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El Phantasmo
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I may have missed this somewhere in the thred but what the heck.
Currently when you wear the cloak of corruption your health, mana, & stamina all slowly decline, as does your karma if I recall correctly. I'm assuming when they are transformed into one of the three new cloaks this won't occur?
Also, will there ever be a use for the magical lock boxes we received from "The Seven"?
Currently when you wear the cloak of corruption your health, mana, & stamina all slowly decline, as does your karma if I recall correctly. I'm assuming when they are transformed into one of the three new cloaks this won't occur?
Also, will there ever be a use for the magical lock boxes we received from "The Seven"?
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Foolio the Bard
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Personally, I've always found it stupid that people who are not archers and have no need for a quiver run around with one on anyways to get the mods. That should be removed.
But yeah, I'm mostly with you. I think they'd be better as cloaks than robes.
You're going down a very dangerous road there.
I vote for the cape. Quiver fills in a need, so the cape should've been the replacement.
But.. it is a robe.. how do you change a robe for a cape? I guess anything is possible.
But.. it is a robe.. how do you change a robe for a cape? I guess anything is possible.
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Foolio the Bard
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umm, maybe the Shadowlords are also GM Tailors? They have sent their emmisaries with scissors in hand to tailor our robes into capes?!
Still Garbage.
A "Shard of the Gem of Immortality" is "an exceptionally rare item that responds to the user’s karma to play upon the fate in the worlds within."
I wonder if these rare items will have to stay on the shard where they were acquired?
I wonder what is meant by "the worlds within" a shard? Are these rare items going to have the names of actual shards on them? If yes, what does that mean for a shard if the character that earned the shard by killing its Shadowlord owner had bad karma? What does it mean if that character had good karma? Just how many "worlds" are contained within a "shard"?
I wonder if these rare items will have to stay on the shard where they were acquired?
I wonder what is meant by "the worlds within" a shard? Are these rare items going to have the names of actual shards on them? If yes, what does that mean for a shard if the character that earned the shard by killing its Shadowlord owner had bad karma? What does it mean if that character had good karma? Just how many "worlds" are contained within a "shard"?
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Turdnugget
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If it does indeed get changed to the 'cloak/cape'... please for the love of all that is holy... use the graphics for the virtue cloak and not the regular cloak! It looks too much like friggin' cape!!!
Are you planning to add in some way to keep the gem shards from the Shadowlords from being transferred to other servers (like maybe having transfer fail with a message that you can't with the gem shard on you/in your bank/in one of your pets)? Something that important really shouldn't be allowed to move from where its found...
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Lord Drakelord
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Any way of getting stuff we need on TC1? Blackrock etc..
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Ditto
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Sassassin
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If these "cloaks" (elven robe) remained to be a an elven robe after transformation it will open up a little more new looks IMO. And besides that I think the stats are on par for an indestructible cloth item that do not usually offer anything other than +3 phy resist.
Considering an expensive un-powderable shroud with only 150 max durability offeres only 2 to 4 hp with no hp regen, the cloak of life is on par.
And those who says +1 hci dci and sdi is too low... well maybe but what if your suit already has maxed out +hp, 70phy, and you dont need stealth skill this will be a good alternative. Also given that 1 hci and dci arent that impressive sdi can be useful. Try to cast 20 spell or so on cursed opponent with 14sdi then do the same again with 15sdi you will notice a difference due to UO's weird round up and down calculation. Same example will be 39lmc vs 40lmc. Let's use pain spike for example. At 39lmc it takes 4 mana to cast a pain spike but at 40lmc it only cost 3. That's an 25% mana saving for having that additional SINGLE point of lmc.
The one with stats... same stuff, if you dont need +phy and have 15sdi and/or 60 hci and/or 60dci and some of your stat isnt already capped out at 150 (which should be pretty impossible) you can have this robe for a little boost.
People wont be happy unless DEV come up with something like (indestructible)
Cloak of Domination
+20 Str
+20 Dex
+20 Int
+15 Hci
+15 Dci
+15 Sdi
+25 Hit Point Increase
+10 HP Regen
and if they really do came up with something like that you will still hear people whine... where is that 50lrc? how about add some lmc and MR and SR and also put +120 stealth on it.
