I was born on a simple farm, my father worked the fields, tended to the
livestock and my mother often sold hand made goods at the local market. My
brothers and sisters each did their part to help our parents, but often it
wasn't enough. We barely had enough food to eat and we struggled to
survive. From an early age, I knew I was different from the rest of my
family. I could hear my family worry and wonder about the outside world,
but all I could do is focus on silence. My family would yell, scream and
blather on about anything, but I just wanted to shut out the noise. On a
farm I began to observe and collect the various animals about. I would
often sleep in the forest and find and observe the animals there. Traveling
to the neighboring mountains I drew strength from the snow leopards, down to
the lake I found the grace of the crane. On one of my expeditions, I left
home just before sun rise in hopes of discovering more of Mother Nature, but
that day ended in tragedy. As I returned I could smell smoke and I could
feel the heat of a blazing fire. As I rushed through the trees my farm was
set ablaze and my family was murder and their bodies were left in the mud.
I felt a wave of rage and frustration overcome me and then I felt nothing.
I woke to the sound of a large gong and a man was sitting cross legged
reciting a strange mantra I have never heard. He looked at me without
saying a word and pointed to the tapestries hanging from the ceiling. A
language I could not understand, but oddly enough I could feel the window to
my destiny unfold.
Description:
Before you is a man with his eyes closed. You pay him little attention
before your gaze breaks, but a sense of strength and fortitude emanates from
every sinewy fiber of his being. The top of his head is shaved, but only a
top knot is left. Held by an ivory clip in the shape of a dragon and a
crane intertwined. His dark tan skin is riddled with the scars of battle
across his back and chest. An especially large scar can be seen to the side
of his throat, just above his carotid artery. His shoulders are wide and
his chest and torso appears to be very muscular. His arms and legs are well
toned with very little fat. His eyes stare back at you flickering with a
sense of devilish delight emulating your every movement. These eyes are
have taken the grey appearance of smoldering coals of a dying fire. His
nose is sharp and his lips are unmoving as if he has never uttered a word.
4- 0- 0 Talfend the Knight of Legion (Fought at rank 30) 1- 0- 0 Tetka the Abomination of Death (Fought at rank 31) 2- 0- 0 Traspan the Wizard of Warfare (Fought at rank 50) 1- 7- 0 Thoom the Battlemaster (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Daerich the Holy Knight (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Lerimar the Shadow Master of the Marama Kuei (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Wylsin the Sage of Arcane Power (Fought at rank 50) 0- 1- 0 Fygh the Sage of Arcane Power (Fought at rank 50) 2- 1- 0 Solmundi the Holy Knight (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Jarrvase the Sage of Arcane Power (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Eniziver the Omen of Elemental Destruction (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Trareli the Grand Master of Seasons (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Baloof the Volcano of Infinite Rage (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Ungril the Battlemaster (Fought at rank 50) 1- 1- 0 Galiraand the Grand Hierophant of the Forest (Fought at rank 50) 0- 2- 0 Kizra the Grand Master of Seasons (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Ilromie the Sage of Arcane Power (Fought at rank 50) 0- 1- 0 Barnir the Battlemaster (Fought at rank 50) 0- 2- 0 Alkas the Grand Master of Seasons (Fought at rank 50) 0- 1- 0 Lolath the Holy Knight (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Brofein the Battlemaster (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Jiyuva the Grand Hierophant of the Forest (Fought at rank 50) 2- 0- 0 Darvaz the Bane of Frailty (Fought at rank 50) 0- 1- 0 Tordrak the Battlemaster (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Jenar the Holy Shaman (Fought at rank 50) 1- 0- 0 Gildan the Holy Patriarch of Healing (Fought at rank 50) 0- 2- 0 Trovo the Holy Knight (Fought at rank 50)
Made a human, first mistake. Made and evil second mistake, didn't even rp as an evil, I just wanted to rank up easier.
Tired of losing duels and more accurately just tired of getting my ass kicked.
I will never make another monk warlord, unless its a half elf neutral.
ivindel
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I have a question for you though - did you think you could have done better in those duels that you lost?
Ozaru
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I lost a few fights that I should have won, but the fights against Saxa, Thoom or Hirendan were not even close. Getting hit with the type of damage they were dealing really turns me off from ever making another warlord, especially a monk warlord. It would be neutral beast ranger all the way because when you miss out on damage dealing forms its stupid. I have no complaints about any of the players, immortals everyone was great. Trying to rp a monk who took a vow of silence was fucking brutal. Some of you are dense mother fuckers.
Trovo mentioned in our last fight that I should upgrade my equipment. I mean I thought being 40/40 is pretty good. all my eq was either plus 3 or plus 4 hit or dam. Maybe monks need more dam roll than hit roll because I sure as shit wasn't parrying anything.
ivindel
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I do agree that tenacity is one tier of damage weaker than sanctuary which explains the higher damage you suffer from those opponents who hits hard, but I do think that any other player would have suffered the same degree of damage from these opponents anyway. Being a monk has the advantage of forcing your opponent to limit their weapon choices to magical types to circumvent the physical damage reduction from iron body.
On the other hand, I feel that certain match-ups are just not as good for monks. Take for example your fight against Trovo, you were not able to capitalize on his piercing weakness because of the dependency on leopard and crane mostly. Moreover, leopard special forms changes your attack element to ice-type which a jotun resists.
Equipment wise, I think that 40/40 is decent enough, although I do agree that prioritizing damroll will be a better option for monks since leopard and crane provides hitroll bonuses, and coupled with the guaranteed 3 attacks per round makes for consistent damage. In my opinion, 30/50 is better.
Anyhow, Kizra is the other active evil human monk that does not depend on tenacity and can use magic. He seems to be doing well so far from my own observations, and maybe he will tell a different story from yours.
Davairus
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The tweak to drunken is important.
Merlandox
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What was the tweak to drunken?
Davairus
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stagger kicks in at disembowel instead of dismember
I thought you were doing good. I was awaiting the next duel with Jarrvase, the last one was close. You definitely had a lot of wins before July.
The vow of silence was great but that is too hard in a social game. You know people were playing dumb to try and get you to talk. Draw point draw get an answer from left field, hillarious.
Aww man. Sad to see you go. You were great. I think we got along real well, even when you couldn't talk. Definitely enjoyed having you around, didn't ever guess it was you Ozaru.
Tenacity can be a pain but it's not that bad. You obviously were doing well and had a lot of duel wins. You started losing more recently though, it's true. But what changed? Even against me we were like 5-4, so you can't really say that you always lost to me. At least not until you started to fight differently. It was like maybe you had convinced yourself you had no chance and so you gave up. I can't say for certain though, obviously!
But what was the vow about? Background doesnt help clarify.
You seem to make a more interesting character every time you roll up lately. Mokoto brushed up against greatness while you were keeping up your role play.
I'm genuinely looking forward to whatever beast ranger you roll up next. See you around.
I was hoping he would break his oath of silence and say something OOC for a really good reason.
like he watches the tournament final and says HOLY SHIT at the end or something
I was a big fan of this character, although I apologize if any of my comments in the logs ever came off otherwise. I was just invested. I wanted to see some of the duels you lost too if only to see if there were things that could have been done differently. Also I've been thinking about rolling a monk for a while, and Mokoto certainly pushed me further in the 'yes' direction.
I was all about the lawful evil monk who took the vow of silence. I was waiting to see what would happen when you decided to cash those chips in, in terms of RP. Sad we won't get to see it.
Lost a great character today. Really look forward to the next one you roll up.
Had meself a fun time kickin yer arse. Enjoyed lookin at all o’ yer fights on here too, eh. Ye racked up quite a few inna short time. Hopin’ yer havin more fun on yer next one. Bet ye suren know yer way around a monk though, eh? Fighting em’s gonner be easy fer ye ferever.
Really loved your execution of vow of silence, I am sure it was frustrating but it made our interactions more magical. Breaking it without an explanation was a bit disconcerting for me, but you definitely were brushing up against greatness there for a little while, like Vevier said. Choose a specific RP for the next one, stick with it to the end, good work.
One thing that I noticed with a monk was 2 fold. First half was that it didn't seem to matter how much hitroll i had I would still almost always hit all 3 attacks every round. This seemed to hold true in defense as well. It disnt seem to matter how much hitroll I had my attacks blocked or blocking attacks didnt really matter. Therefore. I fucking stacked damroll and ignored hitroll completely and I have had excellent success with every single.monk I have played
Just to clarify, the vow was going to be broken when i got to promoted to proven, which is when I started talking. From an RP stand point it didn't really work when I would send a note to try and explain something. It felt a bit cheesy and watered down. Plus trying to rp with an applicant or someone new to the game was damn near impossible without talking.
That being said I am going to air a few grievances.
1. Monk forms need work, it really sucks to be in a cabal when you see strike of the cobra and parting of the wave and monks can't do any of that.
2. Making the undertaker drop 4 dam items happen once in a blue moon sucks. Making Akyua even harder to get to and then dropping shit items sucks. Dav I don't know why your method of balancing the game is always to make it more of grind. Basically if you are in a pinch or all the rares are gone you can get head gloves legs and two bracelets pretty easily to be more competitive I hope you change that back.
