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Post by Lady Shylah on Sept 13, 2005 12:26:56 GMT -7
Shy notes: 1. No more aquatic creatures. Does this mean no more crabs, sharks, Dreadfin? 2. View your faction standing and character details with the improved Persona window! Yay! We can now get our ranking structure figured out. Palen can take a break and be your babies daddy!3. Share items with guildmates using the new guild vault! About time!4. Climb walls, use voice emotes to communicate with your friends, and take on epic challenges designed for players level 45 and higher. We have voices now?5. Dueling. They did it the right way. It's not chaotic. I'm actually looking forward to dueling! 6. Lore and Legend items found throughout the world will now be based on the new book system. Those currently working on their Lore and Legend quests can continue onward with the version they currently have. Replacements for those who have completed these quests previously will be forthcoming to a merchant near you! What does this mean? Are our books going to disappear if we completed them?7. Housing prices for purchase, upkeep, status cost, and status upkeep have changed to be more reflective of realistic prices. Woot!8. Barbarian and froglok males are now shirtless under their armor. *whistle* :*9. Elven females should no longer hold weapons and tools backwards. Yay for Illusen! Thanks for the list Saine! I read it all. Now I want to play!
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Post by Saine on Sept 13, 2005 12:27:38 GMT -7
well..the servers are back up...everything is all weird though lol a whole TON of my spells are totally different now...they aren't even named the same thing YIKES! Gonna have to go through the knowledge book and basically figure out what everything does again....
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Post by Lady Shylah on Sept 13, 2005 12:29:07 GMT -7
Woo!!!
have fun!!!
lemme know what happens ;D
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Post by Abbrah Kadabrah on Sept 13, 2005 12:45:41 GMT -7
4.5 hours before i can get home to install my DoF... making me so antsy!*
*Not to be confused with plain, striped, or spotted collectable item.
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Post by Lady Shylah on Sept 13, 2005 12:48:34 GMT -7
4.5 hours before i can get home to install my DoF... making me so antsy!* *Not to be confused with plain, striped, or spotted collectable item. hehehe I still need that pesky gray striped ant!
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Post by Saine on Sept 13, 2005 13:24:32 GMT -7
Well, so far everything is a little overwhelming lol Lots of new abilities and training choices to go through...I seem to have come through not THAT much different than before..but man they nerfed the heck out of avoidance...my avoidance used to be just under 67% now I can manage to get it to 41% (but that means giving up a concentration slot, if I don't give it up, I'm sitting at around 32%) Zabia also was saying her avoidance is about halfed and Candu just said his was 14.1% lol I see healers taking a lot of dirt naps soon! The change to the armor con system I do not like at all..you can't tell how close your armor is to being gray or anything, not a good change. The faction window just has a graph bar, no numbers unfortunately better than none, but not what I was hoping for. THe aquatic creatures just means they won't follow you on land, if you go on land, the encounter breaks and they swim away. I'm just trying to figure out how to access the new land now..gonna go see if I get my butt whooped trying to solo
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Post by Saine on Sept 13, 2005 13:34:23 GMT -7
I also now have those stupid swirling musical notes AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I was hopign they'd take those out, and instead they added them to dirges as well as troubadors
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Post by Alkanos on Sept 13, 2005 17:48:43 GMT -7
grumble, grumble, grumble
I logged in tonight after installing the expansion, it did the update (who knows how long it took for LU13, I did that during the day while at work, but post-DoF install it tooks 1:20) and I logged on. Then I found that the DoF stuff wasn't even enabled. So I had to search for about 20 minutes til I found the link at the bottom of the one page in my account information. Now that I've done that, I need to patch more... I hate dial up sooooo much.
Remember kiddies! Register your expansion before starting to play if you bought it at a store and didn't just download it!
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Post by Alkanos on Sept 13, 2005 21:45:57 GMT -7
Ok, here are my impressions of how it is so far. Mind, this is only for the LU, I haven't gone to the DoF area yet.
1. It's a bit of a pain to have most of your abilities completely changed around. That's a given. But remember to check every single ability. Some that might have done a something completely useless before could work very differently now (a snare ability turned into a defensive buff for me). So don't just assume that if it's the same name, it's the same ability.
2. The Master IIs are a bit useless to us who've already played through. I'm guessing that they'll be much more useful to those who're still low level, since they can really do some damage with them. But compared to the training abilities? Not really all that great.
3. Everyone contributing guild status is a very good thing! ;D
4. The stances for guardians seem to be a little unbalanced. The offensive stance gives +60 to strength but lowers avoidance by about 5%. Hmmm... The defensive gives about 10% avoidance, but lowers my attack skills by 17. That hurts for landing those attack taunts. Plus it only gives heat resist. I'd like to be able to choose for that one, divine when fighting priests, poison for warlocks, etc.
Well, that's all I'll go into tonight, since I'm starting to fall asleep. Overall though, it's not really all that bad. I haven't grouped yet though. So we'll see how that plays.
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Post by NiteOwl on Sept 14, 2005 3:26:54 GMT -7
Thanks for the reading material Saine and Alk. Been stuck at work all night so it's been nice to read about it. Can't wait to see how my old/new toon plays . NiteOwl dirt naps here i come
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Post by Tironin on Sept 14, 2005 12:29:55 GMT -7
thanks for the posts Saine and Alk. I read every word.
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