Quick Questions

Achimrst

Jovolo said:

It lasts for 15 seconds and has a 4 second equilibrium without both quick-witted and a diadem.

So a potential of 11 seconds at 1 second on average, but with queueing I think it's 0.9 - that's with nimble.

I usually get about 12 in on a swiftcurse without a skull artie, typically it's about .83 with nimble when I have timed it.

Sena

I completely forgot about the skull pendants.

Synbios

Salutations, cogitator designate @Sena, I have a query that necessitates your attention:

Do you have comparative bashing data for blademaster stances that take artefact bands into account?

Sena

Drawslash damage is 427+23*x, with x depending on stance and band. -3, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 for Thyr, Mir, Unstanced, Sanya, Doya, Arash. Bands add +1 per level to that.

Base balance is 2.5s, with modifiers of -10%, -5%, +20%, +20% for Thyr, Arash, Mir, Doya. Bands are -5% per level.

So Thyr with a level 2 band, for example, would be 427+23*(-3+2)=404 damage, with a balance of 2.5*0.8=2 seconds without nimble (or maybe 2.5*0.9*0.9=2.025 seconds, not sure how the balance modifiers are applied).

Edit: If you're asking about blademasters compared to other classes instead of the stances compared to each other, then you can look here for a comparison of the peak DPS of each class. For blademasters, it includes Sanya, Mir, and Arash, with 20 strength and a level 3 band.

Sylvance

Yes, my bugbear is that they are not MORE IC, but It's still one of my favourite things about IRE.

Jovolo

Did Achaea break for just me?

Antonius

@Jovolo No. I think I broke it by actually logging in.

Sarieno

@Tecton Perhaps I fail at remembering how to get to places, but did you guys remove access to Makali's temple? The rowboat and the ruined cathedral are two of my favourite things in Achaea ever.

edit: Fixed obvious spelling error.

Tecton

Sarieno said:

@Tecton Perhaps I fail at remembering how to get to places, but did you guys remove access to Malaki's temple? The rowboat and the ruined cathedral are two of my favourite things in Achaea ever.

It's unaccessible, yes - you may see it again in the future though!

Synbios

Sena said:

Drawslash damage is 427+23*x, with x depending on stance and band. -3, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 for Thyr, Mir, Unstanced, Sanya, Doya, Arash. Bands add +1 per level to that.

Base balance is 2.5s, with modifiers of -10%, -5%, +20%, +20% for Thyr, Arash, Mir, Doya. Bands are -5% per level.

So Thyr with a level 2 band, for example, would be 427+23*(-3+2)=404 damage, with a balance of 2.5*0.8=2 seconds without nimble (or maybe 2.5*0.9*0.9=2.025 seconds, not sure how the balance modifiers are applied).

Edit: If you're asking about blademasters compared to other classes instead of the stances compared to each other, then you can look here for a comparison of the peak DPS of each class. For blademasters, it includes Sanya, Mir, and Arash, with 20 strength and a level 3 band.

I'm unsure of the numbers I have cogitated, @Sena. According to the numbers you have posted using L3 gauntlets and L3 band, you have these...

Blademaster: 387 in Sanya, 250 in Mir, 447 in Arash
Artefacts (4100): L3 Gauntlets, L3 Band

...but they do not seem to coincide with the numbers I have extrapolated from the formula you have provided. Here are the numbers based on the level 2 band:

Thyr: 427+23*(-3+2) = 404

Mir: 427+23*(-1+2) = 450

Sanya: 427+23*(1+2) = 496

Arash: 427+23*(3+2) = 542

Some clarification would be excellent.

Gabryle

Trying to get back into playing again and I was just curious as to how magi are these days and what I should expect coming back right now as far as the class is concerned.

Vaetra

Synbios said:

Sena said:

Drawslash damage is 427+23*x, with x depending on stance and band. -3, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 for Thyr, Mir, Unstanced, Sanya, Doya, Arash. Bands add +1 per level to that.

Base balance is 2.5s, with modifiers of -10%, -5%, +20%, +20% for Thyr, Arash, Mir, Doya. Bands are -5% per level.

So Thyr with a level 2 band, for example, would be 427+23*(-3+2)=404 damage, with a balance of 2.5*0.8=2 seconds without nimble (or maybe 2.5*0.9*0.9=2.025 seconds, not sure how the balance modifiers are applied).

Edit: If you're asking about blademasters compared to other classes instead of the stances compared to each other, then you can look here for a comparison of the peak DPS of each class. For blademasters, it includes Sanya, Mir, and Arash, with 20 strength and a level 3 band.

I'm unsure of the numbers I have cogitated, @Sena. According to the numbers you have posted using L3 gauntlets and L3 band, you have these...

Blademaster: 387 in Sanya, 250 in Mir, 447 in Arash
Artefacts (4100): L3 Gauntlets, L3 Band

...but they do not seem to coincide with the numbers I have extrapolated from the formula you have provided. Here are the numbers based on the level 2 band:

Thyr: 427+23*(-3+2) = 404

Mir: 427+23*(-1+2) = 450

Sanya: 427+23*(1+2) = 496

Arash: 427+23*(3+2) = 542

Some clarification would be excellent.

