Day 1 of my Return! Dun dun dun. A semi-comedic journal.
Hello all of my fellow gamers that enjoy this game! I'm happy to return and play this great lasting game with you all. I've created a warrior character on Chesapeake. I spent my first evening just getting settled in, getting my template set up in the skills windows, gathering new player quests, and culling Old Haven.
I went with the Enhanced Client. I did try Classic client, but man the small screen is really tough to see these days especially with my large monitor.
I was able to complete the new player quests for Tactics and Healing. I started healing at 49 points though. I wasn't able to summon the mini-champ in Old Haven. I thought I was pumping the spawn pretty well because it started spawning the Spectral casters all over, but no luck. Maybe tomorrow night? I hope you all had a fun time reading this and I look forward to posting more.
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Funniest Thing Seen in Chat: Nothing, no one was talking. Step it up Chessy.
Biggest Bug Encountered: None, good job.
Today's Question: Is there a setting to change where corpse loot windows open? Right now it's always popping up in the same spot and that spot is where I prefer my buff/debuff bars.
Today’s Recommendation: Allow the keyboard input for statistics when creating a character.
Favorite Moment This Session: I discovered that my settings from previous times I played were saved even though I had to reinstall.
Favorite Player Seen: None. I spent a lot of time in Old Haven and never saw another soul. There was one person in Haven near the bank, but I did not interact.
What I Watched While Playing: Big Brother Season 5
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You can make the game window larger in CC in the Display options.
Chessy is very quiet in chat, I rarely get replies when I go there.
I know my template of Alchemy, Anatomy, Healing, Lumberjacking, Resisting Spells, Swordsmanship, and Tactics isn't the best template, but I'm excited for it. I've kinda wanted an axe wielder. I'll likely buy some soulstones from the UO Store and mess around with my template a lot when I get 7xGM. Just to get more optimal and able to grab some champ spawns for gold to buy powerscrolls.
I missed that Anatomy had a new player quest. I've finished every quest I grabbed except that one. I didn't look too hard, but I no longer saw the accelerated gains buff toward the end of my session. I had fun today. There was some movement in chat that wasn't third party sellers. I found a super awesome spot for my future house so I'm excited for that when I get the gold.
Loot hasn't been too bad, I'm near 70 phys resist and see the easy potential of getting a full 70s suit while fighting ettins next.
I swapped to CC looking at what Pawain said, but the resolution was already set to max. Even on my laptop it was hard to see so I went back to EC.
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Funniest Thing Seen in Chat: body by jake: selling hugs and advice and spooning lessons and much more at sweetcheeck.wow
Yea, he spelled cheek wrong.
Biggest Bug Encountered: There's a "true" chat message when just double clicking the housing placement tool. It's easily repeated so I didn't capture a screenshot. I was just checking prices.
Today's Question: Did they change where to get those crystal balls for training?
Old Unanswered Question: Is there a setting to change where corpse loot windows open? Right now it's always popping up in the same spot and that spot is where I prefer my buff/debuff bars.
Today’s Recommendation: Have it display total gold amount when depositing gold into bank. The gump you get when right clicking a banker doesn't open when you just type "Bank."
Favorite Moment This Session: Getting that helm from the Impaler. I was happy to see this actually existed after being told about it on Stratics. I'm a big fan of the Daemon Bone Armor and farming things like that.
Favorite Player Seen: None. i only saw one person in New Haven tonight and it was brief.
What I Watched While Playing: Big Brother Season 5 and some Masked Singer Season 2.
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When ready for Resist, buy a boat and pull a few spellbinders to the shore and hop on boat and let them blast you. You can also remove curse to increase Chiv that way until it stops.
Chiv isn't a part of my RP.
I like Alchemy. Plus I'm going to be doing a lot of gardening.
We have garden beds so you do not need potions for plants.
I enjoy the gardening system in the game and I do have the booster pack for garden beds. I'd have to buy new ones though because I no longer have my old items.
I'm into alchemy in UO as well. Maybe there will be buffs to it one day? I don't see the harm in grinding it with my warrior for now.
Day 3!!! I had fun today. I dipped into my saved gold to get Alchemy up and got everything above 60. That was my goal to move out of Old Haven and onto Ettins. At 80 I'll probably go to Haven Mine or the Earth Elementals in Ilshenar.
The spawn in Old Haven cycled a few times and I got to kill the Impaler 3 times. One time didn't have a bone armor drop though.
I found an area of affect Axe and pulled a bunch of NPCs. That's annoying but still kind of a fun mechanic to be aware of.
This was a fun session. I feel like I got a lot accomplished.
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Funniest Thing Seen in Chat: Lasarus: I wish to secure this
I dunno... always makes me chuckle to see these.
Biggest Bug Encountered: None, good job.
Today's Question: None today.
Unanswered Questions: Is there a setting to change where corpse loot windows open? Right now it's always popping up in the same spot and that spot is where I prefer my buff/debuff bars.
