Jousting Tournament Preview

• Mabbi wrote on 2010-05-29 02:23
  Jousting! A game of luck, mind games, and skill. The capital city of Tara houses this new form of combat. While you are welcome to battle each other for practice, Tara’s citizens will also oversee a daily tournament for rare prizes!
  
  What do you need to know in order to participate? What preparations must be made? Read on to see a full break down!
  
  

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  These are the Jousting grounds where the tournaments will be held. Although Practice Rounds are available 24/7, tournaments are held at a very specific time: 7 PM each day. Sign ups are only available for the ten minutes before a tournament starts. Be ready well before time starts in order to not be left in the dust.
  
  

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  Once you’re in the tournament, you’ll get your own horse and weaponry. This is no normal combat. To attack, you must choose which attack you’re using. Each attack is mapped to either A,S,W, or D. There’s no perfect attack, so pick carefully. Are you ready?
  
  

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  Wham! The success of your attack depends on attack the opponent picked. This is where the mind games begin. Do you know that you’re friend ALWAYS picks “W”? Do they pick “D” when they’re mad? Size up your opponent and take your shot.
  
  
  With each win, the victor receives points while the loser drops points. Using your victory notches to go buy Jousting gear!
  
  

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  Train hard, because the winners of the daily tournaments get a ticket to the Big Game. Every Sunday is a showdown between the server’s strongest and most clever.
  
  
  Jousting is a fierce activity. Stick with it, though, and you can become one of the champions of Tara. Thank you for joining us in this preview of another aspect of the great city!
  
  
  
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• Arsik wrote on 2010-05-29 02:33
  Eh, still a little on the late side of the day for people on the East Coast, especially when people have to work for a living, but since it's everyday, I guess it's kinda okay.
• Zack wrote on 2010-05-29 02:39
  Wow whats with these late times..
• Sleeperdial wrote on 2010-05-29 02:49
  They don't mean 7:00 pm each mabi day?
• Mentosftw wrote on 2010-05-29 03:11

  Quote from ;:

  
  

  A game of luck, mind games, and skill.

  
  
  ^ This except the mind games and skill.
• Criticalxhit wrote on 2010-05-29 03:15

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  @Sleeperdial - I certainly hope so, but since the auction is once a (real) day, I doubt Nexon would be kind enough to make jousting once an Erinn day
• Phoenix~Lament wrote on 2010-05-29 03:16

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  If you don't understand how this could include mind games or skill then you're clearly not competitive.
• Ninjam wrote on 2010-05-29 03:46
  Theres nothing but luck involved if your playing with strangers, i mean if you know the person well you can guess, but unless your planning on trying to trick them into thinking your doing something different when your not then its all luck.
  
  And did it say better gear from winning for jousting? wont that make the winners, keep winning and getting better and better gear while everyone else is left behind and looses every time.
  
  Or mabey you get these points from practice matches. Anyway it sounds interesting.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2010-05-29 04:08
  It's essentially rock, paper, sissors. But you can't see your opponent in real life so there's no 'intimidation' or 'mind games'.
• Haydrian wrote on 2010-05-29 08:29

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  I've been waiting for jousting for me and my mates to have fun with, not so much any major tournaments. I might try my luck though who knows.
• Arsik wrote on 2010-05-29 20:36

  Quote from Ninjam;47365:

  And did it say better gear from winning for jousting? wont that make the winners, keep winning and getting better and better gear while everyone else is left behind and looses every time.
  
  Or mabey you get these points from practice matches. Anyway it sounds interesting.

  
  
  By battle gear, they mean armor that you can use outside of Jousting. As far as I can tell, you can go naked and still take a head-on lance hit just like if you were wearing fifteen inch thick armor.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-05-29 20:49
  Aren't Dan advancements late also for Eastern folks?
  
  Shouldn't be surprised with Jousting tournament times or Auction times then.
  
  It's always been like that.
• Juno wrote on 2010-05-29 21:16
  The mind games are in how you switch things up. The battle isn't won in one pass.