Some will induct a bard more easily potentially, because of the upside the bard can bring. Most won't. However, not many leaders require more than one mage kill. Especially with low counts. But this will all depend on the leadership.by zannon - Main Board
Outside of when I took an oath when I didn't even know what cabals were, and got anath'd within a week cause I didn't even know what retrieve meant, or where the fort cabal was. I rolled another char, made a role, and played it out. And I knew literally jack shit about the cabal, or any cabal. I just interacted with characters who happened to be scions. The chancellor eventuallyby zannon - Char Board
The code seems to check the NPC stats just like any other. So dropping any stat on an NPC will impact them. Hell, you can use rot + damnation and the NPCs will die if you can get them to 3 con (all NPCS have 25 con though I think) no matter what. Nuke STR and they hit softer. Nerf the dex on an NPC that dodges well, and you'll notice it dodges far worse. Battaglia nukes dam roll of enemby zannon - Main Board
Always wondered where that came from. Just knew it was held by a Sahuagin from having it located it, but never did find out where. Limited utility, but I always thought it would be sweet on a mariner ranger. Pretty high prog rate from the look of it.by zannon - Log Board
Better control since 1 round lag vs 2. And jab can cause bleeding if my memory serves, so would doing jabs be preferable? I can not recall if there was an edge, maybe brutal jab, that was necessary? I recall something with jab was bugged where the damage or the timer, (I forget which) grew with every hit to the point of being ridiculous. On par with it was a death sentence for almost any charaby zannon - Main Board
Cross is useful, but depends on the situation. Feint is meh since you lose a riposte chance, but the bleed can be nice, and the damage is not bad. I prefer weighted leverage for sheer hilarity though. Max out weight, get the tree from the battlefield and kick away. I always wished they would make it so you could kick them out of the room with those kinds of skills, gnome punting could becomeby zannon - Main Board
Ignoring all the perks of lowering dex 1) lowers item carry limit a bit 2) lowers skills that rely on dex 3) dodge characters usually have minimal carry weight + str stat coverage to prevent weapon drop, which means you'll rarely nerf strength to effect carry weight where dodge will be significantly impacted 4) 25 dex max weight dodges better than 15 dex max weight and probably betterby zannon - Main Board
I have no idea if soccer is a big deal in Russia or not. Having watched the game, it was a pretty impressive win to take out Spain, and they played some strong defense to deny Spain many strong scoring opportunities Akinfeev did a great job in the game to keep them in it and to seal the win in the shoot out while De Gea looked lost in the net when he needed to make stops. So was the win a bby zannon - OT Board
For exploration, either Comedic or Romantic. For PK, Epic or Tragic. The preferred bonus is not that big, so if you have a great comedic instrument, but are tragic preferred, use comedic. Switching based on what you are doing during the log in is quite viable. You do have a cool down between switching, but it's not terrible. Of course, this will mean keeping an extra instrument or twoby zannon - Main Board
Entirely viable to do 90% of the MUD solo in terms of exploration (or you were when I last played). Killing things is also rarely a problem, though I will admit it can take a while to wear things down with a bard as compared to other classes since they only have second attack and their damage songs are all 2 rounds of lag. Best perks of the bard in no order. Built in DR - for the group Builtby zannon - Main Board
150 mana a pop, which is a high amount for a bard, since their mana pools are not great, even on elves. But there is nothing worse than needing to get the song off and failing, so I usually would spam it up to the 90's at 45.by zannon - Main Board
W-elf bard. Because they are all I knew and it is CF easy mode for me, which is all I would have time for if I played. D-elf bard was my wishlist, but the chr at 18 blows. Better off as an arial, perma fly is a better inherent and 25 dex. And bards get sneak, so the inherent sneak of a delf is not as big a deal. Though the real dream is evil wood elf bard. Get made evil, then win back songby zannon - Main Board
I would agree, netural makes it worse. But you were making arguments saying associating with evil makes summoning the chief a no-go, which is irrelevant in the felar chief case, so was just pointing that out. Of course, it's just as bad if not worse to summon a neutral, but for other reasons. The rest of it was more along the lines of getting your thoughts about a paladin's ability tby zannon - Main Board
You keep saying the chief is evil, he is not, as you were already told. If you are making more of a reference to a paladin summoning Ghaelek, which I have never once seen done, then maybe your argument is a bit more valid. The better part of the code to look to in regards to summoning may be never betray your comrades or cower in fear, since arguably summoning a mob to take your place is cowerinby zannon - Main Board