3. I stopped playing monks because of the whole yellow brick road on automap. I had no idea why people would find me so easily and I could never heal up while I could never find them. That shit really pisses me off because I deleted a few monks in that time because of that.
4. Monks have been played the same way for years and for now to have a change on drunken stance irks me as well. I am glad you are making an effort but I think it is misplaced. Honestly monks should have 2 styles offensive and defensive and maybe you can specialize them. But to have 4 monk tattoos that no one ever uncovers and a bunch of different styles that never get used is a waste. Dragon stance should be used more often than magic missile.
Davairus
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yellow brick road was terrible this is true. Monks can't be 2 styles because the whole game changed to rock paper scissors. That doesnt make sense. most monks could spec drunken or panda to cover the 3rd style instead of going all-in on leopard. This isn't about feelings. The game is designed to require 3 styles and you will get hobbled easily if you are easily predictable. if you want to have just two styles play a paladin (two handed or shield block) its complete unsafe to dual wield vs a warrior with a paladin , and even if you did it would suck
Merlandox
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Ozaru's point 2 is so valid. Akyua's hp is fucking ridiculous to farm. You might as well remove Akyua from the equation, delete the wristlet. It's the same concept as putting a gambled equipment on Nevros. Like wtf? Who's gonna farm him seriously?
Merlandox
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Oh btw Ozaru, dragon style can be used to kill zombies after a necromancer flees. You kill zombies so fast that the necromancer has just lost 3hours of his zombie farming time.
Davairus
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1. you can get other fucking gear and not farm the karateka over and over. yes i had originally two wristlets on it ON PURPOSE and i did not remove the second wristlet so dont bitch at me that its hard to farm the wristlet because i had deliberately made it much easier than it is. clearly someone thinks killing the same shit over and over is much more fun than i do. i dont fuck with everything around here. I gave it two wristlets because it has two wrists. And sometimes people change areas WITHOUT SAYING. remember the huntmaster dupe? It was doing the same damage as literally 2 dupes put together. sometimes i dont agree a bit and just think eh fuck it, its not like the purples got moved or something. dont you feel that way? the karateka could have a better bracer than he does at this point no doubt, its an epic fight now. but its not the end of the fucking world. That area didnt even exist 5 years ago
2. the undertaker literally doesnt drop fucking 4 dam items anymore. that was an obvious fucking glitch. you guys have assumed a bug is something i put in the game on purpose to make you kill undertaker 1000 times. i ninja fixed this months ago. did you fucking ask anyone if that was supposed to be like that? It didnt seem like a big deal that an easy to kill mob is dropping non-rare 4 dam items? Hah. I bet it didnt. youre taking t items that were glitching to have too high of stats and complaining that took you too long??? get the fuck out. fuck off. a lot of reason patch is so late is because i have to fucking watch what people are doing as the reliable way to find glitches. meanwhile you got a knuckle dragger screaming im ruining the game while i fix the shit like levelling from 35 to 50 in literally 40 minutes. youve filled the bug system up with typos and retarded shit like "ohho ohh i think its really fucking urgent that i can have my cursed weapon removed from me which i i fucked up myself". you guys are a fucking cancer sometimes. seriously you can fuck off with that. thats the fucking entitlement of thinking a 4 dam item dropping as a non-rare was a fucking thing that was supposed to be the way. like shit man. i dont even know what else to comment except that this shit is literally retarded stupid and you must be home all day huffing your own farts if this is idealogically your idea of what a challenging game looks like. Its not. stop fucking assuming dumbass stuff like i intentionally gave a mob a 1/1000 chance to drop a 4 dam item for a level 40 character. Thats horseshit
3. in the next patch, the unlucky smuggler is going back to gold so you can just gamble shit at him (with bank overdraft). this being relics was a mistake. i've acknowledged multiple times it is a mistake. Its a big buzz-kill. but there are also other OP rares which you can use that I see Darvaz quite happily using. He did winter while you assholes are complaining you dont want to kill Karateka over and over. why dont you kill players for eq. you know , the guys who ran winter without you? Becaus eyou are hostile to everybody so you dont get invited.
Ozaru
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If you are in charge of the game assume responsibility when things change and tell your imms that they need to document in game changes because it affects the game play. If people change things without your knowledge or your consent then you have a team that doesn't respect you. Control your team, and if you don't think it is necessary then accept the criticism that comes with it. If they change something you don't agree with, don't give them the ability to change it.
Why would I assume something is a fucking glitch when you introduce it. I have ZERO knowledge about programming, but clearly their must be a high limit and a low limit when it comes to attributes for eq. So if a minimum is 1 and a maximum is 3 I would imagine it would be set. Why would we complain about something when we feel that it was intended. The respect we give you and your game is clearly not returned when we bring up things we don't like.
You are simply misguided that gaining winter equipment is easy to get. The only reason why this game has a lot of people playing is because of a fucking global pandemic so people can't go out and do shit. Me Darvaz and Jener went through the blood faction and it took about 2 hours. how often does a monk shaman and berserker come on and have 2 hours to dedicate to getting equipment? You know what we got, 1 helm, 1 ring and 1 fucking bracelet. So when you have mobs that drop random gear its a fucking god send for people who don't have 2 hours grind for items.
Change your fucking outlook on this game. Stop making it a grind, most of us are probably in our 30's and 40's playing this in our spare time and our spare fucking time is less and less. No one is leaving this game because they hate it, they are leaving because they don't have the time to invest in it. So if I can make it to level 50 in 2 days without being bored off my ass great. If I can get into a cabal without waiting 2 weeks thats fucking amazing.
Lastly roll up a character every once in a while to get a taste of what this game is like.
Davairus
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Youre still complaining its a grind when you can literally plant money trees and shake them for gold. I think everybody can see a monk has an assortment of skills and anatomies to train so is going to take longer to train than your usual ranger with like dirt/disarm and herb and its you who are super out of touch with the rest of the playerbase not me. why dont you try training a priest if you think training a fighter is so hard
Ozaru
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i had a lot of shit typed out, but then said fuck it. You and I don't agree how you run this game. But guess what you don't have to listen to me, I have my opinion whether you want to take any advice on some of the in game aspects that aren't fun that is up to you. Maybe I am out of touch, but at the very least I will continue to tell you what I think is not fun about my experience because I want this game to succeed. Stop insulting your fucking pbase by trying to insult our intelligence. Be an adult.
Davairus
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whose insulting who? I';m just saying you are full of shit. Youre whining about grinding literally a month after i caught you multi-ing a group with your fucking phone. Isnt this literally the first fucking character you made since then? Everyone was talking about you being an elite but as soon as I check to see whats going on I find you are cheating at the game in such a way as is absolutely shocking and disappointing to every Imm who you snuck under the radar. and the first fucking thing you did when you were caught was say it shouldnt have taken everybody so long to catch it. no sympathy from me that this game feels like an effort from you after you apparently spent so long cheating. So quit being butthurt because you were caught cheating and bohoo playing fairly after being so used to cheating feels too fucking hard now. cry me a fucking river about it. Some of us can play and appreciate the fucking challenge of the game without needing our fucking illusions (all hasted) included in the group without penalizing exp and all this other stupid fucking shit a few lazy people fucking think makes a game feel like it can be beaten quick enough to be worth levelling on
I'm legit annoyed with you now. and i was cool with you before ozaru. Fucking just stop digging a damn grave. You can do alot better than this.
Ozaru
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You're a bitch and you simply can't take criticism so you lash out. Beta fucking male
Davairus
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OK ill bait. Your monk record was above 50% and thats INCLUDING all the deliberate throws you did to try to prove monks suck. Monks didnt suck. YOU SUCKED. You went on tilt and lost a load of duels on purpose and basically rage deleted per the usual pattern of behavior from you, complaining the warlord powers arent good enough. You knew the limits. You knew it before you rolled a monk. Monk warlords have a reputation for kicking ass and you failed. You havent played a good character since Eurayel and you fucking know it. you and bladefury both started sucking ass. This is fact. Pull your shit together. I cant believe I thought you would be warmaster now. youre on a fucking skid man. get it together and stop blaming the game code
Merlandox
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Ok dav, i'm going to throw something out to see if you agree. Killing Akyua over again and again for the wristlet isn't for the damroll/hitroll eq. Honestly, 4dam -1 -1 is easily replaceable. What isn't replaceable is the save vs wristlet which is wayyyyy more valuable than the damroll/hitroll equipment. And even more so, it's not rare. So a winter run doesn't mean you don't kill akyua, you shouldn't be comparing the two. After running winter, redhorne, underworld, you will start killing akyua for save vs (non rare) to swap out when you fight mages.
By changing Akyua to have this ridiculous amount of hp essentially makes the pbase do a few things.
1. I'm gonna get my OOC buddies and farm akyua together. (if you don't have friends, you suffer. But is this ideal?)
2. I'll farm gold and go try my luck somewhere with gold. This becomes even more of a grind because pre changed akyua was way more efficient to farm than farming gold. (if you count the time to kill akyua vs gold/min for most classes)
I mean if that's what you want then go ahead, i'm just pointing out that the change to akyua wasn't good.
