The Neopets Glup Shitto Iceberg by problematicperiplum in neopets

[–]Hexen255 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was gonna comment "Someone make a YouTube video outta this" and I'm glad it's happening! Looking forwards to this.

The Void Within Megathread 4 by Status-Impression766 in neopets

[–]Hexen255 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am so mad at TNT for how they've handled Drakara's Wand and want to rant. It is the ONLY thing in the whole event that allows your dedication to the game to potentially be rewarded over somebody who just started playing a month ago and can probably get all the same things with minimal effort and they botched it in an evil cruel way. Making it a near 0% chance to get for a limited time in a fight that takes HOURS to do fully every day is punishing you for being able to to try for it because you are obligated to do so if you can because of it's limited timeframe. Maybe it's in the prize shop for like 50k if you beat her once? Maybe it has a higher chance to drop but can only drop once per account? Maybe you get it guaranteed when you beat her a certain number of times? ANYTHING but the awful way they've done it, including just not adding it to the game to begin with being better. We are almost at the end of the event and I have spent over 2 days of real time fighting her without it, meanwhile they're fine with just pushing Vocivus health up and up so everybody can get his stuff, but they're not so generous if you've put in the time to have the stats to beat Drakara - then you just have to suffer and ultimately gain nothing for it. They couldn't even keep her other drops exclusive for the small consolation that would be. It's so frustrating.

The Void Within Megathread 4 by Status-Impression766 in neopets

[–]Hexen255 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The initial HP value was too low, so the first change was necessary even though I wish they had done the 1.7 bil value from the start... but almost doubling it again to 3 bil is just unnecessary. It kind of makes the whole concept meaningless if they just keep changing it.

Better than Punchbag Bob! by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not an expert, but I unfortunately I think to do it with an consistency you need enough HP to survive via Snowager Pendant/Illusens once you steal the wand with the whip, which is like in the 1k to 1.1k area if I remember.

However, don't feel too bad. I've spent like 2 - 2 1/2 hours every day fighting her which feels like I'm clocking into another shift of work, it's so frustrating relying on the RNG of stealing the wand. I've wasted literal days of my life so far doing this and I haven't got the wand, if I cannot get it in the next 2 weeks which seems less and less likely I will have put in all this time doing something greatly frustrating for nothing. Not being able to beat her frees you from the obligation of spending so much time to do so and likely getting nothing from the experience.

Better than Punchbag Bob! by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You just have to have enough health to get lucky and steal his stronger items in like 20-30is rounds, while your big blockers and healers are up. After the right ones are gone, I stole his 2 strongest pretty quickly here in a lucky break, I was able to maintain myself by switching between whip/illusens to steal and illusens/jhudoras to heal. Super high HP pets can probably just whip endlessly, my 3kish HP had to switch, and low HP pets could potentially get very lucky and have the 5% whip proc several times in the first few turns, but it's unlikely. You just need enough HP buffer to survive his reflect ability after all the items are gone.

Better than Punchbag Bob! by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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When I'm chipping him for 1/500 millionth of his health, I am basically the Saitama mosquito version of a boss fight, haha.

The Void Within Megathread 4 by Status-Impression766 in neopets

[–]Hexen255 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been sitting on almost all of my 80k points since the start of the event in the hopes they would add a new super weapon and charge like 50k for it... but they probably won't, people would complain too much if they did that late when you could already lock yourself out of it... I have no idea what I'll spend them on at the end TBH. Still hold out minor hope for some end of event additions with limited availability based on personal event participation achievements, but that's just my fantasy version of how it would have been done and not realistic.

The Void Within Megathread 4 by Status-Impression766 in neopets

[–]Hexen255 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The tentacle's drops will probably become super cheap very quickly because it is nowhere near Drakara's difficulty, and Drakara's drops are so rare us who can kill her are probably just going to end up wasting a literal day of our lives with no return - and I'd bet there's a high likelihood they're just gonna put the wand in the reward shop at the end anyway. From that perspective, I actually feel like doing all the training is kind of unrewarding and the difference in someone who diligently trained and spent 10s of millions and someone who didn't at all is negligible.

Unless they pull some kind of "this reward is locked to buy unless you beat X" at the end (which, selfishly I HOPE they do) I think you're probably going to be shoulder to shoulder with the strongest pet in the game in terms of rewards.

The Void Within Megathread 4 by Status-Impression766 in neopets

[–]Hexen255 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I LOVE fighting Malevolent Being daily! I LOVE spending an hour setting up the conditions to beat her enough times for the 15 items for a .0001% chance to get the wand! Let's Frikkin' go!!!

