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Apr 15, 2005, 10:57 PM // 22:57
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Death From Above
Join Date: Dec 2004
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April BWE Changes
That time of the month again, when the NDA lifts and all the recent alterations to the game become fair game for updates. The following is far from comprehensive, but at least it's a starting point.
If you've found any changes not listed or have more details on them, post them below, please. Worlds: When you first logon or create an account you'll select your "world" or the group of servers you'll be playing on. There are 3 at the moment "American", "European", and "International". No, this isn't the beginning of a shard system, you'll be limited to traveling to districts from your world or to "international" districts which every world can travel to. You'll also be matched up against teams from other worlds in PvP combat, especially in GvG or the Tombs. It's mostly in place to both improve people's connections as well as for the "Worlds at War" - where each world can receive a bonus by doing something. You can switch your world through account options but you can only do it 5 times. GUI: The GUI's been tweaked again. Nothing as major as the last time but there are some noticable differences. The biggest I've made note of is that the options for a quest when you talk to an NPC are a lot bigger and much more clear. Also, the screens for character creation, especially PvP character creation are different (Oh, and you can dye your PvP armor now. Nothing like pwning in style). Personal Storage: There's now a "Vault Keeper" at most outposts. This Vault Keeper is a way for you to exchange goods between your characters. There's a one-time fee of 50G to "unlock" the Vault for each of your characters before they can have access to it. If you make a new character you'll have to pay 50G from your first character to access the Vault to store an item and then another 50G for your other character to retrieve it. It's a one-time fee, apparently, so you only need to pay it once per character not every time you use the Vault or every other week or so. You can store any items you want there although there are a limited number of slots (anyone know how many exactly? Or if you can upgrade it?). You cannot store, and therefore trade, gold through the Vault. The New Area: It's revealed to be on the far bottom left corner of the map. It's a rocky and volcanic land full of blackened stone and lava (which inflicts On Fire and Crippled conditions when you walk in it). There's PvP and PvE content there now. For PvP there's a new Arena, random-matchup type area called "The Crag". It's a CTF or relic-running map where you'll need to take a relic from the enemy's side and return it to yours. Seems to be 6v6 from what I've seen althoguh I'm not certain. For PvE, it's the unveling of, at least part, of the Worlds at War system. The maps aren't immediately reachable but when someone from your "world" manages to defend or capture the Hall of Hereos in the Tombs at the Temple of the Ages, a Ghostly Hero will appear for a brief time (About 2 minutes, I think) and if you talk to him and pay him 1000 gold you'll be able to travel to a PvE zone (unsure of the name). It's reportedly a very tough place full of high-level monsters. There's a problem though in that you don't have much time to talk to the Hero so you pretty much end up sitting around waiting for the winner of the latest Hall match to be announced and then scramble. Fame: Fame sticks or the staves that indicated your fame rank, are now gone Fame appears to be account based (this is confirmed, thanks). Winning the Hall: There's a global shout declaring who's won the last match in the Hall of Heroes as well as the world that team comes from, presumably for WaW content reasons. Nice for bragging rights, too. When you win in the hall, your chest now holds a rare, high-level item (Thanks, Xma) as well as the celestial sigil. Unconfirmed - There appears to be a bug with morale bonuses carrying over from map to map in the Tombs. Namely, that they don't, especially the morale bonuses from Warden hunting on the first map. Chat: New chat features have been added. There's now a trade chat channel. Also, the text you enter into your chat window is color coded based on the chat channel you're talking in. Chat filters have been added to screen the following: All, Team, Guild, Trade, and Emotes. Pets: Pet AI seems markedly improved. When pets die there's no longer a DP (Pets have DP, their masters used to get DP when a pet died) instead your skills are locked for 3~5 seconds. Also, pets can be renamed with the command /namepet {name} or /petname {name}. Quests: A few of the quests in Pre-Searing got shuffled around a bit. Mostly just changes in dialog. The interface for quests is now a bit more friendly with big buttons with graphical icons representing things like "Yes" or "No" and "Reward" although there are still some remnants of the old dialog boxes to be found. The biggest change I noticed is that the Secondary Profession quest moved from being given by Haversdan, the NPC who appears after finishing your test, to Master Armin Saberlin (who you might remember from Mission 2's sidequest) who's right besides Sir Tydus. Past Post-Searing several quests giving skill rewards are now beginning to crop up. Armor Still gathering all the data, especially the crafting information but the following armors are available on a PvP character. Quick impressions: Gladiator armor is markedly superior to the other Warrior choices, especially if you can get absorbtion runes. Monks have a choice between +5 against elemental damage, -4 energy for +physical, and +6 energy. Which one do you think you should take? Elementalist armor is a roll of the die for which elemental protection you like. Rangers get to play that crapshoot, too, or go for better energy - take the energy. Necromancers still have the best caster armor with a base 70 weak only against holy. Mesmers have a choice between more armor when they cast and more energy - take the energy. WARRIOR +Dragon AL: 85+10physical Gladiator AL: 80+20physical En: +7 (+3 Chest +2 Legs +1 Hands/Feet Knight's AL: 80+10physical Reduced damage Platemail AL: 80+20physical Stoneskin Gauntlets Lengthens knockdown time AL: 75+20physical RANGER +Rawhide AL: 70+30elemental En: +12/+1 (+8 Chest +2 Legs +1 Hands/Feet) Frostbound AL: 70+30elemental+15Cold En: +5/1 Studded Leather AL: 70+30elemental+15Lightning En: +5/1 Drakescale: AL: 70+30elemental+15fire En: +5/1 NECROMANCER +Bonelace AL: 60+15piercing En: +10/+2 Tormentor's AL: 70 Reduce prot. from holy En: +10/+2 Scars AL: 60 En: +17/+2 Pagan Chest AL: 55 En: +5 Bloodstained Boots Faster corpse exploiting spells AL: 60 En: 0/+1 MONK +Ascetic Tattoos AL: 60 En: +16/+2 (+8 Chest +6 Hands +1 Legs/Hands) Wanderer's AL: 60+5elemental En: +10/+2 Judge's AL: 60+10physical En: +6/+2 (+4 Chest/Hands -1 Legs/Feet) MESMER +Enchanter's AL: 60 En: +17/+2 (+8 Chest +2 Legs +6 Hands +1 Feet) Virtuoso's AL: 60+15while casting En: +10/+2 Rogue's AL: 60 En: +6/+2 (+4 Chest/Glove -1 Hands/Feet) ELEMENTALIST +Aeromancer AL: 60+15Lightning EN: +10/+2 Geomancer AL: 60+15Earth EN: +10/+2 Pyromancer AL: 60+15Fire EN: +10/+2 Hyrdomancer AL: 60+15Water EN: +10/+2 Elementalist Robes (Chest) AL: 60 EN: +5/0 Skills Losts of things to go through, and none of it is in our skills database yet but I'll post it here for now. I'm still mulling over it all but some general impressions: Ranger damage - trap and bow, and Water damage both went down. Malaise got turned from a nice skill to nearly useless, Blood Renewal's still useless. Rezsig looks better and better. The vast majority of pet shouts are no longer. And a moment of silence for our dear, departed friend, the Unnatural Signet. GENERAL Resurrection Signet: 3 cast. Formerly 5. WARRIOR AXE Cleave: +10~22 damage. Formerly 1~16. Cyclone