Overall, eh. I find that there seem to be some bugs, maybe Mac only, as in when you click on something nothing happens...the hot spot for your curser is not where it would appear it SHOULD be. And while I love the new hp/mp bars, in that it is so easy to heal myself, since they are not where I'm used to them being, my hp got a little low at times...I used pots.OMG.
The drop system is awful. In any place where you can build up a pack of mops, you are going to have a hard time grabbing all your drops before they wander off so to speak. And imagine my surprise with this lovely update: I had stuck all my wis pot drops in a summon....got to town dismissed them and the pots fell on the ground. Nice going NC! Forgot to mention THAT part. So, if my summons die off screen...goodby drops I guess? Or if some moron comes along, can he grab the drops? I'm feeling like it's the old days when mages dismissed their 8 BB's behind a house somewhere in Kent so that no one would steal their loot.
I also went to the new dungeon in WW. Youngunz organized a group and a bunch of us went in there. Let me just say that those Dark Elf packs hurt a LOT. There are ranged attackers and melee ones and they all hurt. I would not suggest going there on your own, but I think it would be a good place to group hunt with a STRONG SMART group. I think a group that runs around and gets separated will die. The packs are large and very strong and you need to stay together and work slowly to end them. I think there are three floors: thinking about the third floor scares me. ^^
I would not bring dogs there as I think those mops will dog kill. The only drops I saw fall were four hastes from one mop.
Apparently TOI mops no longer drop any cash, but that's not as awful as it could be. I never found TOI except the archer floors to be a great cash source, as I mostly get stacks and stacks of pots there.
Overall the interface seems to have been done by people who have um not many interface skills. I found nothing especially intuitive, and some things make no sense. It took a bit to figure out how to turn on my party HP bars, and my summons have a greyed out option on their menu...and what exactly does, "border" mean there?
So some of it is good: new hunting areas for party hunting, the floating HP bar that lets me more easily heal myself (great for mages and sub 50 elves), and of course this:
I made these a LONG LONG time ago and people thought I was stupid...sorta like when I made a dex mage. ^^
Oh and this may make seiges fun. I took these on my level 32 elf, so adjust the colors for your level I guess:
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Cursors
i've noticed on my PC that when i mouse over, say, the friends list command in the Comm window i often don't get the finger. which is odd, since NC seems to have given everyone the finger today.
all links are slighty off on
all links are slighty off on the text. it was one of the bugs in the publish.
i believe comic book guy says it best...
worst episode ever!
Underground Passage trip
Hi Riverine,
I was with you in Gunz group. I think I got 5 nteles from one and after the hunt had 23 hastes. I think I started with 6 in my pack so that would be 17 hastes from somewhere.
TriStar had dogs killed on the two trips I saw him (one with another group, one with ours). I tried a trip down there with my pups right after finishing the update download and the DEs attacked one of my dogs first, didn't start with me then go after them. And I wasn't poly'd, but that doesn't seem to matter anyway. Gunz also summoned once and it got attacked first as well.
Before our trip I was with Gunz, Maniac, Karrinna and TwistedPain(?) and Mani got a lastbastard bow, which is +2 hit,+2 damage. (and usable by royal) TwistedPain said she got a lastwhatever dagger which she said was 8/8 damage, but not sure if it was with us or previously.
I would agree though that a full group with lots of healers is a good idea there. And possibly two groups for that area that widens out after the narrow passageway. Specific strategies will have to be worked out since these DEs are so effective in groups. And you have to be disciplined since sometimes they seem to use their random tele scrolls or escape. A couple times I got confused and thought party members were escaping, and once I figured it out I then thought they weren't when they did... with bad results for me.
Quoai