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EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster

Posted by simoniker on from the cheetos-used-up-entirely dept.

Thanks to Got Game? for their posting discussing the in-game slaying of Kerafyrm, aka The Sleeper, in PC MMO EverQuest. This event, commemorated with a screenshot on the site of one of the guilds involved, is notable because the players "...killed what Sony Online Entertainment intended to be unkillable. But rather than actually make it untargetable, Sony just gave it a hundred billion hitpoints. For those non EQers out there a reference scale: a snake has about 10 hitpoints. A dragon has about 100,000. A god has 1-2million." So, it took "close to 200 players almost 4 hours to beat the thing down into the ground", after an earlier failed attempt where the guilds "beat it down to 27% and then it mysteriously disappeared. Without dying. It seems that one of the Game Masters at SoE reset the zone because 'they thought the encounter might be bugged'."

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  1. Everquest players.... by quandrum · · Score: 5, Funny

    Proving they have too much time on their hands one unkillable monster at a time.

  2. All I can say is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would like to be there when they try to use their 15 minutes of fame to get laid at a bar.

  3. Re:Kinda like the Matrix... by SamBeckett · · Score: 5, Funny

    if i hear another friggin matrix analogy i am going to kill myself... and have trinity kiss me to wake me back up..