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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Casca » April 6th, 2015, 9:13 am

Jerebear wrote:Do you know if/when the hotfix went live? I got it late late last night (well after your post about the hotfix) and was unable to cage it.
Must have been before this month's DF went up. I did it Sunday morning and it wasn't cageable then.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Jerebear » April 6th, 2015, 9:42 am

Mine still isn't as of this morning.
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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Luciandk » April 6th, 2015, 9:45 am

Casca wrote:
Jerebear wrote:Do you know if/when the hotfix went live? I got it late late last night (well after your post about the hotfix) and was unable to cage it.
Must have been before this month's DF went up. I did it Sunday morning and it wasn't cageable then.
It was before the April DMF went up.

Edit:
Found it:
March 23, 2015 - 6.1.2 Patch Notes, March 23rd Hotfixes

Race MiniZep: The pet is now unique and is not eligible to be caged or released.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Jerebear » April 6th, 2015, 10:43 am

Thanks!
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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Poxx » April 6th, 2015, 11:37 am

Denverrunner wrote:Sternish shared this video with me. I found it to be easier than the ones already posted here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGkSrk ... e=youtu.be
Upvote for this video, made me make it within 20 tolls as well, also thanks to the explaining about the rotating boosters.

And yes, don´t think I will ever ever do this race again.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Peanutty » April 6th, 2015, 2:47 pm

I *want* to say I'll never do this again but there's going to be 2 more mount options released the next 2 months, and I want as many of the achieves as possible, so...

Yeah, I'll be back. :(

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Luciandk » April 6th, 2015, 2:52 pm

Peanutty wrote:I *want* to say I'll never do this again but there's going to be 2 more mount options released the next 2 months, and I want as many of the achieves as possible, so...

Yeah, I'll be back. :(
Most of the rewards is fairly forgettable, but the Darkmoon Cannon from golding the real big race with the powermonger is worth trying for. It assembles a rocket, giving unstoppable flight for 1 min, 30 min cd.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Peanutty » April 6th, 2015, 3:44 pm

Luciandk wrote:
Peanutty wrote:I *want* to say I'll never do this again but there's going to be 2 more mount options released the next 2 months, and I want as many of the achieves as possible, so...

Yeah, I'll be back. :(
Most of the rewards is fairly forgettable, but the Darkmoon Cannon from golding the real big race with the powermonger is worth trying for. It assembles a rocket, giving unstoppable flight for 1 min, 30 min cd.
True, but as a pet/mount/toy/tabard/transmog/everything collector, they're pretty much forcing me to torture myself to fill in my collection. :)

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Jerebear » April 6th, 2015, 4:04 pm

Peanutty wrote:
True, but as a pet/mount/toy/tabard/transmog/everything collector, they're pretty much forcing me to torture myself to fill in my collection. :)
The worst type of torture is self inflicted torture.
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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Stella3 » April 8th, 2015, 2:31 am

I got it beat in 17 clicks (or whatever those are called)

My tip is to not let it intimidate you, at first I was all nervous because I really wanted the new pet and I stressed over it, but finally I settled in and played the course and let myself make mistakes and discover what works and what doesn't all while the timer ran. After I saw where the shortcuts were and what powerups to use I was able to beat it easily and realize it's much easier than it looks.

And I also got shot and slowed down by one of those zeps and triggerd a slow trap, I probably could have beat it in 15 clicks if I didn't do that.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Tekulve2012 » April 8th, 2015, 4:23 am

Hiya

I agree with the last post... I am very poor at games like this and it took me 50+ tries but I finally earned it.

YouTube videos help a lot
Good luck all

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Mastr » April 8th, 2015, 11:22 am

I think I remember reading that this will be nerfed in subsequent months to be easier to achieve.
Is this true??

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Rioriel » April 8th, 2015, 12:02 pm

Watched a couple of youtube videos.

Bugger that :lol:

Just gonna mark it as excluded :lol: :lol:

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Jaylith » April 8th, 2015, 11:43 pm

Denverrunner wrote:
Voskres wrote:I never, ever, EVER... evrevrevrever, ever, want to run that again.
I absolutely agree.
I'm right there with you. FINALLY got it done but again? Noooo thanks!

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Caega » April 9th, 2015, 3:57 pm

I've done the race a few times (too many actually). Each Toll is about 7 seconds and it ticks over to the start of the next Toll at each Post. Arriving at a Post a millisecond after a Toll ticks over is like getting penalized 1 Toll.

The Rotating Powerups that changes between rocket, spring and teleporter have 12 seconds cycles. Using a timer lets you know when to start the race so that when you arrive at a Rotating Powerup, it will have the correct Powerup.

In this video, a timer made it possible to do three consecutive 16 Tolls runs:
http://youtu.be/H0XNsKW5cXU

Nice if there was a 16 Tolls Big Rocketeer: Platinum achievement with a Rocketeer Jr as a reward.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Anarchitect » April 9th, 2015, 10:28 pm

Caega wrote:In this video, a timer made it possible to do three consecutive 16 Tolls runs:
http://youtu.be/H0XNsKW5cXU
Thanks to this video I finally got that stupid pet and can now never do it again.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Melmo » April 10th, 2015, 12:50 am

Today is the day I have time to visit the fair. I hope luck is nice to me, I don't want to wait another month or more :(

Thanks for the tips and videos everyone, I'm sure they'll help!

Edit: Finally got it after several bad timing starts... first finished race was 22 tolls, 2nd race was 18! If I can do it anyone can, keep trying!
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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Celya » April 10th, 2015, 12:18 pm

One more vote for watching the video first, I never would have figured out how to do it in time myself.

One more vote for feeling annoyed that you have to skip such a huge part of the race in order to finish in time.

One more vote for never ever doing that again... until they add another pet of course.

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Graven » April 11th, 2015, 6:45 am

This event is just not fun. At all. :(

A bit frustrated right now, will try again a bit later on, and hopefully will manage to get the pet before the Faire goes away for the rest of the month...

*Edit* Came back an hour later, finally did it after about 30 tries. Definitely still not fun - too much luck involved. The only tries where I came close (and the one where I finally did it) were when the powerup outside the rabbit cave was waiting on rocket when I got there. Any waiting, or missing it, and you might as well run back and restart. :(

Made it more stressful on myself by leaving it until the last day of the faire, but at least I have it now. Good luck to anyone still trying! :)

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Re: Race Minizep is now available

Post by Llilli » April 11th, 2015, 6:39 pm

omg after about 50 attempts, I watched the video with the tip about setting a timer for the rockets, that made all the difference, got it first try!

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