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@Cissero once you reach GM, be sure your character has read the other mining-related book which allows your miner to get ordinary gems instead of stone. This is particularly useful if your characters on the shard include an Imbuer. Once you are GM…
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@Obuw, I agree on the odds against me getting "everything" in one packhorse session. One thing in my favor was I already knew where bloodwood, heartwood, and yew trees were likely to still be. And up until yesterday I had never gotten a brilliant …
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@Uriah_Heep, oh, so vendors only hold 125 items too? Bummer. For some reason I thought they could hold a lot more than that. This just adds to the benefit of changing deed/item ratio from 5:1 to 20:1.
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I can confirm that all woods are spawning, at least on Origin. Today I got some of each in Ter Mur during 1 pack-horse session (1600 boards + what I can carry). I also got a brilliant amber, a crystal shard, and various quantities of bark fragment…
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@Pawain, thank you for the explanation. An Inconvenient InconvenienceAh heck. Managing BOD books is getting to be a hassle. On Baja it is not too bad. Except for Inscription, where I have two characters gathering deeds, only one character is gath…
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I use the enhanced client (EC) and have been quite satisfied with its mapping functionality. What would your app offer to EC users?
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I don't disagree with anything which has been posted. There is another factor, however, which I believe directly affect the financial viability of the game. UO has a large number of veterans with multiple accounts. Some barely play any more, but …
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TimSt said: How about parry with a shield? Recently I discovered I could still cast spells while holding a shield. For most mages, Parry ends up partially nerfed. To not have a penalty to your Parry effectiveness, you need at least 80 Dex…
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@Pawain, are you saying there is a danger if locking them to floor? I'd like to just make a stack of them on floor, but not if they are going to fall thru and become inaccessible. Also, what do you mean by Carpentry books "don't work anyway"?
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I like this idea as well. But why stop at wood? Why not allow metal and glass steps as well?
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Well that was a surprise. I was keeping my BOD books in a container, and the container got full. I thought there were only about 25 items in the container. It turns out that BOD books gain in item count as they are filled up. Each 5 BODs add one…
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I have several characters with Runic Atlasses, but I have not experienced what you describe. In my experience, runes behave the same whether alone, in a runebook, or a runic atlas. If I had to guess at the problem, I'd say the RNG (random number g…
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I would probably take Bushido. The extra toHit from Lightning Strike (LS) is useful, especially for pumping Perfection up. Even with savings from special move cost, using LS frequently might end up costing you more mana. Still, If your armor has …
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When I restarted playing, I began with the EC and have not looked back. It strikes me as simultaneously sad and humorous that the devs are forced to maintain two clients, one very outdated and one somewhat outdated. What a waste of resources, but …
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One way to help balance the 5-slot conundrum is to give the Herding skill a use. For each 50 real skill points in Herding, a player would get another pet slot. The more slots there are available to any race, the less any advantage a flying Gargoyl…
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@Teapot, you make a good point. There is already relative balance.
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@Bilbo, I don't quite understand. Does "Ex" mean exceptional? If so, he made 10 exceptional swords and one or two normal ones that he smelted down. I forget the exceptional success rate with the talisman -- I think it was in the high 80s. Are yo…
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From the thread title, I was going to suggest Spellweaving, but I see you have Focus as part of your build. With the relative ease of acquiring significant MR (mana regen) and LMC (lower mana cost), I would normally say it would be unnecessary. Bu…
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@Mervyn, I think I just verified that wearing a talisman does not affect skill gain. My smith was filling a BOD to make 10 exceptional viking swords while wearing a talisman. The blacksmith gump showed that he has 100% chance of making it, with 32…
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@Pawain, my 2nd post was not clear. I was aware that Porsch's bond went away when transferred. He was fed (99% sure) and stabled for a week, but when he was claimed and fed again, he did not re-bond. -- after re-entering game just now --Just to ch…
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@Mervny and @Pawain thank you for your responses. That's what I had thought, but I had never transferred a bonded pet before. So if he was supposed to bond and he didn't, something is amiss, such as:New owner did not feed Porsch prior to stabling …
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@Mervyn, I think he has 92.4 Carpentry now, with a fairly steady gain rate of 0.1 every 300 boards or so. He is currently crafting Black Staves (9 boards each) until 95 skill, at which point he will switch to Tetsubos (10 boards each). Compared to…
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@Mervyn, an archer does not use Bushido to assist Parry. Out of its six "spells", I think only Lightning Strike and Honorable Execution are useful. It is possible Evasion and Momentum Strike would be functional as well, but I'm not sure of those. …
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Thanks. @Skett gave me an idea; I deleted the icons from the Games window, and re-added the shortcuts. This fixed the problem with UO Enhanced, but UO Classic is still the default "no image available" icon. For the extremely little time I run UO …
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I've finally gotten around to some bribing, and all-in-all I think it is a useful addition to the game. Bribes ranged from 0 gold (usually a simple quantity increase) to 3600 gold (changing 15 shadow iron helmets to copper - for that price I was ex…
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@Lynk, global chat is really nice if you and/or friends play multiple shards. It is an in-game way to stay in touch. It even allows you to show self as offline should you just want to go elsewhere and "get away from it all".
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@Captain_Lucky, I won't argue that building up a set of characters can feel "grindy", but I kind of like the process of getting to a goal template. "It's not the end-game, it's the journey." Also, acquiring power scrolls on a lot of shards can be d…
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I hope other folks will respond to this intriguing thread, especially if they use Mystic Weapon regulary. If I understand Mystic Weapon, it can give a legendary mystic with level-3 mastery a 115 skill level for whatever weapon he desires (within we…
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Thanks, everyone. All four of you have mentioned bribing, which I have yet to do. I knew about it but didn't realize bribing was so normative. Looks like I need to get on that.
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A long time ago, wasn't on-shard private chat between two individuals called "whisper"? I might be thinking of another game, but "whisper" does seem to be a fitting term at any rate.