That's really good. ...though I notice that "no spawn exploit" isn't one of the things you included. I'd like to see videos of people killing Vanaduke WITHOUT preventing the 5th stage spawns. Though I suppose that's kind of insane...

Congrats, not really impressed though, once you know the duke, it's not hard.
On a somewhat related note, what soft did you use for video capture? Fraps has been failing me lately.

It would be impressive to kill it without abusing the pathing bug that gets him stuck against objects, or with the 5th stage adds actually spawning . As it is it's nothing special.

whats the pathing bug with lava tiles?

@Most of You - They should remove the water globes except during the mask phases and make it impossible to avoid the slag guard spawns and remove Shivermist from the game. It would also make it more fun if they increased the count on possible lava spawns so the whole room can be just lava after a while. Also, having terrain to hide behind is just cheap - they should remove all terrain and make the room much smaller so dodging is impossible. I also think its too easy to avoid his fire attack. It should be bigger, so you really have to have a fire res shield or you have no chance, cause the game would be more fun if you really did have to use only one possible set of gear. And that gear should cost more for no logical reason. It would also be more fun if you had to guess which squares had lava in them. They could make all the floor the color of lava. Maybe they should have an update where the AP is changed so it just shoots a stream of pure CE as well.

No, seriously. Please post a video of you being more impressive.

@OP - Nice Video. I prefer the Blitz Needle myself.

You know, you guys give OOO very little credit. Ever think that most of the "cheap" tricks in Vana are there on purpose? Maybe so that instead of a thousand posts about how "Vana is so hard so they can steal our CE!" we just get to listen to players who figured it out whine about how much more noble it would be if they had to pay for more rezzes before getting their next to useless Fang.

Unless I missed the point, the OP was trying to get across the idea that beating Vana is more a matter of technique then gear. Me, I think the gear makes it possible to learn the fight well enough to not need the gear; the learning curve is pretty steep without the fire res.

Internets, you never cease to make me laugh. Thank you.

1 pill? Wow. You are a master of survival. Truly, sir, you are a hardy boy. Geddit? Heh.

>i think i might move to america just so i actually have a chance at dodging already ended animations.

Hah. I 3-bar but have relatively low latency. The devilite thing seems like a bug in the animation rather than lag. You actually get hit before the projectile travels to you so even if you shield you'll take damage as far as I can tell. It only happens with the devilite throws since I can dodge kat ghost bullets fine.

You'll be sorely disappointed when you go through all the trouble of moving to America and find that you still get hit by devilites. :p

Do people really think that, after all the time he's been in the game, OOO will just go and make extreme overhauls to his fight? It's been tested to death, the preview is over. The game has already been tweaked.

If they actually fixed all the various bugs you can exploit on Vanaduke then 95% of the players would never be able to kill it ever again. I doubt they will change the fight; all people are pointing out is that the OP is attempting to brag about something that isn't particularly impressive or difficult.

the lava tiles dont spawn until a 2 seconds the debris hit the ground, not to mention the dust blurs the places, then by the time you can confirm you have a spot to walk through, he can swing the next attack, may break your shield or bump you into the lava tile. by theory, your argument doesn't stand.

I dunno, I think you just need to pay a bit more attention and stay a bit farther away from the lava tiles. It's really not that hard to notice where lava spawns; The only issue I usually have in this case is with it spawning directly on my face, even if I'm just standing there. And that doesn't really happen often enough to be significant. The only real issue with this is magical lava spawning inside walls, rather than on my face.

And in general, if you're playing well and cleaning up most lava, there will always be somewhere to run off to. You shouldn't ever need to shield against his mace.

of all the options, full fire resist helps the fight the most, cuz its the fire burn that kills the most hp. you have vog, i don't, most people can't afford yet.

Did you even read my post? I said I don't even really get hit that much, only really by the lava orbs. Even if I do get hit and set on fire, it's not that hard to run off to a water pillar and douse off the fire on yourself, or use a remedy. You'd have to be pretty slow to take significant damage from fire in the time it takes to do that.

and how do you know your ping anyways? how do you know i dont have ping issue?