Ozaru
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watch out you are fucking donkey for agreeing with me
Nycticora
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>Some of us can play and appreciate the fucking challenge of the game without needing our fucking illusions (all hasted) included in the group without penalizing exp
I guess you forgot the 30 fucking hours we spent on enabling that and the long conversations we had deciding to allow pets in groups without penalizing xp because you're a waffling retard who can't hold a thought in your mind for more than a week before it fucking evaporates
Davairus
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whatever helps you to ignore my valid criticism and feel better
Davairus
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Merlandox : I agree with what you wrote insofar as theres not much choice but to grind that mob over and over for repops when compared against the difficulty of gambling other mundane gambled items (i.e. Aanam in Timaran cuffs). That could be wrong though, if you are not treating the fact that items on vendors eventually get "absorbed" into the shop and supply the shopkeeper with their value in gold. Once theshop has reached that state - which takes only about an hour or maybe 2 hr from the time of initial sale I believe - you can basically begin gamble for free at the store since it is getting constantly resupplied. Its therefore going to depend on how long you feel willing or able to spend grinding Aanam as well.
Also, its not just the saves causing the grinding. That problem is also to do with the fact that a bunch of the well-known rare damroll wrist items have little to no AC on them. This rule is completely ignored by the gambling random armor stats, and that causes those rares to lose significant appeal and pk'ing to also diminish since gambling for gear is more guaranteed than pk'ing for gear and gambling has less of a hoarding stigma on it. That is another of the things we have all turned a blind eye to for a very long time and we are reaping what we have sown in that regard. just look, you're not even considering a frost burned bracelet. Instead its being considered a saves slot random item. I remember years ago discussing with code 64 we'd like to swap out just rings/neck items for that shit (very light items that could be stored in sacks in garden variety format), and code's favorite item in AR was the mithril bracer which oddly enough doesnt exist anymore and just made my to-do list
Merlandox
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I have no idea what you're talking about gambling for free. I have spend millions of gold at darkhaven timaran and many other shops. And i meant it's millions just to get my breaks and saves. If there's free gambling that i do not know about I'll be so fking sad...
Davairus
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Ok let me dumb it down for you Merlandox. This wont be filled out perfect - you can easliy figure it out on your own from here.
1. grab a load of mithril
2. buy a battle belt from pel the armorer. If you get luck you haggle it down to 10k.
3. sell all the mithril, quickly, for a full refund
4 repeat 1-3 with red dragon eq
5 repeat 1-3 with splinted mail eq
6 repeat 1-3 with brass eq
...
...etc
...
7 notice eventually all the mithril is gone somehow. this is because the shop swallowed it. and its value is added to the stores available funds
8 grab and sell your load of mithril. free 10k gold
9 same with the red dragon 20k
10 same with the splited 30k
12 same with the brass 40k
you just got 40k for literally nothing. AND you put armor back on the shops. so its just a matter of time before you can sell all the shit to the shop again
You can do this with all sorts of shit. Titanum bracers. Tantalum eq. goblin eq. dragon sea eq. At the same time you can type "task" on the shop and occasionally get a big ticket item worth of gold. but the shop inventory is capped at 10k.
this grind is totally unstoppable with Seringale because so many things are close to town. Gambling isnt just free in Seringale. Its profitable. and you can get -1 hit 4 dam -1 dex on the level 42 shit. And you can task in 3-4 shops in Seringale. It works in darkhaven but it isnt as easy. I used to grab that shitty-ish gasteride armor to re-sell in darkhaven
The above is the main reason why I end up literally full damroll on almost every characters. Because you can shred low level mobs with damroll and dirt kick . IMO the faster you can kill mobs the better for your bank account. This fact is why I created drunken stagger for monks as well... to counter my own high damroll urges
What the fuck are you talking about? Roll a fucking monk and you prove to everyone how bad ass they can be in warlords for fucks sake. Literally in my first post I said I failed, I got my ass beat. I had 0 aspirations of being warmaster, because Kaa put the time in and deserves it. I didn't lose any duels on purpose, I wanted to show you how useless the other styles were that way you can see why since you don't fucking play the game. If i was so fucking stupid and wrong why did you change drunken style? I have never once thought I was an elite player. Me and bladefurry both started sucking ass. What the fuck are you talking about, I don't fucking play this game OOC with anyone. Get your fucking facts straight.
The only fucking thing I said about monks in warlords would be it would be fucking nice to be able to do something similar to strike of the cobra, leaf in the breeze or fucking eagle takes flight. The way monks are constructed it doesn't make sense to keep switching stances so you don't get those cool bonuses. Thats fucking it. If monks don't get them because of damage reduction on blunt weapons fine. The trade off is you can clear winter with one other person. Fuck sometimes you act like a 5 year old.
Davairus
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You're one to say anybody is acting like a 5 year old.
Kaa and Kaio both already proven that monks are badass in warlords. Especially Kaa. He won the inaugural cracked skull tournament - easily. I made a drunken style tweak because I've been planning to do it forever anyway, and its mainly out of the pure mind numbing boredom of reading leapord style graze to a loss logs.
Now look at this shit:
[50 75 relics ?? ] silver-grey bracelet (wrist) - made of silver, 0 lbs
> buy bracelet
Object 'dragonblood bracelet silver-grey' is type jewelry, material silver.
Extra flags: glow hum anti_good anti_evil.
Made to be worn on the wrist.
Weight is 0 lbs 1 ounces, value is 12, level is 50.
Modifies hitroll by -1.
Modifies damroll by 4.
You buy a dragonblood silver-grey bracelet of evisceration.
2nd try.
I didn't just ace it by luck on my second try, that's just how good the smuggler is. Its the best damn gambler mob in the game, but it being relics has made it inaccessible and I can see has left some of you feeling forced onto doing some mind numbing repetitive shit just to get acceptable wrist items. Its a poor change. By the end of this month this item (and all others like it) will be 7500 gold per trial with the ability to sell gear to the smuggler and get the gold refunded, so thats like, 30 rolls for 200k gold. Keep in mind I just spent 2 1/2 months rooting out loads of shitty gold exploits. Youre fucking welcome.
Bladefury BANNED
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Yo why the fuck are you even bringing me into this dav like seriously for fuck sake unless you're gonna sprinkle butterflies and rainbows on my name dont fucking bring me into it cause I mind my business. On that note fuck you for that. Thanks.
Bladefury BANNED
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You're comment makes me want to do stupid shit like get end game gear drop it somewhere change my IP and go grab it on another character because clearly no matter how well you're doing in game your past will always come back to bite you in the ass. I'm just gonna say I agree with ozaru cause I'm annoyed as fuck dav even had the dick cheese to mention me. So if you see my level 15 running around in end game its cause dav ran his pooper scooper.
Davairus
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sounds like something that would require effort so I doubt it
Bladefury BANNED
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Is that a challenge to see how much I can cheat before I’m caught???? Cause I’ll get an IP scrambler downloaded to my computer again and you’ll never be able to trace which character touched what item when
Davairus
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I can tell who you are playing as soon as you say a single sentence.
Phostan
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bladefurry in a nutshell:
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1199810-russian-interference-in-the-2016-united-states-presidential-election
Davairus
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I do like you alot though bf. I cheered your post purely for entertainment value. Really my only point I'm trying to make is you guys are among some of the best players and its sucked seeing you on a skid of also-ran characters and quick deletes. I thought for sure Moko would end up leading warlords and induct your next Warlord , and then some epic tournament finales would ensue. Instead its Justice vs Strife and no warlord presence. I just want to see you back on form. You guys should both be blademasters in Warlords at the same time and duel for the warmaster spot.
Bladefury BANNED
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I tried that and even put in 50 hours straight worth of training on a char for Lorne to say oh btw you can no longer enchant weapons which when I was war master and asked about it he said it was up to discretion of the warlord and he told me I shouldn’t get divine healing from a healer because they didn’t follow him so I was getting blessing from another god sooooooooo why the fuck would I want to be a warlord when it’s simply much easier now to be strife and still be able to get magical help. Like taking away enchanted weapons I can see that cause you can save medals up and sharpen your blade which also doesn’t mark the blade magical but taking away communed healing because they follow another god is a waste of my time. You mine as well just say no traveling with magic casters or commuters because they help you usuing magic even if it’s a flame arrow. Had Lorne not been trying to give resatimm a blow job because resatimm was the one who yet again was following my characters and seen I used enchanted weapons and communed healing from a healer then maybe i would be proven already considering I was winning battles without magical use or warlord powers
Davairus
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Curative magic (ie healing) was allowed since the warlord cabal was rebuilt in 2015. Healing through nomagic is allowed.
