I gotta say I disagree with the idea that Cyrene isn't strict. The couple times I tried alting there I felt like I had to triple check before I hunted anywhere to make sure it wasn't banned or heavily discouraged. I mean, yea it's lenient in that you don't have to join a House but beyond that it seems like there's rules governing everything.
Man I always want to reply to these questions with thoughtful answers, but then i realize that everyone’s just trying to sell their org so we can have new blood.
@Eryl I'd love to hear the thoughtful answer regardless, if you feel like writing it out. I'm sure many newbies find this kind of conversation useful when they're on the fence about what to join.
It's natural to interpret every response as being biased toward its own organization. But depending on what is highlighted and the suggestions people make, it's still informative and helps us make a better choice.
Honestly just find people worth playing with over orgs, you absolutely do not need them comparative to what players offer instead. If you find the org okay but the people suck it's not better than a shit org but good people.
@Eryl I'd love to hear the thoughtful answer regardless, if you feel like writing it out. I'm sure many newbies find this kind of conversation useful when they're on the fence about what to join.
It's natural to interpret every response as being biased toward its own organization. But depending on what is highlighted and the suggestions people make, it's still informative and helps us make a better choice.
Hashan is a city that houses countless different world views, loose affiliations, and conflicting beliefs. It's a more of a true democracy, in that citizens directly vote to influence policy changes and decisions. The Regency seems to handle the business end of that, sorting through the citizen stance and coming up with a policy that best represents the citizens' input while constantly trying to push a central narrative.
Hashan is the city of Progress, but what Progress means has been redefined over time. Currently, the basic gist of Progress is the idea that mortals don't need to be told what to do or where to go or how to move forward. Instead, we can find our own way through this world by coming together and putting differences aside. We use mortal minds to solve mortal problems and cater to no Divine. Our Patron is not "our God." Our Patron is a tool. Twilight's views loosely mesh with Hashan's insistence on independence from the Divine, but in a world where literally all of your enemies have at least Someone from the Pantheon on their team, we'd be dicked if we didn't also have A Guy, you know?
So if you consider Hashan the city of "mortal progress," you pretty much hit the nail on the head. A very good example of this is our new street sweeper Swarley and his pal Binward.
Hashan had a homeless problem. Hashan worked hard to fix the homeless problem. Now there's no homeless people rummaging through our streets to survive, so there was TRASH EVERYWHERE. It was like sixteen jesters high on gleam and Belladonna's piss just went spraying banana peels in every damn corner. Walking from Gatehouse to Crossroads would take four minutes because you'd slip on banana peels 12,623.4 and 1/5 times on the way. Obviously we need to pray to our God to guide our path to help our trash problem just like He helped our homeless problem!
Oh wait, we did that. We can do this, too. Now one of the homeless dudes, Swarley, has a job as a street sweeper. Binward, the arm-chompingest humgii that ever accidentally chomped citizens' arms, is attached to Swarley's cart, and they roam the streets sucking up garbage. Mhaldor would have killed the homeless. Targossas would have prayed over them. Ashtan would have fed them to the Chaos Court. Cyrene would spend two decades voting to decide if there was even a homeless problem. Eleusis would... well they'd fit right there.
Hashan solved their homeless related problems by inventing the Roomba.
Oh but wait, that obviously gets expensive right? Swarley's gonna need help, and there are tons more homeless who still need jobs and that means money. Where we gonna get that money?
Bitch. It keeps banana peels off the streets. We're all willing to chip into this communal chest that pays people to keep the city up to snuff. I, personally, donated enough to fund Swarley for ~280 IRL days. Instead of putting my gold in the city coffers and leaving it up to the Regency to divvy it out, I get to choose where my gold donation goes, and godsdamnt I vote Binward has Hashan's mascot.
So, thoughtful answer in a tl;dr: Hashan is a Democratic, I don't need no Man, Independent woman who invented the Roomba. Oh, and we have Binward.
