Arnold7

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  • Sargon how did you deal with the dragons in trove and hoard chests?  They dispel summons that you cast and mystics don’t have the more powerful direct damage spells that mages have.  Think you would have to stone them to death but that would take aw…
  • NL should break the cycle bringing back pvp in a big way when groups of players engage in guild wars.  Pretty sure it will appeal to a lot of long time players that remember what UO was like in the early days.  No sure if will attract and retain new…
  • Pretty sure the process for creating drops you get from killing stuff is pretty much random although the nature of the drops is influenced by the general area and the level of the monster you just killed.  For example, in Tel Mur you get mostly garg…
  • My mage with 120 magery, 120 eval (110 actual plus a wizards curio), 100 resist, med. cart., and 95 lockpicking and remove trap can solo troves so you don’t need a super player.  Troves take a while sometimes.  I don’t do the Endon or Lish. troves …
  • Thanks.  Yes can see that set is a difficult one to get.
  • What is it?
  • Various discussions I have read concerning these kinds of issues and others involving actions that could be easily verified from game logs indicate UO does not support the kinds of logs you are talking about.  Would be surprised if any kinds of back…
  • Am seeing this kind of attitude on the part of UO just too often anymore.  Sorry UO.  Saying thats just too bad, sorry, does not cut it anymore in a game like this one when players have legitimate complaints.
  • Yes been awhile.  But remember you don’t have to kill everything when doing Oaks.  You don’t lose karma if you don’t kill the right things that don’t attack you if you leave them alone but have forgotten which things not to kill. Think you lose karm…
  • I do lots of maps.  Lots of hoards and troves.  Chances of getting these maps off of monsters is quite low.  Rarely get higher end maps that way but do sometimes. Considering it takes a while to solo anything capable of having a hoard map and the lo…
  • Don’t have a lot of luck on my suit but also get mostly gold cache chests using the plus 5 glasses.  Thanks for the post.  That might explain why the Fel ones usually contain more 110 scrolls than the hoards and troves.  Was thinking it was just my …
  • Have to agree it would take years for a player that plays solo to get enough scrolls from treasure chests to make a 120 scroll.  Just getting enough of the right kind chests that have a reasonable probability of generating the kinds of scrolls you n…
  • I would agree timer probably prevents them from going on vendor search and that not being on vendor search limits their being farmed.
  • By the way if you have a character learning imbuing, chests are a good way to get stuff to imbue and make fairly good gold while you are doing it.  Just bag it or send the character out pick it up after you empty the chest.
  • Regarding Fel trove maps, they spawn in Fed hoard chests at about or at the same rate as trove maps in other hoard chests.  Don’t do a lot of Fed chests but spawn rates for trove maps appears to be about the same as for others. To be honest if Fed …
  • UO is an old game apparently still incorporating much of now obsolete language from the original game.  The development team did create the enhanced client possibly with the hope phasing out the classic client.  But they now support both so every on…
    in 25 Years... Comment by Arnold7 July 2022
  • Do a lot of chests without that much luck on my suit.  Most chests cache and above have one or two really good pieces in them and occasionally a legendary piece. Generally on my shard there is not much of a market for any of these things so even tho…
  • This is a group play oriented game.  Playing with the right group trumps all of UO’s short comings from the player point of view.  I really enjoy playing with the players I know although I don’t get to play with them that much anymore. For players …
    in 25 Years... Comment by Arnold7 July 2022
  • Just created a new character on Atlantic mostly just to get prices from vendor search. Have been exploring a little and think all of the housing especially in wooded areas might create some problems for this idea on that shard.  Like the idea though.
  • A mage can open stash, supply and cache chests with the unlock skill.  But before you can actually open the chest, you are now required to remove the trap.  That’s when the chest explodes around six times and additional monsters jump out of it.  Thi…
  • As an alternative for maps if you have access to a Davie Jone’s locker, you can get the coordinates from that and then use a sextant.  If you use the EC, you can mark the coordinates on the game map.  That will set up a flashing point were the coord…
  • Urge set up  a vertical and horizontal hot bar each as long as you can make them.  Line each one up with a landmark that goes though the x on the map and then orient the game’s map to the same orientation and line the hot bars up on that one using t…
  • Learn cartography in New Haven.  Boring but in the end you will make a small amount of gold.  Well worth the effort.  A 100 skill level you can be four squares away and still dig the chest that results in a huge time advantage in finding the chest. …
  • Sorry Keven have to disagree with you on this one.  For an experienced player like yourself maybe.  You know how it’s done.  But for an inexperienced players, most will likely die of boredom before they raise enough gold to buy a 25 point stat scrol…
  • Thanks.  Did not know that.  Will give it a try next time I am on.
  • Odd.  On EC no default.  You just make your choices on the portal’s menu.  It maintains the last choice made until someone changes it.  Not really complaining just seems odd that the way you activate it is completely different when using EC.
  • How old is your router?  After moving to another state and getting stuff from a new internet provider I think UO worked ok for awhile but then I think when UO did file maintenance the game just got worse and worse with lots of lost connections.  Had…
  • Thanks for the information on the BoDs.  Always wondered about that. Think the alchemist sells the alchemy ones. Just seems odd the inscription trainer does not.  Neither talk about them. Think first time I talked to the mage he told me which direc…
  • Mariah maybe more players would access what you wrote if the mage that greets new players in New Haven provided a link to it.  At present I think he just offers a service that costs 250,000 gold.  When I first met him I had no clue as to what he was…
  • Keven I did what you said for a long time before getting an EJ account and a lot more after getting one.  But for all practical purposes the basic information just is not there in any accessible way.  New players don’t even have a clue as to what th…