.

... and i thought -real- group play is dead in Lusternia ..
Sylphas, i think i love you simply for resoring my faith in the game.

When I first read this I thought it said Favourite bashing songs.

When I played Imperian I would hunt the rabid badgers to the song



"Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom mushrooM!"

Hrm, there's no option for "Mortals in the Basin of Life"....

Arise, undead minion!

Heh. This post looks so funny now.

EDIT: And stop necroing old threads. You too, Divine!

I was about to say, where is Undervault on the list.. and then I looked again... where is tosha, the aetherubbles, an... ohhh 2004...

Ooh burrowing through Astral, ohhh the memories...