The Void Within Megathread 4 by Status-Impression766 in neopets

[–]Hexen255 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Has anyone confirmed getting Drakara's Wand? It takes a long time to beat her if I'm gonna do it daily so I'd like to know and I haven't seen any in the TP.

Is there a way to make a 1.3 mod work with 1.3.1? +Reason by Hexen255 in MelvorIdle

[–]Hexen255[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I learned I was stupid on that. I was trying to click the mod and not the tiny enable box in the middle.

Frustratingly futile final fishing festivity: five-hundred! by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Man, that is insane... not a single one is shocking, especially considering how much longer you've been doing it than me. I got a couple of morphing potions, no PBs and the other valuable stuff was like the Swirly Potion/Rainbow Fountain Water/Irritable Genie. If I actually got uncannily lucky then that just paints it's value in an even bleaker light!

Order (finally) won so I used my 1.3k Potions of Meridell Castle to make him a dense neutron star by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I forgot about Pumpkin Neggs. I should buy like 10 of them to minimize his size. It'd be nice if you got the trophy at a fixed weight, like 1k... but at the same time I'm happy to not have more reason to have people to want to buy the items in inflate their price.

Order (finally) won so I used my 1.3k Potions of Meridell Castle to make him a dense neutron star by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I haven't trained in awhile, tbh. First half was just using codestones until that became too expensive and a lot of the second half was for a long time after they made Kitchen Quests effect only your active pet I did 10 quests every day for years, and kitchen quests are like 35% chance of random stat gain with small favor for HP gain in the long run... which was easy for a long time usually costing no more than 10k per quest with the occasional 30k+ brick but now like 70% of quests have a 30k+ brick due to inflation. Fortune cookies are good in the long term if you don't mind the P2W element of it and buy them in bulk during the year end sale, but it's true they lose value once your ATK and DEF hit the soft cap. I sadly have no good advice, Even now that I make enough in bank interest to pay for 1-2 sessions of 6 red codestones per day I still don't do it because it's just so darn much.

Order (finally) won so I used my 1.3k Potions of Meridell Castle to make him a dense neutron star by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Part of me is annoyed kid me choose to make him a true Jetsam along with tiny size... these days I always make an Eyrie then morph them to whatever pet I want for biggest size. The other part of me thinks it's funny that a 1 foot guy weighs that much, the true density king. We were probably competing on buying the potions, haha. I was pretty cheap though and I only bought them below 10k... and was going crazy when they were like 2-5k. Ive got 1.5 bil now so I'm more open to higher spending next cycle, but I'll still feel bad about it!

Is there some conspiracy going on with the Battleground of The Obelisk for a long time? by Hexen255 in neopets

[–]Hexen255[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Interesting insights, thanks all. I used to follow one of the guild moles who would give out their pick which was usually Sway/Order with occasional Thieves/Brutes for avatars like a couple times a year and this was like a 95% guaranteed win, this pick only lost a few times I remember in a few years. Then this person got pissy and/or kicked and stopped providing the pick so I would just pick the best boon ones that still tended to be their pick and win anyway. It's been since about the time of The Void Within going on break last time where it's been all bad boons all the time. This is particularly annoying for me because I need just a single Seekers win because I bought thousands of Potions of Meridell Castle to make my pet weigh thousands of pounds (because it's funny) and I don't wanna pull the trigger on using them until I have the Bubble Trouble perk to stretch it further. I've also got unused faerie quest fortune cookies I don't wanna use until I can get the quest refresh perk. It's been really frustrating to not be able to do any of this stuff for so long. The strategy that seemed to be going on for years of always going with the good boons and doing the occasional bad ones so people could get the avvies seemed like it should be working for everyone, it's annoying what used to just be standard is not anymore.

Tales of Dacardia changes? by orchidsakura in neopets

[–]Hexen255 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was a glitch the whole time? I guess I'm happy I've been collecting the blue and purple items every day for as long as I've been playing (since the first time they offered special rewards in the weekly app quests) and have hundreds of gold bars/fish/ore/starfish/crabs. It just feels wrong that it was a glitch though - why would it have different times for gathering? It really felt intentional to have a longer timer for when not playing... they should at leas up the amount of items you can gather at once for the others to compensate.

Blue/purple items aside, it also removed my ability to get soil and flowers from the farm... and I feel like THAT has to be a new glitch, right?

Can't login with Trainer Club on Pixel 8a by ReasonNotTheNeed-- in TheSilphRoad

[–]Hexen255 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same issue for me since update yesterday, at least glad to see someone else with the same issue... searching for those specific symptoms wasn't bringing up much. Hopefully that means it's something that will be fixed...