wodin
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Post by wodin on Dec 28, 2009 2:32:03 GMT -5
So I was away from DC for the entire addition of Azteca (at least I think...). Anyway I have a few questions for anyone who knows the answer (or can come up with a convincing enough piece of bullnuts for me to believe).
1 - Why did they change the base stats of the silver amini clubs? 2 - Why do silver jag fangs no longer get dropped? 3 - Why did they lower the base skill of sea slips (and their silver counterparts)? 4 - Where is sirinnu from? 5 - If there have been additions/changes to negate some of the effect of having masses of hacked junk out there, why did they create something like the DSJ manufacturing, which looks like just an outlet for pure hacked junk? 6 - Sort of an older question, but why did they disable drakes and cookies renewing quests?
I feel like I have ideas about some of these, like they don't have silver jag fangs because it doesn't make sense; most silvers are righties, and most crystals are lefties. And maybe the DSJ manufacturing is precisely an attempt to eat up tons of hacked junk.
Anyway, clarification and answers would be greatly appreciated.
Best, W
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xene
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Post by xene on Dec 28, 2009 9:33:18 GMT -5
Hmm, I'll have a go at your questions 1 - The old SAC stats were actually set wrongly. Silver weapons are supposed to have double the attack value of their regular counterparts (and skill as well, in the case of SACs) but previously, a tier 1.0 SAC would only have 100 attack, while a normal AC would have 70. The new SACs actually bring a higher attack value, not a lower skill value. Nowadays, an SAC at tier 1.0 would have 140 attack. This one I'm pretty sure about. 2 - I think Silver Jaguar fangs were abolished at the same time as crystals were introduced. I think Fred's intention was to have the CJF replaced the SJF rather than having both drop from the same monster. Not sure, this is really just my guess. 3 - Not too sure on this one either. I'm still a lucky holder of a pair of 36d old SSS, but if I were to throw a guess, I'd say it was to make it so CSBs would be useful. From where I'm sitting though, I'm not very tempted to switch out my 36d's, simply because I'd need a very very high stat CSB to convince me. 4 - No comment 5 - I really have zero knowledge on this, since I wasn't even aware Fred had any intention to negate the effect of mass hacked junk at all. You still see people bidding them in the millions after all. Rather than DSJ manufacturing being created as a counter to mass junk, I think the Dragon Guard is genuine new content, and the mass DSJ manufacturing is a by-product of the existence of mass junk. I doubt people really kill Dragons for their scales to make DSJs with. I did do this on the Test port though, which wasn't too bad. 6 - If anything was done to negate the effect of mass junk, this one would probably be it I used to use a lot of drakes in the past when they were available, but nowadays, I find I struggle to find time to play 4 characters daily. Still, questing with a limit has really given me a whole new perspective to the game, and it actually made it a lot more fun than kill;kill;kill;kill;kill;Use 120 drakes, repeat. I guess to answer your question, I'd say the reason was part fighting hacked junk and part 'revitalizing' the game.
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Post by Dragon_Stalker on Dec 28, 2009 10:02:44 GMT -5
4- Sirinnu was born in the Forest...that's about all that can be said for now
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Post by TheAnt on Dec 28, 2009 11:09:44 GMT -5
he is from orcland!!
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Bre'Cheye
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ussta zhennu ventash'ma zhah ussta zhennu abbil... My Great Leader is my Great Friend!
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Post by Bre'Cheye on Dec 28, 2009 11:45:09 GMT -5
I thought he was found under a cabbage leaf
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Post by Gawayn on Dec 28, 2009 14:35:38 GMT -5
They must grow big cabbages in orcland
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Post by sirinnu on Dec 30, 2009 11:08:43 GMT -5
Hope these , answer your questions Wodin! I cant add much myself. Thanks Xene for your help! about question #5, , I do kill the dragons, with 2-3 charies for few days , when I'm in need of scales and marks ( each chary gives me around 25Mil marks and 1k scales, , its quick questing, , and enough to makes few dsjs when I want to, , along with a good source of snake oils) I dont think fred did create the missions specialy to get rid of mass hacked junk, , but I suspect that he had this in mind when asking for so much marks for few of the missions .... since I heard that he was expecting lots of hacked stuff to be used through tithing (He never told that to me, , so I cant be 100% sure, yet it makes sense to me, , u want to level up by tithing to get more quests or to be seen on the list, , then you'll help get rid of hacked stuff, , and u'll be doomed forever since u will always have hard time to kill the funiest monsters (monsters stats raises when u level up, , so if u tithe alot up to level 40, , u'll have 200 wits while jagus will have around 600 , , u'll always have hard time to resist theyr mezz (10% to succeed ?), , but if u do not tithe, , at same level 40 , u would have about 1k wits the jagu still 600 , thus increasing your chance to resist mezz alot (60%).. All this to say : either u are a quester and dont level up by tithing, to make sure u got the best stats possible to quest effectivly, , , OR u are in the team of people working to get rid of hacked junk, to be seen on the guildlist, but u'll always find it more boring to quest, since it will always be harder for you ) About #6 I was glad to finally see fred modify drakes, and to remove cookies. He took a long time before listening to me about this I liked cookies and drakes too, , but since it was so much hacked, , it was almost normal to see all kind off players use and promote hacked stuff (even respected people as Xene) , , while a small group of people always tried to quest legitly and stay away from hacked stuff... instead we were using multiple charies to quest all day long, , just as Fred allowed us to do (while he was not alowing people to hack items, and or use those to trades all around). About ur question #4 people are right, , in here I'M an orc from orcland northern forest.... I dont know what is that RL people sometimes speaks about. And u shud have seen by now that I have my own way to speak, GRUSH, its called orcish language, TSAHHK, a mix of bad english with various gutturals orc sounds, GLOMPH. I dont always post the orc sound, instead I just put 2 or 3 comas to represent it.
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Post by Toki on Dec 30, 2009 12:03:32 GMT -5
Sir was indeed born/found under a cabbage leaf. Here's a picture of a hume who found his birthplace:
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