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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:34 pm
by Erce
never thought I would say this....


IMPRESSIVE!

I hope I read that right, no more artifact drops..much much fairer, much less of a time sink.

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:42 pm
by Ankh Morpork
Adianna wrote:If you haven't played TOA lately, you might want to gear up for a few rounds in December, because there are a lot of changes "B":

December? Shouldnt we atleast get Darkness Rising first?

Edit: I guess that comment is part of the original patchnotes for the yanks...

/Ankh

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:08 pm
by OohhoO
Awesome
just ... awesome
Wish they'd've also said ... "We have changed our European partner to ... " :p

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:32 pm
by Requiel
Banana wrote:so - no more artifacts for sale?

or ..

im sure thats gonna be a grab bag question :p cuz i have no idea what it means ^^
From what I understand you will go to the scholar with the full book of scrolls and if you have encounter credit, you simply give them the book and will recieve the activated artifact directly. Encounters will no longer drop unactivated artifacts as you will no longer need them. Remember that these are still test notes and it's very likely that they will change before they go live.

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:56 pm
by Lairiodd
People will still farm scrolls. Also, one small issue is that sneaking credit by grouping with the farmer won't work anymore, that should be more than balanced by the fact that an entire group can get an arti at once.

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:59 pm
by Jupiler
don't think scrolls will really be a problem like they are now lair...

lets see..love story 3/3...

can drop from any aerus mob, probably gonna be atleast high orange(now its red)
can also drop from a specific mob in aerus zones....
scroll drop rates increased

= (hopefully) no more 40hours of centaur/cyclops farming for a stupid scroll O.o

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:03 pm
by Xest
Bainshee LoS abuse bug fix too as well as all the TOA goodness.

Best patch evaaaaaaar!!111111

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:12 pm
by Gandelf
It's just Mythic's way of saying that they are losing customers because of the timesink element of ToA.

Took them long enough to realise, tbh!

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:17 pm
by Grymligast
Artifact change means that u go do the encounter, farm the book. then everyone that did the encounter turn book in and get activated artifact

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:49 pm
by alduan
I see every caster in the game running with 9% dmg and 10% pierce after this, not that it was very hard before but I mean EVERY