I gotta say I disagree with the idea that Cyrene isn't strict. The couple times I tried alting there I felt like I had to triple check before I hunted anywhere to make sure it wasn't banned or heavily discouraged. I mean, yea it's lenient in that you don't have to join a House but beyond that it seems like there's rules governing everything.
Honestly, I can't remember the last time I bothered checking what areas were 'off limits', so I couldn't even tell you what they are. Only one I could perhaps think of is places like the Dwarven Camp and Inhbir Ness, or any of the Dwarven places. No one has ever said anything to me about hunting places.
Got a card sleeve that says it's for Achaean Legends, but when I go to unwrap it, says that set doesn't exist. I'm not too familiar with the card sets. Is this a bug?
EDIT: Nvm, figured it out after reading the help scroll.
Does anyone happen to know about Seasone's pocketflasks, and what they do specifically? I did try to snoop around IG, but no one seems to know. I could be just completely missing it, but I could find anything in the news or wiki, either.
Oh, this is what happened when I drank it:
"You feel your temper sharpen."
I don't see any increase in stats, no new defences that I can tell. By the word of temper, kind of assume battlerage increase?
Does anyone happen to know about Seasone's pocketflasks, and what they do specifically? I did try to snoop around IG, but no one seems to know. I could be just completely missing it, but I could find anything in the news or wiki, either.
Oh, this is what happened when I drank it:
"You feel your temper sharpen."
I don't see any increase in stats, no new defences that I can tell. By the word of temper, kind of assume battlerage increase?
Thank you for letting me know. Yeah. I'm not gaining more than 13 rage before it drops.
That feels pretty bad knowing I spent 10k on a debuff, but that leads me to believe not all flasks are debuffs?
Otherwise I suppose it's a gag purchase to 'perform force drink flask' on a victim? Rip.
One turns you into an actual hypochondriac. You can DIAG for free, but each time you do you gain a random affliction (That is shown on that diag, and that actually afflicts you).
One turns all says/whispers/etc into YELLs (blocks usage of raido/duanathar, etc)
One teleports you into a greathunt cave, which can potentially insta-gib you.
One removes the ability to gain battlerage beyond 13ish. (It's 'working as intended'.)
Another causes you to gain 2~3 celerity, at the cost of taking 1~15% of your health every room you move (on a sliding scale of how much celerity you've used already).
One will make you gain/lose health/mana at random. In reality, I think it might just be 'lose' and my regen is outpacing it.
Should you ever by Seasone flasks from her for 10k per? Absolutely not. Just spend 500k~ish gold to get a Bakios card. Infinitely just as useful. (I know I've used my bakios card more than 200 times at this point)
Thank you for letting me know. Yeah. I'm not gaining more than 13 rage before it drops.
That feels pretty bad knowing I spent 10k on a debuff, but that leads me to believe not all flasks are debuffs?
Otherwise I suppose it's a gag purchase to 'perform force drink flask' on a victim? Rip.
One turns you into an actual hypochondriac. You can DIAG for free, but each time you do you gain a random affliction (That is shown on that diag, and that actually afflicts you).
One turns all says/whispers/etc into YELLs (blocks usage of raido/duanathar, etc)
One teleports you into a greathunt cave, which can potentially insta-gib you.
One removes the ability to gain battlerage beyond 13ish. (It's 'working as intended'.)
Another causes you to gain 2~3 celerity, at the cost of taking 1~15% of your health every room you move (on a sliding scale of how much celerity you've used already).
One will make you gain/lose health/mana at random. In reality, I think it might just be 'lose' and my regen is outpacing it.
Should you ever by Seasone flasks from her for 10k per? Absolutely not. Just spend 500k~ish gold to get a Bakios card. Infinitely just as useful. (I know I've used my bakios card more than 200 times at this point)
They apparently all have an upside and a downside. Not all upsides have been found.
The rage one increases rage gain by 50% or so but the rage timer is down to 1-1.5s. Might be useful in groups if you stagger everyones attacks so you're always gaining, I could also keep it up with shaman swiftcurse.
The health loss one also gives you health regen. So it will tick tick slowly down and then bump up 5-10% or so.
