Woo-Hoo - 3.10 available

Huzurdaddi · #1 October 10th, 2007, 02:42 AM

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Sombre said:
You could simply say they take a minimum of 9 hits to kill.

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Edi said:
That's a total of 88 HP.

I think that there are 4 lesser heads ( each with 2 attacks ) and 1 greater head. So that's 5 hits to kill, and 64 HP.

Edi · #2 October 10th, 2007, 03:26 AM

No. The way it works is

4x Lesser Heads, Great Head
3x Lesser Heads, Lesser Head, Great Head
3x Lesser Heads, Great Head
2x Lesser Heads, Lesser Head, Great Head
2x Lesser Heads, Great Head
1x Lesser Heads, Lesser Head, Great Head
1x Lesser Heads, Great Head
Lesser Head, Great Head
Great Head

That's 9 forms total, 8x 6 hp + 1x 40 hp = 88 total. I should know what I'm talking about, since the hydras are all updated into the DB already.

tka · #3 October 10th, 2007, 06:23 AM

Pretty sweet event. Got 2 of these in a row in a test game.

Humakty · #4 October 10th, 2007, 06:48 AM

New events too ! And I was thinking they all went to honolulu this summer...How evil from me. I'm going to whip myself.

Edi · #5 October 10th, 2007, 06:55 AM

That event is not new, afaik. It's just pretty damned rare. I think I got it with v3.08 once. Of course, I could be remembering wrong.

llamabeast · #6 October 10th, 2007, 07:25 AM

Yeah, that one's not new.

Humakty · #7 October 10th, 2007, 07:28 AM

So you mean they really went to Honolulu ?
I should have waited before wacking myself...

Valandil · #8 October 11th, 2007, 12:31 AM

Twist fate: once, or once per head?

Edi · #9 October 11th, 2007, 01:45 AM

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Chris_Byler said:
Is it possible for the new hydras to regrow heads during combat? Do they get their lost heads back for next month?

Otherwise it seems like once you reduced a hydra (or Hydra) to one head it would stay that way (although Hydra might reappear with all her heads if she dies in friendly dominion).

Each one of the Hydra monsters has the first (i.e. full 9 heads) monster as firstshape, so after the combat is over they revert back to that. If Daughter of Typhon dies in friendly Dominion, she should come back and then revert to her firstshape. Though one must admit that that particular bit needs a bit of testing.

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Sombre said:
It wouldn't trigger it, the killing of the heads I mean.

Why wouldn't it? Every time one of the forms is killed, it just changes shape to a new one, which could count as a kill. Unless kill count is tied to unique id numbers, of course.

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Sombre said:As for the bless, I'd say W9F9. You don't do most of your damage by poison cloud at all. You do it by the 9 or less poison bites you attack with every turn. When each of these gets a bonus to hit and does extra fire damage and you get to attack 1.5 times per round,.... well that would be nasty.

Yes. Most of the damage is from the bites plus the poison from the bites (added each time it hits) and you get the bonus poison damage from the poison cloud as well. It becomes rather brutal in short order.

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Valandil said:
Twist fate: once, or once per head?

Once, I would think. After all, twist fate protects from the first hit, not first hit for each different form.