Puff Must Die!

[Dank]

One Hundred Reasons Why Puff Must Die

1. Puff is a hackneyed punch-line: like the ubiquitous rubber chicken or the rimshot, Puff is obsolete and out-of-gas. Kill her.

2. Puff is the guy that showed up to your wedding and answers 'Yes' to the does-anyone-know-of-a-reason-why-these-two-shouldn't-be-joined-in-holy-matrimony question.

3. Puff is a Keep on Truckin' bumper sticker, long after truckin' went out of style.

4. Puff is the musak playing in your elevator at work.

5. Puff is the goodie-two-shoes next door that reminds you why you decided to choose a life of crime.

6. Puff is the cup half-full and a damned good reason why you should look at it the other way around.

7. Puff is the eighth grader in college.

8. Puff is Wrigley Spearmint Gum forever.

9. Puff is a world tour with the Harlem Globetrotters as the Washington Generals

10. Puff is the inside joke when the joke is on you.

11. Puff is finding out that Santa Claus is a homeless man looking for a holiday score.

12. Puff is the rim-shot at the end of a lounge act.

13. Puff is a fourth grade holiday musical.

14. Puff is the uncle you've never met and that no one ever talks about on Thanksgiving.

15. Puff is the car that Gremlin drivers drive.

16. Puff is the other guy on your date.

17. Puff is the bridesmaid never the bride.

18. Puff is the Debbie Gibson of Gwen Stefanis.

19. Puff is the Morely Safer of George Wills.

20. Puff is a streaker at the Republican National Convention.

21. Puff is a drunk best man at your rehearsal dinner.

22. Puff is the school nurse on ritalin.

23. Puff is a prom date escorted by your mother.

24. Puff is the dog poop in the tall grass at the park with your name on it.

25. Puff is your cousin with the full figure.

26. Puff is bread without butter and coke without ice.

27. Puff is a bullet to the head when a comb would suffice.

28. Puff is to wisecracking as Mariah Carey is to Janis Joplin.

29. Puff is a spoon when you need a steam shovel.

30. Puff is the poster child of the Teletubby Jihad.

31. Puff is the fart on a blind date.

32. Puff is the bit of salad that finds it's way into your every conversation after lunch.

33. Puff is the sharp pain that accompanies a multiple fracture.

34. Puff is the girl that laughed before she said, 'no.'

35. Puff is to mudding as ice water is to male self-esteem.

[Cosmo]

Now, don't hold back....

How do you REALLY feel?

[Tarbal]

it would be nice to get something different. i dont mean like new sayings or whatever on puff....but lets find something new to throw in there...maybe instead of puff one of the old god statues may come down and follow you...and if you are REALLY lucky maybe it will be loaded with whatever eq that used to load on it....i just think that would be kinda cool....

mike

[Dank]

P U F F
R.I.P
1996 - 2006


(See changes online.)

[Pioneer]

People might find this strange... but I do miss the old gal...

Yeah, she was obnoxious and annoying, yes she fried people here and there (specially quakers with more mana than brains) but she was also a permanent fixture in the world of Jedi, something you could count on, like the sun rising tomorrow. Without her, it feels like Jedi lost one of it's cardinal points, one of it's landmark references... it feels like Paris without the Eiffel tower, or New York without the green lady!

Some changes were made stating game balance, or various other reasons, not always good, not all bad. But in this case I believe it was the admin bowing to people whining more than any other issues.

I think the change to her zone reset was sufficient and more than enough, offing her to what amounts to ad vitam eternam seems a little harsh.

my 2 coppers.

Pio.

[Maranta]

The problem in my mind is while her reset time was set to a sufficient level, people were either unable or simply too lazy to kill her off. I suspect the latter however as its very easy and cheap to blind her which lasts for a few ticks or quite a few if good int/wis. She isn't exactly difficult to kill either being calmable, has no memory, is a single hitter and has no combat procs.

two more coppers.

-Maranta

[Dank]

and whence did puff/ return to her abode?/
a pain to/ the terminally idle/
before they hit/ the ethereal road?/

anonymous, 2006

as penned during the power outage of early winter, 2006

[Rox]

I was thinking what may be cool is to bring Puff back but have her load something on death.

Nothing fancy but something useful that players can use and enjoy killing Puff when she appears. Also make Puff a harder mob so teams would have to group up to take her.

[Maranta]

Maybe someone should design a line of Puff-Hide items to compliment the backpack and girth already present in the game. That is IF she could be reintroduced, the items approved and people would stop crying like little children everytime she follows them and they're too lazy or cheap to so much as blind her. At least until we get an anti-Puff toggle.

[Rox]

That's a cool idea Puff hide eq...

How about bringing Puff back but remove the proc that she follows people if that is all possible but TP's around different zones.

[Dank]

Well, if we just put a nice set of stochiometric loads on her, I'd endure her bizarre behavior...

And as Maranta suggests above, a full set of puff-hide armor to compliment the b! stuff...


<used as light> the vapour of the Great Wyrm (glowing)
<worn on finger> a ring of the Great Wyrm's horde(invisible)
<worn on finger> a ring of The Great Wyrm's horde(invisible)
<worn around neck> a Puff-hide necklace(invisible) (glowing)
<worn around neck> a Puff-hide necklace(invisible) (glowing)
<worn on body> a Puff-hide doublet(invisible) (humming)
<worn on head> a Puff-hide liripipe(invisible) (humming)
<worn on legs> a set of Puff-hide tassets(invisible) (glowing)
<worn on arms> Puff-hide sleeves(invisible)
<worn as shield> a Puff-hide Shield(invisible) (glowing)
<worn about body> a Puff-hide poncho(invisible)
<worn around wrist> Puff-hide bracers(glowing) (humming)
<worn around wrist> Puff-hide bracers (glowing) (humming)


Puff could load all these things, of course, and load_on_death could be a great way to encourage people to continue to harry her.

[Rox]

Even if it was a bigger container than gods beltpack, it would be cool. Forgot how big puffhide backpack is but it's a nice addition/alternative to gods/phole

[Maranta]

Actually yeah... if the same spawning code from the holiday quests were used and very fined tuned for Puff... hell that could really work. Nice idea!

lol nice items there, Dank. Now all you need is stats, rests, descriptions and of course the big A: Approval! But this is how good projects get rolling.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" however I am forced to add "And boredom is it's bastard child"

[Maranta]

lol I'm just teasin you guys. Seriously though, that would be a good way to re-implement Puff. I have no idea how 12 pieces of new Puff gear could be added that wouldn't throw the balance of something completely out of whack but this is definately where two heads are better than one. Speaking of which... someone go find that new Pit Hydra, 20 heads would come in handy.

Also, the puff-hide backpack is only the size of a gods beltpack. Would think it'd be bigger but maybe because its wearable the size has to be kept to a limit. The urn/cherrywood/phole can't be held or worn but are all the biggest containers, probably the reason for it.