I described this on page 2 of the thread where I reopened warlords
https://abandonedrealms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9571
I wrote all this:
"Regarding curative, I don't think it is a satisfying experience, especially at max level, to block curative. The warlords end up using healers to do all the tanking since they can't heal themselves. This sucks for the warlords, because they have all this defense and no opportunity to use it, but instead end up having to bitch out, because nobody can solo tank all that stuff. And it sucks for the healers, because they're having to heal a vulnerable target - and even worse, putting themselves at risk. They have to keep spells up to avoid bashing and tripping, etc. It is inefficient for both sides, so instead of being the kickass group it would be with sensible restrictions on magic use, its a group that spends more time sleeping than actually doing things. This is an obvious result of flying in the face of the game's design for some reason"
I made it that way because I thought it was retarded watching an elf healer tank winter for the warlords.
Ultimately whether heals allowed or not is Lornes call not Resatimm's call. Your character was not ruled out of being inducted as far as I know.
Bladefury BANNED
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Look at my application it was denied I can copy and paste my denial letter here as well
Bladefury BANNED
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I got pulled into a room with Lorne and restating where Lorne asked me a bunch of bullshit questions about why I accept healing and enchanted weapons which I couldn’t give a plausible reason to use enchanted weapons because he is right. But when he said healing I simply said that the healing received was not magical in nature but a divine gift given from the Gods. He went on to basically say the healing was a no go because the healer didn’t follow him. So I was receiving divine help from another God and basically committed blasphemy. Idk why he is changing his opinion on things I specifically got information about his preferences as a warmaster. Like the whole enchanted weapons stuff. Conundo use to have all his weapons enchanted until I asked Lorne about it and he said it’s up to the warlord but no good warlord uses enchanted weapons. Which I agree but the fact that I wasn’t inducted yet and couldn’t use aura and such I needed that extra 5 hitroll to even compete with the monks running around at 25 with 70 plus hours of training each at the time there were 3. Sooo idk I basically gave all my nice shit I accumulated to a vampire who got wrecked a couple days later and haven’t played since.
Davairus
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OK, so, its not a denied application. The application says "under review". Denied applications say they are closed. I also checked what Lorne wrote and it ends with this "If you wish, you can continue sending of your progress to the Halls and in time perhaps you will gain the glory to enter the Halls. " That's definitely not a rejection. It seems you were just given a timeout which makes sense vs the enchanted weapons laziness. The correct conclusion is Lorne wants to have you in the cabal but your recent actions have made that impossible. i.e. Don't be a dumbass. As for the 70 hours training monks at level 25. That is occuring because it is allowed. Someone should just make a level 30 human shaman and dunk level 25 squatters. The way to beat those with sharp minds is not to just become mindless. That only works on the forum
Lorne
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Instead of whining like a little bitch, maybe just nut up BF. Stop trying to skim and bend the rules because you have insider knowledge. Just play it straight. No one has ultimate say in Warlords expect me. When other Immortals bring up issues with any Warlords or Warlord applicants, I take it seriously and follow up. Infact, I followup all notes I receive about any Warlord conduct because that is my duty as Warlord Immortal.
I got their side of the story and then transferred you to have you explain yourself to get your side of the story. The conclusion was basically you trying your best to bend every rule available to you as an applicant. It's very poor form for a previous Warmaster. Just play better and your application was not ultimate denied but if you're too impatient to put in the work, you won't be inducted. I don't care who you've played earlier, this goes to anyone trying to join Warlords.
Bladefury BANNED
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Simply not applying till I’m ready To induct myself via autoinduct seems to be what I’ll need to do to avoid any in the middle retardation. The fact that you even took the time to poke me surprised me because well let’s be honest and every warlord ever under you is gonna say the same thing you never are around if you are you are wizinvis and give little to 0 insight or direction. I actually got more insight on what to do to become warmaster from thorgoth which is funny. Also if impatient is waiting the entire week AFTER application we sent then extend or remove the autoinduct feature I always train before I send my Application so I’ll have 5 or more masteries
Right off the bat. I think said character has 20 plus right now at rank 25 with like 70 hours what patience more do I need to have??
Davairus
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I think 99.99% of people's beef with you is misplaced, its actually just your verbal laziness stirs up resentment. Everybody else can tell your characters from their run-on sentences. Everybody else makes the effort to not look obvious. Does that make sense to you bf? Basically, youve been doing this for ten years now
Lorne
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Autoinduct isn't going to help you when I realize you're retarded after you autoinducted and booted within a week.
Matrix
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randomly telling warlords they're not allowed to use heals anymore is a pretty bitch move and you know it
Stiehl26
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I think Lorne said that he wasn't allowing divine healing from a follower of another religion.
Matrix
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because of all the healers and shamans who follow fucking lorne out there right
Stiehl26
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Finally we agree on something.
Davairus
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BF. I sent you a pm. I will be looking to talk to you directly in game about recent events, and just to clarify it isn't you who is in trouble.
Bladefury BANNED
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I concur with what you said Dav give me a few days and I’ll make it happen or at least pave the path.
I mean Kaa is 18 and 14 against warriors rangers and berserkers and Kaio fought like 3 decent fights. Kaa is a great player never said he wasn't I simply said I wouldn't make a human monk because I felt half-elf would be easier for ME. And if and when I decide to make another I will definitely stack dam roll because when I got steam rolled by hirendan I thought damn maybe I need more hit roll and I will be able to avoid he attacks, I even stacked ac and hp made no difference. Unfortunately the dam roll gear I wanted was not available and I blew all my gold and relics at the shop. SO HERE GOES GET READY, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE SMUGGLER LESS OF A GRIND, YOU ARE THE BEST *HUGS*
Because I for one would much rather go the smuggler than farm the undertaker 100 times or kill akyua which takes 15 minutes FYI.
feel better now?
ivindel
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Hold on... one thing stood out to me - stacking hitroll lets you avoid more attacks? Are you certain about that or I misread you?
Davairus
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Slightly. I have seen the sentiment come up a couple times that I dont play the game and I'll reassure you that I do. There are a lot of issues that come to light quickly and readily by being in a player's shoes. I made a good align avian to dunk evils with and my goal is to cause notes to immortals complaining I should be outcasted because I am an aggressive neutral. If I get that note I will hang it on my wall
Are changes to items, areas, etc not logged in a changelog and do they not go through an approval process? I would think that there would be an automatic log entry on any changes.
I also noticed that some updates don't show in the updates section that goes out monthly. I don't think anything that gets changed should be omitted from that list. The more transparency the less likely people are to freak out about "stealth nerfs" or "stealth changes". Just my two cents.
Vhrael
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Some changes aren't intended to be public on purpose. If we're dealing with exploits and "cheating," for example, it's sometimes beneficial to track the individuals responsible for bringing the exploit to light to see what they do next once they realize their honey pots have been spoiled.
The staff tries to be as explicit and transparent as possible, and I guaran-fucking-tee you that there is 1000% more shared information now than there was when I was active in the past. There's so much that is shared knowledge (hell, look at the codex) that was previously considered taboo; players today have it far easier than they used to.
Granted a lot of that was due to things like invokation and OOC issues becoming so obvious and in-your-face that changes had to be made, but I still feel that Dav and the staff do a lot more for transparency's sake than they do to hide things.
But what about changes imms make like Dav referenced where he said imms changed the huntsman for example.
Davairus
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There is a trivial way to look at recently changed items.
BlackWidow
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Well, as Vhrael said... Not every change should be made public. There was a typo I found related to one of the secrets in the game, and unlike the vast majority of the typos which have been reported the fix was not publicly announced because that would have made the secret no longer "secret".
Erlwith
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Well I think secret stuff is obviously... secret. 0.o I do think nerfs that affect how I play the game should be announced. If for no other reason, I can't complain about ninja nerfs if they're not happening.
Heh Vhrael you sound like the guy at the library when I'm like "hey your internet is down" and he's like "Well you should be grateful you even have internet! Back in my day, we had to read books and write letters and send it in the mailbox!"
Erlwith
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By the way the libraries are still closed. WHAT THE HECK. (back in my day we didn't have libraries. we had to sail across the ocean to distant lands if we wanted to know something.)
Erlwith
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Oh one final thing I should've included. I think Dav for the most part does a great job with full disclosure.
Vhrael
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@Erlwith, @Faeryl, @BlackWidow, etc. = I'll point to what Dav and others have said in the past (even recently):
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Davairus
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When I went about writing a codex/logboard I thought it would be an important feature for the codex to detect when identifies become out of date. It wasn't implemented as an accountability feature. If we ever add a bestiary page it would get the same feature. I'm not sure if it makes sense having the identity spell work on mobs.
hamsandwich
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according to help lore, lore works on mobiles and can show immunities and resistances (it doesn't mention vulns in the helpfile). I guess a bestiary could show that kind of info? I don't think anyone uses lore on mobs like ever. But some mobs have backstories written for them and everything. I guess that theoretically could be compiled into a bestiary?
BlackWidow
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@hamsandwich: that was originally the domain of the Mystics prior to the creation of the Consortium (creating backstories on mobs). Part of the problem I have had across multiple characters in trying to add anything is that I simply have not been playing long enough to have more than passing knowledge of the rich history of the game. If a mob has lore written about it (take Xanthak as an example), it used to be that Mystics could read this lore entry to the room along with assorted other information about the mob. The problem is that a lot of mobs simply do not have any lore whatsoever, so this is unreliable. This has generally not been among the highest of priorities, either.
