While we were waiting for the match to start, I was kind of annoyed at some behavior of the participants. We're supposed to send in our best, our gladiators, and it bothers me that some people don't even bother to prepare for the battle. Or even mess around doing useless things *during* the battle. This happened on Ken server too -- some people just COI'd and ran around not hitting a single monster, just collecting drops. Very uncool.

My appeal to my fellow citizens of Aden: Please, if you are unprepared or just going to be there to steal or play games, don't sign up. There are people who actually ready and willing - and you're taking their spot. This not only stops someone from playing, but it sucks for the people watching and it means more monsters for less participants - so you're risking their lives too. Okay, rant done.

Anyway, this time (on both servers) everyone got farther than before. Some people are finally working together. A good example of this was Tidus getting chased by around 15 yetis. He took them to the corner and was at the point where only 2 were hitting him at once. Then SKELET0RN (an elf) came by and finally LineageKHAN. I was sure that the three of them were going to survive until the end there. They were kicking some major ass.

ZRinZ (King Bugbears) and Tuscani (high level Dobermans) also seemed to get lots of use out of their pets. ZRinZ at one point was in a position where he could 1:1 everything, since the KBB were blocking all the other angles he could be hit from. I thought that was a great position for a mage.

COI is very useful in these deathmatches. After everyone was dead or teleported, JoKeR and 1o1 were running around in and out of COI trying to extend their stay as long as possible. Then Valakas came...

The image above shows JoKeR (in skeleton soldier morph) in his last minutes in the arena.

Valakas really cleaned house. A good thing about Valakas is that he engages and kills all the monsters around him. So if you can stay away from him, the mops left will keep him busy. I guess.

Test Server
In today's deathmatch, Zeus moved back to #6 with a score of 34743, moving DestinyX down one slot. SM made his debut with a score of 33136, putting him in #8, moving Ex and Braveheart down one notch and TheRock off the list.

I might make this a regular thing in its own section. Let me know if anyone who has applied for reporter (decisions this weekend) would like to concentrate on Death Match reporting. :)