Fastest Underworld clear No PVE Skills - 12th April, 1.6m in total prizes.

Would it be possible to post the times of each team as they complete their run? Just for curiosity's sake.

We discussed this before the event. We think it's best if people just try their best and go for it as best they can.

We've seen some great builds, tactics and teamwork already. I'll produce a list of the times when everyone has done.

I think it would be best to keep the times 'secret' till all groups are finished.
Teams might calculate the known times in their strategy or overall gameplay.
If a later team knows an earlier team was very fast, they can push harder.
Or if they know those teams are slow take somewhat less risk.

One thing I would like to know is not only the times, but also the strategies the teams used.
Not every individual build, more the concept.
I don't mind telling others how we approached things, but maybe others are also willing to share their thoughts on the event.
So that other players can also learn from that and see there is more in this world than a fixed set of skills/proffessions.

For now I'd like to thank Cosmic again for lying on that cold floor for a long time keeping an eye on us.
And the time he waited for us to sort things out.

Thanks for the event and I wish those teams that still need to start a good hunt.

Hades Illusion / Yazou Poetertoes
HML Guild Leader, member of The Mirror of Reason [ SNOW ] team in this event.

i'm difentialy up for this 100lps=my nxt CR title..

if anyone needs a ele,necro,monk,ranger,tank pm and if we can get 1st ill give ech team member extra 5lps

ign <----- friendly killers,il knom yug il, is that a ele, rain heck on em

Please, please, tell me you rezzed the DVDF dude when you won the end chest???????

Finishing all quests means the entire team gets ressed as far as I know.

Yes it does. you get auto-ressed

BTW can someone from the ZoS team PM me plse, you need to confirm your start time

Thanks Shan for the communication earlier. I was glad we could get this (and other ) business cleared up. Best of luck on the run, everyone. May the sexiest team win!

snow will win!!

Thanks for being flexible with our time slot - having a chance to play during our primetime was very helpful to our guild.

Special thanks to Friday Is A Necro for getting in touch with me early and Licinia Vitoricus for reffing our unique take on the Underworld. It was a special treat for four of us (first time there). What have I been doing for three years?

I just wanted to put my few cents worth in as an "insider"

The wonderful spirit and friendly teams made up of really great people made feel really good - the blow by blow accounts running in Alliance Chat as each team went through it's run, had me glued to my screen till I couldn't stay awake anymore as it went into the wee hours of the morning for me.

Some interesting team builds were used, some very funny moments and some extremely heroic deeds performed. What a great bunch of people you all are!!

I just want to say of the participating teams: Thank you so much for an awesome atmosphere and proving that we still have some of the nicest community and able to have great fun - I salute you!

Friday.

hehe i just wonder how the godt team did....

Lol you really don't want to know, it was fun though.

I don't think we'll be receiving anything for the fastest completion time, but it was still fun and we finished the run. Coldene the ref deserves a prize for a huge amount of patience displayed.

yea, we'll probably have the worst time but we were veeery unlucky...

1st try: 5quests done in 25mins, then half of the team got screwed at rangers.
2nd try: lol, /resign after few mins
3rd try: err... deaths in 1st room, loads of lag, disconnection, not eough consets, etc. - time will be posted

maybe wont be last if some teams didnt make it If we would have few more days to practice, we would probably make it in <1h, but gg to the team that will win.

P.S.: special thanks goes to Coldene, our referee for all the patience shown during our run. /bow

~Horus

haha yeah i heard from some ppl that u guys had an epic fail the first time...what happened?

Any news on the times etc?
This is exciting!

So after this is all over with will we get to see all the builds use from everyone in every team?

Not like NM builds will work on HM anyway

Well, tbh I would never use them, just want to see what they are.

Wanted to echo Friday's sentiment - was a great time. I tagged along with Legion of Doom, and had a fun looking over their shoulders. The members of the team were a lot of fun to hang out with (even as a corpse), and I appreciated being able to listen their conversations courtesy of their Vent. Thanks to Shan for arranging things, the other members of DVDF who played Big Brother for their respective teams, and all the teams for bringing their A-game. May the fastest team enjoy the fruits of their labour.

any idea when the results will be posted?

