Astral nodes shouldn't be link-able when you're graced. Otherwise we get a silly situation in which graced buggers just walk straight in through your demesne and summon a sod load of goats and you can't do the first thing about it.

Wow, you can do that? Sounds like an incredibly aggressive action, even if no one else is around at the time; you're not going to be the one killing 20 goats, but the next guy to show up is going to be hurting.

And yes.. I'm not denying just an incy wincy bit of sour grapes here. I'm still smarting from my combined XP loss.

Yeah, Narsrim pretty much spent the entire time I was there either graced and linking or dying to the goats as fast as he could so he could get back to linking graced.

Actually, wasn't this the first time Magnagora lost?! Usually Magnagora dominates.

Besides the Goat summoning, what made the difference this time around?

More goat summoning.

This has happened essentially every wild nodes event-- the only one I know of that it didn't occur was the one before this most recent, where it was Glomdoring v. Magnagora.

Edit: You can find multiple posts about it as well.

Then it must be a couple of other things.

Was Kaervas playing? If not it shows how one powerful dude can make all the difference. Any others missing?

1) This was the first wildnodes where there was a massive number of Celestians and Serenwilders there. Usually it's a handful of both. They also worked together to put almost all of the nodes on Cancer, though one did go to Taurus.
2) Previous times, there was only only one or two attempts at graced linking (except for once, which also resulted in a lot of Magnagoran deaths and Serenwilde getting a good number of nodes at that point).

Tauros technically had 3 nodes at once, thank you

I'm pretty sure it was just Munsia/Narsrim/Diamante up there, because they enjoy fighting, and wanted to get serenwilde some power.

And if you want the play the blame game, it seems Balizar was messing with the planted nodes while graced as well.

Let's not play the blame game. It's dull. Let's just all agree to get this loophole closed.

I'm trying very hard not to play the blame game.

But there is a reason that (pre-Astral upgrade) we drained Scorpio dry. Even with this precaution, someone managed to get one link out on us as it regenerated... but only one, because it went dead again. But this is the ONLY defence, because if someone links even twice with these uber NPCs when there's 6 or so people on the sphere, there's a lot of trouble incoming.

Flying helps a bunch

I think Daevos got off just one or two links on Cancer, freaking decimated the Celestian team. Linking while graced should definitely not be allowed, I think once you leave prime grace should be automatically removed since you are entering open pk waters.

We've been bitching about this since the very first Astral Nodes event.

I like that idea! So now maybe it's a strategy to link Capricorn dry so this can't happen anymore!

EDIT: Ahah Kharvik that was your plan wasn't it!! You were working with Celest the entire time you sneaky person, you

I don't know, you might think of Ethereal as a killing field but I think of it as home.

Yes, of course. There was nothing malicious about that incident

Out of curiousity, which of the big Magnagoran fighters were present?