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invasions, spellbooks and guardzone

Max Blackoak

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by now I shouldn't be surprised at things like this but anyways, here goes:

the invasions are nice and it's great to see lots of activity on Siege, but why the hell do casters get a blessed item with slayer properties and another one with 50 sdi and fc 1 while the dexxers get these crappy weapons with overcapped mods (100% DI...has DI ever been a problem on suits?!). Not only are these weapons not blessed (which I would hate even more), they can't even be imbued!!!!
90% of the weapons absolutely make no sense at all because they either have mods for PvM but the weapon is not an AI/dbl strike weapon or they don't make sense for PvP because they can't be imbued with hld and other essential mods for PvP while the mana leech is a complete waste on them. I mean come on! Do the devs really hate dexxers that much?!

Then there are bows...I have yet to see any other bows than regular bows, xbows and heavy xbows drop. All of these make no sense at all without SSI and furthermore they make no sense for PvM because of the special moves they have. And unless the bane property does damage over the cap in PvP (which I doubt it does) I don't see why anyone would want to use one of those bows in PvP.

Those spellbooks shouldn't be blessed on Siege in the first place but I guess complaining about that will not only ostracise myself from the caster population on Siege but furthermore it would take massive campaigning to get the devs to do something about that.
But at the very least they could have come up with a solution that doesn't only benefit one class. Give the dexxers something aequivalent to those spellbooks. How about a blessed talisman with a random slayer, 10 dci, 30 DI, 10 ssi and 5 lmc? Heck even with only slayer, 5 dci and 5 ssi these would be great and no dexxer would have too much of a reason to complain.

And last but not least during the invasions the guard zone needs to go. It is absolutely ridiculous that we now have the opportunity to farm in guardzone where the only risk is that you get overrun by spawn (big deal...). This has nothing to do with Siege Perilous anymore! This is truely Trammel coming to Siege but worse because you get to kill monsters like wraiths with 4 hits and loot 1.3k off of them. Good thing at least powerscrolls still only drop outside guardzones...

So while I think that the invasions per se are a good thing I feel that once again all of this was introduced in pretty much the worst possible way...
 

Lady Raja

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Then there are bows...I have yet to see any other bows than regular bows, xbows and heavy xbows drop. All of these make no sense at all without SSI and furthermore they make no sense for PvM because of the special moves they have. And unless the bane property does damage over the cap in PvP (which I doubt it does) I don't see why anyone would want to use one of those bows in PvP.
Not sure if this relates, but I have noticed that when hunting on the Tokuno Islands, I tend to get SA related weapons and armor. While hunting in ML related places, I get mostly get Elven related items. Abyss and Underworld always gives me poopy Gargoyle items...
 

Freelsy

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if I remember correctly, the invasion of Magincia back in 2008 was a free for all with no guard zone. There were a lot more drops, spell books dropped from nearly every general, and cursed artifacts dropped like candy. But I remember constantly being hunted by oranges and reds...making it a much more nerve racking experience.
 

Creeger

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I'm with ya on the items dropped. The spell books seem a lot better than the weapons.
 

Synbad

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Who drops the spellbooks? ive done a few invasions now and all I get are weapons
 

Sparviero

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You are right Max: probably these invasions aren't in SP style but i think we'll have to accept that.. The devs team is too small and when they release event so big, i think they haven't enough resource to make it in a different way for SP (or Mugen)... They had so many things to fix also on other servers during all event's part that we are lucky at the end we got the event working :p.... It's sad to say but with so few people and so few resources, also in future we'll have these kind of World Wide Event also on Siege... But at least we have an EM that held event in SP Style :p (next time we have to work all together to kill bosses instead let them flee away like the last one :bdh::bdh::bdh::bdh::bdh::bdh:)
 

Max Blackoak

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you have to constantly re-disarm them because they pick their weapon back up after the cool down. also the ones I killed while disarmed didn't necessarily drop a book. only two out of three did. so I guess that's one of the famous UO rumors (like increased skill gain when stuffed with food)
 

Tjalle

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you have to constantly re-disarm them because they pick their weapon back up after the cool down. also the ones I killed while disarmed didn't necessarily drop a book. only two out of three did. so I guess that's one of the famous UO rumors (like increased skill gain when stuffed with food)
But you can confirm that mobs that carry weapons in fact has a chance of dropping a book if disarmed when dying?
 

Max Blackoak

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But you can confirm that mobs that carry weapons in fact has a chance of dropping a book if disarmed when dying?
no can't confirm that. I only got books from mages and healers. Sometimes not even from them. Generals seem to have the highest chance to drop something. I believe I have had one or two that didn't though.
 

Synbad

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Just an FYI... I got a spellbook drop in Skara yesterday and I never killed any mages... all generals with weapons and didn't disarm any of them
 

Max Blackoak

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you do know that mages also carry weapons, right? they all have a staff.
 
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