I think the confusion has come about because one set of numbers is the damage from a single attack, while the other set of numbers is damge per second.

Sena

Right, the rankings I posted are damage divided by balance cost. For example, that 20 strength Arash with level 3 gauntlets and band is about 805 damage per hit, and 1.8s of balance.

Shiro

Any other way to get a platinum whistle right now or have I missed that boat?

Melodie

The pieces are potentially in this current set of globes, so people might be selling them, or you could buy globes youself. The dragonskin pack and bait bucket are in there, so whistle may or may not be.

Melodie

Edit to the above, from Trey's most recent set of globes:

The two halves of the globe split open to reveal 5 credits!

You have been awarded with a backpack lining talisman piece!

You have been awarded with a whistle reed talisman piece!

As the two halves fade away, you realise that you've also been gifted with 3420 

gold sovereigns, a group of 28 bloodroot leaves, a group of 10 coal pieces, and 

an oaken vial!

Looks like you're in luck, @Shiro!

Crixos

Daeir said:

Anyone have the descriptions for Torrid Rakia and the Polyargos wyverns at all?

Thanks @Yae:

   Torrid - Cloaked in the acrid, eye-searing stench of fire-borne death, the guardian magma wyvern is an atrocious monster. Her huge form is armoured in smoke-stained titan scaling, the thick hide displaying heavily muscled legs, and thinning across her cavern-stunted, but functional wingspan. Threatening flesh with more than a roasting, each of Rakia's limbs terminates in an armoury of claws, and in the case of her tail, barbs.

Yae

Daeir said:

Anyone have the descriptions for Torrid Rakia and the Polyargos wyverns at all?

Cloaked in the acrid, eye-searing stench of fire-borne death, the guardian magma wyvern is an atrocious monster. Her huge form is armoured in smoke-stained titan scaling, the thick hide displaying heavily muscled legs, and thinning across her cavern-stunted, but functional wingspan. Threatening flesh with more than a roasting, each of Rakia's limbs terminates in an armoury of claws, and in the case of her tail, barbs; like her teeth, these are grievously keen, and wickedly serrated. From above a slightly snubbed snout, the draconic female eyes her surroundings with a haughty and dangerous gleam in her ember pupils.

Rakia. I didn't probe the wyverns.

edit; Oh, hi @Crixos. (Did I send the description cut off like that?)

Well, I can offer Oughlor, too!

Fourteen feet tall, and wider than an ox, Oughlor's massive form is covered in a thick hide of black-scarred, grey skin. The guardian stares down at the world from a squared visage; his squinting eyes of coal covetous beneath a primitively heavy brow. His weapon of choice, a formidable hammer, is clenched in his right hand, the handle of thick, yellowed mammoth tusk supporting a barrel-sized head of pitted iron. In a nod to the elements in which he lives, this daunting figure bears a ragged cape of wolf pelts about the muscled expanse of his shoulders, and a loincloth in the same slung about his hips.

Crixos

yes

Jovolo

How do you envenom whips for Serpent Flay? I keep getting 'You may only envenom edged weapons.' and the in-line envenom of 'Flay person rebounding venom' doesn't work, nor does 'Flay person venom'?

Jovolo

i get "You may only secrete venoms onto edged weapons." when I try it with a whip, but envenoming works with a lash just fine. I'm confused mainly because I've seen people use the envenomed flay with stock whips before

Florentino

Hrm. SECRETE CURARE ON WHIP should work, it does for me (though my whip is Naga-customized). I'd bug it.

Big guys, we'd also appreciate getting in-line envenom for flay - is this a viable option?

@Tecton @Makarios‌ @Sarapis

Sena

Did you try envenoming from a vial instead of transcretion? Or a different forged whip? That could narrow down the problem (maybe it's a bug with transcretion, or maybe you have a bugged whip).

Stuneree

I heard that tradeskills are going to be removed from classes and made public in general... I looked into it but everywhere I found the word "tradeskill" or similar it was more of an ambiguous reference to the change.

Is this true? Will this make Alchemists' and Forestals' less useful in general, or is that kind of information unknown yet?

Eilona

Alchemists and forestals will lose concoctions/transmutation and gain new skills. The details of those skills are unknown at the moment. 

Rom

Can you deny dragonhood when you achieve level 99+? As in, not be able to DRAGONFORM indefinitely, despite being high enough level.

Kayeil

Rom said:

Can you deny dragonhood when you achieve level 99+? As in, not be able to DRAGONFORM indefinitely, despite being high enough level.

I suppose if you don't do the dragon ceremony in the Mhohave you could.

Tharvis

is it just me, or is @Sarapis lazy when writing announce posts 

Jurixe

On the subject of posts, does the grammar debate on the Public newsboards seem pretty OOC to anyone? I mean, ICly they're reviewing a clothing design, which wouldn't have any text at all. I think it was pretty stupid to call out an admin for an OOC-related decision - yes, it does have IC consequences, but the context in which it was done makes no sense and I think it could have been far better handled by the poster - i.e, issue me, UUC, letter to Amarisse etc. Imo, the posts should be deleted altogether.

Klendathu

I think calling out any admin on the Public boards is very bad form... especially when your self-rightousness is misplaced... http://www.ironrealms.com/game/news/Achaea/Public/19499