I got summoned to help at the beginning of crumbling farum azula. During the fight with the dragon we got invaded. I beat the invader, finished off the dragon, and then we continued exploring the area. It was clear the player had never been there before so i showed the important item drops but because this was taking so long… you guessed it… we got invaded again. I was down to just a few flasks and this other invader was legit really good. But my homie didn’t care about dueling etiquette so this turned into a cat and mouse game going through the rest of the area. I eventually caught the invader by surpise with my horah loux earthshaker ash of war which stun locked them long enough for the host to break poise. That trick usually only works once but it was enough here. I had no flasks left after that invasion and we still had the boss to beat (godskin duo iirc). We didn’t cheese, each took one. I beat mine first and then we got the other one. Then repeatedly killed the resummons until boss bar was down to 0.
After that i got summoned by the player for rest of area. This was like a year ago and was pretty early in morning so there wasn’t a lot of summons going on. I had just left the game open while multi tasking but sure enough it was the same guy. Host took a few attempts to get maliketh since they kept getting one-shot but we eventually finished that too.
It was mostly rememberable because the combination of the length of the first summon, the multiple invasions, and 2.5 bosses.
Another one that comes to mind-- of the 150+ people i helped beat malenia, one of the hosts shielded every attack which they clearly didn’t know or care healed her. So i not only had to basically solo her, i also had to continually steal aggro before malenia would attack the host and heal. Fucking PITA stamina management. And after an awful long time through the first phase, host died to the 2nd phase opening blossom. Lmao. I got a lot of summons that day but maybe an hour later i got summoned by that same player who had wisened up and just let me, the naked mushroom hat man with two greatswords, actually solo her.
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I got summoned to help at the beginning of crumbling farum azula. During the fight with the dragon we got invaded. I beat the invader, finished off the dragon, and then we continued exploring the area. It was clear the player had never been there before so i showed the important item drops but because this was taking so long… you guessed it… we got invaded again. I was down to just a few flasks and this other invader was legit really good. But my homie didn’t care about dueling etiquette so this turned into a cat and mouse game going through the rest of the area. I eventually caught the invader by surpise with my horah loux earthshaker ash of war which stun locked them long enough for the host to break poise. That trick usually only works once but it was enough here. I had no flasks left after that invasion and we still had the boss to beat (godskin duo iirc). We didn’t cheese, each took one. I beat mine first and then we got the other one. Then repeatedly killed the resummons until boss bar was down to 0.
After that i got summoned by the player for rest of area. This was like a year ago and was pretty early in morning so there wasn’t a lot of summons going on. I had just left the game open while multi tasking but sure enough it was the same guy. Host took a few attempts to get maliketh since they kept getting one-shot but we eventually finished that too.
It was mostly rememberable because the combination of the length of the first summon, the multiple invasions, and 2.5 bosses.
Another one that comes to mind-- of the 150+ people i helped beat malenia, one of the hosts shielded every attack which they clearly didn’t know or care healed her. So i not only had to basically solo her, i also had to continually steal aggro before malenia would attack the host and heal. Fucking PITA stamina management. And after an awful long time through the first phase, host died to the 2nd phase opening blossom. Lmao. I got a lot of summons that day but maybe an hour later i got summoned by that same player who had wisened up and just let me, the naked mushroom hat man with two greatswords, actually solo her.
Amazing writeups for both situations - feels like I was there with you. Thanks for sharing :)