Comments on: Why Do Snapping Turtles Have Knockback?

By: Ethic

Ethic — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:13:38 +0000

Bad breath attack.

By: Finster

Finster — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:56:05 +0000

If you’ve ever seen a real snapping turtle up close and personal… and then taunted it with a large stick, you would not ask why a snapping turtle has knockback.

By: yunk

yunk — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:08:31 +0000

Oh my knockback comments were regarding trolls.

By: yunk

yunk — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:01:12 +0000

It’s not really random, but you can certainly get knocked sideways depending on their facing and your facing. It’s not your back it’s the way they hit you. For instance you don’t get knocked forward through their back ever.

I specialized in speed runs through the CD trolls to get the Ornate key, since for some reason people hated it. We did it in 20 minutes once. Not exactly “speed” but .. pretty good. Once you get near the first big guy you run up to him kill him then keep running to the next and never stop to eat, and you can get across the bridges before they collapse.

By: Thallian

Thallian — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:40:52 +0000

@Scott.. that parts the worst, especially when they fall so far you cant res em :P

By: Pete S

Pete S — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:06:16 +0000

A bigger question for me is, why do so few of them have shells? Or meat, for that matter. The soup was so not worth all that work…

By: Zubon

Zubon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:06:27 +0000

That’s Nen Harn. The Angmar ones are about seven meters tall, so they can knockback all they like.

I have also lost a team member to a dragon’s wing buffet. “Did you get quest credit down there?”

The random-direction knockback can be an issue for Carn Dum. My favorite was when it was still just “back”… and someone richoeted off a wall, over the bridge, and into the water of death. Still bad for the team, but comedy gold.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:38:12 +0000

He could be in Angmar with those big-ass elite turtles… depends what level he is.

The funniest knockback I saw was with a kin group, I think in Angmar, fighting drakes up in the mountains. We fought our way to the top and were in the middle of a fight when two dragons (!) landed next to us and knocked our captain off the mountain. He had a good ten seconds or so of air-time before *SPLAT*

Fighting the trolls in Carn Dum can be interesting too, when their knockbacks don’t always knock *backwards* (ie. backs to the walls don’t always work) and you’re fighting on narrow bridges…