Just a small update for those of you that keep up with my stats to compare with yours. I'll try to post a new diary tomorrow.
03.15.01 - Ok 1 more good post
rofl... too funny not to put up.
Original Post : Dereth Obituaries 03/14/2001
OBSIDIAN PLAINS -- Tusker Slave, 126, died sometime late Wednesday night of burns suffered from incendiary bolts fired from an unknown mage At this time there are no suspects in custody for the death. The perpatrator was last seen running towards the Black Hills and is described as a battlemage in his late 20's wearing a green robe and shouting words that sounded like, "w00t!".
Tusker Slave is survived by his friend, Virindi Master, his wife of 15 years, and 324,213 siblings.
Services will be held at the Waijhou lifestone on Friday. All tuskers, regardless of level, are invited to come out and seek furious vengeance on the interlopers responsible.
Atoner - Level 28 Battlemage
Etone - Level 10 Archmage
Morningthaw
Member of Taiko's Band of Suicidal Maniacs!
"Where's my damn flying monkey patch?" - Atoner
Man and he begged me to go with him too.
03.15.01 - A word from Zarya
One of my favorite BM's posted this on the CoD board thought I'd put it up here since it applied.
Original Post : Strategies for killing the Behemoth with a Battlemage
From: Zarya bint Tala'an ID: eJ8y9Xhrr96 Date: 3/15/01 at 6:21 am Subject: Strategies for killing the Behemoth with a Battlemage Um...vuln, kill. No yields needed. =P
Some inspiration for some of the younger BMs out there...can't believe I fizzled that first bolt though.
03.13.01 - All spells revealed
Ok if you don't like spoilers stop reading and don't follow the link. This link contains all the spells stored in AC. These include all the level 7 spells for war, life, critter, and item. It also contains all the spells that Baal used and spells like the ones found on the focusing stone. What's really intresting is the descriptions of the spells. It basically reveales that the Life 7 spells are only an increase in duration, the critter spells look pretty good though. One very intersting spell that poped out at me was the a lockpicking spell that reduced the lock resistance by 200! I think the chest that contains the staff of the nomads is like 300. hmm....
http://www.archgrove.co.uk/acspells.html
Martyr- Drains all of the caster's Health and gives 1000% of that to the target . umm no thanks, I'll pass on being a Martyr :)
03.13.01 - Dizz's Diary - Drudge Heaven
Yup that's right I found it, and it's sweet. Read all about it here.
03.08.01 - Turbinite Talks about the Spell Economy
I got around to watching some of the interviews with the developers on Now.com The interview with Katie Finn is kind of interesting because she talks about the spell economy. In this interview she admits to something we've all know, It's broken.
03.06.01 - New Diary - Dizz is still wandering around
In this installment I talk about Golems and the Ves Islands. Go check it out here.
03.05.01 - Amid's Monthly Guesses
For some reason I really don't like these things. The only reason I find them usefull is for the links to dev post and such. Which in this one he makes mention of something I totally missed
Source: Turbine Q&A Article.
This sounds like a good idea, and it has been tossed around the office for some time. New spells are certainly on the work table, and for all those that are feeling neglected because they don't have an obscenely high magic school to cast level 7's, don't be. We have plans, for more fun and exciting war spells.
Source: January Chat
Aphonous> Are the new war spells the end of current efforts to make war more viable at high levels? War(with life) has never had a problem with damage done when a spell hits, but the issue has been the difficulty in hitting at all due to bad pathing...
Aphonous> slow casting animations, and the permanent 15% vitae for mages (life/war inepts) in high level play. 40k scarabs?! Congrats to everyone's hero "A Sorcerer" who just hit level 101. :)
nei@turbine> they let me answer the fun ones... whee!
nei@turbine> nah, it's never the end... it'd get boring if new things didn't happen...
nei@turbine> those *crazy* mages are always up to no good..
nei@turbine> it just is a matter of getting them out and trading power for... um... erm... reliability?Even though this sounds really interesting, I'm not for sure if we mages will go for it.
