armor change part 3 (in Changelog)
Helm of Ecthelion [6]: ST bonus, no UC penalty; upgrade curve slightly more expensive than EB. Coming soon to auctions (and stores) near you. Initial auction batch will be 20 HoE; if demand justifies it an additional 20 will be auctioned later.
Mage shields no longer grant AC; increased DD protection by 10% (update: cap increased to 50%)
Gi to -10% magic (was -2%)
HoD to base AC 9 (was 8)
SC to base AC 11 (was 10)
Alienfb
May 10 2005 5:54 PM EDT
first
Synco
May 10 2005 5:54 PM EDT
1st
CooperTX
May 10 2005 5:55 PM EDT
First to grab a HoE:)
IndependenZ
May 10 2005 5:55 PM EDT
Very nice changes! I still love them all!
Synco
May 10 2005 5:57 PM EDT
how did he get a HoE already!?!?1
maulaxe
May 10 2005 5:58 PM EDT
hehe camping is fun now!
Alienfb
May 10 2005 6:01 PM EDT
Lots of HoE in auctions
Nice change on the GI... that'll help reduce it's demand....(sorry, not good with sarcasm).
/me seems to have an additional 2 AC since the HoD change... and he got a refund
AdminShade
May 10 2005 6:10 PM EDT
might be me but isn't the HoE abbreviation possible to be seen as unpg?
Shade,
A Hoe is a gardening tool, i think you are confused.
Bull3t F4c3
May 10 2005 6:18 PM EDT
an HoE...is a piece if armor in cb2...a hoe...is a garden tool...a ho..which is short for W..h. and so on..is un-pg..
And ho do you know all this?
DizzyGuy
May 10 2005 6:28 PM EDT
not happy about the GI change but hope to get a HoE
AdminShade
May 10 2005 6:35 PM EDT
ahhh yes a hoe is a schoffel, silly me :)
Duke
May 10 2005 6:45 PM EDT
Some say that is HoD was giving 2 point and have receive a refund.Does mean that HoD/SC will cost less to upgrade now
It looks like it to me... but I'm not the most reliable >.<
/me makes Duke wear the sky blue dress
i wonder if this means there will be a new supporter item soon and im pretty happy with this stuff doesnt effect me helps me out alot other than the MgS but its still good
Ascent
May 10 2005 7:26 PM EDT
Man... 3 hits at once... trollskin gone, bg *much* weaker (unless I've got 20m to spend -- any chance of those beleg upgrade prices going down on that non-forgable item??) and the MGS no longer counts as armor.
At least I got money for the TSA. Yeesh.
Repeats to himself: balance is good... balance is good....
No.... /me begins to chant.... magic + gear, magic + gear!!!
Frod
May 10 2005 8:41 PM EDT
'Ho' is also a particular kiai from yamate-ryu aikijutsu, and is the battle cry for my UC T Hombu Dojo in CB1. Its use there was ok'd by admins at the time. :-)
Special J
May 10 2005 10:25 PM EDT
If this was fark, Sukotto would have won the thread.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan? HOooooooooo.... ;)
Mags
May 10 2005 11:13 PM EDT
:O I can't even tell you how sweet this is. New hat! Higher ST! Get home from a looong day of presentations, gotta face the CEO tomorrow, and CB's got my back. Thanks guys for being such a great community and game. :D
Now I've really got to train VA, though(and abandon AMF entirely...)
sssimmo
May 11 2005 12:58 AM EDT
/me wishes he didnt buy his mage shield.
how much st bonus does this fashionable new hat grant?
awwww my poor gi. :( at least give me something in return! I'm on of the few people in the world who's strat actually focuses on UC. I need that magic for VA! *cries*
(thundercats ho!) lol
well... at least I got a new helmet to spend my money on...
CooperTX
May 11 2005 3:36 PM EDT
It's a very nice helmet too!!!
AdminShade
May 12 2005 5:37 AM EDT
Jonathan:
Mage shields no longer grant AC; increased DD protection by 10%
before they absorbed 2000 damage per point, do they now absorb 2200? (to a cap of 50% of damage of course)
AdminShade
May 12 2005 5:44 AM EDT
also: Mage shields no longer grant AC
this means no protection from physical damage but does this include GA damage also?
(hitting someone with a weapon and getting the reflected physical damage back)
IndependenZ
May 12 2005 5:44 AM EDT
"Helm of Ecthelion [6]: ST bonus, no UC penalty; upgrade curve slightly more expensive than EB. Coming soon to auctions (and stores) near you. Initial auction batch will be 20 HoE; if demand justifies it an additional 20 will be auctioned later. " -Jonathan
*hopes for the additional 20, since he's already out of money at the moment*
Ascent
May 12 2005 11:27 AM EDT
*hopes for the additional 20, since he's already out of money at the moment*
Good luck... everyone seems to want to grab up at least 3 or 4 of them... hopefully that'll still qualify as "demand" -- I know it's not really an option currently, but in instances like this, it might be nice if it was limited to one per person.
Mags
May 12 2005 11:30 AM EDT
Priced out here too, due to speculators. Same thing happened to Tattoos, and they lost a ton of money(bought all the base-level full tattoos around 1.3m each). This seems like a better buy for them but we'll see.
Lumpy Koala
May 12 2005 7:35 PM EDT
I hope next time this type of auction is set up, please take consideration of Asian players. At least make sure 20% of them end after midnight (server time) or something. I missed the chance to bid just coz the auctions end in crazy hours 5~6am , and yes, I do sleep :P
Mags
May 12 2005 9:51 PM EDT
Yeehaw! Wish me luck...
Mags
May 15 2005 1:28 AM EDT
Lost out that round too, but for everyone's information, 10 further HoE's have been generously added.
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