Did they change where to get those crystal balls for training?
Today’s Recommendation: Make a more noticeable alert when you buy too much for your bag and it's dropped at your feet.
Favorite Moment This Session: I got the Impaler's arms. I also got a 2nd helm.
Favorite Player Seen: Not much going on. I did see a few people in Luna, but it was just in passing.
What I Watched While Playing: Last SNL, Big Brother Season 6, some Comic Book Men
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I culled the ettin populations. I'm surprised they even spawn in my presence anymore. I got some great loot drops, but I made the mistake of putting an antique on. This thing went from 255 to 0 in a single session. That's crazy. Why even use antique pieces?
My armor is almost complete with full 70s in all but one. When I replace the neck I'm losing out on a lot of resists. It's a major magic item in stats. 20% phys resist is gonna be tough to lose. I'll repair it til I get a replacement.
I attended a player event tonight when I was invited to PaxLair's Town Hall. They were super kind and it was great seeing the goblins again. I do like playing with those goblin players and reading what they type. They are so creative and quick. I consider myself super intelligent, but I don't think I could type that quick or consistently as they do.
I've debated trying this journal in character rather than out, but I think it's a bit outside of my comfort zone to RP a female on message boards. In game I can just play Feigr as a strong female warrior. There's just something different on message boards in my head.
The night before last night I messaged the EM and I got in for the 3 month window of events just under the line. I think I had like 3 hours left to message him? I got a message back very quickly. I look forward to playing with this EM if they respond to emails so quickly and helpfully.
Lots of events on Chesapeake. It's almost overwhelming.
I had a great time tonight in game.
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Funniest Thing Seen in Chat: Leigh Ann: WOOHOO Footwear BODs
Coming from a female char name, this gave me a chuckle.
Biggest Bug Encountered: None, good job.
Today's Question: None today, but thank you for the answers Marge!
Today’s Recommendation: Put a message board in New Haven on the outside wall of the bank for maybe governor filtered player event announcements. Point new players to it? Spit balling here.
Favorite Moment This Session: Getting the Pax Lair Townhall invite. It's awesome to be included.
Favorite Player Seen: Madison. This person crafted me an earth elemental slayer axe. I couldn't find one on the Vendor Search. There was an elemental slayer axe, but way outside my price range. Thanks Madison!
What I Watched While Playing: Big Brother Season 6. Howie talking about how ma-chest-ic his fellow house guests are.
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I also went to fight Efreets, but there was a spawn around my spot. It just occurred to me as I type this that I could have lured them away. I'll do that tomorrow. Honestly a paragon Efreet might prove to be a challenge. A lot of it's debuffs are lasting over a minute despite having 70+ Resist. I was hoping getting resist high would reduce debuff duration.
Tomorrow I'll stick to New Haven mine and try to grind out the gold for my initial house custom foundation. Gold is raining from the sky against those Eles.
I did check Old Haven for the Impaler to see if I could get another drop, but someone was working it themselves and fighting him when I got there. I left them alone.
I managed to get Alchemy over 70. Spider Silk needs some more alchemy recipes. LOL I'm building a stockpile. Throwable paralyze potion?
Funniest Thing Seen in Chat: There was activity in chat, but it wasn't funny.
Biggest Bug Encountered: One of the NPC quest givers had ` in it's speech. Nothing major. Wasn't even worth grabbing a screenie of.
Today's Question: When'd they add this or am I nuts? I never noticed this before. It's the little things.
Today’s Recommendation: Show the amount you're over in resists on the character statistics page. It sounds simple, but this would be very helpful to me as I try to hunt up pieces of gear. I could use a spreadsheet, but it'd be so much easier in game and there is already the menu. I'm really proud of this one so I hope people are reading.
Favorite Moment This Session: The paragon chest made me happy. I've always loved that mechanic.
Favorite Player Seen: a shadow wisp was buying stuff in chat and there was some sellers spamming that were obviously selling for currency not in game. It just seemed like this person didn't care and wanted to participate in the game.
What I Watched While Playing: Big Brother Season 6. Wow, they did Kaysar dirty in Season 6.
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Treasure Hunters
Day 6, Moar! Earth Eles. Skill gains are much slower in the 70s when you're one shot'ing things, but the gold income is great. I managed to kill a lot of paragons and got three more chests. Eight Ball opened them for me. Thanks Eight Ball! I found a super slayer on one of the elementals. It has Hit Chance and Damage increase as well. It's elemental and a crossbow. The only negative is that it's a mage weapon -25. I'm not sure if that means it's unusable or not. Do mage weapons only use magery or is archery still used?
Bereg Strongbow was advertising a free white dye tub and I scooped that up. I love me some dye tubs and hope to have a full collection. Thanks Bereg!
