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What the..?! - Returning to the Game ft. Questions
Who am I? What am I doing here?
Oh right. It's the second coming of that one guy that wrote some Divine Homoerotica! So, about returning into the "word intensive heroine", I was wondering if anyone could fill me up with some queries I have:
1) What's a good race for a Warrior of the Hallifaxian kind?
2) Should I stay a Blademaster or should I follow my gut of looking cool as a Time Knight™ with an Oversized Katana™? (i.e. Is Pureblade worth me spending lessons)
3) How bad really does Hallifax has it right now?
4) Should I be an ass and jump bandwagon to the popular city of *shudder* New Celest?
5) What the hell is a LiquidRift? Is it as cool as I think it is?
6) Around how much money does it take to get all vialed up, armored up and sworded up?
7) Is playing nexus with that autocure-thing worth it?
8) Arix sucks. That's not a question, just a statement.
Looking forward for some answers.
Oh right. It's the second coming of that one guy that wrote some Divine Homoerotica! So, about returning into the "word intensive heroine", I was wondering if anyone could fill me up with some queries I have:
1) What's a good race for a Warrior of the Hallifaxian kind?
2) Should I stay a Blademaster or should I follow my gut of looking cool as a Time Knight™ with an Oversized Katana™? (i.e. Is Pureblade worth me spending lessons)
3) How bad really does Hallifax has it right now?
4) Should I be an ass and jump bandwagon to the popular city of *shudder* New Celest?
5) What the hell is a LiquidRift? Is it as cool as I think it is?
6) Around how much money does it take to get all vialed up, armored up and sworded up?
7) Is playing nexus with that autocure-thing worth it?
8) Arix sucks. That's not a question, just a statement.
Looking forward for some answers.
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No, you should never jump ship to a city just because it's popular, in my opinion. Unless you like jumping ships to popular cities, then hippity hop.
Hallifax is cool. Why wouldn't it be, higher altitudes always seem to tend to be colder.
Mind you, it wasn't as innactive as the Glomdoring Shayle Reign of T-. But you get my point
2] Blademaster is probably better, but Pureblade is also doable.
3] Hallifax is in 4th place right now militarily and 2nd place culturally. They are at war with Gaudiguch, but that's it. There are lots worse places to be.
4] Ra ra Celest is awesome.
5] Liquidrift is like a herb rift, except for potions. You can outrift your potions into vials or attach a teardrop sigil that will auto-refill your vials for you.
6] 15000 or so for vials, teardrops and 150 sips of every potion. Another 20000 for weapons and 30000 for armour and helm. 500 for Sentinel coat uniform.
7] You won't be able to do combat with it, but you can totally hunt that way.
8] No comment here.
Wow. So that's a lot of money. Do you really need more than 3 Artifact Vials? They hold 5 potions each and there's only 15 curatives in the game.
And regardings the bling bling, I guess I could extort ask Doman nicely. Don't know if he's still regular but I saw him yesterday for a long while
2) I'd say Pureblade for better synergy with aeonics, since assaulting for the slit is much easier and more reliable than a 1-hander's hack down. Though as pureblade, you generally don't need much else anyway, so while getting an aeon lock is obviously great, getting the standard cleanse/green lock usually does the job. Blademaster does have a report in at the moment to swap Pinleg/Tendon wounding, so might be worth seeing how that plays out before contemplating a switch.
3) Hallifax probably has the lowest population right now, and so is often quiet, but the only context in which I'd say that 'Hallifax has it bad' is that it has lost quite a few of its regular combatants. Conflict for us pretty much died out when we left the alliance with Mag/Seren, and it got pretty boring for people who liked fighting. The prolonged duration of our detente not being all that helpful for keeping those people around. But we're rarely raided, have great divine, do well in culture, have great rp'ers, and usually make good showings in villages/aetherflares. So a few more people interested in combat who could help turn those 'good showings' into a win once in a while would be great. Being part of a chatter clan can alleviate the 'too quiet' aspect too.
4) I'd say Celest doesn't need more people whereas Hallifax does. But it's up to you on where you'll enjoy playing.
5) Liquidrift is great, yup.
6) Lack of immediate conflict means no major urgency on getting fully re-equipped all at once. Sentinels also have a smelter on their aethership to help with reducing the gold cost of weapons/armour. Poke myself or Adracunin if you need something in the mean time.
7) Not sure about Nexus, but there's a free 'Firstaid' based system (Medic!) out there written for Mudlet (also free), that's definitely sufficient for hunting and intro combat. Not sure if link to it made it to new forums, but it's listed in a clhelp, so poke in game and I can provide.
Liquid rifts makes managing potions about 10 billion times easier, give or take a billion. I went from like 30 to 50 vials to like 10.
Artie vials are way more helpful than they were but are hardly a requirement. If you want to jump into combat pipe runes might actually be a better bang for your buck.
Start out slowly and see how things go. Then invest into what you enjoy doing and how you find yourself spending most of your time.
Check in with guild mates and ask LOTS and LOTS of questions. And then ask a few more just for good measure. It's easy to get overwhelmed or to miss something important.
Just be nice and pople will trip overthemselves to help you.
1) Aslaran. If you have any interset in being top tier, your options are Aslaran anything or Krokani BC Ebonguard or Serenguard. Since you aren't in a commune....Aslaran or bust. You'll be out performed by Aslaran warriors by a fair margin if you go with lucidian or anything of the sort.
2) BM is great for groups, okay for 1v1. Pureblade is great for 1v1, good for groups. If you want to do something that doesn't involve falling asleep on your pinleg alias, go PB.
3) RP wise I have no idea. Mechanically, they have amazing skills with few (or zero) fighters that use them well. Politically, they are the least important org in the game by a fair margin. They don't really bring anything. No military to speak of, no villages, no domoths, no bubbles, nothing. They haven't had any real success on that front in a pretty significant amount of time.
4)I don't generally adhere to the belief that you have to be in the winning org to enjoy the game, so that's up to you.
5) It's great! Get three artie vials and a fesix bandolier and you're set for life. It's what I did, and it's not all that expensive.
6) That's extremely difficult to estimate. I'm sure Ushaara or someone can help you out with starter gear for cheapre than the 50k Iytha suggested.
7) It'll be fine for bashing, with the exception of a few areas that like to afflict like Scorpio and Catacombs. You'll be pk food though.
8) He has a lovely fruit hat.
Krokani with nightkiss and arties is fun. Just to see how high you can get the stats and wounding bonus.
....then you die to toad because you had to clot and focus at the same time.
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