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|  | Posted By: Sanya Thomas | 2004-01-23 19:50:39 |  |
| |  |  Where's my blender, darn it. Here, read the column while I look for it:
Q: Most people say that friars are affilated with the church of albion, which is logical, but then why does it say in the manual that friars are affilated with the Defenders of Albion? And if the former is true, then why are there friar trainers in the Defenders of Albion building in Camelot City?
A: A lore question! From one of our original world designers comes the reply: "Friars are members of an order called "The Brotherhood." This order was established by members of the Church who felt their skills could be better used on the battlefield. This order would work directly for Camelot's army and not the Church of Albion. This is why they are members of the Defenders of Albion. Friars take direction from the King, but ultimately answer to the Church." Hey, I learned something today! Thanks for sending in the question.
Q: I was considering getting the Tartaro's Gift artifact on my home server, Gaheris (Co-op). I've read from some spoiler sites that it levels off of 'primitive races'. I've heard many people say that means that you need to RvR to level the artifact. I'd really like to acquire this artifact (it would be my first. ;)) but my server doesn't have any RvR! How would I accomplish this?
A: The Item Mistress, so fast with the reply button it burns, said, "There are nine artifacts that earn experience by killing players from other realms. Gaheris has alternate leveling requirements that are displayed when the item is delved. For example, Tartaro's Gift earns experience from killing animals on Gaheris, but earns experience from primitive races on all other servers."
Q: Why can't my reaver cast his Debt to Arawn spell after using the Spirit of the Duelist spell on the Harpy Feather Cloak?
A: The official reply: "Players are only able to have one offensive proc buff on their character at a time. You will need to decide which spell better suits the situation and cast accordingly."
Q: In a house, if a weapon is placed on the wall for decoration, as soon
as it is double clicked on it disappears completely. Doesn't end up in the double clickers pack, just disappears. For random clickers like myself (who like to see what everything is ;)), this can be frustrating, and unfair to the person who decorated.
Is there any way to make it so the weapon that is clicked on will end up in the pack of the clicker as oppose to in limbo? :)
A: Well, as the Evil Overlord had to remind me, the thing on the wall isn't actually on the wall – it's a copy of something that still exists on someone's account. So, you can see how if we were to let the thing on the wall copy to your backpack, it would be a wee bit of an exploit.
He says, though, that it *would* be cool to put labels on the decorations, so we'll add it to our improvements wish list. And I'll look into whether or not it would be possible to "lock" decorations outside the permissions list just to keep the pretty wall stuff safe from clickers :)
Q: I've noticed that some of the ROG drops from TOA do not have any bonus to them; was this on purpose?
A: I don't think so. Kicking your question to the item team means a response from the Item Mistress: "All armor and weapon ROG drops from Atlantis should have the bonus value set to the appropriate amount. Jewelry items are the exception because the bonus has no effect on the performance of the jewelry. (The bonus increases the chance to hit for weapons, increases the chance to block for shields, and decreases the chance of being hit for armor.) If you do receive armor or weapons without a bonus, please /appeal it as a bug, and include the name of the mob that dropped the item if possible."
But before you appeal it, ask around to see if the item is truly a ROG item, and not part of a quest or a story encounter. Your fellow players are the greatest resource of any MMORPG.
Q: My spyware detector has identified 3 files as spyware related:
1. C:MythicCameotSOUNDSFIZZLE.WAV
2. C:MythicIslesSOUNDSFIZZLE.WAV
3. C:MythicAtlantisSOUNDSFIZZLE.WAV
...what's up?
A: I bounced this to the tech team; those guys have seen nearly everything at this point. Sure enough, they'd seen this before – the problem is probably a spyware program with "fizzle" in their name or in their files. Our Techie Sean told me that he played another game with a sound effect for an alligator – "alligator.wav" – and without fail the spyware catcher would tag is as potentially part of the Gator family of programs. The sound effect you mention (which is found in all three directories, if you've got all the expansions installed) is clean.
Q: Last week, this was in the bag: "Q: I have a question about the tradeskill tools. There is one that says it has a bonus on minimum crafting quality of 1%. Does this mean that if I craft a 99% weapon while I have equipped this quality tool I would get a MP instead? Or is its purpose only to get 95% quality as a minimum instead of 94%?"
And the answer was "A: From the Item and Tradeskill Princess: " The minimum crafting quality bonus raises your quality floor, so as long as you have this item equipped, you should get a minimum of 95% quality on items you make."
As they say at news conferences, "Ma'am, I have a follow-up question". Is it accurate to say that when I have the quality bonus item equipped, I have a 2% chance for an MP and a 19.6% chance for each of 95, 96, 97, 98 and 99? If that's not accurate, what are the right numbers?
A: Good question. Here again is our Princess: "That's correct. Using the minimum crafting quality bonus leaves your chance at a masterpiece exactly as it has always been - 2%. It wouldn't be very helpful if having a +1 minimum quality bonus eliminated your 94% quality products, only to leave you with twice as many 95% quality
products.
So, the remaining 98% chance is divided evenly between the five other possible quality outcomes (95, 96, 97, 98, and 99%)."
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Announcements: Hi, Agamemnon. Agamemnon is the Vault Forum guy who wants to be famous in a creepy internet way, and since he's been such a hell of a guy, here's me doing my part to make him happy.
Speaking of making people happy, the authors of Mimir's Well (both from the Bedevere server) are pleased to announce their 200,000th stat hit. If you're not in the know, let me catch you up – it's an IRC bot you can have installed in your IRC channel that automatically interacts with the Herald to display character stats in the chat. I don't want to link directly to them for fear of driving their bandwidth costs out of control, but I just wanted to tip my hat to Notin and Dominussecuris for making something cool. If you're an IRC mod for a server channel looking for a nifty channel bot, head to Google! (And if your server channel has Mimir's Well, try !stat, !estat, and !help for more information.)
Kind of a slow announcement day, eh? Well, if you're in the path of the snow, stay safe, and if you're in one of the warm states… think of me kindly. Hey! There's my blender!
Have a great weekend, everyone.
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