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I would love for an emailed news letter to come back, even if it's short. Maybe it would help grab the interest of older players who aren't playing anymore?
I bet there are many budding authors bursting at the seams to write the next smash hit steamy romance novel, who would prefer to remain anonymous!
Edit: SUPPORTIDEA 394 if you agree - I forgot this existed!
Armour type: Chainmail
Balance type: More balance than eq
Statpacks : Dexterous, Athletic, Strong, Sturdy
Skillsets:
Trailblazing : Utility and defensive skills like bounty, barkskin, vitality, mark, campground. Also has the Outrider-only toxins spread across the skillset.
Wyrmriding : Where most of the outrider's offence comes from. Main bashing attack (spear stab) is here. They get to summon an icewyrm and ride it around (being mounted on one increases STAB damage). The wyrm has some utility skills (icewall, flight, hoist) and also has an instakill (shatter). A channeled "insta"-kill also exists for the outrider here (gorge). Has blacken and icecoat in here to allow the outrider to give their spear/trident additional effects (PK only)
Hunting : Almost entirely PK-oriented. Hide, traps, all the other pets come from here. Also has the related axe and bow skills here. Thornspray. Pets can be surged for a different attack at an eq cost, comboable with axetoss, stab and longslash (the only ones that matter).
Main combat strategies :
The viability of surging pets on every attack depends greatly on the statpack used, and whether or not you are wearing a diadem (15% faster eq).
1) Affliction/damage route - All the outrider toxins (trailblazing) are nightshade cures and can't be purged. They include recurring freezing (chiltran), addiction (narcal), impatience (ditran).
Nausea (also nightshade; either by using a blackened spear [wyrmriding], your #1 pet's autoattack or botulinum toxin) combined with xeroderma (also nightshade) and chiltran (periodic cold damage), as well as the amount of bleeding generated from the many frequent pet and spear/trident attacks and add up to quite a lot of accumulated bleeding.
Batter or longslash can be used where appropriate to increase bleeding and deliver afflictions. Bloodfreeze does damage based on how much the target is bleeding.
Ideally one would time axetosses (you can have up to 5 simultaneously thrown at a time) to land at the same time to maximize the 'burst' of afflictions.
2) Limb damage/shatter route - Shatter is an instakill that relies on the target having at least 3 levels of hypothermia, which is an outrider-only affliction. If not protected by caloric salve, and with the frostheart (wymriding) debuff is on the target, every attack that chills or freezes will cause 1 level of hypothermia (i.e. deepfreeze causes 2 levels with 1 cast).
By going for limb damage, the target will most likely be applying restoration rather than caloric. Having icecoat (chills, cold damage) on the spear/trident and using chiltran (recurring freezing) is the foundation of this method.
Going for limbs isn't the only way to get a shatter kill, but is the one requiring the least effort/timing/skill. Alternatively, traps with salve afflictions combined with axetosses also with salve afflictions can be used to overwhelm the target to prevent them applying caloric.
Artifacts made for this profession:
- Bracers of the Wyrm: 500 credits
- Increase damage done by Wyrmriding cold attacks by 15%.
- Attacks increased: icecoat, iceblast, bloodfreeze, and deluge.
That's my rambly idea
Parcels (Papercrafting) Known: Yes
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You can purchase and customize a design for parcels from the
papercrafting shop.
A parcel can be mailed through the post office using MAIL PARCEL TO
. A parcel can hold 20 items, quite a bit more than a letter.
There is also wrapping paper.
RAGLIST MISSING should be a thing.
Logging into this:
Message #8432 Sent By: (aetolia) Received On: 1/27/2017/22:15
"An elegant white letter#290283 has decayed to dust in your absence."
And not knowing you ever had a letter sent to you or what it said just keeps you up at night.
Definitely agree about RAGLIST MISSING though, haven't been able to figure out if a syntax like that exists.
fc missing venoms >
Missing venoms: darkshade, delphinium, digitalis, epseth, epteth, euphorbia, gecko, jalk, larkspur,
loki, monkshood, oculus, oleander, ouabain, selarnia, slike, vardrax, vernalius, voyria, and xentio
Still, need RAGLIST MISSING.
Can we please give Dopplegangers a LISTENING ability similar to the Animation Listen ability for Golems? I don't want a spy or nothing.. but it'd be nice to hear thank yous from people if I have to send my doppleganger to deliver stuff..
and it'd make for some utility of being in two places at once for RP
The reason for this, and I've seen it done in other games, is that some people (not all) will base a classlead report and support/reject it based on the person who submitted it rather than the content of the report. While I trust Keroc's ability to see through transparent attempts at bias, I think it'd offer a completely neutral atmosphere towards reports overall and Keroc would be able to find any biased opinions based on report comments. I don't think Aetolia is as bad as Achaea was in this aspect, but it's better to avoid any potential for biased inclinations because of who submitted what and what side they're on in the game.
IDEASUPPORT 427 folks!
Edit: Could we also get a little bit of a longer time in the arena when using classpick? Potentially unlimited time with a timer that's going on anyways, so that way if someone wants to use the arena and we've been in longer than the normal time they can challenge anyways and kick us out?
Standard commodities through commodity shops are largely grouped due to previous guard/war cost, as well as some aspects of enchanting.
Crafting, in turn, makes use of a plethora of materials, both as the base 'cost' of an item, as well as those materials which you wish to incorporate into your designs.
The in game dictionary can assist with finding locations, though it is still a work in progress.
Example: LOOKUP GLASS
Term: brass Section: Metals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Definition: Location: Arbothia, v15138 Alloy: 1 zinc, 1 copper (also sold as its own material) A yellow metal suitable for ornamentation and jewelry, though not as the primary component in weapons or armour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------LOOKUP METALS will list the various metals, to then LOOKUP for more precise information. LOOKUP on its own will list the categories.
Ok so people can double-check my math, there's (a-c)(1-3), meaning 9 total boxes. To win, you need to hit the same three symbols out of 9. I'd calculate that as: (3/9)*(2/8)*(1/7) * 3 = 3.6% chance of winning. This is because you can win one of three different things, with all 3 being on the list. The 'booby prize' is (1|2) lotto tickets, depending on your match. These tickets are harder to calculate the value on, but I'd estimate them to be significantly less than the 20/40/piece (35-50?) cr reward since there's only 1 thing to win- the prize is valuable, but odd calculation is impossible. I'm acknowledging this just so it's said, and it doesn't seem like I'm being sly with my reporting.
As far as 'worth it' goes, I play a lottery ticket game called Grand Luck once a week, for giggles, at $5 a ticket. Here's their odds of prize winning:
11% chance to make your money back (1 in 8.57)
5.5% chance in doubling your money (1 in 30, 1 in 40)
3.33% chance in tripling your money ((1/240)+(1/240)+(1/80)+(1/80))
2.50% chance in quadrupling your money ((1/240)+(1/240)+(1/120)+(1/120))
The prizes go up from here, but less and less likely and I'm all math'd out. I guess my bottom line is, a 22.33% chance for break-even to quadruple is what my scratch-offs use, vs what we have. 22.33% is significantly larger than 3.6%, so at the risk of looking stupid because I'm really not that great at math, go buy RL scratch-off tickets, spend those winnings on credits instead and you'll have way more credits than with our IG ones.