12.28.01 - New Forum testing

Our current subscription to ezboard will be expiring this month.  This board has served us well but it time we moved on and got away from the spam and other nasty side effects of using this board.  Since I have moved this site to dizzarian.com it now allows me to host my own forums all contained and controlled by me.  I've got the forums somewhat setup but it does need some testing.  If your interested in trying it out please go here http://dizzarian.com/forums

NOTE : This is only for testing purposes right now.  If you have mage questions etc use our regular boards for now.  I will let you know when the new forums are available.

12.28.01 - New Fahrenheit

Ah that excellent teller of tales, Fahrenheith, has added yet another addition to his journals

The new land to the North has called many. The Olthoi do swarm the upper platue in raids that leave many Isparian bodies strewn over the landscape. It is a land of strange new Tumeroks who are quite more civilized yet more demonic looking. I ventured forth and spent some days among them. Learning their phrases and the sad mutation and division of their people at the hands of those twice-damned Virindi. I saw the great warriors and mages return with the head of the young queen to the rejoicing of the Aun people. Long time was spent staring into the mystic flames at the mysteries that it held. I fought and fell to the Olthoi hoards. I explored the ancient structures that have long since turned to disrepair. I searched, in vain for the elusive Aun who holds the key to learning the fourth school earlier then my mage brethren.

I love it.  Go check it out and let him know what you think 10 - Adventure and Penguins of Flame (Journal)

12.28.01 - The Disgruntled Mage

Unexpectedly there's a new Disgruntled Mage up.  These are always so good and sure to stir up some emotions.  Here's the topics that he covers

Definitely go read this Journal of December 27th, 2001

12.25.01 - Merry Christmas, here's some presents

I hope that all of you have a safe and happy holidays.  If your stuck at home or looking to escape the family I'm doing a major update to the site tonight just for you (actually it's late Christmas eve, in fact I think I hear reindeer)

First up Battlemage Devastator has done a lot of work to his journals and I'm just now getting around to it.  Since the last time I've updated he's add the final addition to his GCD edtion (part 4) he's also gone further into the depths and taken on the infamous DM and BSD  These are all excellent, they may be disjointed do to the way that Devestator presents his information so if you're having problems please see the original thread here.

Next up we have an addition that I'm very excited about.  We finally have an Og Diary contributor it's not that we haven't had many volunteers but making a regular diary is not easy and Og diary is probably the toughest, do to the manner in which most go about creating their Ogs.  So with out further delay I introduce you to Al-Sihar we start out with 3 entries so go, and enjoy.

So kind of inspired to make an Og mage after reading that? Well we have an update to the Og Mage Starter guide to get you going.  Peregrine Heart has added an excellent hunting guide that is current and much more detailed.

So maybe you're looking to start a new mage but nothing seems quite evil enough for you, well I can even hook you up with that.  A long time friend to the site, One Eyebrow Priest, has made a very nice guide for the Grief Mage.

As a side note the contents were getting rather large so I've moved the contents of my diary onto their own page and they will now be linked too just like all the others.  I still get lots of email asking for another diary but I still don't see one coming for quite a while.  Although, they might evolve into something else...

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

12.20.01 - Patch information coming in but...

there's really nothing to report so far.  Lots of noob love and plenty of fun little emotes and toys to play with but nothing substantial yet.  I do suggest that everyone start a new character and try out the new training dungeon, it's very nicely done and I had a lot of fun with it.  As always for all the latest information on the patch check out maggie's patch page http://www.thejackcat.com/AC/Culture/Dereth/Strike2.htm

12.18.01 - Build Notes Highlight

Here's the magical highlights from the Build Notes and Rollout notes

Wow I know it took you a long time to read all of that ;)  Well at first glance it doesn't look like much for us but there's always hidden details.  Stay tuned for more mage information.

12.18.01 - Patch Day!

Well this one snuck up on me, I didn't realize that today was patch till I started getting icq's about it.  I will of course keep you up to date with all the news pertaining to mages (man some new mage news would be good).  It sounds like this patch is going to be a dozey, I'm looking forward to it.

On site notes, continue to check back I've got a lot of site updates coming.  In the pipeline are

Hopefully I'll get all this added this week.

12.10.01 - 7th Heaven

Finally some mage related news.

7th Heaven is a new (I think) plugin for decal.  I tried it out this week end and could see how it would be very handy.  Especially when used in conjunction with my level 7 spell sheet

Seventh Heaven shows what level 7 spells you've learned, and which you haven't. Then optionally exports a "request list" of scrolls you need to a file. Makes the process of gathering scrolls for your mage a breeze!

