Quick Questions

Arador

From what I have seen, chance is always better in the long run. At your level, go for skills then strength, then if you get to 80 and want to bash further, get the pendant.

Kuy

Arador said:

From what I have seen, chance is always better in the long run. At your level, go for skills then strength, then if you get to 80 and want to bash further, get the pendant.

This is a question about traits, not artifacts.  Heh

Cathy

Crit damage is better in the higher end crit rate

Sena

Cathy said:

Crit damage is better in the higher end crit rate

It's not, at least not generally enough to make that claim. It's better against denizens with specific health values. Depending on the denizen's health, Aim to Kill could be better than Lucky or give no benefit at all.

Against a completely random distribution of health values, Aim to Kill is better on average at high crit rates. But denizens don't have random health, you'll generally be killing the same things over and over, so it's possible that none of them will get you much benefit from Aim to Kill, or maybe all of them will. The best way to decide is to find the actual health (or at least a decent estimate) of the things you bash frequently.

Arador

Kuy said:

Arador said:

From what I have seen, chance is always better in the long run. At your level, go for skills then strength, then if you get to 80 and want to bash further, get the pendant.

This is a question about traits, not artifacts.  Heh

Answer remains the same.

Gibbi

so I want to try out the new trial, but my omnipave spams me out as soon as I start cause it tries to def up for Gibbi. Can someone tell me what to do to be slightly less noobish?

Jakiro

@gibbi do it on a new profile?

Gibbi

Jakiro said:

@gibbi do it on a new profile?

Follow up quick question: How do I do that?

Sena

You could also just use a different client. I used the HTML5 client, to get a better idea of what actual newbies would be seeing.

Melodie

The HTML5 client is a lot of fun. Even if it meant moving and figuring out how to do all of my stuff again, if someone provided an SVO-like system for it, I'd probably seriously consider moving to it once I got a desktop that could handle it (15 inch laptop does not make for good html5 client view).

Sybilla

@Gibbi - for new profile: 

Open Mudlet > top left there's the "Connect" yellow button, click that > should open a new window for "Select a profile to connect with", press the "New" button on the bottom-ish of that > call the Profile name whatever you want, Server Address is either achaea.com or 69.65.42.198 (sometimes one works where the other doesn't) and Port is 23 > Character name and password and you're good to go from there.

Here's a spiffy picture to illustrate (don't you judge how many tabs I have open in the background)

For the HTML5 client, go here: http://client.achaea.com/

Kei

Melodie said:

The HTML5 client is a lot of fun. Even if it meant moving and figuring out how to do all of my stuff again, if someone provided an SVO-like system for it, I'd probably seriously consider moving to it once I got a desktop that could handle it (15 inch laptop does not make for good html5 client view).

I don't plan to use the HTML5 client permanently, mostly because Mudlet on Ubuntu is awesome and fast as all hell, but there are a few of us poking at the code for the basic curing system provided. I'd hazard a guess that a few months of actual weekend work by most of our coders could cobble together a very functional system, but most of us probably do it all week already

Still, it's coming! There's people working on it~

Kafziel

Gibbi said:

so I want to try out the new trial, but my omnipave spams me out as soon as I start cause it tries to def up for Gibbi. Can someone tell me what to do to be slightly less noobish?

pp

Cynlael

Don't have it defup as soon as you enter the game.

Mazoth

Is there a thread detailing any information about the changes to how class based crafting will work when it's changed?  Reason is without buyiing creddies, which I absolutely cannot do right now, is it worth even trying to bother with forging with no hammer and taking forever using gold bought credits to trans it?

Nellaundra

There is no thread at the moment because none of the players know anything, nor have any of the admin released anything.  And do not touch forging without a hammer and trans.  It's not worth it.

Mazoth

Nellaundra said:

There is no thread at the moment because none of the players know anything, nor have any of the admin released anything.  And do not touch forging without a hammer and trans.  It's not worth it.

Ah, thank you.