It would certainly give the Consortium another place to focus if we created a bestiary however...
Vanisse
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Physical dedicated Consortium members (like Ethaac) already have purview over mobs, if they wish to pursue it. This didn't go away.
Vanisse
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Also in regards to closing issues - I close a lot of issues without comments, mainly where it would just be a lot of uninteresting spam (typos generally. Ceridwel reports typo fixes, I don't). If I didn't, everyone's MOTD would be useless.
BlackWidow
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Ah. I did not figure it was gone... I just was not sure who still had access.
Kedaleam
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None of this is Mokoto related. Seems like a solid thread to start in the forum or something not a character GY.
Davairus
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Shall we take bets on why Kedaleam threw cold water on the topic of having mob stats tracked? Maybe we have found our culprit.
Vanisse
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speculation without evidence? ehhh I think we should be better than that
Matrix
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I like how this is a thing despite dav saying over and over he knows exactly who makes area changes and has complete logs. This guy will say anything to make problems sound like they're the fault of the person complaining
Davairus
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Sorry to disappoint you guys but it was just a joke. Its called irony. Don't go overboard with the apology now.
Kedaleam
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wow...
Matrix
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"But what about changes imms make like Dav referenced where he said imms changed the huntsman for example."
"There is a trivial way to look at recently changed items."
I'll apologize when you point to the place where we can trivially see changes made to mobs or to the stats of gambled items
you know, what's actually being discussed here. The things you're avoiding talking about
Vhrael
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“ When I went about writing a codex/logboard I thought it would be an important feature for the codex to detect when identifies become out of date. It wasn't implemented as an accountability feature.”
@Matrix - I think that’s what he was referring to here. Since the codex lists updated/outdated items, it’s not quite in-your-face, but it at least points players in the right direction.
As for stats on gambled items, do you mean min/max values or rolled actual stats?
Davairus
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I know you aren't going to apologize. It was just another ironic statement. Do I need to explain it? First, Kedaleam wouldnt change a mob without getting input ever, he's much too conscientious for that. Second, you would never apologize. I didn't know you don't understand sarcasm and irony.
If there was supposed to be a serious discussion about mob change tracking, then I'll state a further two things about that. First, that nobody should be too surprised to hear a push for that coming from someone who just wants to keep AR in a freezer. Secondly, the same person who went all in on spamming n-bombs all over the forum has no place to be complaining about attacks on anybody instead of discussion now. You blew up all credibility and turned into just noise. Why I would bother listening anymore. If any discussion is actually important it would be better if you just sat out as it will end when you post into it
Tired of losing duels and more accurately just tired of getting my ass kicked.
I will never make another monk warlord, unless its a half elf neutral.
ivindel 
0 , 0 , 0 . I have a question for you though - did you think you could have done better in those duels that you lost? Ozaru 
1 , 0 , 0 . I lost a few fights that I should have won, but the fights against Saxa, Thoom or Hirendan were not even close. Getting hit with the type of damage they were dealing really turns me off from ever making another warlord, especially a monk warlord. It would be neutral beast ranger all the way because when you miss out on damage dealing forms its stupid. I have no complaints about any of the players, immortals everyone was great. Trying to rp a monk who took a vow of silence was fucking brutal. Some of you are dense mother fuckers.
ivindel 
0 , 0 , 0 . I do agree that tenacity is one tier of damage weaker than sanctuary which explains the higher damage you suffer from those opponents who hits hard, but I do think that any other player would have suffered the same degree of damage from these opponents anyway. Being a monk has the advantage of forcing your opponent to limit their weapon choices to magical types to circumvent the physical damage reduction from iron body.
Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . The tweak to drunken is important. Merlandox 
0 , 0 , 0 . What was the tweak to drunken? Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . stagger kicks in at disembowel instead of dismember
[reply to Ozaru]Trovo mentioned in our last fight that I should upgrade my equipment. I mean I thought being 40/40 is pretty good. all my eq was either plus 3 or plus 4 hit or dam. Maybe monks need more dam roll than hit roll because I sure as shit wasn't parrying anything.
On the other hand, I feel that certain match-ups are just not as good for monks. Take for example your fight against Trovo, you were not able to capitalize on his piercing weakness because of the dependency on leopard and crane mostly. Moreover, leopard special forms changes your attack element to ice-type which a jotun resists.
Equipment wise, I think that 40/40 is decent enough, although I do agree that prioritizing damroll will be a better option for monks since leopard and crane provides hitroll bonuses, and coupled with the guaranteed 3 attacks per round makes for consistent damage. In my opinion, 30/50 is better.
Anyhow, Kizra is the other active evil human monk that does not depend on tenacity and can use magic. He seems to be doing well so far from my own observations, and maybe he will tell a different story from yours.
[reply to Jaran]
The vow of silence was great but that is too hard in a social game. You know people were playing dumb to try and get you to talk. Draw point draw get an answer from left field, hillarious.
Grayden 
0 , 0 , 0 . I like Mokoto, none the less.
[reply to Grayden][reply to Bladefury]
[reply to Ethaac]
Tenacity can be a pain but it's not that bad. You obviously were doing well and had a lot of duel wins. You started losing more recently though, it's true. But what changed? Even against me we were like 5-4, so you can't really say that you always lost to me. At least not until you started to fight differently. It was like maybe you had convinced yourself you had no chance and so you gave up. I can't say for certain though, obviously!
Either way, good character. Sad to see you go.
[reply to Thoom]
You seem to make a more interesting character every time you roll up lately. Mokoto brushed up against greatness while you were keeping up your role play.
I'm genuinely looking forward to whatever beast ranger you roll up next. See you around.
[reply to Vevier]
like he watches the tournament final and says HOLY SHIT at the end or something
[reply to Davairus]
I was all about the lawful evil monk who took the vow of silence. I was waiting to see what would happen when you decided to cash those chips in, in terms of RP. Sad we won't get to see it.
Lost a great character today. Really look forward to the next one you roll up.
[reply to lionSpyre]
[reply to Hirendan]
[reply to BlackWidow]
[reply to kento]
Ophalina still reigns supreme in the art of silence.
Ophalina 4 , 0 , 1 . ...
[reply to Mikoos][reply to tayyah]
That being said I am going to air a few grievances.
1. Monk forms need work, it really sucks to be in a cabal when you see strike of the cobra and parting of the wave and monks can't do any of that.
2. Making the undertaker drop 4 dam items happen once in a blue moon sucks. Making Akyua even harder to get to and then dropping shit items sucks. Dav I don't know why your method of balancing the game is always to make it more of grind. Basically if you are in a pinch or all the rares are gone you can get head gloves legs and two bracelets pretty easily to be more competitive I hope you change that back.
3. I stopped playing monks because of the whole yellow brick road on automap. I had no idea why people would find me so easily and I could never heal up while I could never find them. That shit really pisses me off because I deleted a few monks in that time because of that.
4. Monks have been played the same way for years and for now to have a change on drunken stance irks me as well. I am glad you are making an effort but I think it is misplaced. Honestly monks should have 2 styles offensive and defensive and maybe you can specialize them. But to have 4 monk tattoos that no one ever uncovers and a bunch of different styles that never get used is a waste. Dragon stance should be used more often than magic missile.
Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . yellow brick road was terrible this is true. Monks can't be 2 styles because the whole game changed to rock paper scissors. That doesnt make sense. most monks could spec drunken or panda to cover the 3rd style instead of going all-in on leopard. This isn't about feelings. The game is designed to require 3 styles and you will get hobbled easily if you are easily predictable. if you want to have just two styles play a paladin (two handed or shield block) its complete unsafe to dual wield vs a warrior with a paladin , and even if you did it would suck Merlandox 
0 , 0 , 0 . Ozaru's point 2 is so valid. Akyua's hp is fucking ridiculous to farm. You might as well remove Akyua from the equation, delete the wristlet. It's the same concept as putting a gambled equipment on Nevros. Like wtf? Who's gonna farm him seriously? Merlandox 
0 , 0 , 0 . Oh btw Ozaru, dragon style can be used to kill zombies after a necromancer flees. You kill zombies so fast that the necromancer has just lost 3hours of his zombie farming time. Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . 1. you can get other fucking gear and not farm the karateka over and over. yes i had originally two wristlets on it ON PURPOSE and i did not remove the second wristlet so dont bitch at me that its hard to farm the wristlet because i had deliberately made it much easier than it is. clearly someone thinks killing the same shit over and over is much more fun than i do. i dont fuck with everything around here. I gave it two wristlets because it has two wrists. And sometimes people change areas WITHOUT SAYING. remember the huntmaster dupe? It was doing the same damage as literally 2 dupes put together. sometimes i dont agree a bit and just think eh fuck it, its not like the purples got moved or something. dont you feel that way? the karateka could have a better bracer than he does at this point no doubt, its an epic fight now. but its not the end of the fucking world. That area didnt even exist 5 years ago
Ozaru 
1 , 0 , 1 . If you are in charge of the game assume responsibility when things change and tell your imms that they need to document in game changes because it affects the game play. If people change things without your knowledge or your consent then you have a team that doesn't respect you. Control your team, and if you don't think it is necessary then accept the criticism that comes with it. If they change something you don't agree with, don't give them the ability to change it.
Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . Youre still complaining its a grind when you can literally plant money trees and shake them for gold. I think everybody can see a monk has an assortment of skills and anatomies to train so is going to take longer to train than your usual ranger with like dirt/disarm and herb and its you who are super out of touch with the rest of the playerbase not me. why dont you try training a priest if you think training a fighter is so hard Ozaru 
0 , 0 , 0 . i had a lot of shit typed out, but then said fuck it. You and I don't agree how you run this game. But guess what you don't have to listen to me, I have my opinion whether you want to take any advice on some of the in game aspects that aren't fun that is up to you. Maybe I am out of touch, but at the very least I will continue to tell you what I think is not fun about my experience because I want this game to succeed. Stop insulting your fucking pbase by trying to insult our intelligence. Be an adult. Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . whose insulting who? I';m just saying you are full of shit. Youre whining about grinding literally a month after i caught you multi-ing a group with your fucking phone. Isnt this literally the first fucking character you made since then? Everyone was talking about you being an elite but as soon as I check to see whats going on I find you are cheating at the game in such a way as is absolutely shocking and disappointing to every Imm who you snuck under the radar. and the first fucking thing you did when you were caught was say it shouldnt have taken everybody so long to catch it. no sympathy from me that this game feels like an effort from you after you apparently spent so long cheating. So quit being butthurt because you were caught cheating and bohoo playing fairly after being so used to cheating feels too fucking hard now. cry me a fucking river about it. Some of us can play and appreciate the fucking challenge of the game without needing our fucking illusions (all hasted) included in the group without penalizing exp and all this other stupid fucking shit a few lazy people fucking think makes a game feel like it can be beaten quick enough to be worth levelling on
Ozaru 
1 , 1 , 0 . You're a bitch and you simply can't take criticism so you lash out. Beta fucking male Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . OK ill bait. Your monk record was above 50% and thats INCLUDING all the deliberate throws you did to try to prove monks suck. Monks didnt suck. YOU SUCKED. You went on tilt and lost a load of duels on purpose and basically rage deleted per the usual pattern of behavior from you, complaining the warlord powers arent good enough. You knew the limits. You knew it before you rolled a monk. Monk warlords have a reputation for kicking ass and you failed. You havent played a good character since Eurayel and you fucking know it. you and bladefury both started sucking ass. This is fact. Pull your shit together. I cant believe I thought you would be warmaster now. youre on a fucking skid man. get it together and stop blaming the game code Merlandox 
0 , 0 , 0 . Ok dav, i'm going to throw something out to see if you agree. Killing Akyua over again and again for the wristlet isn't for the damroll/hitroll eq. Honestly, 4dam -1 -1 is easily replaceable. What isn't replaceable is the save vs wristlet which is wayyyyy more valuable than the damroll/hitroll equipment. And even more so, it's not rare. So a winter run doesn't mean you don't kill akyua, you shouldn't be comparing the two. After running winter, redhorne, underworld, you will start killing akyua for save vs (non rare) to swap out when you fight mages.
Ozaru 
0 , 0 , 0 . watch out you are fucking donkey for agreeing with me Nycticora 
0 , 0 , 1 . >Some of us can play and appreciate the fucking challenge of the game without needing our fucking illusions (all hasted) included in the group without penalizing exp
Davairus 0 , 0 , 1 . whatever helps you to ignore my valid criticism and feel better Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . Merlandox : I agree with what you wrote insofar as theres not much choice but to grind that mob over and over for repops when compared against the difficulty of gambling other mundane gambled items (i.e. Aanam in Timaran cuffs). That could be wrong though, if you are not treating the fact that items on vendors eventually get "absorbed" into the shop and supply the shopkeeper with their value in gold. Once theshop has reached that state - which takes only about an hour or maybe 2 hr from the time of initial sale I believe - you can basically begin gamble for free at the store since it is getting constantly resupplied. Its therefore going to depend on how long you feel willing or able to spend grinding Aanam as well.
Merlandox 
0 , 0 , 0 . I have no idea what you're talking about gambling for free. I have spend millions of gold at darkhaven timaran and many other shops. And i meant it's millions just to get my breaks and saves. If there's free gambling that i do not know about I'll be so fking sad... Davairus 0 , 0 , 1 . Ok let me dumb it down for you Merlandox. This wont be filled out perfect - you can easliy figure it out on your own from here.
[reply to Ozaru]2. the undertaker literally doesnt drop fucking 4 dam items anymore. that was an obvious fucking glitch. you guys have assumed a bug is something i put in the game on purpose to make you kill undertaker 1000 times. i ninja fixed this months ago. did you fucking ask anyone if that was supposed to be like that? It didnt seem like a big deal that an easy to kill mob is dropping non-rare 4 dam items? Hah. I bet it didnt. youre taking t items that were glitching to have too high of stats and complaining that took you too long??? get the fuck out. fuck off. a lot of reason patch is so late is because i have to fucking watch what people are doing as the reliable way to find glitches. meanwhile you got a knuckle dragger screaming im ruining the game while i fix the shit like levelling from 35 to 50 in literally 40 minutes. youve filled the bug system up with typos and retarded shit like "ohho ohh i think its really fucking urgent that i can have my cursed weapon removed from me which i i fucked up myself". you guys are a fucking cancer sometimes. seriously you can fuck off with that. thats the fucking entitlement of thinking a 4 dam item dropping as a non-rare was a fucking thing that was supposed to be the way. like shit man. i dont even know what else to comment except that this shit is literally retarded stupid and you must be home all day huffing your own farts if this is idealogically your idea of what a challenging game looks like. Its not. stop fucking assuming dumbass stuff like i intentionally gave a mob a 1/1000 chance to drop a 4 dam item for a level 40 character. Thats horseshit
3. in the next patch, the unlucky smuggler is going back to gold so you can just gamble shit at him (with bank overdraft). this being relics was a mistake. i've acknowledged multiple times it is a mistake. Its a big buzz-kill. but there are also other OP rares which you can use that I see Darvaz quite happily using. He did winter while you assholes are complaining you dont want to kill Karateka over and over. why dont you kill players for eq. you know , the guys who ran winter without you? Becaus eyou are hostile to everybody so you dont get invited.
Why would I assume something is a fucking glitch when you introduce it. I have ZERO knowledge about programming, but clearly their must be a high limit and a low limit when it comes to attributes for eq. So if a minimum is 1 and a maximum is 3 I would imagine it would be set. Why would we complain about something when we feel that it was intended. The respect we give you and your game is clearly not returned when we bring up things we don't like.
You are simply misguided that gaining winter equipment is easy to get. The only reason why this game has a lot of people playing is because of a fucking global pandemic so people can't go out and do shit. Me Darvaz and Jener went through the blood faction and it took about 2 hours. how often does a monk shaman and berserker come on and have 2 hours to dedicate to getting equipment? You know what we got, 1 helm, 1 ring and 1 fucking bracelet. So when you have mobs that drop random gear its a fucking god send for people who don't have 2 hours grind for items.
Change your fucking outlook on this game. Stop making it a grind, most of us are probably in our 30's and 40's playing this in our spare time and our spare fucking time is less and less. No one is leaving this game because they hate it, they are leaving because they don't have the time to invest in it. So if I can make it to level 50 in 2 days without being bored off my ass great. If I can get into a cabal without waiting 2 weeks thats fucking amazing.
Lastly roll up a character every once in a while to get a taste of what this game is like.
I'm legit annoyed with you now. and i was cool with you before ozaru. Fucking just stop digging a damn grave. You can do alot better than this.
By changing Akyua to have this ridiculous amount of hp essentially makes the pbase do a few things.
1. I'm gonna get my OOC buddies and farm akyua together. (if you don't have friends, you suffer. But is this ideal?)
2. I'll farm gold and go try my luck somewhere with gold. This becomes even more of a grind because pre changed akyua was way more efficient to farm than farming gold. (if you count the time to kill akyua vs gold/min for most classes)
I mean if that's what you want then go ahead, i'm just pointing out that the change to akyua wasn't good.
I guess you forgot the 30 fucking hours we spent on enabling that and the long conversations we had deciding to allow pets in groups without penalizing xp because you're a waffling retard who can't hold a thought in your mind for more than a week before it fucking evaporates
Also, its not just the saves causing the grinding. That problem is also to do with the fact that a bunch of the well-known rare damroll wrist items have little to no AC on them. This rule is completely ignored by the gambling random armor stats, and that causes those rares to lose significant appeal and pk'ing to also diminish since gambling for gear is more guaranteed than pk'ing for gear and gambling has less of a hoarding stigma on it. That is another of the things we have all turned a blind eye to for a very long time and we are reaping what we have sown in that regard. just look, you're not even considering a frost burned bracelet. Instead its being considered a saves slot random item. I remember years ago discussing with code 64 we'd like to swap out just rings/neck items for that shit (very light items that could be stored in sacks in garden variety format), and code's favorite item in AR was the mithril bracer which oddly enough doesnt exist anymore and just made my to-do list
1. grab a load of mithril
2. buy a battle belt from pel the armorer. If you get luck you haggle it down to 10k.