Quickly see which spells you've learned.  Monitors your spellbook, and updates automatically as you turn in scrolls.  Exports a request list, for easy posting need lists on message boards.  Full source code included! 

You can pick up the plugin at http://onlinegamegimp.com/heaven/

12.04.01 - Site Moving

Sorry to everyone for the extra long downtime, worldzone.net totally screwed up ip adresses and stuff last week resulting in downtime.  For me this was the last straw, during the last 3 months this site has been down a total of 10 days which is absolutely unacceptable.   

So I've moved the site to a new provider and a new address.  If you've been involved with this site any then you may know of my plans to make this site into ACMages.com.  For now those plans have been squelched, the time it would take for me to impliment what I had in store for the site are just too great.  Therefore I have purchased another domain, dizzarian.com.  By naming it after me it allows this site to go forward in it's current state and allows me to pursue other projects that I can base off that domain.

For right now the dizzarian.com page is a simple page mainly pointing to this page.  If you're updating your bookmarks point them too http://dizzarian.com/acmages this is were this site will reside from now on.  Also besure to check out the base site every now and then to see what else I'm working with.

Sorry to inconvenience everyone on this again, if you've been with me from the beginning I think this is about the 4th move I've made.  Hopefully it will be the last.

11.23.01 - Emeraldwind does Marae Lassel

Emeraldwind has submitted a new entry in her journal.  In this one she explores Marae Lassel.  It's really a great one and I highly recomend that everyone reguardless of class check it out.

Dark Majesty has arrived and in due fashion I’ve explored it to the best of my human ability and will give what I think a capable War Mage can do on that new isle of Marae Lassel. Be warned, this journal might have a tad more pictures than normal simply because of the amount of things new to the isle that are neat to look at (I’m a picture freak!). Anyhow, enjoy, since this will be one of the last journals I write for a long, long time. (But as you’ll soon discover, maybe not that long)

Check it out here : Part 10

11.21.01 - Who Wants Grandpa?

This is actually a very sad post. It appears that Grampa is considering selling his account to a fan.  Here's the words from the old man himself

Thinking of passing Grandpa to a fan (not for free … but discounted!)

I am not interested so much in the money, if I was, I would strip the account and EBAY everything. Although, I do deserve something for my work. I am thinking of discounting him for a true fan of the template and who will actively promote and play it. What I’d like to get are testimonials about why you would want the account and what you are willing to pay. Winner will not necessarily be the one with the highest cash offer, but the combination of the best testimonial/reputation and reasonable offer. I am not unhappy with Grandpa or AC, but am losing steam … so I’ll hold on to him if there is little reasonable interest.

Interested? or just want to tell him that he shouldn't go? Let him know on this post http://vnboards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=19701068&replies=16

11.21.01 - The Disgruntled guy is at it again

Our local columnist Tokugawa has put up another addition of The Disgruntled Mage.  It looks as though he'll be putting aside his bm for a while and talks about how he feels about the current state of AC.  A Great addition, I highly recommend you read this.

It is also fact that I have grown tired of my mage over the recent weeks and months, I realized this very painfully when I took him to ML two weeks ago and got bored after about two hours killing Vapors, Virindi and …..everything else, even these annoying Zephyr suckers. I was the most powerful char around, walking over the bodies of the less fortunate (gimps).

As always Tok's views are his own and do not reflect the views held by this site or its patrons. Let him know what you think of this one in this thread Journal of Tokugawa the Mage - Time for Good-bye.......

11.21.01 - What has happened in the last week

This news item is going to cover the latest patch The Gathering Storm.  There are really 2 major things that happened in this event that I want to talk about.  Slide-Casting changes and Fellowship changes.  As always if your looking for complete information on the new patch check out Maggie's site and her Gathering Storm Page.

Slide-Casting - I've heard a lot of bitching and moaning over this and I want to give some opinions.  First I'm very thankful that they didn't take this out completely.  When I heard that changes had occurred to it I was terrified that it was gone.  It's a heavily used tactic of mine when fighting almost any monster.  But thank heavens that they only changed its duration to help "even" the playing field in PvP.  For those of you that do pk I think you'll soon figure out how to still make it work to your advantage, it won't be as good as before but with some practice you should be ok.  I played with it last night in a mock pk battle and was still able to skate around a lot, I got turned around a lot but I could still use it.  It'll just take practice.  For the rest of us this really shouldn't change your normal hunting, you can still get out of the way of most war spells and flying projectiles.  If you don't know what slide casting is, please check the Mage Faq.

