Summer Solstice 2015

Summer Solstice 2015 was an event that ran from June 14 (U.S. flag day) to June 21 (Summer Solstice), as with previous years events, it was setup and organized by the god and world builder Shadowfax.

The event featured three different types of challenges:-

• An obstacle course (event 106)
• A puzzle quest (event 107)
• A survival quest (event 108)

Firewalking Trial

Winners

Legacy deeds were awarded to the characters who completed the course in the three fastest times.

• Completed Shadowfax's firewalking challenge in 6 seconds! (first place)
• Completed Shadowfax's firewalking challenge in 7 seconds! (second place)
• Completed Shadowfax's firewalking challenge in 8 seconds! (third place)

Forest Fire Trial

This challenge involved putting out a series of fires within 5 minutes, by using spells such as icebolt, cone of cold and/or create water. A boss mob wandered the area and although not necessary for completing the challenge impeded a players progress by starting more fires. Although it was perfectly possible to complete this challenge solo, as had been indicated in Shadowfax's opening event intructions, most players chose to assembled large groups to take on the challenge.

Post event

Stats

• 75 players completed all three trials
• The firewalking course was completed 2707 times.
• The course was completed in 6 seconds 4 times.
• The course was completed in 7 seconds 65 times.
• The course was completed in 8 seconds 110 times.
• 155 players completed the firefighting trial.
• The rogue thoqqua was slain 249 times.
• 3014 fires were put out by players.
• Wave 1 of the survival challenge was completed 338 times.
• Wave 30 was completed 165 times.
• Wave 50 was completed 111 times.
• Wave 65 was the highest wave completed, by 30 players.
• 106400 monsters were killed in the survival trial over the course of the Celebration.

How Shadowfax beat the forest fighting trial solo

You are currently reading board 8 'Dentin's Board (Room 8)'.
Date:    2015 Jun 27 05:52
From:    shadowfax
Subject: How I beat the forest fighting trial solo
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Many of you have asked how I was able to complete the forest fire trial
with only Felonia.
The answer is: Preparation.
Felonia doesn't know 'create water', and I didn't have her learn it.  She
does, however, know store/tap, and I had her learn 'wall of ice'.
Many of you discovered that 'create water' was the most mana efficient
means of combating the fires, but the most powerful and effective spell for
a high level mage like Felonia would actually have been 'wall of ice'.
To defeat the challenge, I grabbed a bunch of throwing daggers off of clan
storage and had Felonia while wearing her full mage cast set (making her
effective cast level 52) store 'wall of ice' on eighty of them over the
course of about a half hour.
Before I entered the trial area, I wrote an alias to quickly use the
temporary wands on each fire and switch out tapped daggers for fresh ones,
and I had Felonia wear her mana regen set.  I then entered the trial area
and moved row by row, wiping out the first dozen fires with two taps each.
Once 25 fires were put out, I broke off and started hunting the thoqqua.  I
quickly picked it up on scan in the first row, shadow bound it, and
switched back to Felonia's mage cast set.  It took two 'ball lightning'
spells to kill it.  I then switched her back to her mana regen set and
resumed fighting fires, which now took more an increasing number of taps to
defeat than before.
After all the stores spells were expired, I had Felonia switch back to her
mage cast set once again (she had regenerated nearly all of her mana back
by that point) and used 'cone of cold' to put out the last several fires
except the last one, where I had to have her wait to regenerate enough mana
to repeatedly cast 'frostflower' until it went out.  She won the challenge
with only a few seconds to spare.

See Also

• Shadowfax's spring update 2015 update youtube video