[UO Herald] Publish 58 on TC1

[Hildebrand]

Pretty cool that Spellweaving is getting some attentions. Minor, but still.
Immolating Weap now makes a sound when it expires. About time, imo.

Great to see Arcane Empowerment is fixed. That was a hard one to notice if it worked. So it's been 4 years and only a few of us noticed it wasn't working right?

Well, I guess I'll hang onto SW for a while longer. Would be nice if the spells had unique sounds and special effects. It's so bland and recycled as is.

 

[hawkeye_pike]

Please clear up some of the changes:

"Gift of Life will now offer to resurrect you after death"
That's what it did before. What has changed?

"Immolating Weapon should now play a sound when the spell fades"
It still will remain pretty useless with its +4 fire damage?

"Gift of Life should not be stripped from a player upon death"
Does this mean, I don't have to recast after resurrecting? And if I get killed again, I can instantly resurrect?

"Re-enabled access to the top level in Wrong dungeon."
I recently been there. Everything seemed normal, all levels were accessible.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the changes! And please, consider to allow us to refresh Gift of Life anytime (just like Bless spell).

 

[Hildebrand]

Gift of Life should stay on so when I crash, I'm offered a Rez when I log back in. It's the least EA could do for these crashes.

Immolating Weapon gives +4 fire damage? Where does it state that? I never knew! I would prefer a buff icon too, stating exactly the damage, that way we will never ask what it does or how long it lasts, ever again.

 

[RichDC]

Please clear up some of the changes:

"Gift of Life will now offer to resurrect you after death"
That's what it did before. What has changed?

"Gift of Life should not be stripped from a player upon death"
Does this mean, I don't have to recast after resurrecting? And if I get killed again, I can instantly resurrect?

I didnt quite understand this either clarification would be nice

I believe what this is saying, say you die but a friend res's you instead you dont need to re-cast it will already be in affect, kinda nice if your in the middle of what killed you...run of ...sacrafice and your still under gift of life incase you get rk'd

 

[Harlequin]

I didnt quite understand this either clarification would be nice

I believe what this is saying, say you die but a friend res's you instead you dont need to re-cast it will already be in affect, kinda nice if your in the middle of what killed you...run of ...sacrafice and your still under gift of life incase you get rk'd

These are my test results re spellweaving:

1) Gift of life : My wife and I casted a lvl 2 focus. She casts gift of life, I attacked her. Halfway thorugh, she logs off. Once her character dies, she re-logon. No rez. Gift of life icon gone.

2nd test, she dies, gift of lif rez gump comes up. Rez her with magery, she did not get an extra rez gump from my rez. Only had the gift of life gump (she moved the gump around to check that there's no 2nd gump hidden below. Had to use the gift of life gump. Gift of life icon gone.

Not sure what was changed...

2) Arcane empowerment : We initially thought it didn't work because there's no hp difference when we lored several summons casted pre AE and a second post AE. However, it's working better than we thought.

Any summon under you will immediately gain the 10% HP boost even when you cast AE after summoning them. That's right, there's no need to cast AE first and then quickly cast your summons while AE is active. When you cast AE, all summons under you at that time will gain the HP boost.

The best part? They keep the HP boost even after AE has expired. Tested with earth/air elementals, ev/blade spirit, familiars/animates.

Working.


3) Immolating Weapon : When it expires, you hear something that sounds like opening/closing of a basket/quiver. But please continue to work on adding a status icon.

Working.

 

[Der Rock]

These are my test results re spellweaving:

1) Gift of life : My wife and I casted a lvl 2 focus. She casts gift of life, I attacked her. Halfway thorugh, she logs off. Once her character dies, she re-logon. No rez. Gift of life icon gone.

2nd test, she dies, gift of lif rez gump comes up. Rez her with magery, she did not get an extra rez gump from my rez. Only had the gift of life gump (she moved the gump around to check that there's no 2nd gump hidden below. Had to use the gift of life gump. Gift of life icon gone.

Not sure what was changed...