Results will be due soon, we're just deciding on nicest, most heroic and most innovative.

Yeah, thanks DVDF for another fun in-game event

Don't know if we're going to win, but we had great fun preparing and participating. And even if we didn't win, getting our fastest time was really fun.

Oh, and beating other teams/guilds is always fun.

Thank you Res for being such an awesome referee, and for your patience while we were forming up.

And thanks to all the DVDF guys for arranging such a fun and large scale event.

Fitting with our guild's philosophy - it was more about the laughs and enjoyment we gained from this, anything else would be a bonus. We strapped together a few builds on Friday and tested Saturday afternoon. Had one AFK and me DCing , still had an awesome time and gratz to DVDF for organising this and to the other guilds for taking part.

I would like to echo this sentiment. It was a really fun and exciting event, even if some of us never want to see UW again (at least for a few months ). It even got me to try out a new profession!

I extend a very heartfelt "Thank you" to Res, our wonderful referee, and to DVDF for making this all happen.

Hi

All teams have now completed their runs and the times are in. Before we go onto the results I would like to thank all those who took part and all the referees who gave up their time to lie dead on the floor and look at timers.
Thank you!

The referees used 2-3 independent timers, An online stop watch which was started as soon as agro was taken and ended as soon as the ‘you are victorious’ message appears, their own PC clock time which was typed into the team chat at the start and end and also many used the chronometer on their watches etc. We used multiple timers so that if the ref crashed and rebooted then a time could be taken without the team needing to restart. So the most accurate was the online stopwatch method and all the times shown below were taken using that method. Referees were also selected at random, so as to make sure no team could influence a referee beforehand.

Many teams found the area challenging having to balance speed, killing power and resilience and the builds we saw, contrary to what we expected where very varied. Most teams ran a split at various points, using terra tanks or 600 smites to kill in the split. The most common tactic was to split at the vale and smites, then merge to go towards the chaos plains. The more adventurous teams would then split again. The most common method of team wipe was to allow a reaper to die at the Spawning pools, or for the ice king to be killed. Contrary to reputation most teams had little issues with the four horsemen.

Out of respect to the teams I won’t post individual builds as they may regard them as confidential but I’d ask that teams that did take part, do a small write up of their attempt and if possible include builds and tactics.

Anyway, onto the results

Alas as few teams had last minute drop outs, which left them unable to take part. These were
The Divine Knights
Acolytes of Anguish [aOa]
Prophecy
Deployed Assault [dA]
Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]
fallen from grace

A few teams did not complete the UW in the three attempts there were given, these were
Ghosts of Faith
Ar vin
Eternity Lost
Legion of Sacred Light
The Goon Squad

The team with the fastest time is Agro. With an astonishing time of 40:39

This team executed the splits, tanking and skills required to near perfection. They also did huge amounts of preparation in order to do well and have earned the bragging rights for the fastest team to clear UW in this contest.

After the run, they and I realised they had had some small assistance in build preparation(though not on the actual run) from a DVDF member, who was not a referee but was still a member of the alliance. So that the result is above question and in the interest of fair play they have decided to give their prize to the second place team.

The build they ran was a modified splinter barrage, terra tank and fire ele with a single monk and they used a modified version of the split techniques found here http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10277528

My thanks go to Agro for all the hard work they put in, as well as the execution of their plan created an exemplary time which will be very hard to beat.