Axe: +4~10 damage. Formerly 1~6. (Penetrating Attack under Axe, why not Disrupting Chop or Counter Blow under Hammer?) HAMMER Earth Shaker: Wording change. (50% failure chance with...) Staggering Blow: 6 adrenaline. Formerly 5 en with 30 second recharge. STRENGTH I Will Survive!: 5 energy, health regen for each condition. Formerly 10 en and each injury. I WIll Avenge You!: 45 recharge. Formerly 60 seconds. Defy Pain: Skill. Formerly Shout. Endure Pain: 5 energy. Formerly 10 en. Flourish: 1 cast. Formerly instant/next attack. TACTICS Defensive Stance: +24 armor (For 10 seconds, you have +24 armor and you have...). Formerly no additional armor. Desperation Blow: +10~34 damage. Formerly +5~29 Gladiator's Defense: 5 energy. Formerly 10. Thril of Victory: Moved to Tactics. +10~34. Formerly bugged. MISCELLANEOUS Skull Crack: Moved to Unlinked. Wild Blow: Cannot be blocked or evaded (target ends. This attack...) --------- RANGER BEASTMASTERY All Pet Shouts or "Calls of" are gone except for Call of Haste and Call of Protection. Ferocious Strike: +13~25 damage 3~9 energy. Formerly +5~17 and 1~8. Tiger's Fury: 10 recharge. Formerly 5 seconds. EXPERTISE Oath Shot: Expertise 7 or less. Point Blank Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25. Whirling Defense: 5~10. Formerly 5~17. MARKSMANSHIP Determined Shot: +3~15 damage. Formerly +5~17. Hunter's Shot: +3~13 damage. Formerly +5~17. Penetrating Attack: +3~15 damage. Formerly +5~17. Power Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25. Precision Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25. Punishing Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25. Read the Wind: +3~9 damage. Formerly +5~15. Savage Shot: 13~25 damage. Formerly 10~35. (Mistake: 15 en, 6 recharge - on full listing.) WILDERNESS SURVIVAL Barbed Trap: 20~56 damage. Formerly 20~74. Dryder's Defenses: 75% chance to evade. Formerly 50%. Flame Trap: 15~27 (Incendiary Arrow's wording is just weird. Shoudl read something like "your arrows interrupt and set your target 'On Fire' for 1~3 seconds.) Melandru's Resilience: 25 recharge. Formerly 12 seconds. MISCELLANEOUS Debilitating Shot: (Not linked to Expertise) Called, Dual, Quick Shot: (Not linked to Marksmanship) --------------- NECROMANCER BLOOD MAGIC Blood Renewal: Gain 40~160 Health. Formerly 20~132. Dark Fury: Enchantment Spell. 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second. Mark of Subversion: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en. Strip Enchantment: Gain 30~102 health. Formerly 4~65. Vampiric Touch: Steal 29~65 health. Formerly 13~62. Well of Power: Health regeneration of 1~5. Formerly 1~3. CURSES Enfeebling Blood: (Sac 17% max health.) Faintheartedness: 1 cast. Formerly 2 seconds. Feast of Corruption: 2 cast. Formerly 3 seconds. Malaise: Ends if target foe's Energy reaches 0. (Health degeneration of 2) Parasitic Bond: 30~102 health. 5 energy, 1 cast. Formerly 20~94, 10 en, 2 seconds. Plague Signet: 20 recharge. Formerly 30 seconds. Weaken Armor: Duration 10~34 seconds -20 armor. Formerly 30 seconds -10~22 armor. (For 10-34 seconds, target foe has an armor penalty of -20 against physical damage.) DEATH MAGIC Taste of Death: 3/4 cast, instant recharge. Formerly 1 second and 5 second recharge. Verata's Aura: 15 energy, 3/4 cast. Formerly 25 energy and 1 second. Verata's Gaze: 5 energy. Formerly 10 en. -------------- MONK DIVINE FAVOR Divine Boon: Healed for 25~61. Formerly 5~41 health. Divine Spirit: 1~9 seconds, minimum cost 1 energy. Formerly 1~13, minimum of 3 en. Peace and Harmony: 45 recharge. Formerly 60 seconds. PROTECTION PRAYERS Aegis: 30 recharge. Formerly 45 seconds. Life Attunement: 14~43% more healing. Formerly 114~143%. Life Barrier: (Ends below 70~46% health.) Protective Bond: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en. Protective Spirit: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second. Rebirth: Skills locked 10~4 seconds. Formerly 20~8. Shielding Hands: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second. SMITING