2) Arcane empowerment : We initially thought it didn't work because there's no hp difference when we lored several summons casted pre AE and a second post AE. However, it's working better than we thought.

Any summon under you will immediately gain the 10% HP boost even when you cast AE after summoning them. That's right, there's no need to cast AE first and then quickly cast your summons while AE is active. When you cast AE, all summons under you at that time will gain the HP boost.

The best part? They keep the HP boost even after AE has expired. Tested with earth/air elementals, ev/blade spirit, familiars/animates.

Working.


3) Immolating Weapon : When it expires, you hear something that sounds like opening/closing of a basket/quiver. But please continue to work on adding a status icon.

Working.

could she move dead with gift of life gump open ?

 

[hawkeye_pike]

Immolating Weapon gives +4 fire damage? Where does it state that? I never knew!

It gives approximately +4 fire damage to a melee weapon. I used it a couple of times with my fencer mage. However, it wears off after a few seconds (even with 110 Spellweaving) and it really isn't worth the mana. It is one of those abilities that is pretty useless.

 

[Harlequin]

could she move dead with gift of life gump open ?

As per normal, can move before gump, but frozen once gump comes up.

 

[RichDC]

These are my test results re spellweaving:

1) Gift of life : My wife and I casted a lvl 2 focus. She casts gift of life, I attacked her. Halfway thorugh, she logs off. Once her character dies, she re-logon. No rez. Gift of life icon gone.

2nd test, she dies, gift of lif rez gump comes up. Rez her with magery, she did not get an extra rez gump from my rez. Only had the gift of life gump (she moved the gump around to check that there's no 2nd gump hidden below. Had to use the gift of life gump. Gift of life icon gone.

Not sure what was changed...

Try casting gift of life dying and then cancelling the GOL res, then being res'd by magery...that was my understanding of that bit.

Scenario1 suck though.

Also could you do another test please, die while gift of life is cast and a criminal.

 

[Harlequin]

Try casting gift of life dying and then cancelling the GOL res, then being res'd by magery...that was my understanding of that bit.

Scenario1 suck though.

Also could you do another test please, die while gift of life is cast and a criminal.

First scenario tested earlier, cancelled GOL gump, GOL icon gone. Magery rezzed, GOL icon did not re-appear.

The criminal part is interesting, a message says she's a criminal and cannot be rezzed at this time. If rez her before she goes blue, the GOL icon remains. If she waits until she becomes blue, the icon remains, but it doesn't kick in, not even if she gates to another subserver. If she gets rezzed by an npc, the GOL icon dissappears.

Any idea what is different?

 

[RichDC]

Appears nothing, that was exactly what happened before the "changes"

 

[Green Meanie]

Ill sing that even though immolate weapon is useless please ad a buff/debuff icon giving its effects and durration. Same for Cons weapon and curse weapon. I mean what if i play with my sound of or listen to music or vent. Or even worse what if im actualy using the spells to fight somethign and all the sounds that play from other players pets and the thing being fought are making to much noise for me to notice the end of the spell

 

[Doireann]

Where's the next part of the event arc. Wasn't it supposed to be in this pub?

Actually can a dev please comment if this invasion will end with the publish?

 

[Viquire]

Please clear up some of the changes:


"Re-enabled access to the top level in Wrong dungeon."
I recently been there. Everything seemed normal, all levels were accessible.

I think they must have meant lowest level, anybody tried to get in there recently?

 

[Emma Silvermane]

You didnt read the previous posts... at all?

yea i did .. sorry ... i have a bad habit of acting first ... checking second .. I posted after i read uohearld ... before i read the whole post here .. sorry.

 

[Uriah Heep]

Players will no longer be able to inscribe locked down books

Was this necessary? I take it that at player events now, we will not be able to lock down a book and set to anyone, (like at a wedding or whatever) for guests to sign in?
Not a showstopper, but still, if this was done to stop the kiddies from messing things up, why kill the whole ability rather than deal with them as it comes?

Maybe I missed something, somewhere, on why this was needed...

