[Terren]

This is half a follow-up to a previous post - to Symbios, thanks again for the advice, a lot of little tips have paid off quite a bit

Anyway.

Our sunday run of 4 nyzul runs netted a new record - fully over 50% of our floors had either "avoid archaic gears" or "do not kill archaic gears", complete with what I like to call "FUCK YOU SE" levels, ie; one narrow corridor available from the Rune, with two archaic gears and three mobs. Impossible to avoid. Impossible to sleep without sleep-ga'ing everything around it. Just plain stupid.

Anyhow the point: wtf@10/20 levels with gear restrictions? We get a random floor every now and then but I've never had four runs with so many gear levels. Is there some kind of rhyme or reason to this I'm missing? or is it really just completely random, and we had the worst luck in the world?

[Xellith]

it might be moon phase specific or something. I find that doing consecutive runs 1-4 in 1 night you tend to get similar floors. we had dahaks before on 2/4 of our runs. another night tonnes of gears. sometimes its easy nights sometimes its hard.

[Terranova]

Square Enix Randomness at its best. Remember that if you're stuck on an "Avoid Detection by Archaic Gears" floor that you can pull with a ranged weapon and kill them (since that's not them detecting you) and be just fine.

[NikosThePLDMan]

Wow, never knew that. Anyone got some proof?

[Terren]

Xelith - I've noted similar circumstances, particularly with Dahaks. Won't see them for ages, then suddenly get 3-5 over 4 runs. Guess I should start recording days and moon phase and see if anything pops up.

As for ranged pulling gears - yeah, it works most of the time but it's also a massive time killer, when, for instance, you're on a spec-one level or doing lamps. Last sunday we definitely lost one run because of losing time due to gears, and I guess that's sorta what they're 'there for', but omg irritating. They also build sleep resistance like a bitch.

[Prothescar]

When gears are unavoidable and cause a loss, I get pissed. Honestly, what the fuck's the point? Soulflayers and frogs weren't enough?