Log Horizon S2 - Episode 2 Discussion / Poll

[Pablete]

Originally Posted by DQueenie13

Maryelle hid in the box to avoid Henrietta (and the work that came with her). She ran off to shower when she heard that Naotsugu was coming.

I think "Massachusetts" is probably the coolest-sounding state in the U.S. Imagine having a "William Delaware", "William Idaho", or "William New Jersey". Not as cool. Also, Massachusetts is probably one of the more important states to U.S. history. I don't know how much of it they learn over in Japan, so it may just be that he just remembered this state.

What about "William Michigun"

[Random Wanderer]

Just for the record, the cost of that sword Akatsuki was looking it is 118,000 gold. To put that in perspective, back in season 1 when Shiroe was getting started on his plan to rescue the siblings and save the soul of Akiba and was talking about how much money he'd need, Henrietta said that the savings of the entire Crescent Moon Alliance guild was only 60,000. While they weren't a high-combat guild, it's still telling that the savings of an entire guild of 24 people only amounted to half the price of that sword.

[DQueenie13]

Originally Posted by Pablete

What about "William Michigun"

Nah, it doesn't have the same charm.

[Proto]

Just for the record, the cost of that sword Akatsuki was looking it is 118,000 gold. To put that in perspective, back in season 1 when Shiroe was getting started on his plan to rescue the siblings and save the soul of Akiba and was talking about how much money he'd need, Henrietta said that the savings of the entire Crescent Moon Alliance guild was only 60,000. While they weren't a high-combat guild, it's still telling that the savings of an entire guild of 24 people only amounted to half the price of that sword.

It is also telling that Akatsuki has half the cost of that sword already. The perks of being close to Shiroe the information hub.

That said, the Crescent Moon Alliance is probably way richer now, after several food ventures, being part of the Round Counil and the general economic situation of Akihabara being on the uprise.

[FRS]

That was a nice episode, lot of funny scenes with Tetra and Demi Demi.
Maryelle and Naotsugu are indeed really acting like a married couple eh.

[~Yami~]

I had good laughs throughout episode... Demidemi... his wife... Tetra... Nao X Marie...
This episode just got everything
William is also nicer than what we saw on season 1

poor Akatsuki... If only she has those delicious raid invitation in the past....
I totally can understand her inferior feelings

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Proto

It is also telling that Akatsuki has half the cost of that sword already. The perks of being close to Shiroe the information hub.

She said it's twice the price of everything she owns. If she sold all her gear: current weapons, armor, potions, other equipment, everything, she'd have half the cost of that sword.

She'd also be naked, which has various problems of its own.

[QS_Bilal]

Awesome episode. Built on the lore and character development (or lack thereof) very well. Comedy was genuine!

(Detailed review later)

[aohige]

Oh, btw did this come up already?
The cameos of characters seen when raid was being explained are class sample characters from the LH TRPG.

[White Manju Bun]

Ah Tetra, thank you for living up to the "pink haired characters are annoying" standard. Gawd I wanted to punch her.

Although he's been featured a bit more something about Regan just bothers me, aside from his creepy mentality.

Shiroe's banter with Mr Tofu in Miso Sauce was hilarious.

[bhl88]

Democracy Demi-whatis sauce Deluxe Tofu in miso sauce is planning something... probably going to jump at Shiroe then get killed the nth time.

[Gundamx]

Originally Posted by Kafriel

Most epic raids are rather annoying to pull off:

1) They require a rare/expensive/limited item to initiate, sometimes from each member participating, so that's a lot of grinding in preparation for the dungeon.

2) The dread of disconnecting ALWAYS lingers around...and losing a key character can mean the end of the raid.

3) The lags...with so many people in one map, it's natural to lag...but healing 2 seconds later usually spells death for the laggers.

4) The screen is full of damage and effects, you can't see what's going on!

5) Trolls in raids mess you up. It only happens once, of course...but it happens.

6) Some raids have a time limit and the super-bosses at the end have HP that amounts to billions, thus requiring gear of legendary status to effectively deal with them (in some cases, only these very bosses drop such gear...so, yeah, hax).

7) While most of the above obviously don't apply to Log Horizon, raid dungeons are notoriously large - getting enough supplies to pull through can be rather tricky and if the drops are subpar or if you don't clear the raid, having another go at it will cost a lot.


Anyway, this was quite an awesome episode, Tetra teaming up with Naotsugu is just desserts for him Silver Sword looks very interesting and their levels are pretty high, looking forward to some good battles...

Akatsuki shopping for swords reminded me of Roronoa Zoro for some weird reason ._.

1- no one want under-gear since they have low dps and low heal which make it easier to die or reach enrage time

2- make sure you have strong connection before mythic/extreme raid
(if you d/c a lot than don't join them in first place, yeah I know, it suck T_T)

3- only old PC or slow internet have them
(my old PC use to freeze for few second when I have many people in same screen and that why I stop playing 25 raid)

4- hide them from screen setting

5- if it's guild run = kick them, same thing with pug run, at-least that what I do

6- you can buy epic craft, farm earlier raid, or try to fight world boss or even same raid with easier mode.
there many way to reach end game gear
(most game give you more than one option)

7- normally I fight 3-4 boss per run
(which take 3 runs~ to finish it, and that why we raid three days per week)


p.s.:I am mostly talking about WoW and FFXIV

though Log horizon look more like FFXI 75 cap

[Hmm....]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

"Obsession" is too strong a word for Marielle's reaction in S1.

I think "Obsessed" or "Fixated" is a fair word consider how anime portray it. It would be different story in LN though.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

There is no room for the undisciplined which is bad because, what was the phrase again? Getting gamers to work together is like herding cats?

Ehm.... Lemming I guess ?? Since organizing a raid mean gathering and herding dozens of players to their death over and over

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Hmm....

Ehm.... Lemming I guess ?? Since organizing a raid mean gathering and herding dozens of players to their death over and over

Not really. Dying is something any raider is prepared for. Dying because someone decided to blow the plan and throw it in hell is the nightmare of any raid leader.

Leeroy Jenkins is the most famous example of such idiocy. The big question is who will be the biggest Leeroy Jenkins in Shiroe's raid.

[HandofFate]

I'm surprised to find out Akitsuki is a noob. In that she has little to no raid experience.

[Dark Wing]

WTF wait a sec Demikas got married?

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by HandofFate

I'm surprised to find out Akitsuki is a noob. In that she has little to no raid experience.

Shiroe said they partied together. He never said they raided together. Me think Akatsuki is one of those socially withdrawn player characters.

[Flower]

Originally Posted by Dark Wing

WTF wait a sec Demikas got married?

Certainly seems like it; and to one of the people of the land to boot. ^^

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by HandofFate

I'm surprised to find out Akitsuki is a noob. In that she has little to no raid experience.

She told us in the first episode that Assassins are lone wolves. It's her interpretation of the character.

[Dark Wing]

Originally Posted by Flower

Certainly seems like it; and to one of the people of the land to boot. ^^

She must be freaking saint to be putting up with him.

Anyway this kind of brings up an interesting point if people of the land and the adventurers are getting this close to each other what's going to happen when they find away back home?