You can find Amid Notes here http://webpages.charter.net/bhunlock/notes/march/
03.04.01 - Dizz gets to level 25
Just a small update for those of you that keep up with my stats to compare with yours. I'll try to post a new diary tomorrow.
03.02.01 - New Message Board
In an efftort to make this site your one stop shopping for Battlemages I've set up a message board. I hope that people will actually use it. At the very least it'll be a place where I will try to answer all your questions that I might not otherwise get to by email. Don't just sit there Check it out! and for god sakes post a message :)
Also I'll be posting a thread for every news item I post that way you can leave comments for them.
03.01.01 - Speaking of the 3 Tower quest, I did it tonight.
Well tonight I took a break from leveling dizz and went on the 3 towers quest. I did this partially because I've never done it and partially because I want the Focusing Stone :) I know it stone isn't that practical but neither are the all the atlan stones I have in my pack. I'm not going to go through how to do the quest since it's well documented. What I'm going to do here is rant and rave about it.
So me and my buddy both get our archers out and run to the southern dires portal near mayoi. The run to the three towers took about 10 minutes. When we got there there were already a couple of guys who had started pulling the levers on the towers so we asked if we could follow them. They agreed and we were off, the lesser acoylate spawned and we killed it quickly and he spawned the portal. I really do like this mechanism and I'm glad turbine is starting to use this more and more. In this quest they use this mechanism about 5 times. The only problem with this is that this is a high traffic quest and if you don't know what you're doing you could miss a spawn that has a portal you need.
The dungeon layout is not too bad, and closer to the bottom it has some prety good sites to see. I highly recomend you do this quest just to see a quest like this work the way it does. It really is a pretty neat quest. When we get to the bottom room there are already about 4 or 5 people there. *sigh* I hate waiting in line but we did as I need the skull to do the focusing stone. This is where things go bad.
<Rant> So we're in line and everyone's acting like good little boys and girls waiting there turn. There's 4 in our group and we're up next. The undead dude is on like a 5 minute spawn so it's going to take about 20 minutes to get through our group. Another group comes in at this point and we tell them what the line is. I get the kill, being the big bad archer I am, and I open the corpse for my team mate. I tell him that it's open and some !@#$!$ guy named Darco something jumps the corpse says something like "Hmmm mine then?" then logs out. Man I hate asses like this. I just don't understand why turbine makes these types of situations. You'd think we could all be considerate enough to play around them, but some of us are just ebay selling, uber wanna be's that have trouble adapting to society. I just don't get greif players </Rant>
So we get our keys and our skulls and we're off to play the chest lottery.
<Rant> We go through the newly spawn portal to go get our loot. When you get there there are 4 chest that you can use you're key on. Only 2 of them really spawn anything worth keeping. We get in the room and there's more lines! Ack! So I ask "Which chest spawns the best stuff" another replies "The east one but the lines so big you might as well use the NW one" WTF??? there's only 1 person standing by the one to the east so I ask how many keys he has, he says 5. Five!!!! that 20 pulls at 5 minutes a piece means it's going to be a 110 minute wait. Oh I'm pissed at this point and go ahead and pull from the NW chest. I got maybe 2 items that were keepable out of the 4 pulls. Why oh why does it have to be this way? Turbine puts a timer of 5 hours on being able to get the key, and people are still camping it. So what do they do? They put a timer on the chest also to make it impossible for people really doing the quest to get a fair chance at the chest </rant>
Despite all the ranting, I do suggest you do this quest it's really a good quest it's just ruined by other players.
03.01.01 - Focusing Stone
There seems to be a lot of information being put up about the Focusing stone so I'm going to put up all the information I've compiled. I'll be adding this to the resource section as soon as there's a good solid single guide to it.
The quest has 2 parts
The Three Towers quest
The Mines of Despair and the Focusing Stone
http://www.tip.it/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=482&forum=14&4
