New Hauted Woods Plot

[fairy_tale_girl64]

yeah i gave up trying took too long

[lindseycron0]

I never was able to beat the savage sycamore and I've tried fighting the lowest of the townsfolk and lost, then with my computer messing up I'd be in the middle of a fight and it would just shut off on me completely, so I'm worried that if I did get into a fight I'd just lose it because of that, I'm not even trying anymore, I know I couldn't beat anything higher anyway, maybe the lowest challenger with the 55 hp but that's pushing it, I'm just not that strong and I'm not spending any more on equipment, first it was blocking earth, then it was earth and fire, now it's mostly light and air, I just can't keep doing that you know

[krisconcepcion19]

Ok when anyone finds a good plot guide to help with this next potion part please let me know because the jellyneo.net guide completely confuses me. Thank you.

Edit: Ok I figured it out and got past the first two potion combination things. When you finish those you get to a third and for the first composite for that third one it requires "Spectral Essence". All the plot guides I have gone to say that:
"Spectral Essence" is unknown at the moment. Some of the plot guides can be confusing in terms of what you are supposed to do (well at least I got confused) so if you need any help free feel to ask.

[lindseycron0]

FYI if any of you are following jellyneo.net's guide, it says that you're using averages to get the right property values... what they don't specify is that (though that is correct) there's a little more to it. If you combine two ingredients to get a total combined new value of properties and you're adding that composite which is actually two different ingredients to another ingredient, you have to take the properties of each individual ingredient and average those with the total property values and the total number of ingredients.

I started using Leafy Slorgblossom, Sharpgrass, Bloodfern Loam, and Crushed Jurpleberries.

I maxed out Leafy Slorgblossom on all actions giving me
conjuring +39 and enchantment +78

I also completely maxed out Sharpgrass giving me
conjuring +120 and enchantment +129

the sum of those two items was
conjuring +159 and enchantment +207 so then I divide those numbers by 2 to get my average... which came out to
conjuring +79.5 and enchantment +103.5

when I actually combined them, TNT rounded the averages up to
conjuring +80 and enchantment +104

Then I tried to add the Bloodfern Loam.... I maxed out its burning for
conjuring +60 and enchantment -30

I tried to figure the average.... the already made composition had:
conjuring +80 and enchantment +104 added to the Loam was:
conjuring +140 and enchantment +74 which would make my average when dividing it by 2 (one for the Bloodfern and one for the other full composite) gave me:
conjuring +70 and enchantment +37

When I combined them I had
conjuring +73 and enchantment +59.......

so where did I go wrong? Easy, you have to add up all of them... since the first composite was Leafy Slorgblossom and Sharpgrass which I added the Bloodfern Loam to, I had to take the original properties for the Leafy Slorgblossom and Sharpgrass, not the combined properties. Doing that I had

Leafy Slorgblossom conjuring +39 and enchantment +78
Sharpgrass conjuring +120 and enchantment +129
Bloodfern Loam conjuring +60 and enchantment -30

which gave me a total of
conjuring +219 and enchantment +177 and since that was 3 items I had to divide that by 3 for my average:
conjuring +73 and enchantment +59

Now all I have to do is figure out what I need the Crushed Jurpleberries properties to be to make the average of those 4 items
conjuring +82 and enchantment +83

So I multiply 82 by 4 which gives me a total sum of all 4 items of 328 and I already have a sum of 219, so I know that conjuring on crushed jurpleberries has to be 109 and my total sum of all 4 items on enchantment has to be 331 and I've already got 177 so then crushed jurpleberries has to have 154. This of course is completely possible since I know that maxing out burning gives crushed jurpleberries enchantment of 180 and maxing out crushing gives it a conjuring of 180... I've now just got to get the right numbers and combine them.

whew! that's a weird twist to the averaging stuff... which was what was throwing me off. I hope my frustrations have helped some of you all out

[dlfreak]

I did not even bother racking my brain with all of that composite, weight, burn, dessicate nonsense. The next part is up though and unsurprisingly Jellyneo's guide is a bit confusing so I found this page which highlights the newest step nicely:

www.neopets.com/~Nomi68

[lindseycron0]

well i finished up with all of the potions part, if anyone needs some help, i've got the potion properties (when you max out an action) on my site and i just completed the rest of it... or at least everything that is shown, i'm wondering if there isn't a way to work on the anagram part right now or if that's all of it

i followed the guide dl posted and used jellyneo too covering all my bases

[dlfreak]

I just started on the second potion... hopefully I'll be able to finish this part before they disable it... It's such a mathy portion of the plot!!!!!!!!! Who gave them permission to make me have to use math and logic?!

[lindseycron0]

admin said:

I just started on the second potion... hopefully I'll be able to finish this part before they disable it... It's such a mathy portion of the plot!!!!!!!!! Who gave them permission to make me have to use math and logic?!

lmao... i know right! it's really not that hard when you know the max properties to each ingredient... you just have to remember that your averages are for each ingredient not each composite... that's what was messing me up

[lindseycron0]

omg! i've lost to the mayor like 75 times already.. here's a trick, I don't think anyone will be able to last more than one hit, so what's the point of healing completely, I'm buying up tons of healing potion I and any others that around 40np which seems to be the going price and then i just use one after each fight and jump right back in... he's gonna kick my rear anyway and i'm lucky to hit him for more than 30 but hey, it's really racking up those plot points it's just demolishing my battledome stats, but oh well

[lindseycron0]

ok, i give up for a while, he's still got over 60k hit points and it will be a while before he gets defeated totally, but i've completely ruined my battledome stats cuz there's NO chance of killing him so I lose every battle just to knock his hp down for other users.... but just going in knowing i'm gonna die is a pretty big killjoy if you know what i mean (especially when we have no clue how the plot points are tallied and if any of it will even make a difference)

[lindseycron0]

thank goodness it's finally OVER!!! I fought that stinking mayor I don't know how many times and then yesterday it said that I hadn't fought him at all yet but man my stats are totally ruined now.... I hope it wasn't all for nothing

[cookie__the__rat]

Did they ever announce the prizes for this plot???

[lindseycron0]

cookietherat said:

Did they ever announce the prizes for this plot???

of course not