PRAYERS Balthazar's Aura: 10~22 damage. Formerly 3~15. Holy Strike: Additional 10~34 damage. Formerly 10~22. Shield of Judgement: 5~41 damage. Formerly 4~26. Signet of Judgement: 15~63 damage. Formerly 4~65. Smite Hex: 10~70 damage and 1 cast. Formerly 12~54 and 2 seconds. Symbol of Wrath: 5 energy. Formerly 15 en. Zealot's Fire: 5~37 damage. Formerly 5~28. MISCELLANEOUS Essence Bond: "target ally". Martyr: "all conditions" not "all negative conditions". Purge Conditions: Move to unlinked. ------------ MESMER DOMINATION MAGIC Arcane Thievery: 1 cast. Formerly 2 seconds. Mind Wrack: 40~75 damage. Formerly 20~94. Shatter Delusions: 15~63 damage. Formerly 8~34. Wastrel's Worry: 1/4 cast. Formerly 1 second. FAST CASTING Mantra of Recovery: Duration 5~17, recharge 30. Formerly 30~78 seconds duration, 20 seconds recharge, and drained 8~3 energy when casting spells. ILLUSION MAGIC Echo: 5 energy, 1 cast. Formerly 15 en, 2 seconds. Unnatural Signet is no more. INSPIRATION MAGIC Drain Enchantment: 10 energy. Formerly 15 en. Mantra of Recall: 20 recharge. Formerly 15 seconds. Mantra of Signets: Duration 10~22. Formerly 30~78 seconds. MISCELLANEOUS Arcane Mimicry: 15 energy. Formerly 10 en. Signet of Humility: No longer touch range. ------------ ELEMENTALIST AIR MAGIC Mind Shock: Additional 10~42 damage. Formerly bugged. Shock: 10~50 damage, 5 energy. Formerly 15~51, 10 en. Whirlwind: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second. EARTH MAGIC Grasping Earth: "For 8~18 seconds, all nearby foes move 50% slower but have +24 armor against physical damage." Formerly "adjacent". ENERGY STORAGE Ether Prodigy: 1 cast. Formerly 2 seconds. FIRE MAGIC Fireball: 2 cast. Formerly 3 second. Incendiary Bonds: 10~50 damage. Formerly 2~21. Inferno: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second. Meteor: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en. Mind Burn: 15~51 damage. Formerly 10~50. Phoenix: WATER MAGIC Armor of Mist: 10 energy, 2 cast. Formerly 25 en, 3 seconds. Deep Freeze: 10~70 damage. Formerly 10~76. Frozen Burst: 20~68 damage. Formerly 10~70. Ice Spear: Instant recharge. Formerly 3 seconds. Ice Spikes: 20~68 damage. Formerly 10~70. Maelstrom: 10~22 damage. Formerly 8~29. Shard Storm: 10~54 damage. Formerly 10~70. Swirling Aura: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en. Water Trident: 5~53 damage. Formerly 10~58. MISCELLANEOUS Elemental Attunement: 50% of energy cost gained. Formely 30%. The following skills have an increased aftercast time of 1.75 seconds instead of the normal .75 (basically most PBAoE spells): Aftershock, Crystal Wave, Flame Burst, Inferno, Frozen Burst, Shock, Symbol of Wrath Miscellaneous and/or Unconfirmed: -Equipment Slots: Edit Whoops! check Quinn Falcon's post for more details. |
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Apr 15, 2005, 11:45 PM // 23:45
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Academy Page
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: UK, Manchester
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"-Equipment Slots: A starting RP character now has only one slot to equip their weapons and/or shields. A PvP character has two. Are equipment slots now something that needs to be purchased or unlocked? Or is it just a bug?"
Unless im misinterpreting this, it's just a GUI change, you can open up the other slots again in the inventory screen, big button labelled "weapon sets" 
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Apr 16, 2005, 01:24 AM // 01:24
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Site Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Belgium
Guild: Idiot Savants
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- When winning in the Hall of Heroes, the chest holds now a rare item (in addition to the celestial sigil), which is assigned randomly to a player. (I think it is always a max damage/energy one). There might still be bugs preventing you to pick up the items sometimes.