Fellowship - This has got to be the most dramatic game play change to come down the pipes in a long time.  There is no longer any reason that you shouldn't be fellowing up with your friends.  With 2 of you joined up you still get 75% xp of the kill. Now some of you look at that and go "Bah it's still not full" but I want you to consider some things.  Now a tusker is 13,360 xp by yourself, if 2 of you are in a fellow you get 10,020 still not bad.  But now lets put speed into this, how many tuskers can you kill an hour? how many can your friend? so how man can you both kill? how much xp is that?  I'm not going to spell it out for you but this is a great change and something any mage should be happy about.

Another great thing about the new fellowship options is that support mages are finally being made viable.  I started a new og mage the other day and did some low level fellowing.  If you can convince someone to fellow with you it's a really great way to level your mage who doesn't have any offensive power.  People still shy away from fellows but as the light clicks on for the general player base this will become a better option.  Now if only we had team spells.

11.19.01 - I'm back just slowly updating

Week long vacations are nice but when you get back there's always tons of work backed up to do.  I've got a lot to add here it's just going to take a while to get it all up so please be patient.  Hopefully I'll have everything ready to go tomorrow.

11.09.01 - Fahrenheit at it again

That masterful teller of tales is back and has graced us with 2 new tales.

The first The Road of Promise which is the continuing story of Fahren's battlemage. 

It smells badly. My eyes are locked in rapt concentration; I am fighting as a fool. Allowing six of them to surround me. I need to switch targets to keep my life energy intact or else the lifestone will see me soon. I am not afraid of death that luxury has long since been taken from me by Asheron himself. Death is a nuisance at best a delay in my mission at worst. Fatality means starting the weaving of the protection spells again, recovering my energies and heading back into the Black Spawn Den. It abhorrent to me, dying so soon into a cycle of a hunt. 
thread : 09 - The Road of Promise

The next Eeriest Elk Story is a hilarious tale of yet another character that Fahren has created.

Among my characters resides my little played four school arcane, Mana C spec Mage, Eeriest Elk. Drunk and delusional at best. Fun to play. Here to fore an untold tale of the Elk! 
thread : Eeriest Elk Story

It's Friday, take a break and have yourself a read.  There's some good stuff here.

11.09.01 - Warhead is finally finally up

Yup I know I said this several weeks ago but it was false, although I had uploaded it all it wasn't working.  I really intended to basically host his whole site but couldn't get it working like that so I've had to resort back to my start page for him and then just link into his journals.   I know a lot of you have been waiting for these to finally be up so go check them out now.

Warhead

11.09.01 - Beelezbub Moderating the Boards

I've put Beelezbub in charge of moderating the boards here.  He's been with us for quite a while and is a very active member in forums.  I'm very pleased that he has taken up this responsiblity for me.

Welcome your new Board Moderator -= Beelzebub! =-

11.09.01 - Finally I can update

The lack of updates here has not been entirely my fault.  I have not been able to update the site in over week do to problems at worldzone.  And now I start my vacation for a week so today will be the only day for updates that I update for another week. So I do apologize. 

11.02.01 - Update and DM stuff

Sorry it's been so long since an update, but there's just really not all the much news to put up, things are really slowing down in AC.  The DM is out and does contain some things that are very cool for all mages out there.  As always when looking for complete information please visit Maggie's Site and her Dark Majesty page.

I'll try to highlight the things that really pertain to mages.

I guess the biggest news is the new robes that actually have AL! How sweet there's an AL 40 and an AL 60 version,  but trying to find the matties that drop these are not easy good luck.  Also there's a new dress that has AL and Wizard's greater intelect so it may even be better than the new robes but the verdict is still out on it and just like the robes it's not an easy quest to complete.

Next are 2 new Orbs.  These things are just wicked with there new spells on them. 

Virindi Implant
A purplish, veined lump, pulled from the chest cavity of a Hea Tumerok hunting reedshark named Utelari.
Causes the target to freeze in horror.

Value

 11450
Burden 50
Range 70 yds.
Spells Paralyzing Fear.
Spellcraft 270
Mana x/300
Mana Cost 300
Difficulty 0
Restrictions Creature 300+

Virindi Implant
A reddish veined lump, pulled from the chest cavity of a Hea Tumerok hunting reedshark named Sahkurea.
Causes the target to shake and shiver uncontrollably.

Value

 11450
Burden 50
Range 70 yds
Spells Panic Attack
Spellcraft 270
Mana x/300
Mana Cost 300
Difficulty 0
Restrictions Creature 300+

Lastly there's plenty of hunting on the new island especially if you're higher level, I've killed so many vapor golems in the last week.  Fun stuff.

OH and I almost forgot house are in (duh) like I said earlier when these were being introduced choose carefully the location of your house.  I choose my house way up north near Celdiseth's Cottage for easy comping and it's a nice place to rid myself of Vit (which I always have plenty of) 

Picture of Dizz's Cottage