I've no desire to play Platinum for many reasons.

The level of tedium it takes to travel around the world and to hunting grounds, even with the world shrinkage, is excessive in today's gaming environment and GS population levels though.

I was casting against frostborn, just 4 hours past. Might be an accelerated cycle?

Doug

I think that I have found a bug in Shield Riposte while on the test server. Shield Riposte is supposed to base its strength on your ranks in shield bash, using either the CMAN or the SHIELD skill. Based on my testing, it actually only uses the CMAN. The SHIELD skill counts as a prereq, but improving the SHIELD skill from ranks 2 to 5 has no effect.

Here's my result on Shield Riposte with 5 ranks CMAN sbash and 2 ranks of SHIELD bash:

Reacting instantly to the blow, you lash out with your black tower shield at the troll fighter!
[Roll result: 163 (open d100: 82) Penalties: 14]
Your attack connects!
A Grimswarm troll fighter is knocked off-balance!


Roughly a bonus of 80 to hit (ignoring penalties). Here's my result with 0 ranks of CMAN sbash and 2 ranks SHIELD bash:

Reacting instantly to the blow, you lash out with your black tower shield at the troll ranger!
[Roll result: 90 (open d100: 62) Penalties: 14]
Your attack connects!
The troll ranger manages to keep his footing!


Roughly a bonus of 28 to hit. It does vary a few points by target:

Reacting instantly to the blow, you lash out with your black tower shield at the troll fighter!
[Roll result: 88 (open d100: 52) Penalties: 14]
Your attack connects!
The troll fighter manages to keep her footing!


Roughly a bonus of 36 to hit.

Here's my result with 0 ranks of CMAN sbash and 5 ranks of SHIELD bash:

Reacting instantly to the blow, you lash out with your black tower shield at the troll warrior!
[Roll result: 52 (open d100: 23) Penalties: 17]
Your attack connects!
The troll warrior manages to keep his footing!


Again, roughly a bonus of 28 to hit. Penalties went up 3 points because I was encumbered, so let's call it a bonus of 31 to hit (that keeps the penalty the same).

Basically, Shield Riposte is HUGELY improved by ranks of CMAN sbash but ranks of SHIELD bash have no effect beyond the 2 minimum required to trigger it. That's not consistent with the in-game documentation.

It has been an absolute blast playing on the test server...

I'm sure it was an astronomical effort to get everything set up... I just hope that you guys recorded/scripted everything you did! But I'd love to see this be an annual thing... The timing of it slightly before the annual fixskills was absolutely perfect!

~Whirlin

>>The fastest way to Plane 5

Heh. But - did you find the Heart, yet? I thought that would be central to your research. (look for a gaping maw)

Doug

I've been playing around on the test server with earth lore and 917 Boil Earth. Works great on bandits. And I don't mean the easy bandits that come up most of the time. As far as I can tell it works on the few hard ones. It also does well on undead but with all my earth lore I ended up using 904 Minor Acid to good effect.

Sorry if someone already asked but it would be neat if we could ATTUNE ELEMENT at will on the test server.

Chad, player of a few

Unless changed, it is not always the Heart.

I was scared, precap, from plane 1 to to Pinefar Trading Post a few times.

Where did the sergeant go on Teras? Can we get the AG stuff turned on so we can try some real world reality checks too? Thanks!

>But it turns out Zelia had black knights guarding her "Lunule Weald" shrine.

Yeah, Zelia's Shrine is the elven Hotel California; the guards that get summoned when you're ganked will wander in there but can't find their way out.

I'd have reported it, but it's not a big deal and it actually feels appropriate for NPCs to lose their minds in a shrine of Zelia, so I never did.

That fear has kicked in several times for Clunk.
- Once was fighting the ghost of Anwyn (Clunk was training 20 or so, the ghost was over 90). Clunk returned and won.
- Second was fighting the dark soul at Vaalor. Clunk was less than 50. Clunk returned and won.
To this day, the dark soul remains Clunks oldest kill.
- Third was the shadow demon form of the Shadowguard leader Tiope. This one scared Clunk out of Shadowgaurd, and made him run for his life straight into the King's Court in Vaalor.



Clunk

(Buy your swords at CBD weapons in Zul Logoth.)