- Morale bonuses from killing wardens doesn't carry over anymore to first Tomb PVP map. |
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Apr 16, 2005, 01:57 AM // 01:57
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Core Guru
 Join Date: Feb 2005
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Famesticks are gone, and replaced with /fame. ;(
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Apr 16, 2005, 03:21 AM // 03:21
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Attributes - I love this site great info but u guys said there was 10 point per lvl and im lvl 5 and have been noticing theyve only been givin me 5 points per lvl and my attributes arent adding up like i had thought they would...
anyone no if this is a new change or a bug i should report? |
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Apr 16, 2005, 05:01 AM // 05:01
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2005
Guild: Sisters of Mercy
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Bags and belts are now saleable commodities, which you have to equip to use, and can unequip.
And... TADAAAAA!!! Chat filters! |
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Apr 16, 2005, 05:48 AM // 05:48
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Death From Above
Join Date: Dec 2004
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First post's been updated.
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Apr 16, 2005, 06:26 AM // 06:26
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Apr 16, 2005, 07:42 AM // 07:42
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: California
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The Ice Elementals now actually drop Icy Lodestones. (ah, simple pleasures)
Gwen is as cute as ever. |
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Apr 16, 2005, 09:20 AM // 09:20
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Site Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Belgium
Guild: Idiot Savants
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About items from HoH chest :
After seeing a dozen maxed items from the chest, we got a 5-28 axe. So not always max, but drop table must be be high-level. |
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Apr 16, 2005, 11:53 AM // 11:53
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Death From Above
Join Date: Dec 2004
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In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him. |
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Apr 16, 2005, 01:27 PM // 13:27
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Drain Enchantment is now 10 energy. I forget if anything else about it is changed, though.
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Apr 16, 2005, 10:57 PM // 22:57
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ArenaNet
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Wow, great update there! Have you had any sleep in the last 36 hours?
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There will be other reasons that you want to select a world and stick with it. This has to do with tournament play. Details will become more apparent upon release, although you've certainly seen a hint of it with the green broadcast announcements and some accessible regions in this BWE. We definitely have more tasty things in store for you.
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Apr 16, 2005, 11:18 PM // 23:18
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Apr 17, 2005, 12:02 AM // 00:02
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Apr 17, 2005, 04:07 AM // 04:07
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: No Idea
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May I ask if anyone has tested the new weapon statistics? I know there are a few bows such as eternal and shadow, but I'm not sure about their stats.
From my experiences, the eternal bow has really fast rate of fire, and decent speed travel, but this might be cause of lag. Shadow is horrible, and storm is somewhere between horn and short. This is just guess from playing, and is completely inaccurate :P I'd hope for testers to post their results. EDIT: My connection was on crack, half-moon and short bow should still be the fastest. Storm/Eternal isn't that great other then looks, and shadow is just plain horrible. Course, this is from experience, and my connection might still be screwy. Last edited by Xellos; Apr 18, 2005 at 01:13 PM // 13:13.. |
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Apr 17, 2005, 04:37 AM // 04:37
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Flame Bait
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Mass
Profession: Mo/Me
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this was mentioned before in Fansite Friday but havent seen it posted here
For PVE there now a few NPCs that offer Skills for Quest rewards so far I seen them in Yak's Bend, Old Ascalon, Saradelc Sanatarium, And Piken Square. Don't think I seen them anywhere else. |
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Apr 17, 2005, 01:50 PM // 13:50
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Apr 17, 2005, 03:41 PM // 15:41
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Death From Above
Join Date: Dec 2004
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I'll note you only gain skill points with the character you increase your fame rank with, though. By being rank 1 or 3 or whatever else you don't gain a bonus skill point for all your characters.
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Apr 17, 2005, 09:22 PM // 21:22
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Academy Page
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Canada, Ontario
Guild: Team Backspace
Profession: N/R
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The Necromancers skills "Verata's Sacrifice", and "Animate Bone Fiend" can now be captured from "Verata the Necreomancer" in the "Traveller's Vale"
mmmm, verata's sacrifice Verata's sacrifice also takes 15% max health to use now Last edited by PawnBoy; Apr 18, 2005 at 03:42 PM // 15:42.. |
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