3. sell all the mithril, quickly, for a full refund
4 repeat 1-3 with red dragon eq
5 repeat 1-3 with splinted mail eq
6 repeat 1-3 with brass eq
...
...etc
...
7 notice eventually all the mithril is gone somehow. this is because the shop swallowed it. and its value is added to the stores available funds
8 grab and sell your load of mithril. free 10k gold
9 same with the red dragon 20k
10 same with the splited 30k
12 same with the brass 40k
you just got 40k for literally nothing. AND you put armor back on the shops. so its just a matter of time before you can sell all the shit to the shop again
You can do this with all sorts of shit. Titanum bracers. Tantalum eq. goblin eq. dragon sea eq. At the same time you can type "task" on the shop and occasionally get a big ticket item worth of gold. but the shop inventory is capped at 10k.
this grind is totally unstoppable with Seringale because so many things are close to town. Gambling isnt just free in Seringale. Its profitable. and you can get -1 hit 4 dam -1 dex on the level 42 shit. And you can task in 3-4 shops in Seringale. It works in darkhaven but it isnt as easy. I used to grab that shitty-ish gasteride armor to re-sell in darkhaven
The above is the main reason why I end up literally full damroll on almost every characters. Because you can shred low level mobs with damroll and dirt kick . IMO the faster you can kill mobs the better for your bank account. This fact is why I created drunken stagger for monks as well... to counter my own high damroll urges
The only fucking thing I said about monks in warlords would be it would be fucking nice to be able to do something similar to strike of the cobra, leaf in the breeze or fucking eagle takes flight. The way monks are constructed it doesn't make sense to keep switching stances so you don't get those cool bonuses. Thats fucking it. If monks don't get them because of damage reduction on blunt weapons fine. The trade off is you can clear winter with one other person. Fuck sometimes you act like a 5 year old.
Davairus 1 , 0 , 1 . You're one to say anybody is acting like a 5 year old.
Bladefury BANNED 2 , 0 , 0 . Yo why the fuck are you even bringing me into this dav like seriously for fuck sake unless you're gonna sprinkle butterflies and rainbows on my name dont fucking bring me into it cause I mind my business. On that note fuck you for that. Thanks. Bladefury BANNED 0 , 1 , 0 . You're comment makes me want to do stupid shit like get end game gear drop it somewhere change my IP and go grab it on another character because clearly no matter how well you're doing in game your past will always come back to bite you in the ass. I'm just gonna say I agree with ozaru cause I'm annoyed as fuck dav even had the dick cheese to mention me. So if you see my level 15 running around in end game its cause dav ran his pooper scooper. Davairus 0 , 0 , 1 . sounds like something that would require effort so I doubt it Bladefury BANNED 1 , 0 , 0 . Is that a challenge to see how much I can cheat before I’m caught???? Cause I’ll get an IP scrambler downloaded to my computer again and you’ll never be able to trace which character touched what item when Davairus 0 , 0 , 1 . I can tell who you are playing as soon as you say a single sentence. Phostan 
0 , 0 , 0 . bladefurry in a nutshell: Davairus 1 , 0 , 0 . I do like you alot though bf. I cheered your post purely for entertainment value. Really my only point I'm trying to make is you guys are among some of the best players and its sucked seeing you on a skid of also-ran characters and quick deletes. I thought for sure Moko would end up leading warlords and induct your next Warlord , and then some epic tournament finales would ensue. Instead its Justice vs Strife and no warlord presence. I just want to see you back on form. You guys should both be blademasters in Warlords at the same time and duel for the warmaster spot. Bladefury BANNED 0 , 0 , 0 . I tried that and even put in 50 hours straight worth of training on a char for Lorne to say oh btw you can no longer enchant weapons which when I was war master and asked about it he said it was up to discretion of the warlord and he told me I shouldn’t get divine healing from a healer because they didn’t follow him so I was getting blessing from another god sooooooooo why the fuck would I want to be a warlord when it’s simply much easier now to be strife and still be able to get magical help. Like taking away enchanted weapons I can see that cause you can save medals up and sharpen your blade which also doesn’t mark the blade magical but taking away communed healing because they follow another god is a waste of my time. You mine as well just say no traveling with magic casters or commuters because they help you usuing magic even if it’s a flame arrow. Had Lorne not been trying to give resatimm a blow job because resatimm was the one who yet again was following my characters and seen I used enchanted weapons and communed healing from a healer then maybe i would be proven already considering I was winning battles without magical use or warlord powers Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . Curative magic (ie healing) was allowed since the warlord cabal was rebuilt in 2015. Healing through nomagic is allowed.
Bladefury BANNED 0 , 0 , 0 . Look at my application it was denied I can copy and paste my denial letter here as well Bladefury BANNED 0 , 0 , 0 . I got pulled into a room with Lorne and restating where Lorne asked me a bunch of bullshit questions about why I accept healing and enchanted weapons which I couldn’t give a plausible reason to use enchanted weapons because he is right. But when he said healing I simply said that the healing received was not magical in nature but a divine gift given from the Gods. He went on to basically say the healing was a no go because the healer didn’t follow him. So I was receiving divine help from another God and basically committed blasphemy. Idk why he is changing his opinion on things I specifically got information about his preferences as a warmaster. Like the whole enchanted weapons stuff. Conundo use to have all his weapons enchanted until I asked Lorne about it and he said it’s up to the warlord but no good warlord uses enchanted weapons. Which I agree but the fact that I wasn’t inducted yet and couldn’t use aura and such I needed that extra 5 hitroll to even compete with the monks running around at 25 with 70 plus hours of training each at the time there were 3. Sooo idk I basically gave all my nice shit I accumulated to a vampire who got wrecked a couple days later and haven’t played since. Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . OK, so, its not a denied application. The application says "under review". Denied applications say they are closed. I also checked what Lorne wrote and it ends with this "If you wish, you can continue sending of your progress to the Halls and in time perhaps you will gain the glory to enter the Halls. " That's definitely not a rejection. It seems you were just given a timeout which makes sense vs the enchanted weapons laziness. The correct conclusion is Lorne wants to have you in the cabal but your recent actions have made that impossible. i.e. Don't be a dumbass. As for the 70 hours training monks at level 25. That is occuring because it is allowed. Someone should just make a level 30 human shaman and dunk level 25 squatters. The way to beat those with sharp minds is not to just become mindless. That only works on the forum Lorne 
0 , 0 , 1 . Instead of whining like a little bitch, maybe just nut up BF. Stop trying to skim and bend the rules because you have insider knowledge. Just play it straight. No one has ultimate say in Warlords expect me. When other Immortals bring up issues with any Warlords or Warlord applicants, I take it seriously and follow up. Infact, I followup all notes I receive about any Warlord conduct because that is my duty as Warlord Immortal.
Bladefury BANNED 0 , 0 , 0 . Simply not applying till I’m ready To induct myself via autoinduct seems to be what I’ll need to do to avoid any in the middle retardation. The fact that you even took the time to poke me surprised me because well let’s be honest and every warlord ever under you is gonna say the same thing you never are around if you are you are wizinvis and give little to 0 insight or direction. I actually got more insight on what to do to become warmaster from thorgoth which is funny. Also if impatient is waiting the entire week AFTER application we sent then extend or remove the autoinduct feature I always train before I send my Application so I’ll have 5 or more masteries Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . I think 99.99% of people's beef with you is misplaced, its actually just your verbal laziness stirs up resentment. Everybody else can tell your characters from their run-on sentences. Everybody else makes the effort to not look obvious. Does that make sense to you bf? Basically, youve been doing this for ten years now Lorne 
0 , 0 , 1 . Autoinduct isn't going to help you when I realize you're retarded after you autoinducted and booted within a week. Matrix 
1 , 1 , 0 . randomly telling warlords they're not allowed to use heals anymore is a pretty bitch move and you know it Stiehl26 
0 , 0 , 0 . I think Lorne said that he wasn't allowing divine healing from a follower of another religion. Matrix 
2 , 1 , 0 . because of all the healers and shamans who follow fucking lorne out there right Stiehl26 
0 , 0 , 0 . Finally we agree on something. Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . BF. I sent you a pm. I will be looking to talk to you directly in game about recent events, and just to clarify it isn't you who is in trouble. Bladefury BANNED 0 , 0 , 0 . I concur with what you said Dav give me a few days and I’ll make it happen or at least pave the path.
[reply to Ozaru]Kaa and Kaio both already proven that monks are badass in warlords. Especially Kaa. He won the inaugural cracked skull tournament - easily. I made a drunken style tweak because I've been planning to do it forever anyway, and its mainly out of the pure mind numbing boredom of reading leapord style graze to a loss logs.
Now look at this shit:
[50 75 relics ?? ] silver-grey bracelet (wrist) - made of silver, 0 lbs
> buy bracelet
Object 'dragonblood bracelet silver-grey' is type jewelry, material silver.
