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Announcements / Re: more chadzhate incoming - heirloom theft

« on: January 10, 2011, 09:29:40 am »

without hereditary wpf one retirement will change you from 2h to pike forever Vargas, plus you'll get another heirloom, add that to the respecing of your current heirlooms you're gonna get and your 2h main becomes your pike main

me too!

Sure, but from chadz's post I assume that something is going to happen to retirement so it might not work just like that. And even if it was simple as that, it's not working yet. I wanna play now!

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Announcements / Re: more chadzhate incoming - heirloom theft

« on: January 10, 2011, 09:14:01 am »

Hate you!

Any chance of giving respec to characters possessing heirlooms, or is the idea that we just re-heirloom item in the same class? I would really like to change my Masterwork Tears to a superduper pike, but the guy is already specced to 2h.

Alternatively allow heirloom (and gen) transfer from one char to another so I can just have my pikeman alt become the heirloom-hero. The first option is a lot easier though.

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Closed Requests / Re: [Ban] Merc_Cyber and Merc_Bjord

« on: January 08, 2011, 10:32:12 pm »

Umm, there were multiple admins present (non-Mercs too), why didn't you present your case there instead of making a post hours later? 

The eternal conspiracy theory of Merc admins favoring Mercs is getting kinda boring. I've kicked Bjord for raging/teamhitting and will kick anyone if it's necessary. It's just that members of established clans rarely cause trouble so there's no need to punish them.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Vargas's Toolkit

« on: January 08, 2011, 12:43:11 am »

Note that it's not updated to post-patch yet. Character WPF gain is broken as well as the wpf-weight calculator. I haven't been able to fish the new information out of chadz yet, will update as soon as I can.

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General Off Topic / Re: Post your Runescape name and clan.

« on: January 06, 2011, 03:54:50 am »

Zackhar

Pohjolan Urhot

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General Discussion / Re: Fix list

« on: January 06, 2011, 02:14:54 am »

Make the "Lord Vargas, Owner of the whole world" message appear for alts too, instead of only the main strat character.

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Announcements / Re: Version 0.200 Released

« on: January 05, 2011, 05:13:16 pm »

How many good HA you know? be honest.

And where those guys always trampling or shooting?

I agree that the shooting speed was insane....but totally broke one class? I would like too see you Tincans....which are plenty....when your class would be nerfed like this....but why it wont happen? too many Admins and guys around chadz who tell the same shit "Im a Tincan, Archer x shoot me, HA y killed me plz nerf"

There were few good HA, and they always shot me - I did not mean that you used to trample, just that you won't be able to do it now because of the upkeep.

Totally broken it was when I was trying to fight you full plated heroes riding on a tank horse with my zero armor, high level foot archer and often got outshot. Not fair, not fun.

I played foot archer, 2h lolsworder and a thrower and am honestly happy that the first two got nerfed as especially the archer was ridiculous at times.

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Announcements / Re: Version 0.200 Released

« on: January 05, 2011, 03:01:19 pm »

[..snip..]
Archery is totally broken. HA is a waste....why waste? Subotai raging or whining
[snip..]

Luckily you won't be able to afford cata-trampling all the time. You we're probably lvl 40 before, now way lower. Still you wish for the same power?

If you wanna be a good shot, pick normal foot archer. Horse archers have their horse to run around with, it was silly that they were as accurate and powerful as foot archers (who were totally OP too). Now the sillyness has apparently been reduced, hooray! HA should be annoying harassers working at enemy flanks, not tanks crushing everything like they were earlier.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Using characters from different Cd keys, Possible?

« on: January 04, 2011, 10:57:27 pm »

Just join the server with a different name and proceed just like you did with your first character.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Vargas's Toolkit

« on: January 04, 2011, 08:46:47 pm »

Updated:

- Code rewritten for maintainability
- Prepared for post-patch, now I only need the new functions
- UI changed to be more consistent
- Graph added for damage calculator

Still found in the same place.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Post Your Character Builds

« on: January 04, 2011, 07:16:12 pm »

Merc_Vargos (2h)

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Level 35

Strength 21
Agility 21

Ironflesh 7
Power Strike 7
Shield 1
Athletics 7
Riding 3
Weapon Master 7

Two-handed 198
Polearm 10

5th gen, Masterwork Tears & some awshum armor. Some riding for versatility, light shield for arrow cover.

Merc_Vargais (archer)

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Level 37

Strength 18
Agility 29

Power Strike 3
Athletics 9
Power Draw 6
Weapon Master 9

Archery 223

Longbow & superlight armor = win. Too bad I'm 1,1 million xp from lvl 37, Ath 10 + WM 10 would be awesome.. Even got a spare skill point waiting.

Merc_Vargie (thrower / 1h)

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Level 25

Strength 26
Agility 6

Power Strike 8
Shield 2
Athletics 2
Power Throw 8
Weapon Master 2

One handed 50
Throwing 110

Ninja warrior fighting with throwing axes. Seem like a poor axe+shielder from afar, throw axe in the face when 2h spammer approaches. Fun!

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Game Balance Discussion / Re: Hard level cap -- serious suggestion

« on: January 04, 2011, 05:39:28 pm »

I'm all for hard cap at 30. Eventually some people with enough time are going to grind their char to a level way above the soft cap of 30 and omgwtfdestroy everyone. That's just boring. Of course if the xp curve really goes sky-high after 30+ it's fine, but then you could just call it a semi-hard cap.

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Events & Tournaments / Re: The cRPG Tournament unofficially official - Discussion

« on: January 04, 2011, 03:40:43 pm »

I'm no cavalryman, but IMO killing the opponents horse should result in killer being disqualified / losing the match. It is highly dishonourable to kill the opponents mount.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Retirement Question

« on: January 04, 2011, 02:38:11 pm »

You lose the retirement cost (5k for the first time).

You have to choose the heirloom item when retiring, it is part of the process - you cannot retire without choosing some item to heirloom. You also need to own the said item and be able to use it, so you can't heirloom a longbow without being an archer, horse without being cav etc.

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Game Balance Discussion / Re: A new philosophy for weapon balance.

« on: January 04, 2011, 10:40:45 am »

Making weapons more heavily specialized could easily lead to even more repetitive behavior by players. Tears is a stabbing sword already, imagine what would happen if it was even better at stabbing and worse in cutting? Even more lolstabbing.

This isn't necessarily a problem. As you say, specializing forces people to concentrate on specific type of fighting instead of being lvl 40 juggernauts that kill everything around them.

Level cap will already make the juggernaut builds inexistent and upkeep hopefully makes mid-tier equipment more useful. For these reasons I'm not sure if it's necessary to make such radical changes. A big part of choosing gear should be the looks, so we can actually see some themed, cool-looking people instead of everyone using the most optimal gearset for their build.