Your connection bars. You seem to have 3 or 4 bars, and considering I NEVER get that much, it's pretty obvious your connection is better than mine. Saying my ping is ~300ms is just a wild guess - However, on other games that do allow you to check your ping, that is usually my ping. It's probably a bit different in SK, but I still get significant latency to ruin my timing and dodging.

and with all the talks you still owe everyone a video proof. prove that you can do it the pro way you described, or at least the easy way can be done too by many others, as if FoV in haven is as common as ipods in the real life.

@Metaphysics
you too, evidence.

And you claim you aren't showing off.

I can't take video proof myself, because my computer is downright terrible. SK in itself already lags tons at certain levels, recording would make playing impossible for me.

Besides, I have never said that I'm able to do the pro way I described. (even more with the latency I get) I only said that is the only way you'd actually impress me on this. My actual best solos (hell, even teams. While I have done several "badass no-death no-pill" runs, I haven't attempted using inappropriate gear or anything like that, other than Swiftstrike) don't really get close to what I said. This "prove you can do better" argument is always really silly.

I think you're mistaking me for someone else, dude. I haven't even posted much at all lately.

What buddy? I seriously do not recall having any "wingman" to back me up.

My threads are lame and annoying? What threads? I don't recall having posted any thread in the last month. And I haven't even posted more than 10 total threads... out of which, there was only one about ranting post-release. (or maybe two, my memory is terrible)

Drag the topic to "how old school ruled"? Contribute almost nothing? "How everybody sucks"?

...what?

NOBODY. CARES. ABOUT. YOUR. 5. STANDARD. POSTING. BULLET. POINTS.

...what???

STOP. RUINING. NICE. THREADS.

Just a note here. Nice threads don't just get ruined by a single person going antsy or trolling. (which seems to be your opinion on me) Those are pretty easy to ignore, after all, they're just being silly or trolling.
This thread is nice, sure. It was a nice video, the exploits could be said to be nice strategies. But after all, it all seems like a big attempt to show-off to me. Which I don't really enjoy, specially with all the exploits used and whatever.

Again, I say: You're probably mistaking me for some other ranting idiot that goes around the forums. There's a lot out there, though, you gotta learn to deal with them.

But hey, sorry if I ruined this for you or for anyone! But I said it in my first post - Nice video, the OP is skillful, and it was a good run. But it was not worthy of showing off with, considering how he did it.

New challenge:
Ancient armor
Ancient helm
Ancient shield
FoV only
No pills
No trinkets
No exploits
Final destination

Sick: That does look tedious. It's almost hard to watch lmao

Oooooh...do you think you could be so kind as to tell me what the name of the 4 songs that played during the video are? c:

The hardest part about vanaduke is accepting you're not the only person you can beat him, apparently.

Rits has done an extremely nice feat. So he/she's got all the rights to boast, show off, though that was clearly not among his/her first intentions when he/she posted this thread. Kudos to Rits!

Because this seems to be his objective. He makes a lot of videos, apparently with the objective of showing that "skill matters, gear does not". But I always notice that he ends up making new threads for some of his videos, instead of sticking to a single thread or youtube itself. If his objective wasn't showing off, he wouldn't really attempt to "advertise" his videos all that much. Or rather, he wouldn't even bother making that many videos.

I dunno, for me, it's common sense. Sorry if you don't think the same way.

And as I said, my only issue is that he simply abused exploits for this video. I dunno, if he's attempting to show gear does not matter, he should have done a normal run. I admit I exaggerated a bit by "demanding him to impress me", but that was mostly only because I believe he is just attempting to show-off. If he's not, a simple normal run would suffice. But simply abusing exploits like that doesn't even get such a "good message" to the newbies that believe more in gear than skill, or whatever.

But enough silly arguing, I guess. That's just my opinion.

@kakelgis
Just wanted to pop in and apologize for my previous post. You have clearly explained your reasoning in the most recent one and, while I may not agree with it, it certainly doesn't deserve the ire I gave it. Oh the folly of late night posting. I took your advice and searched up your other threads. There were many more helpful ones than there were 'the vile few' that I was referencing. So again you were correct on that account and have certainly contributed more help and advice to new players and forum goers than I have. Thanks and sorry.

@Sick
sick.

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nice video and for the all the haters comments, u jelly?