Rock
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Popps, you only mention one of the three benefits of mage weapons. The second is that they help one train magery, by lowering effective skill, allowing more gains and casting of lower level spells. It is kind of funny to me that you want a low mag…
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WornOutYourTool said: 8. Spirit speak is awesome, but not being protected in any way and having a wicked cooldown makes it very difficult to use at times. This is the one that bothers me most. Why does the magery Protection spell allow on…
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Schuyler_Bain said: ... Warrior: 120 in melee weapon, tactics, chivalry, focus, healing, and anatomy... You have a lot of overlap in the warrior build. I would choose either chiv/focus or heal/anat. With charges on runebooks, you don't …
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Merus, sometimes playing a "useless" character is fun. One of my original characters is SvenXUseless (created before skill caps were raised to 120). He's a begger/cook/peacemaker/herder with mace and no tactics. The point was, he isn't a min/maxer…
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I don't believe so. Here is the first paragraph from the official Parry skill page:The Parrying and Bushido skills are checked during combat to determine whether an attack can be fully blocked. Melee and archery attacks can be fully parried if …
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Thank you for the feedback everyone. The obvious work-around was to repair the bracelet, then not use it during training. He is not wearing any other antique items, so the bracelet was the only one which was quickly aging. Using Vendor Search I f…
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Problem solved. Rock's Book of Mastery's was probably acquired in 2010 via the Peacemaking quest, not Hawkwind's quest. (Hawkwind, non-bardic masteries, and the new land didn't even exist.) Hovering over the book reported 6 spells, I'm guessing t…
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In the past couple days, Rock has shifted away from Healing and Mace to Mysticism and Archery. His current template is: Archery: 102.5Focus: 101.2Music: 108.4Mysticism: 67.3Peacemaking: 108.1Tactics: 100120 is the goal value down the line, but he h…
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This happened to me once, but it was temporary. Hopefully it will be the same for you. The cause was logging out while my character had the Incognito spell in effect. This changes your character's name. Character details are stored on your comput…
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@Poppy_Wilshere, you are absolutely correct! I didn't even try setting it on ground because while holding it, it is bigger than the house. But on releasing it, it collapses to a single animated tile. Thank you.
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@Cobb nothing is wrong with using charges in runebooks. The issue is mainly one of convenience and forgetfulness. If you forget to keep runebook charged you could end up stranded. Even if you don't forget, it is somewhat of a hassle, and an ongoi…
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@Basara makes an excellent point. Other rewards include recipe scrolls for the archery items you need to learn recipes for, and various talismans, not just ones for archery. You'll get repeats of these items over time. You can choose to accumulat…
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It might be 0 difference if you come upon ring or bracelet you'd like to use with +5 Lore on it. Or if you have access to a high end imbuer, he could customize you the perfect jewelry to fit your template and other desires.
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@Basara, good ideas.
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@Garth_Grey, thank you for your input. However, long distance travel is already available to everyone much cheaper than that. One can buy Recall scrolls for about 50 gold each from numerous mage NPCs. Use one or more of these to charge your runeb…
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@McDougle, you probably already know that there can be two mods on musical instruments.exceptional quality (more effective against all monsters)slayer (more effective against some monsters)That isn't a lot, but it seemed necessary to clarify your po…
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With Bowcraft at a low priority, you could consider eliminating it altogether. Perhaps Crafter 1 could replace it with Lumberjacking. Why take that with neither a Carpenter nor Bowyer? Well, at some point you may add one or both of those crafts. …
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Since you eliminated Carpentry, the need for a lumberjack is lessened. It would still prove very useful for your Bowyer, though. One use for Lumberjacking is to buff Swordsmanship damage while fighting with an axe. The damage added is skill/5 plu…
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I thought of a suggestion. Make a dedicated Gargoyle character for Imbuing, and turn Crafter 2 into Elf. That will enable him to get advanced woods and, once he reaches 100 Lumberjacking, the special ingredients. The Gargoyle could fully embrace h…
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Welcome back, @Pcrew. I was in your shoes a few months ago, so I know how much information overload you can feel. I'll just make a few suggestions starting from the bottom (Crafter 2):no need for Music. A carpenter needs 45 music (some from gear …
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Guys, can you just stop with the constant negativity? I'm tired of seeing it, especially where nothing was said to warrant it. Mervyn: The sky is blue.Haters: Yeah. It's Mervyn blue, and he won't stop until the devs only use Mervyn blue. Me: Shee…
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Why are crafting skills not on jewelry? Because they are on talismans instead, leaving jewelry for adventuring skills. The talisman approach is better because:It can grant skill to a point greater than your skill cap.It can grant an "exceptional q…
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@Arroth_Thaiel, (You posted while I was in edit mode.) Yes, my attraction to keeping Mace involves having already read a skill scroll for it. The other factor is that my desire is to keep him fairly close to what he's been for almost 20 years. As …
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@Bilbo, Yes, he has Peace Mastery (and Mace Mastery). His current attributes don't offer much mana though, so he can't sustain either of the Peace Mastery abilities for very long. Part of his reconfiguration will be to provide more mana. His gear …
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... thinking out loud ... Assume Rock has 480 skill assigned, 120 each in Mace, Tactics, Music, and Peacemaking. That leaves 240 points to tune his template Note that the loss of Anatomy is in itself a loss of damage potential, affecting all the b…
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@Fanny_Adams, I suspect the newly empty bottles are falling at your feet, or perhaps disappearing altogether. The game avoids auto-adding items to a character's backpack when it is already full, either by item-count or weight. Put some of your ite…
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@Arroth_Thaiel, in an earlier age he was almost an ideal character to lead the training offshoot of a larger guild. On guild hunts his peacemaking could avoid disasters, and his healing proved very useful. Virtually any monster could be peaced; "S…
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@Fanny_Adams, Did you check your weight? Are you overloaded?
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You obviously already have a race, but there are quests to switch back and forth between elf and human. Racial advantages for your template:human: +2 HPR (hit point regen), partially offsets the -5 HPR in lich form. You don't need to heal self as …
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@Fanny_Adams, that is strange. The only thing I can think of is that your newly empty bottles either dropped to the ground due to being at or above max weight, or they showed up in your pack further down that you normally view. Scroll down and see…