More like I keep forgetting to start another batch before going to bed.

I also need to figure out FRAPS a little better.  My
voice is completely overpowering everyone else.  Pretty
inconvenient considering Rifte was doing most of the talking.

If you take damage while water walking, you have to make a concentration check. Fail and it deactivates. I don't have a monk, but I think you can jump over the darts if careful.

Seems like recent abbots (at least on Sarlona) have been filled with a level of failure beyond comprehension, at least while pugging it. I have pugged well over 300 abbots across the years and the rate of failure is consistently going downhill every single week. Here is a compilation of all the shit that has made me laugh or rage happen across my trillion abbot pugs.

Here are some examples:

*Every time I pug an abbot, I still get at least 1-2 clerics who tell me they can DI through Ice. Every fucking time/

*I have had at least 4 people send me tells saying they can do the island puzzle, 2 of those people meant roids and 2 meant ice.. however none of those 4 people could successfully do their puzzle and so we wiped.

*I have heard ice called (from the spotter while calling out his puzzle): island, river, flowing river, wand puzzle, and snowy puzzle (theres no fucking snow in the ice puzzle)

*I have heard goggles called (from the spotter while calling out his puzzle): goggles, void, void space, empty space puzzle, void chasm, empty chasm, chasm puzzle (what is it with people and the word chasm???), dissapearing puzzle, and fading puzzle

*I have heard roids called (from the spotter while calling out his puzzle): roids, rocks, meteor, throwing puzzle, meteor puzzle, island, island puzzle (again yup...), space puzzle, star puzzle

*When I ask people if they can do roids and they tell me an answer like "yeah I can do roids I watched a video" or "yeah its easy i usually pike in roids and watch it a lot" I have them explain to me how they do roids and have heard people tell me the following is the Proper way to do roids:

-Take rocks and throw them above the head of the person "countering their rocks at you" (what the fuck does that even mean?)

-I have had people take roids and run around in a smaller circle running around the place throwing roids in random directions which of course, led to failure..

-And many more things I cannot recall. Roids is the puzzle that fails the most even though I require it to be known for my abbot groups. The excuses and people that end up doing roids is fucking unbelievable.


Goggles is always interesting. I dont get as many people tell me they can do goggles hang (now with it being removed) but still 1-2 people every couple of runs. The worst things I have seen in goggles are Favoured Souls lining up to do goggles and then using wings unexpectedness and falling. I mysel have done this (3) times on my fvs.

Ice is pretty boring. The only times I Have gotten a laugh out of ice failure is when the other person misses the first fucking platform. I have even had this happen with someone with over 500 hp so even though they mised the first platfom and could have EASILY jumped back they swam around for a solid 10 seconds as if they were a fucking pool having fun swimming around. Of course when you die in ice you lose your ice wand so all hope is lost.


Well anyway these have been just a few of the crazy things in my abbot runs. Really the only things I could remember well are the crazy names people give for puzzles when they spot and/or tell me what puzzles they can do.

Anyway I put the more funny/interesting shit up top because I know the average attention span of a vault reader is probably... like 4 and a half seconds so if you read all of this then you deserve nothing because your on the vault wasting time that could probably have been better spent starting at a wall or running a 55 minute shroud pug with 12 lvl 20's who take roll call in part 3 as to who can solve the puzzles. Ok bye, incoming "cool story bro", "tldr", or "wow that was a fucking waste of my time to read fuck you" posts. Bye.

Next person that says 1 is a fail on skill checks, I will punch you in the bean.

If a 1 isn't a failure on skill checks, how do you explain exploding trap boxes? Last time I checked, Disable Device was a skill.

You can't hate rogues because of a sucky arti. You can only hate rogues because of sucky rogues. So there.

My rogue is actually the one character I play well, since she was my first toon and I know it the best. I don't blow trapboxes in epics on 1s (unless I did something like, oh, forget to wear my trap gear, and who would do that???). I don't think I failed on 1s forever on her, maybe since lvl 8 before I LR'd and figured out builds and shit.

Get the actual max gear, and also a max int item for your level and +5 thieves tools. Have skill boost if you need it too.

So you are saying that a Monk rolling a 1 in disable device will not fail?
You have no fucking idea, you n00b. L2P.

Fuck. I have a shit weekend before me. Somebody has to pay for it.

He plays an arti, which is basically a rogue without evasion when it comes to traps.  The main stat on an arti is int.  If he cannot do traps on arti, what makes you think that he can on a rogue?  Therefore, he is the reason I hate rogues.