Considering an expensive un-powderable shroud with only 150 max durability offeres only 2 to 4 hp with no hp regen, the cloak of life is on par.
And those who says +1 hci dci and sdi is too low... well maybe but what if your suit already has maxed out +hp, 70phy, and you dont need stealth skill this will be a good alternative. Also given that 1 hci and dci arent that impressive sdi can be useful. Try to cast 20 spell or so on cursed opponent with 14sdi then do the same again with 15sdi you will notice a difference due to UO's weird round up and down calculation. Same example will be 39lmc vs 40lmc. Let's use pain spike for example. At 39lmc it takes 4 mana to cast a pain spike but at 40lmc it only cost 3. That's an 25% mana saving for having that additional SINGLE point of lmc.
The one with stats... same stuff, if you dont need +phy and have 15sdi and/or 60 hci and/or 60dci and some of your stat isnt already capped out at 150 (which should be pretty impossible) you can have this robe for a little boost.
People wont be happy unless DEV come up with something like (indestructible)
Cloak of Domination
+20 Str
+20 Dex
+20 Int
+15 Hci
+15 Dci
+15 Sdi
+25 Hit Point Increase
+10 HP Regen
and if they really do came up with something like that you will still hear people whine... where is that 50lrc? how about add some lmc and MR and SR and also put +120 stealth on it.
I don't see why archers should have to choose between wearing a quiver or a cloak just because non-archers want to wear both a cloak and a robe! I do agree though that you should not be able to wear a quiver unless you have some archery skill.
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Cloak&Dagger
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So, macers/fencers/swordsmans/mages/any other combination of skills Should not have the option of wearing a quiver or a cloak? seriously, the "oh poor archers" argument is rather null
Look, if you are an archer you have to say "hmm quiver or cloak, oh ok quiver cuase I am an archer" and if you are a mage you get to go "hmm quiver or cloak, oh quiver cuase I wanna look stupid and have 2 more dci" or you could go "..., oh cloak so I don't look idiotic and 2 dci aint much, plus I am gaining 3 sdi!"
The choice is the same if you are an archer or not, the difference is there are enough damn robe slot items and only 2(?) CLOAK slot items (it is not the quiver slot people, quivers came out with ml, cloaks have always been around) either way the archers are not the only class that would have to choose, the quiver that you are trying to save is still the only one with those props on it, so now everyone has to choose "5dci or w/e prop cloak" or, if you are an archer you have to choose "10 damage mod or w/e prop cloak" seems all fair to me that everyone has to choose, what if I like to rp and I can only wear dresses? Why should I have to choose between my preferred play style and an item?
Whoa! Take it easy. 
Maybe it is just because it is late but I dont really understand alot of that post. What I am saying is that the cloak (which I believe is now a misnomer because it is going to be a robe) should be on the robe slot not the quiver slot. That is all
Maybe it is just because it is late but I dont really understand alot of that post. What I am saying is that the cloak (which I believe is now a misnomer because it is going to be a robe) should be on the robe slot not the quiver slot. That is all
What about SSI? Wow that is sucky robe. lol.. yeah i agree with you... If you toss in a fish to the piranhas they want a whale, give them a Whale they want two.
That's how negotiation works
Hence the devs giving the equivalent of a baby anchovy of a cloak in the beginning, measure what the response is like, and make adjustments depending on the feedback.
They tend to balance things well and err on the side of caution. Afterall, it's easier and more acceptable to boost an item's stats. But nerfing something that's made too strong doesn't go down that well.
But the initial 1 HCI/DCI/SDI series of cloaks are a bit on the weak side imho...A good acid test is to ask yourself, how many people would exchange their quiver of infinity/melisda cloak for these cloaks. Or if they make it a robe, the equinox/embroided/reward robes etc. Plus whether if it's easier to get these new cloaks compared to the alternatives.
