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|  | Posted By: Sanya Thomas | 2003-09-12 19:25:41 |  |
| |  |  Hey, if anyone has a copy of that DAOC movie "Ring of Fire," send it or a link to me - I'd wanted to post it tonight, and alas! My copy is gone. Anyway, time for the bag:
Q: I have 3300 realm points now and I am totally lost on when I will get to realm rank 2. I can't find a ladder anywhere that seems accurate. According to an old one I found, I should be around rank 1 level 7 at this point but I'm only rank 1 level 4. How many realm points do I need to get to rank 2?
A: You should indeed be 1.7. The realm point system has a quirk. If you get enough points to go up more than one level, you'll only go up one level – but the next time you get so much as a single point, you will go up another level. This will happen until you have all the levels you are entitled to.
Of course, on Gaheris, this poses a special problem since you guys usually only get points in whopping big chunks. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and I am looking into it.
By the way, your friends in the CSR Pit of Despair recommend this realm point chart: http://daoc.gamescape.com/handler.cfm?app=resources/gameplay&method=RealmRanks. Lots of other neat stuff on that website, too, although I haven't had a chance to personally vouch for everything.
Q: Do dual wield classes have a separate chance to parry with both weapons? Or is it the same as if I had only one weapon wielded?
A: Dual wielding does not grant more chances to parry than a single weapon.
Q: Seems like a lot of TOA stuff, and not a lot of stuff about 1.65. What gives?
A: Well, as the Herald typing monkey, I can only post certain things. Usually, I post about things that are ready for you guys to use or test – I get twitchy when I have to talk about things that are more than a few days away. The riddle contest (brought to you by the Herald team and ONLY the Herald team – everyone else is working on the actual game) is something I can post every day. Patch notes, the next section of which is coming Monday or Tuesday, barring the unforeseen, can only be posted after they've been coded and at least tested internally. There are several more installments of 1.65 in the works.
Q: The Ancient Roman Coin from the Stone of Arawn quest is tradable but the Ancient Copper Necklace from the same quest isn't tradable. Why is that?
A: The Ancient Copper Necklace is one of the better items in the game. Originally it was only rewarded randomly to about 5% of players. When we made the quest repeatable so that everyone could have a fair chance at the necklace, we made it no trade to avoid flooding the game with it. The Ancient Roman Coin is a nice item, but not on par with the necklace and is therefore, tradeable.
Q: I've noticed some strange aggro AI on the mylings in Gripklosa Mountains. They build "hate" differently than every other mob that I've seen.
So far I've seen:
--They ignore damage from damage shields (focus and concentration) for agro purposes. They take damge from it, but the damage seems to be attributed to the caster of the shield and not the target of the shield for agro purposes.
--They occasionally accrue hate from the Shaman's heal over time spells.
--They occasionally aggro randomly against players in the area in which they are engaged. For example, I was playing a level 27 hunter and had a friend helping me with his 47 shaman. On 3 non-consecutive pulls, the shaman did nothing but buff (no heal, no HoT), yet the myling hit the shaman anyway. I got no experience reward for those kills even though the Shaman did no damage to the myling directly (shaman didn't have damage shield on himself or me).
Are the mylings behaving differently by design or is thisbehavior a bug?
A: Not every encounter in the game has the same kind of ag, and you're talking about one of the more unique encounters. The content producer's minion told me "This is by design. Mylings are very spastic and will attack players almost completely at random. Mylings can also check an area around them and attack anyone regardless of level in that area, so this is one of the few areas where a grey mob could potentially aggro on a player."
Q: I gave someone a rez, and got realm points for it – and being as I was very close to a new realm rank level, I immediately looked at my character information screen. My points were not there!
A: Rez realm points sometimes take a bit to update. Zone, or just wait until you get other realm points via a kill or a group kill – they'll catch up.
Q: I have a guild house that I would like to convert to a personal house. Can this be done?
A: I am afraid not. Once a guild house, always a guild house on a fundamental code level. There are no plans to change this at this time.
Q: I have done (insert repeatable quest name here) a number of times, and have not yet gotten the (insert rarest reward here). Is the quest broken?
A: Random means just that – random. What has happened before has no bearing on the present. Let's say there is a one in twenty chance that you will receive the rarest possible prize from a particular quest. Even if you got the "common" prize nineteen times in a row, there is no guarantee that you will get the rare prize the twentieth time. This is because each time you get to the reward stage, your chances are always one in twenty.
I'll certainly investigate at your request, but most often, I've found the request has originated from someone with very bad luck.
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Ah, beta madness. If riddles, random selection, and crazy beta stunts weren't enough, there are some contests floating around the internet providing MORE chances to win a Trials of Atlantis beta! The two I've seen so far:
Classes of Camelot
Camelot Vault
I expect there will be more out there soon.
Have a wonderful and safe weekend!
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