Proper guys? I doubt it, and I'd be extremely impressed if you could point to any character of mine involved in this log. CF is not a hard game. It's a time consuming game. It's one of the few games in fact where if you put in effort, you can always get better, in most all facets of it. If you want to learn how to get hell gear, you can. It's not really an impossibility. Someby zannon - Log Board
Probably deserves to be looted more than he even was. Look at what he was left, and he is complaining. People hate transmuters cause of what they are and how certain people play them. And a citizen transmuter is just about the worst of them all, since most people will just assume you're doing it for some sort of hell perma or something. Given the gear, no doubt he's been there a fewby zannon - Log Board
At least that I ever interacted with. Tontik too, though I think he was a DM, never commander.by zannon - Main Board
Every Imm knows how the area they write works, and what it contains. For what it's worth, Balrahd was an Imm, he wrote an area and I'd wager he knows stuff about that area that nobody else knows, as well as the line Imms walk when they play morts, so I give his opinion on the topic a bit more credit than yours. All the rest of the players are left to figure it out. If they want to. Mosby zannon - Main Board
He had the RC skill, and those fiendish ice devils were insane. (why this was a skill instead of a spell I have no idea) So yes, his was juiced compared to a normal conjurer's. And he did it without tesserect for the most part, since he didn't get to rank 51 until the very end before he deleted. Of course, he got that skill at 40. He was 103-4 at the time he got to 40, so he didnby zannon - Main Board
I think this mini sub-thread answers your question already, old friend.by zannon - Main Board
It usually takes a few tries to quit a bad habit. Granted, my guess is the number of former players that ever come back to playing after being gone a solid year is not a great %, and even smaller would be the % that play again consistently, but there's still a chance at some point nostalgia will overwhelm memory and he'll come back, however briefly. Or maybe, just maybe, he did theby zannon - Main Board
Quaggoth blood plus bishop of air. Spell evasion works on blasts of gas. Can learn even though you're immune when you don't evade. Now that the blood is not immunity, this is riskier, but probably still works. I recall taking scouts there so they could perfect it risk free relatively quickly (since that guy's fire rate was insanely high), I just tanked him and spam healed. Aby zannon - Char Board
But post nerf, I did not say Solec using it as much, that's true. I guess the maladictions were not as worthwhile as the lag from rake, if damage was comparable. Still, fly to rake is pretty nice. Sort of like that damn Wyvern.by zannon - Log Board
See excerpt from Solec v Salyeris below. With a flick of his tail, a manticore looses a volley of iron tail spikes at you. A manticore's iron tail spike grazes you. A manticore's iron tail spike strikes you in the chest, leaving a lasting wound. A manticore's iron tail spike injures you. A manticore's iron tail spike strikes you in the chest, leaving a lasting wound. Aby zannon - Log Board
Baer and I were not exactly friendly, I never once played one of her followers and I hated a lot of her followers and had more than a few of my own personal issues with her as an Imm. That doesn't mean I can't see an upside to what she brought to CF for other players. If she pissed in my cheerios, so what? While Baer may not have enhanced my CF times, that doesn't make her bad inby zannon - Main Board
Well, being that Baer is a god, who are you to say that is still the case? Perhaps the becoming of a maran to a tara bal is through divine intervention, in which case it would be Baer who decides. Maybe Oshui earned his rest in the fields. Immortal intervention is in fact a part of the immersive experience of Thera. Gods can and do impact the lives of mortals. As such, it would be far more RP brby zannon - Main Board
Immortals set them, so there is that. Shokai has hardly been active enough to say how things should work in fort, or that how it worked shall be how it shall always work. I saw him vis I think two times in the 8 years I played, so I wouldn't say he is relevant in any capacity to determining how fort should operate. Now, if the claim is Baer smote Shokai in a violent coup causing Shokai to faby zannon - Main Board
He was not tanking you, so combat was ended momentarily when he killed the cent. There is a flaw (feature?) in the game mechanics when you are fighting someone that is fighting something else, if he kills that other thing combat technically ends. i.e. he could just move away instead of having to flee. That you yelled when he flamestruck you should be a clue that you were not technically engagedby zannon - Log Board