The Second fastest (but get the first prize) team was New Dragons [NDR] with a time of 01:04:13
The third fastest team (but get second prize) was X Legion Of Doom X with 01:15:59
The fourth fastest team (but gets third prize) was Glob of Ectospasm [GoE] with 01:17:43

SNOW came fifth with 01:44:34
Blades Of Burning Shadows [GoDT] came sixth with 02:13:56
Pirates Of The Searing [YoHo] came seventh with 02:28:28

The Most innovative build went to The Goon Squad for running a successful build comprising of

2x Paragons (one with Infuse Health, the other with Scribes Insight)
3x Warriors
1x Healing Dervish (Faithful Intervention, Mystic Healing etc.)
1x Mesmer Obsidian Tank

The build worked really well. They managed to do the quests: "Clear the Chamber, Escort Souls, Unwanted Guests and Wrathful Spirits" before the Ice King died during Servants of Grenth. They said for some of them this was their first time in the Underworld. One thing that really impressed was that they did Escort Souls without teleporting to veil and killing all the Mindblades. They just killed them with the souls there. It was a really neat build.

Because of their outstanding sportsmanship and understanding Agro win the nicest team award.

The most Heroic team was nearly won by YoHo who promised one of our female referees a night she would never forget if she would stop the timer(she declined to do both – lol) , followed by chocolate but in the end it was won by Legion of Sacred Light, who in spite of their relative inexperience and the good humour (both to the ref and their own teammates) that prevailed throughout and how they handled their unfortunate failed attempts so late in their runs made their efforts all the more heroic and they are deserved winners of this category.

Prizes will be distributed Monday, winners will be PM’d in game to arrange collection

A reminder of the prizes.

• 100 lockpicks per person equates to 125K, per person
• Second prize will be 25 picks+5e each second prize. Equates to about 55K per person
• Third Prize will be 3rd 40K cash per player

The 'for fun' prizes are:

• The team that demonstrates the most innovative build/tactics that manages to complete the UW will get 10K per player
• The team who demonstrates the most heroism(e.g successfully soloing 4 horsemen when all the team are dead etc) in the run will receive a purple Crystalline sword(Q13 15-22,dmg+14%(ench) and Ench lasts 17% longer) as a team prize plus 2 ecto per player
• we had a small amount of donations(about the same as for heroic) after the list was published, so they will be the nicest team prize

It just remains for me to thank everyone who took part, and I hope people enjoyed themselves as much as we did.

Shan

It was a great event and I had fun playing a corpse while watching my team. Thanks to Shan for arranging this, thanks to everyone in DVDF who helped and to everyone who participated. It was a lot of fun

Edit: Oh, Shan posted the winners when I was typing this. Congrats to you guys and good job everyone!

Seriously... asking people for advice wasnt prohibited... so what isnt fair play about that?

Noone owns a build... slightly copying a build doesnt make a good time... the players do... Tho i have much respect for organising this event.. The outcome of the prices is very dissapointing

gj to Agro for really awesome result. Also gj to all other teams who managed to do it

6th place isn't that bad afterall...

i soloed The Ice King quest, isn't that heroic?

this sounded fun, next time ill find a team to have a go with =]
but how come a team that failed to complete got the innovation reward?

It wasn't me honest btw does that mean we almost won because of our offers or for actual heroism?

gj all




Stop Stealing [agro]

Congrats to all the teams involved, some good results there and times to be proud of.

Edit: Oh and thank you to DVDF for organising this event.

I still have the Dairy Milk Caramel Chocolate bar if you want Kyrinda?!

Good Job to all the winners,

We had fun as YoHo, Even though we. Lost haha!

Hope you had fun too!

I'd like to thanks DVDF for this fantastic event. My guild where very excited about it and worked very hard to compete, and have managed to take 2nd place.

So, grats to the New Dragons [NDR] team, and well done to all that entered. No matter where you came it was all about the fun. My guild certainly enjoyed!

So doing >>> 1 <<< UW run with friend who is in DVDF gave us 24 mins advantage? thats just hmm...interesting

gg agro, nice time you guys had. and gg ndr it was fun
also gg evry1 else.

In the name of LSL i want to thank Shan and the guild for making this event a great succes!!
Also thanks to Medicinal monk, to have a lot of patience with us!!

We had a lot of fun and are looking forwards to a next event^^
Maybe urgoz^^