Extra flags: glow hum anti_good anti_evil.
Made to be worn on the wrist.
Weight is 0 lbs 1 ounces, value is 12, level is 50.
Modifies hitroll by -1.
Modifies damroll by 4.
You buy a dragonblood silver-grey bracelet of evisceration.
2nd try.
I didn't just ace it by luck on my second try, that's just how good the smuggler is. Its the best damn gambler mob in the game, but it being relics has made it inaccessible and I can see has left some of you feeling forced onto doing some mind numbing repetitive shit just to get acceptable wrist items. Its a poor change. By the end of this month this item (and all others like it) will be 7500 gold per trial with the ability to sell gear to the smuggler and get the gold refunded, so thats like, 30 rolls for 200k gold. Keep in mind I just spent 2 1/2 months rooting out loads of shitty gold exploits. Youre fucking welcome.
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I described this on page 2 of the thread where I reopened warlords
https://abandonedrealms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9571
I wrote all this:
"Regarding curative, I don't think it is a satisfying experience, especially at max level, to block curative. The warlords end up using healers to do all the tanking since they can't heal themselves. This sucks for the warlords, because they have all this defense and no opportunity to use it, but instead end up having to bitch out, because nobody can solo tank all that stuff. And it sucks for the healers, because they're having to heal a vulnerable target - and even worse, putting themselves at risk. They have to keep spells up to avoid bashing and tripping, etc. It is inefficient for both sides, so instead of being the kickass group it would be with sensible restrictions on magic use, its a group that spends more time sleeping than actually doing things. This is an obvious result of flying in the face of the game's design for some reason"
I made it that way because I thought it was retarded watching an elf healer tank winter for the warlords.
Ultimately whether heals allowed or not is Lornes call not Resatimm's call. Your character was not ruled out of being inducted as far as I know.
I got their side of the story and then transferred you to have you explain yourself to get your side of the story. The conclusion was basically you trying your best to bend every rule available to you as an applicant. It's very poor form for a previous Warmaster. Just play better and your application was not ultimate denied but if you're too impatient to put in the work, you won't be inducted. I don't care who you've played earlier, this goes to anyone trying to join Warlords.
Right off the bat. I think said character has 20 plus right now at rank 25 with like 70 hours what patience more do I need to have??
Because I for one would much rather go the smuggler than farm the undertaker 100 times or kill akyua which takes 15 minutes FYI.
feel better now?
ivindel 
0 , 0 , 0 . Hold on... one thing stood out to me - stacking hitroll lets you avoid more attacks? Are you certain about that or I misread you? Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . Slightly. I have seen the sentiment come up a couple times that I dont play the game and I'll reassure you that I do. There are a lot of issues that come to light quickly and readily by being in a player's shoes. I made a good align avian to dunk evils with and my goal is to cause notes to immortals complaining I should be outcasted because I am an aggressive neutral. If I get that note I will hang it on my wall
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I also noticed that some updates don't show in the updates section that goes out monthly. I don't think anything that gets changed should be omitted from that list. The more transparency the less likely people are to freak out about "stealth nerfs" or "stealth changes". Just my two cents.
Vhrael 
1 , 0 , 0 . Some changes aren't intended to be public on purpose. If we're dealing with exploits and "cheating," for example, it's sometimes beneficial to track the individuals responsible for bringing the exploit to light to see what they do next once they realize their honey pots have been spoiled.
Faeryl 0 , 0 , 0 . But what about changes imms make like Dav referenced where he said imms changed the huntsman for example. Davairus 0 , 1 , 0 . There is a trivial way to look at recently changed items. BlackWidow 
1 , 0 , 0 . Well, as Vhrael said... Not every change should be made public. There was a typo I found related to one of the secrets in the game, and unlike the vast majority of the typos which have been reported the fix was not publicly announced because that would have made the secret no longer "secret". Erlwith 
0 , 0 , 0 . Well I think secret stuff is obviously... secret. 0.o I do think nerfs that affect how I play the game should be announced. If for no other reason, I can't complain about ninja nerfs if they're not happening.
Erlwith 
0 , 0 , 0 . By the way the libraries are still closed. WHAT THE HECK. (back in my day we didn't have libraries. we had to sail across the ocean to distant lands if we wanted to know something.) Erlwith 
0 , 1 , 0 . Oh one final thing I should've included. I think Dav for the most part does a great job with full disclosure. Vhrael 
0 , 0 , 0 . @Erlwith, @Faeryl, @BlackWidow, etc. = I'll point to what Dav and others have said in the past (even recently):
Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . When I went about writing a codex/logboard I thought it would be an important feature for the codex to detect when identifies become out of date. It wasn't implemented as an accountability feature. If we ever add a bestiary page it would get the same feature. I'm not sure if it makes sense having the identity spell work on mobs. hamsandwich 
0 , 0 , 0 . according to help lore, lore works on mobiles and can show immunities and resistances (it doesn't mention vulns in the helpfile). I guess a bestiary could show that kind of info? I don't think anyone uses lore on mobs like ever. But some mobs have backstories written for them and everything. I guess that theoretically could be compiled into a bestiary? BlackWidow 
0 , 0 , 0 . @hamsandwich: that was originally the domain of the Mystics prior to the creation of the Consortium (creating backstories on mobs). Part of the problem I have had across multiple characters in trying to add anything is that I simply have not been playing long enough to have more than passing knowledge of the rich history of the game. If a mob has lore written about it (take Xanthak as an example), it used to be that Mystics could read this lore entry to the room along with assorted other information about the mob. The problem is that a lot of mobs simply do not have any lore whatsoever, so this is unreliable. This has generally not been among the highest of priorities, either.
Vanisse 
0 , 1 , 0 . Physical dedicated Consortium members (like Ethaac) already have purview over mobs, if they wish to pursue it. This didn't go away. Vanisse 
0 , 0 , 0 . Also in regards to closing issues - I close a lot of issues without comments, mainly where it would just be a lot of uninteresting spam (typos generally. Ceridwel reports typo fixes, I don't). If I didn't, everyone's MOTD would be useless. BlackWidow 
0 , 0 , 0 . Ah. I did not figure it was gone... I just was not sure who still had access. Kedaleam 
0 , 2 , 0 . None of this is Mokoto related. Seems like a solid thread to start in the forum or something not a character GY. Davairus 2 , 2 , 0 . Shall we take bets on why Kedaleam threw cold water on the topic of having mob stats tracked? Maybe we have found our culprit. Vanisse 
0 , 0 , 0 . speculation without evidence? ehhh I think we should be better than that Matrix 
0 , 0 , 2 . I like how this is a thing despite dav saying over and over he knows exactly who makes area changes and has complete logs. This guy will say anything to make problems sound like they're the fault of the person complaining Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . Sorry to disappoint you guys but it was just a joke. Its called irony. Don't go overboard with the apology now. Kedaleam 
0 , 0 , 0 . wow... Matrix 
0 , 0 , 0 . "But what about changes imms make like Dav referenced where he said imms changed the huntsman for example."
Vhrael 
0 , 0 , 0 . “ When I went about writing a codex/logboard I thought it would be an important feature for the codex to detect when identifies become out of date. It wasn't implemented as an accountability feature.”
Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . I know you aren't going to apologize. It was just another ironic statement. Do I need to explain it? First, Kedaleam wouldnt change a mob without getting input ever, he's much too conscientious for that. Second, you would never apologize. I didn't know you don't understand sarcasm and irony.
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[reply to Faeryl]The staff tries to be as explicit and transparent as possible, and I guaran-fucking-tee you that there is 1000% more shared information now than there was when I was active in the past. There's so much that is shared knowledge (hell, look at the codex) that was previously considered taboo; players today have it far easier than they used to.
Granted a lot of that was due to things like invokation and OOC issues becoming so obvious and in-your-face that changes had to be made, but I still feel that Dav and the staff do a lot more for transparency's sake than they do to hide things.
Heh Vhrael you sound like the guy at the library when I'm like "hey your internet is down" and he's like "Well you should be grateful you even have internet! Back in my day, we had to read books and write letters and send it in the mailbox!"
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
It would certainly give the Consortium another place to focus if we created a bestiary however...
"There is a trivial way to look at recently changed items."
I'll apologize when you point to the place where we can trivially see changes made to mobs or to the stats of gambled items
you know, what's actually being discussed here. The things you're avoiding talking about
@Matrix - I think that’s what he was referring to here. Since the codex lists updated/outdated items, it’s not quite in-your-face, but it at least points players in the right direction.
As for stats on gambled items, do you mean min/max values or rolled actual stats?
If there was supposed to be a serious discussion about mob change tracking, then I'll state a further two things about that. First, that nobody should be too surprised to hear a push for that coming from someone who just wants to keep AR in a freezer. Secondly, the same person who went all in on spamming n-bombs all over the forum has no place to be complaining about attacks on anybody instead of discussion now. You blew up all credibility and turned into just noise. Why I would bother listening anymore. If any discussion is actually important it would be better if you just sat out as it will end when you post into it
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