(Aug 11) One-hour Cut-throat event

I gotta agree that Solo is fine. You can run away from most people just fine if you just pay attention.

It would be nice if there was a rule change about high level ganks though. If someone who's more than 5 levels ahead of you kills you in these little 1-2 hour leagues then you should keep your stuff. Promotes trying to kill people your own level instead of getting to 7-8 and then camping the zone in by the terraces.

Anyway, fun event. Fun format. Would love to see a 2 week trial league of this.

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Zanarhi wrote:

Started with a templar, stashed ice nova and hillock drops to begin a witch. Rushed ahead and got lvl 10 seconds after the leader before heading out to have some fun.

Close call having my first unique drop as I was being invaded.

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luckily made it to the stash.

Wow, seems like the perfect item for early cutthroat, but the risk of losing it would suck. If they allowed you to keep any uniques you find that would be awesome. It wouldn't affect the game because uniques are not exactly OP or common.

So, I killed a few people with my powerful two-handed mace I found and had a bit of fun. Eventually died to a boring old frost witch (what I'll be next time) that I couldn't catch.

Losing everything on death kinda means you get 1 death then the game is over if you lose something really good...like my 2-handed mace.

Once I died, I had ZERO reason to keep playing, since my power was now zero and I had no way to get it back.

How about dropping rings/amulet instead? How about ears? Turn in ears to earn some kinda orb, maybe Alchemy? Something else, but losing all your gear is kinda lame.

Also, maybe put Leap earlier on in the Marauder quest line? I think it should be an option for returning the medicine chest.

Anyway, it was a fun distraction, got my heart pumping...but its a bit broken right now.

I doubt it could ever be anything more than a race.

is the death penalty the normal cutthroat penalty?

loosing everything thats in your inventory but not equipped should be enough imho.
if you get killed once you are OUT.
ok for 1h race but not for a longterm version

I feel like the mechanic of dropping all your items will work out much better in the longterm game rather than the 1 hour races. With the one hour races, you don't have enough time to get back to where you were before you died. In the longterm game, you have all the time in the world, plus you will probably have higher characters and use of stash to twink your chars out. Just my 2 cents, had a lot of fun on Cutthroat today.

As always was a fun event.

I teamed up with SpaceTiger. We managed to get to Ledge where we were invaded by a Solo who thought he was Superman and Died :). However before we could get to the WP we were invaded again but by a stronger team several levels above ours. Sadly that was enough for Space and he left. I carried on solo and went after a few of the larger parties. Killed a few only to loose my own life in the end.

All in all I had a LOT of fun. I REALLY like the 1 hour events.

I only tried this out for a short while. I'll be definitely playing the league when it starts.

I rolled a witch, i like the fact that i got a 3-socket wand at the beginning. Unfortunately that fun ended shortly after i clicked myself to the terraces.:D

Rest of my run were spent running away from the terraces entrance and it was a race of time wheter i could find gear with the right sockets to get my fireball and trap socketed.

It would be cool if you could start with a basic white 3-socket weapon, so you'd have even a theoretical chance of beating the level 6 dude who is slaughtering all the newbs like me at the entrance.


I like these 1-hour events too, more please.

I got first unique on the event (from first boss) but lost it :(

played a ranger, owned everyone. CCs need some kind of limitations in PvP.

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Khastro wrote:

is the death penalty the normal cutthroat penalty?

loosing everything thats in your inventory but not equipped should be enough imho.
if you get killed once you are OUT.
ok for 1h race but not for a longterm version

No way man! I got ganked early in Mud Flats as I was trying to complete the Glyph Wall quest. I died, equipped my bow and boots I had put away in my stash, and continued on. In the last 15-20 minutes I was killing TONS of people in the Lower Submerged Passage.
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