I capped my suit of full 70s and 75 Energy Resist for being an elf. I also got a Fire Elemental Slayer axe so tried to go kill those near the earth eles I was fighting. They spawn in huge groups though. Even though I was able to kill groups of 5 with hit and run, it still felt safer just to stick to Earth Elementals. I actually got a lot of axe drops today that I held onto. I also got a dragon slayer music weapon that I'm gonna hang onto in case I try bard. I figured that'd come in useful eventually. I'd love to find a daemon slayer or Undead Super Slayer. Efreets, Daemons and Liches are probably the next goal after earth elementals. Maybe even Ice Fiends.
The cave from Compassion to the spawn I fight at had a Paragon Gargoyle on it. I tried to fight it and while I think I can definitely win it would have taken a very long time and multiple close calls so I left it alone.
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Funniest Thing Seen in Chat: Nothing really funny in chat today.
Biggest Bug Encountered: I repaired a few items when they were highlighted red or orange. The highlight stayed until I reopened paperdoll. Nothing spectacular here. I just thought I'd mention it since I saw nothing else.
Today's Question: Does Bushido + Parry work with axes or is it just swords?
Today’s Recommendation: This is one I don't have first hand experience with and I'm just going off of what I've gathered through researching which items to keep while out fighting. Imbuing has common ingredients until you reach the highest of intensities. Those highest intensity items require less common ingredients. Can loot have properties of those high intensities that drop highlighted? Or even have intensities use a font color like cold to hot in color temperature that indicates the imbuing intensity. From what I've gathered, the most desired items are the ones with properties that require those less common ingredients and don't have negative properties/properties that don't synergize. Some negative properties are actually good (Brittle) and some are worse than others.
Just to restate simply... highlight properties that have an intensity as high as what would require less common ingredients when imbuing.
I'm not as confident with this recommendation as my others. I do know it's hard for me to tell which items I should be keeping that are valuable if any.
Favorite Moment This Session: My favorite moment was watching Eight Ball telekenisis my 4 Paragon Chests and getting to dig through them. Thank you again Eight Ball. Thank you as well Bereg.
Favorite Player Seen: Eight Ball
What I Watched While Playing: Chick Fight, a movie on Netflix. I wasn't too interested in it, but added it to queue. I figured I'd mostly just listen while I played. Fighting/training montages hype me up.
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Bushido + Parry works with all two handed weapons.
Last night, after spotting a curious NPC in New Haven, I had a realization that I had been leaving a lot of resources on Earth Elementals. I looked up this Cleanup Officer NPC, grabbed a brown bag from the provisioner, and went for a run to the Earth Eles. I filled the bag with all the magic items, except the 50 stone ones, that dropped and tossed them in the trash barrel in Luna. Almost 400 points on average! I also began looting gems and that gave me almost 5k in gems whenever I reached weight limit. This greatly sped up my gold generation.
I was very productive in getting gold today. It was fun in New Haven Mine. I decided to stick there instead of going for Paragons because it was easier to get back to town between reaching weight limits. I encountered another adventuring player while playing TRACIA, an archer. We didn't speak, but it was fun seeing someone else doing what I was doing.
Skill gains haven't been as good as I'd like so I think that's my next goal. Tactics is the surprise slow one at this point, but healing isn't far behind. I'd love to get that to 80 so I can ressurect people if needed. That'd be a great goal for the EM/player events. I can hang out in the back and just help ressurect until I get comfortable. Wandering Healer, Feigr.
I still haven't died myself, knock on a bunch of wood. My first death robe will forever be the robes I wear in game. Until I find a better robe*.
I'll probably play some more tonight, but my sister is wanting me to listen to this "The Bible in a Year" podcast with her and I've got to listen to two episodes today and work on catching up with her. A few "fans" want me to review another game too so I've got to spend some time on Tinkertown. It's an early access game and from what I understand it doesn't have a lot of content so it should be a quick project.
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Funniest Thing Seen in Chat: Nothing really funny in chat today. I've been playing during work so it's odd hours.
Biggest Bug Encountered: This one is silly and small. But hey, just for sake of being complete... A lot of NPCs have ~ in their speech. I can't figure out what may cause this. NPC Mugg outside of the New Haven Mine does it consistently. I can get a screenshot if needed.
Today's Question: What are your favorite useful Enhanced Client macros?
Today’s Recommendation: This one is simple and I'm very proud of this one as well. I'd love to see a player vendor for repairs. It has a menu of which repair you need. The owner/patron of the vendor can charge it with repair deeds. Grandmaster and Legendary only. They can also set the price. I envision it opening a context menu with a button for each repairs available, the amount of charges, and the cost. Maybe even an option to repair all, if available.
Favorite Moment This Session: Placing my house! The Moody Moon!
Favorite Player Seen: TRACIA, have fun adventuring!
What I Watched While Playing: The Minority Mindset on Youtube. With GameStop making big news it reminds me just how important channels and information from channels like them are. I also watched some more Big Brother 6. I was wrong yesterday about Chick Fight. Chick Fight is available on Amazon, not Netflix.
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Right here in Luna provided by the folks over in Cah.