There is one that makes you fly (consumes no balance and is instant) but then you cannot land manually until it wears off.
These are super funky and interesting! As a long time player, I've been making a real effort lately to experience/see brand new things that remind me of what it feels like to be a novice. You guys are the unsung heroes of Achaea, as far as I'm concerned, and I really appreciate you taking the time to help. I'll see about buying a Bakios card! Meeting my demise at a GH cave for a chance to discover some more upsides and downsides sounds like a blast. Thank you again guys.
Thank you for letting me know. Yeah. I'm not gaining more than 13 rage before it drops.
That feels pretty bad knowing I spent 10k on a debuff, but that leads me to believe not all flasks are debuffs?
Otherwise I suppose it's a gag purchase to 'perform force drink flask' on a victim? Rip.
One turns you into an actual hypochondriac. You can DIAG for free, but each time you do you gain a random affliction (That is shown on that diag, and that actually afflicts you).
One turns all says/whispers/etc into YELLs (blocks usage of raido/duanathar, etc)
One teleports you into a greathunt cave, which can potentially insta-gib you.
One removes the ability to gain battlerage beyond 13ish. (It's 'working as intended'.)
Another causes you to gain 2~3 celerity, at the cost of taking 1~15% of your health every room you move (on a sliding scale of how much celerity you've used already).
One will make you gain/lose health/mana at random. In reality, I think it might just be 'lose' and my regen is outpacing it.
Should you ever by Seasone flasks from her for 10k per? Absolutely not. Just spend 500k~ish gold to get a Bakios card. Infinitely just as useful. (I know I've used my bakios card more than 200 times at this point)
They apparently all have an upside and a downside. Not all upsides have been found.
The rage one increases rage gain by 50% or so but the rage timer is down to 1-1.5s. Might be useful in groups if you stagger everyones attacks so you're always gaining, I could also keep it up with shaman swiftcurse.
The health loss one also gives you health regen. So it will tick tick slowly down and then bump up 5-10% or so.
There is one that makes you fly (consumes no balance and is instant) but then you cannot land manually until it wears off.
On the other hand, it is absolutely worth spending the rage on that attack if they DO have the afflictions. It's some really weird super scaling bullshit that does like at least 3% damage even to the beefiest of super mobs.
Any blademasters had any luck having their arte armours turned into scalemail? Starting to think i might have to just get the 50% refund trade-in and save up with forays for a new rondel or smth
General policy in cases like this is usually that they will either give you a full refund or exchange it for the replacement. I guess they are still a little slow cause issues are supposed to be the avenue for this as well.
Can just confirm admin are amazing with artefacts. I've had one swapped when I bought the wrong paragon, another straight up refunded when I'd used it for about an hour and realised it wasn't what I thought it was. No complaints, no fuss, just a timely resolution
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Come to Hashan. We have Darkness.
And Binward. No one can compare to Binward.
It's natural to interpret every response as being biased toward its own organization. But depending on what is highlighted and the suggestions people make, it's still informative and helps us make a better choice.
Hashan is a city that houses countless different world views, loose affiliations, and conflicting beliefs. It's a more of a true democracy, in that citizens directly vote to influence policy changes and decisions. The Regency seems to handle the business end of that, sorting through the citizen stance and coming up with a policy that best represents the citizens' input while constantly trying to push a central narrative.
Hashan is the city of Progress, but what Progress means has been redefined over time. Currently, the basic gist of Progress is the idea that mortals don't need to be told what to do or where to go or how to move forward. Instead, we can find our own way through this world by coming together and putting differences aside. We use mortal minds to solve mortal problems and cater to no Divine. Our Patron is not "our God." Our Patron is a tool. Twilight's views loosely mesh with Hashan's insistence on independence from the Divine, but in a world where literally all of your enemies have at least Someone from the Pantheon on their team, we'd be dicked if we didn't also have A Guy, you know?
So if you consider Hashan the city of "mortal progress," you pretty much hit the nail on the head. A very good example of this is our new street sweeper Swarley and his pal Binward.
