06.04.03 - You want news?
 

First I want to apologize for leaving people high and dry on this site.  We had a great thing going here and I hate that it dwindled to outdated material but after 3 years in AC I really couldn't play anymore.  But I have promised, and I'm a man of my words, that this site will never go away as long as AC is still being played. There's still a wealth of good information here and it will remain if for nothing else than the journals are entertaining.

Now on to my news, I am still running a site and this weekend I made a commitment to maybe bring back some of the magic we had here.   No it's not my AC2 site (I was way wrong about that game) it's the main site  Dizzarian.com. We are becoming a news/comentary/community site.  It's basically going to cover my interest in games I'm currently playing and even those I'm not.   I ask that you please go check out the new site at http://dizzarian.com and jump on the forums and give a shout.  I appreciate all the patronage I've had over the years.  You guys have been great!

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10.10.02 - The State of MMORPGs (why I'm going to AC2)

I just wrote a small editorial on the current state MP games as I see it in the new AC2 Forums.  I'm going to AC2, I hope to see a lot of you there.  Stay tuned if I'm serious about this then there may be a new AC2 site here at dizzarian.com

Still even though I hate the skill system, I'll get over it. And even though I'm not to thrilled with the game it does have the best development team in the industry behind it and I trust them to keep me happy with the game. There will be something new every single month and I can't wait to see what they do. I always kicked myself for missing the first month or 2 of AC1 and I'm not going to miss this one.

Yep that makes it official, I'm a fanboy The State of MMORPGs (why I'm going to AC2)

09.25.02 - Dev Chat Highlights

I've been away on a business trip so I missed the patch and the dev chat.  I'll try to update what I can.  For now here's the highlights from the dev chat that effects mages

DaMuleBoyz in AsheronsCall asks: Are there any plans to revisit life magic and do something about Drain Stamina and Mana which now are sadly lacking and left mages in a bad place?
srand_Turbine says: We have no plans at this time to revisit the life magic changes. We may continue to do some minor tweaking, but overall we are satisfied with the effects of the changes.

peebee929 in AsheronsCall asks: Did you really intend for Arc spells to move as fast as streaks and do full level 7 war damage?
Toddb_Turbine says: Yes, the arcs are working exactly as intended. We decided that instead of further increases to the power of war spells we'd just make it easier to hit your target instead.  The DoT (Damge over Time - ed.) of war magic is very respectable, but only if you can actually hit things.  I do wish that I could have convinced our physics code to make the spell arc higher than they currently do, though.
One other thing that many folks have thought was a bug are the spell words. They are intentionally the same as the old war spells to add some spice to PvP combat, again to make it easier to hit your target. Not knowing what's coming at you means there is no "always best" dodging method, although both spells can be dodged using the right tactics.

ShinsFortress in AsheronsCall asks: Any chance of Mana Conversion love? (I know it's useful, but I'm an old "loyal" char that "can't" re-roll. )
srand_Turbine says: We haven't forgotten about mana conversion.

MongrelGuts in AsheronsCall asks: When will we see Prismatic Peas? For a mage to carry enough tapers to hunt for any reasonable amout of time, he has to carry far more burden than he did under the old component system.
Toddb_Turbine says: We aren't currently planning to introduce Prismatic Peas, we're happy with the length of time mages can stay in the field using this new system.

ChillyCibbe in AsheronsCall asks: Does War eco really work as its supposed? With 360 base war i dont hit any harder then a guy with 300 base it seems
Toddb_Turbine says: First of all, there is no more War Economy, it was removed. The skill based damage bonuses seem to be working correctly though.
Toddb_Turbine says: The maximum bonus a spell can receive is determined by the level of the spell though, so two high level mages casting level 3 spells might be doing exactly the same damage.

Hey at least they fielded some questions from us :)  Discuss the patch in all it's glory here Good patch day??

09.06.02 - Forums Slowly Ramping Up

Thanks for the emails.  To put some minds at ease I won't ever be taking down this site.  It will always be here even if it's only for nostalgia's sake.  Also I've thought better of it and have been working on getting the forums back up all day.

There's currently only 3 forums for now.  If they get populated again we might add more.  If you find any problems with them please let me know asap.  So show your support for the site and get in there and register your username.

Also all the same rules apply as before.  Keep it cival and keep it friendly this is a flame-free environment. 

note : when registering please use a real email address.  You will not be inundated with spam as I'm the only one who will see it.  Also you will miss out on a lot of the functionality of the board if you don't use a real email address.

09.06.02 - Forums and Opinions

I can't tell you all how upset I am about this but the forums are completely gone with out a back-up.  I could post the crap I've gone through just to get this simple fact but it would be counter-productive.  I can't tell all you how sorry I am that your post are gone.  Especially those of you who wrote journals that never got hosted.  It makes me sick to think they are gone.

So I'm at a bit of a cross roads here. Do I put new forums back up?  A knee jerk reaction is to say yes but I've had to really reflect on this.  I'm not for sure how much more I can keep up this site.  As you can see I have had little to no updates in the last month or two.  I've played AC for almost 3 years now and I think it's time I moved on.  And although I and many others were looking forward to AC2, I can't say I am anymore.  So I don't know if this site would move into that territory.  That's a whole other article though that I might write when AC2 officially comes out. 

All that being said with everything that's ever been put on this site, the forums were the best thing about it.  The people there were terrific and I've made some good friends there.  I would like to put it up just to keep in touch with all of you but with out the site doing updates I don't know if that would happen.  Still I will most likely put up some kind of forums just to facilitate this.

That's not to say that dizzarian.com might not move into another game or area all together.  Also if there was someone I could trust and who was good with web editing etc I might be persuaded into sharing this section of dizzarian.com and just pop in from time to time.  

Nothing set in stone and I might just be in a pissy mood because all of this.  Let me know if you have an opinion or ideas.  Please email at dizz@dizzarian.com and let me know what you think. 

08.30.02 - Forums are erm.. Gone?

I awoke this morning to finding that my forums were gone.  I checked and the database is non-existant now.  I'm trying to get this resolved ASAP.  I will keep you appraised of the situation as I find things out.

07.30.02 - Holy Teasers Batman

Yummy, Yummy, what has turbine got in store for us? http://zone.msn.com/asheronscall/news/ASHEAugteaser1.asp

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07.26.02 - Scroll Locations

I've been meaning to put this up since june and I'm just now getting around to it.  I've created a small document that outlines where and how to get ever scroll in the game.  Also I've updated the Level 7 spell information just a little to take in account the new changes.  

Scroll Locations

If you know of any I missed or would just like to comment you can do it here 

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