Anedhel

If you're not embraced yet, you could theoretically just learn up to a weapon you want to make, in forging, and borrow a hammer (make sure you have someone to borrow from, first). As far as I know, forging skill has nothing to do with results produced, so it's not like a trans forger makes better battleaxes than someone who's just up to battleaxes in forging. That said, forging in general blows.

Achilles

Forging skill only matters up to the point of having the ability to make a certain weapon.  Salik was making crazy fast rapiers with only about 30% of forging learned afaik.  Definitely need to borrow a hammer though.

Antonius

You'll get any lessons spent in the skill back or transferred to the replacement (they weren't sure which), there will be a limit to the number of tradeskills you can pick up, and there'll likely be a refunds for existing tradeskills like tailoring and jewellery that have licenses attached.

This may have changed, I'm working off of what Tecton said in this thread last year: http://forums.achaea.com/discussion/1657/ask-your-producer-mayaween-edition

Mazoth

I'll probably just skip it, I was drooling at the fullplate last night and thinking about it, and that requires trans.  Granted making my own rapiers might be nice but I don't have the resources currently to support mass rapier forging or a known contact with a hammer.

Rakon

Mazoth said:

I'll probably just skip it, I was drooling at the fullplate last night and thinking about it, and that requires trans.  Granted making my own rapiers might be nice but I don't have the resources currently to support mass rapier forging or a known contact with a hammer.

Transing forging is only useful for the fullplate, but honestly, a great fieldplate is also generally decent enough. As for forging your own rapiers... really, you don't want to do that. It's mind numbingly boring (worse than bashing, for me) and there's already plenty of forgers out there just WAITING for your business. Off the top of my head, ask @Peak, @Trey, @Roroan, is @Skarash still a forging ent?? If one of them can't/won't forge for you, they'll likely know someone who can. 

Cynlael

Whatever you do, don't ask @Kyrra to forge for you.

Achilles

Rakon said:

Mazoth said:

I'll probably just skip it, I was drooling at the fullplate last night and thinking about it, and that requires trans.  Granted making my own rapiers might be nice but I don't have the resources currently to support mass rapier forging or a known contact with a hammer.

Transing forging is only useful for the fullplate, but honestly, a great fieldplate is also generally decent enough. As for forging your own rapiers... really, you don't want to do that. It's mind numbingly boring (worse than bashing, for me) and there's already plenty of forgers out there just WAITING for your business. Off the top of my head, ask @Peak, @Trey, @Roroan, is @Skarash still a forging ent?? If one of them can't/won't forge for you, they'll likely know someone who can. 

Skarash is a monk and has been for years (he was a runewarden before?!)

Not that many people forge, its boring, you can make a lot more just bashing/questing.  Pretty much you just forge and chat on OOC clans, write some help scrolls for orgs or read forums.  That is unless you want to auto-forge, well eventually you'll get caught and enjoy a nice vacation as a potted plant.

Kenway

What are the balance or eq times on the bracers of frost for freeze, deepfreeze?

Kafziel

I think they're the same as the regular abilities, 2s EQ for freeze, 4s EQ for deepfreeze

Rom

Pretty sure it's 2s and 4s without diadem.

Peak

Forging awesome fullplate will cost millions (usually). Forging awesome rapiers will cost roughly 100cr in just commodities, a caffeine addiction, and a -ton- of time. Also, when you finally get the one(s) you're looking for, you're going to want to sell them instead. If you try and forge rapiers for profit... lol.

Know the investment and then decide if it's worth it.

Hammer of forging 400cr (not totally necessary, but mostly necessary)

Amazing fullplate 300cr+(likely) 

A pair of really good rapiers 100cr and the effort to go buy all the steel.

Time

Kyrra

I think I was forging 40 sets of fullplate a month for about 3-4 weeks before I got a set with stats that I wanted to keep. It was a really, really expensive venture and really time consuming as well.

Kenway

@Peak @Kyrra
What're the stats on your fullplate with that time investment? I felt satisfied after five sets so I'm wondering if I'm insanely lucky or if I'm missing out on some crazy potential. I've only seen the stats of those I forged and the sets of two or three others.