Train to ZoneFollow

My Apologies if I miss spoke, however I could have sworn when Kunark came into play, the cap was raised from 50 to 55. Then to 60 wil Luclin. Power brought it up to 65 and Gates to 70... Or something close to that...

However, did it really matter enough to dis-validate my story about bads trains being pulled? You seemed to be dead set in correcting something for a fact that really was un-necessary.

Carprin Cycle the first time for my guild was pure mayhem as we soon found out that not only were you not allowed to die, but evn FD'ing resulted in 4 of the meanest skeles you ever seen spawning for each PC that did so. this was a full raid, and as I turned around at the zoneout to accept my fate, there was an avalanche of calcium headed toward me. I grinned and snapped the shot.................

This one isnt mine but one from a bard in my guild.

I remember liking to totally clear out the warrens. It was fricking fun, total ego trip to make your computer freeze for 5 minutes as it tried to register all the mobs dying.

I would run through the entire zone, AE fearing everything until I had (literally) the entire zone on my ***** Then I would stop and sing a PBAoE.

Well, one time I was doing this (level 63 or so, only recently gotten fade so wasn't used to it) and I was having a problem channeling the song. 50 trillion mobs can stun any one, honest. So instead of hitting fade (cuz I didn't remember it), my disc to dodge everything (pride), or just taking 2 steps back (zone line), I died. A horrible, swarmed, emberrassingly splattery death. In the warrens. In my 60's. No one knew, because I logged on Gate and stealth rezzed myself.

You know how many mobs are in Gunthak? Ever seen em all in one area?

Best train I think I've ever seen, though it has been mentioned several times, was in Fear. Ok, first off we all zone in and wipe thanks to somone popping that damn mezzing demon guy right at the zone in. Then one of our guildies manages to take him and just run off with him... and procedes to train the zone around in a circle while we all do CRs. That train was pretty impressive, but more was yet to come. After a long time we finally manage to break in, get a good rhythm going, and get our chanter her epic piece. Then I send out the eye of zomm (after it no longer got aggro) and say "I spy a Cazic Thule". So we decide we still have a decent raid force left, what the heck. None of us had ever killed him before. So our tired monk goes to get his attention, and a HUGE train of amy knights heads our way. Best part was it was a very organized single file line of death that we see coming from a mile away. I hit F8 and send in my pet, because that's what mages do in a completely mind numbing panic when we can't think of anything else to do. My logic was "Maybe he'll enrage and hold em back for 10 or so seconds". Yea, not so much. It was like throwing a stone into a wave... they didn't budge, flinch, or pause... just ate poor Zoner. All the casters looked at each other and said "Uh, hell with that" and gated, leaving all to be slaughtered except a rogue and a monk. When I get home from work I'll see if I had the clarity of mind at the time to get a screenshot and post it here if I did, but I highly doubt it.

In a word...FANZY!

I started playing right after Kunark came out in 2000, after a disaterous effort at playing a Mage (kept getting killed by will-0-wisps because I had no idea you needed a 'magic weapon' to do so!) I started a High Elf cleric. Was doing very well for soloing around faydwer till lvl 17, then decided to see what all the buzz was about in Estate of Unrest.
I have to say, Unrest was THE place for me, I always had a grp and always lots of fun. My very first train I experienced was in Unrest. A grp of lvl 25-30s went inside the house to exp, they were doing well until about 40 minutes later when a shout broke the mob bashing the rest of the zone was doing..."/shout TRAIN to ZONE!!! MOVE it or DIE!!!"
My grp was by the gazebo just killing our last mob and we all halted to pay attention to what mobs were rushing out of the house. HEHE, I think that grp pulled the WHOLE house, there were hags, skellys, werebats, the hand, ghosts, mushrooms and numerous other undeady types found inside the house (my guess is that someone used an AE - oops!).
Unrest was so fun back then... :)

I loved this train in fear....


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I had just zoned into crypt of decay and saw this huge group of people crowded into the south east corner. An /ooc said Incoming! Move to South East Corner now!. Well if was full, so I moved closer to the clicky-out stone on the west side. A Froglock Pally came screaming by with the biggest train I had ever seen. He zone in to Crypt B and the group of people ran off down the hall. His train, immediately turned on to me and pounded me to jelly befor I could click on the stone.
Apparently, this had been a raid, and I unfortunaltly zoned in just at the worst possible moment. <sigh>

The funniest/worst train I can remember has to be when I went to Fear to turn in for my Paladin Epic 1.0.

My guild had cleared all the way along the left wall heading to the ring of fire and set up a camp in a relatively safe spot. As you all know, Irak Atil's skellie wanders around and with the help of a ranger in my guild she got us in the general vicinity. Unfortunately according to her track from where we were set up, Irak looked to be INSIDE the fire ring and our raid force wasn't sufficient to jump inside and be able to handle all the mobs. So to save time I volunteered myself to go run in and do the turn in while everyone else stayed outside at camp. They all max buffed me, invised me up, sowed me and wished me goodluck(a few even offered to do last rites) and having the ranger guide me I set off.

Following her directions (left more, now right, no you went to far come back, etc) I tried locating the subject of my search, knowing that each passing second meant invis and sow were going to wear off and thinking its a good thing I have DA up for emergencies. Well something saw thru invis and, TADA, let the fun begin. Desparate to put as much distance between the mobs and me so I would have time to do the turn in I ran. Starting at the base of the pyramid, I ran in circles around it, each time going up one more level, not daring to turn around when the ranger said I had gone past it. I figured I'd just see him on the next pass. All hail number lock cause it was one less key I had to push lemme tell ya. Getting to the top of the pyramid my quarry has still eluded me so I'm thinking to myself "Self, perhaps hes inside the pyramid?" and wander in there to check. Nope dead end and that can only mean one thing. Yep you guessed it I clicked DA, turned tail and ran PAST all the mobs I had on me.

Now I'm starting to get a little worried thinking that perhaps Irak has sided with the forces of evil and is somewhere in the gaggle of mobs on my butt. Does that stop me though? The ranger says she doesnt think it is and I keep on. The DA wears off and I'm starting to get damage messages. My guild is being informed by my group that my health bar is slowly going down and the rest of the raid is cheering me on(one necro even commented that he lost a side bet he had I'd even lasted as long as I did). I continued running around the entire area again from the wall of flames inward in circles till I once again got to the top of the pyramid where my SoW got dispelled and upon seeing this, knew my feet weren't just going to take me where I needed to go. I died a lonely soul up there lemme tell you.

The guild applauded and when I zoned back into me they necro summoned me and rezzed me for another try.

Now here comes the funny part--a necro who was with us had decided to scout around and guess who he happened to find? Irak Atil, outside the ring, wandering around in the clearing out back. He probably hadn't been inside the ring the entire time and that entire gaggle had been for nothing(besides loads of fun and some great laughs). The turn-in went without a hitch and we all had to laugh at how it all went down.

Nah...

the best train of all time was when

Frodo and the gang were hi-tailing it out to the zl in the Mines of Moria and got surrounded by 2000 (20,000 ?) orcs and goblies...
who then got frightened away by the balrog.

Now THAT was a train.

I took a group to poj to get them flagged there as we were doing the 2nd run down to mavuin i forgot about my direcharm pet , we had a magician with us who was already flagged so waited at mavuin and coth'd everyone in the group to save time , everything went great until my pet came to join us clearing out all of pre dr and dr on the way in =-)


Jeevess 68 druid the tribunal

Edited, Sat May 28 23:07:44 2005 by summersnite