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Unlike then, I know now that in order to beat old Druid in their grove, you needed to transcend Avoidance and Antidotes before you'd have a fighting chance. And then you'd never win anyway because of grove eject.
I vaguely remember the vial. Very vaguely. It was a good vial.
Passive entangles.
Passive prismatic!?
You tell Wedric Vespertine, Lyne's Champion, "In a grove? Are you bloody crazy?"
I can't believe he actually suggested that.
ETA: I'm not really sure I trust someone who has used The Dourif Judge (c).
Hmm... a question. What would be the top five reasons to start playing Aetolia again?
I'm not personally too sure about when the last time you played Aetolia was, so I might end up rehashing on some things you already know, but none the less, here's my personal top five reasons. They are probably going to be all combat related, but hey, that's my jam up here in the Pools:
- System building is easier then ever right now. I know this was a huge plus for me when I started to rebuild a system for play testing. No longer do you have to collect hundreds of individual lines for each class, all you need to do is simply CONFIG AFFLICT_VIEW ON and the game will tell you what you're afflicted with where appropriate. If you don't feel like building an entire defensive system, you can always utilize FIRSTAID as your backbone and simply hone an offense instead.
- We have a number of fairly new conflict systems within the game. Lesser foci and more recently major foci essentially fill the gap where landmarks used to exist. It's a good way to get your teamfight on (city vs city) if you used to enjoy that sort of thing. We also have the relatively new Sect of Blades that was recently updated, which takes over the combat rankings of old. It's built more like a true arena where cures are consumed and death will cost experience, but with the usual arena rules to prevent stalling. It is predominately where most people do their 1v1 jousting. There's a lot of nice rewards for people who participate (read HELP SECT in game), including a custom deathsight if you work diligently enough.
- We also have quarterly classlead rounds now. This helps to keep classes relatively balanced and fair, and to prevent the combat meta from getting stale. We recently went through some changes to our classlead system to make it more like other IRE games. If you're familiar with Achaea or Imperian of late, then you'll see a lot of similarities in functionality. There's definitely been an improvement in satisfaction as a result.
- There's been a good number of changes to existing classes within the last year. Mages, Monks, Indorani, and Praenomen all went through some tweaks, large and small, to make them a little more appealing and stronger. These changes generally fall outside of classleads, and tend to include new skills and kill routes. If you really liked some of these classes in the past, but felt they were a little lacking (I know you were an Indorani player), then you may really like them now.
- I'm going to reserve my fifth reason, because I don't want to harp too much on combat, and leave you with a link to a post Razmael made to talk about 2015 and things we intend to work on in 2016. It's a bit more comprehensive about other aspects of the game such as events and roleplay. You're definitely welcome to ask me about any specifics in here if you have any further questions from my link.
Lastly, I want to add, we also have a WELCOMEBACK package for players returning to the game. If you feel a little put off having to grab yourself a ton of vials and supplies, then you can use this to jump in and get back into the thick of it. If you prefer to gather your own resources, then even better, you'll likely meet a new face or two on the way.It's definitely a good time to look around and enjoy some nostalgia.
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I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
With love,
Diogen
PS: What is the funniest thing in Pools that's happened that you can write about here?
It's hard to write about the Pools in specific. Some bugs really crack me up though. Kai banish in the Sect arena would net you an autowin for a while because the code assumed you managed to escape the arena somehow. Smash at one stage could do 14k+ damage. Haven't had any particularly good ones recently though.
Are there any talks/plans about making more uses for haven points beyond just the raceskills/haven abilities that we can currently buy??
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
Cute-Kelli by @Sessizlik.
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Where exactly do you live in Australia?
I live in Perth, Western Australia. My timezone lines up with the Singaporeans.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
Cute-Kelli by @Sessizlik.
It kind of bothers me a little how much of an impact it has had on the environment, but there doesn't seem to be places or really much development in Helba or in mainland where has been much more then a epidemic centered around Spinesreach. I'm simply curious if there has been places ((even ones I might of missed!)) Where people may have had to adapt to severe changes both to their territory and community. I think my favorite so far is the swamp zombie village near ruins of Ashtan. I would say they represent some form of mutation and adaption.
The very first promo Racial Relics came soon after the spinesreach event of the Mutated crickets, and invention of the SABLE disease. The origin I believe was explained role-play wise in Helba that the cracking of the pylons released dangerous chemicals capable of causing entire environment to change ((akin to the mutant crickets now deep in the sewers of spines, eradicating the former infestation of stone worms in the process)) This was a really cool science epidemic event seemed to stop before it began. I simply am wondering if since the cracking of the pylons that in other parts of the world where such things have long happened before it happened to us on the mainland, if there was more affects or possibly people affected and completely changed from such happenings.
I fear my question may be too far into the future of story telling since for us, it seemed to only affect a small portion of our mainland....that we are aware of. The dangers of SABLE at first were harming mortals almost to the point of death, but then....it stopped having any potent affect after a while. I'm not complaining just simply curious of where it leads us to next.
Whiskey or Vodka?