Hashan had a homeless problem. Hashan worked hard to fix the homeless problem. Now there's no homeless people rummaging through our streets to survive, so there was TRASH EVERYWHERE. It was like sixteen jesters high on gleam and Belladonna's piss just went spraying banana peels in every damn corner. Walking from Gatehouse to Crossroads would take four minutes because you'd slip on banana peels 12,623.4 and 1/5 times on the way. Obviously we need to pray to our God to guide our path to help our trash problem just like He helped our homeless problem!
Oh wait, we did that. We can do this, too. Now one of the homeless dudes, Swarley, has a job as a street sweeper. Binward, the arm-chompingest humgii that ever accidentally chomped citizens' arms, is attached to Swarley's cart, and they roam the streets sucking up garbage. Mhaldor would have killed the homeless. Targossas would have prayed over them. Ashtan would have fed them to the Chaos Court. Cyrene would spend two decades voting to decide if there was even a homeless problem. Eleusis would... well they'd fit right there.
Hashan solved their homeless related problems by inventing the Roomba.
Oh but wait, that obviously gets expensive right? Swarley's gonna need help, and there are tons more homeless who still need jobs and that means money. Where we gonna get that money?
Bitch. It keeps banana peels off the streets. We're all willing to chip into this communal chest that pays people to keep the city up to snuff. I, personally, donated enough to fund Swarley for ~280 IRL days. Instead of putting my gold in the city coffers and leaving it up to the Regency to divvy it out, I get to choose where my gold donation goes, and godsdamnt I vote Binward has Hashan's mascot.
So, thoughtful answer in a tl;dr:
Hashan is a Democratic, I don't need no Man, Independent woman who invented the Roomba.
Oh, and we have Binward.
Disappearing from Achaea for now. See you, space cowboy.
smileyface#8048 if you wanna chat.
EDIT: Nvm, figured it out after reading the help scroll.
I could be just completely missing it, but I could find anything in the news or wiki, either.
Oh, this is what happened when I drank it:
"You feel your temper sharpen."
I don't see any increase in stats, no new defences that I can tell. By the word of temper, kind of assume battlerage increase?
That feels pretty bad knowing I spent 10k on a debuff, but that leads me to believe not all flasks are debuffs?
Otherwise I suppose it's a gag purchase to 'perform force drink flask' on a victim? Rip.
One turns all says/whispers/etc into YELLs (blocks usage of raido/duanathar, etc)
One teleports you into a greathunt cave, which can potentially insta-gib you.
One removes the ability to gain battlerage beyond 13ish. (It's 'working as intended'.)
Another causes you to gain 2~3 celerity, at the cost of taking 1~15% of your health every room you move (on a sliding scale of how much celerity you've used already).
One will make you gain/lose health/mana at random. In reality, I think it might just be 'lose' and my regen is outpacing it.
Should you ever by Seasone flasks from her for 10k per? Absolutely not. Just spend 500k~ish gold to get a Bakios card. Infinitely just as useful. (I know I've used my bakios card more than 200 times at this point)
The rage one increases rage gain by 50% or so but the rage timer is down to 1-1.5s. Might be useful in groups if you stagger everyones attacks so you're always gaining, I could also keep it up with shaman swiftcurse.
The health loss one also gives you health regen. So it will tick tick slowly down and then bump up 5-10% or so.
There is one that makes you fly (consumes no balance and is instant) but then you cannot land manually until it wears off.
Disappearing from Achaea for now. See you, space cowboy.
smileyface#8048 if you wanna chat.
Disappearing from Achaea for now. See you, space cowboy.
smileyface#8048 if you wanna chat.
Glad to hear it though
How my brain thinks the conversation will go:
To Makarios: Hi, might I please have a refund on my rondel so I can place it in some scalemail? Thank you.
To Meriet: No, and just for asking you're now permanently banned you selfish somethingorother, etc etc.
Which I know is entirely silly, but brains be fearing what they fear. 😅
I'll try and steel myself and send something in in a little bit though.
Guy's got a wicked sense of humor, too.