 

[von Beck]

I think they must have meant lowest level, anybody tried to get in there recently?

I used to argue all the time with a guy I played with about whether going from deceit level 3 (spawn level) to deceit level 2 was 'up' or 'down'. I've always visualized all the UO dungeons as getting deeper the further into the dungeon you go, so level 2 is DOWN from level 1, etc etc.

Somehow my friend thought level 2 was UP from level 1....

 

[Flora Green]

Players will no longer be able to inscribe locked down books

Was this necessary? I take it that at player events now, we will not be able to lock down a book and set to anyone, (like at a wedding or whatever) for guests to sign in?
Not a showstopper, but still, if this was done to stop the kiddies from messing things up, why kill the whole ability rather than deal with them as it comes?

Maybe I missed something, somewhere, on why this was needed...

I'm curious about this as well.

 

[Heimi]

Was this necessary? I take it that at player events now, we will not be able to lock down a book and set to anyone, (like at a wedding or whatever) for guests to sign in?
Not a showstopper, but still, if this was done to stop the kiddies from messing things up, why kill the whole ability rather than deal with them as it comes?

Maybe I missed something, somewhere, on why this was needed...

I took it to mean you can no longer use the Inscription skill to copy a book in your posession into a book which is locked down (like a guestbook etc..). Pretty sure they wouldn't stop players writing in books completely

 

[hawkeye_pike]

I think they must have meant lowest level, anybody tried to get in there recently?

Yes, all three levels of Wrong were accessible. The lowest level is the one where Sicarii used to spawn during one of the recent quests. It can be reached through a teleporter, works just fine.

 

[Hildebrand]

Ill sing that even though immolate weapon is useless please ad a buff/debuff icon giving its effects and durration. Same for Cons weapon and curse weapon. I mean what if i play with my sound of or listen to music or vent. Or even worse what if im actualy using the spells to fight somethign and all the sounds that play from other players pets and the thing being fought are making to much noise for me to notice the end of the spell

Yes, icons please.
And make immolate weapon stronger for the hell of it

 

[RichDC]

Id rather they fix the "fixes", there has been no change to Gift of life for example.

 

[Der Rock]

Id rather they fix the "fixes", there has been no change to Gift of life for example.

yes,
i thought we can move now ,but we still can´t
using GoL , if u stand in a bulk of monster it is senseless to use GoL because u are instant die again

the only time GoL helpes, is if u die at Mephitis, if u are dead and she teleports u, then u can move and use the GoL gump on a safe place.
this way GoL should work everytime

 

[RichDC]

yes,
i thought we can move now ,but we still can´t
using GoL , if u stand in a bulk of monster it is senseless to use GoL because u are instant die again

the only time GoL helpes, is if u die at Mephitis, if u are dead and she teleports u, then u can move and use the GoL gump on a safe place.
this way GoL should work everytime

I had hoped that the way i read it was correct,

If you die you could cancel the gump get a res from another person kepp the spell. If you lost conn and died you could res upon re-log.

If you were a criminal and died you would get the gump when de flagged or at least keep upon res.

 

[Thav12]

Gift of Life should stay on so when I crash, I'm offered a Rez when I log back in. It's the least EA could do for these crashes.

That is what I said... probably one of the most annoying combination of bugs in this game.... Investing in a skill designed to keep you going, but due to a bug (problem 1), you cant rez yourself after a crash (problem 2). It always hit right when you can not find your way back to a revival quickly enough to get to your bones at 10 AM when no one else is around to help... I got SW on a stone until this is worked out. Has it been with this patch???

 

[RichDC]

Nope, they made some statement about "fixes" yet through testing...not a GD thing has changed!

 

[Hildebrand]

There should be a timer counting down as to when you need to rez before GoL expires. You know... wait a minute till area is safer. That would be good IF AND IF they can't let us walk a few seconds to a safer spot prior to rezing with GoL.
You can walk and get a healer's rez.
You can walk and get a player's rez.
You can walk and use Sacrifice for rez.
Yet you can't walk and use Gift of Life??! grrrrrr!