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Lord Drakelord
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ok I have ran all over Toukno last night well into the wee hours of the morning, never saw a Shadowlord, but I did fine the all three seers and requested the quest off of them.
I had to sail a boat to get to Serpent's Hold since there are no moongates and we are not given a rune to the island.
Now a really BIG question concerns Magincia. Last night I went to the TC1 Magincia and did the things necessary for the Threads of Life and threads of thought, but lack the threads of Fate, the corrupted souls don't drop them as fast as the others do.
Now my question concerns the corrupted souls, on TC1 there is a lot less of them on Magincia and a little easier when it comes to fighting them, but on our home shards there are so many that they are all over the island and almost impossible to avoid unless you stealth or hide inside the moongate as I did to snap a shot of all of them around the gate area. Can you please drop remove the ones around the moongate like at TC1 and more or less force them to stay in areas like over near the old docks? That way warrior, tamers can fight them and we with our Neco's can conduct the other part of the quests without having to run from all the corrupted souls.
Anyway of giving us blackrock on TC1? I did search for these guys all over Tokuno last night, but had I found them I would not have been able to hurt them without blackrock to effect the magic shield they have around them.
One spawns in The Waste, head west to the undead spawn and its near the hut there.
Killed one yesterday and found another today in the same area.
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BakeryGnome
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So, then my curiosity is this: On every shard, I heard the ToT is going to stop the....18th of July. If this is true...then are the ShadowLords appearing right now on my home shard or only the TC1? Or was there a plan to activate our patches on the home shards...like maybe today so there is time to find the ShadowLords.
If im just lost with this information someone let me know....
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BakeryGnome
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K Thnx! Just making sure!...
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Lord Drakelord
Guest
So you killed a shadowlord without blackrock on TC1? I still have not found one, I lack one rare resource here on TC1, the grapevine of communication among my fellow peers. They all on the home shard trying to get mempos yet. I feel lucky that my wife and I have two to share among our characters.
I also lack the runes I have on Sonoma for locations, having to run everywhere sucks!
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Foolio the Bard
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No, instead of begging the Devs for some blackrock, he went and mined it up, and used the blackrock to take the Manifestations of the Shadowlords shield down. It's in the TC thread.
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Gowron
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What was the deal with criminals getting errors for accessing their bank boxes? Does this mean that murderers won't be able to access theirs until going blue?
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Cloak&Dagger
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no it means criminals...
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wee papa smurf
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no it means criminals...[/QUOTE]
In other words its like when you do something criminal and you need to wait to use a moongate or recall
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Lord Drakelord
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cool, I did not want to go mining, since ore went random I quit mining.No, I went mining and found a bit of blackrock, as posted here
I wish they look at the drop rate on the fate threads, I have killed so many of the Corrupt Souls and all I have to show for my work is two threads of fate. The other Threads were a lot easier to get as a neco.
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Muu Bin
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I vote for underwear slot. Not that we can remove our current undies but it would be rather nice to have mods and resists on the tighty whites they make us wear. Ones with high fire resist would be quite helpful here in UHall...
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Malimus
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So basically tamers with greater drags will be getting these? lol
That or Sampire.
You know tamers (Greater Drags) are over powered when the majority of people at these events are indeed tamers with greaters.
Perhaps make these shadow lords make Greaters go wild?
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Connor_Graham
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Wrong on both counts. The archers standing behind both of those will be the ones to get most of them I think.
Drakelord, if you haven't already done so, try killing the corrupt souls with something other than a tamer. It's been a while since I've killed them, but I got much better results using an archer.
P.S. Just popped in at the Magincia gate on Sonoma and was shocked to be able to pick up a rubble pulley attached to a piece of rope that was just sitting by the moongate. Can't remember if that's one of the reward items from the quests there, but it was rather bizarre to see it just laying there. And it didn't look like anyone was there in Trammel on Sonoma killing stuff for threads. If you still don't manage to get any, let me know. I already have one of the flower pots and some of the granite rubble from turning in the Threads of Fate. Don't have any Cloaks of Corruption to use the threads on but I do have some extra Threads of Fate laying around.