** Use Augmentations Wisely **

If I'm understanding the implications of the Patch Message Section titled "Use Augmentations Wisely" then an Augmentation Item of Type 1 can be applied to any slot of any Type. Also if the item being augmented has a slot of Type 5 then an Augmentation Item of Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 can be applied to that object. I'm I correct in saying this?

Yay so i have a reason to make a rogue other than to see Shanky has Backstabbed a Burynai excavator

also that sux that i get "shafted" as it were in LDoN o well....but if i could fit in a dungeon i would be sad =)

Hooskerdo
38th Ogre Warrior
Morelle-Thule

So what does this augmentation thing do?

Heyas

Well, the 'Servers are Congested'; give them a Sudaphed already.

I do get as far as the Account - Options screen, which I think is the coolest of the screens we've seen so far. Only the one for Kunark was as cool, but Firiona in bondage is just plain cool anyway.

One thing, the DE caster reminds me of my first wife, the hair and especially the eyes. <sigh> Not the rest, sad to say.

Got a new error when trying to logon. 0023 Logon/registraion server congested. I want to play!!!!

Are there augments that make things no drop? This would be very interesting for Rallos players..

Quote: monks suck in LDoN. Its basically impossible to split, and rogues are more dps/more utility in ldon. Welcome to the role of 6th spot filler!
Yes, warriors/monks will benefit from this expansion (gear wise, not group wise,) but everyone else will benefit more.
Warriors will fall behind Sks and Pals for groups. Why? LDoN is time critical, SKs and pallies can let the rest of the group do more dps faster.
The Honorable czaemon
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too bad =( monks and warriors are going to be pissed, but it makes total sense, and i can see why a wiz or a necro would be picked over a warrior or a monk, first off a necro can FD and has great DPS so there goes the monks advantage right there,
Lady Sativah
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Warriors and Monks have been continually left farther and farther behind in all expansions and
updates/upgrades, for well over a year now. It
appears that with months to come up with a fair
and equitable expansion, that would cover all the Classes, SOE has once again failed in their task.
I'm sure that LDON will be a great experience for
most Classes .....
Ask SOE about Class Balance for the War/Monk and
the answer is... we're thinking about it.

I looked through al of the posts and didn't see an answer for any of these so ill ask...
Do you have to purchase (with points) all the items you want to gain from LDoN or do the mobs drop any items on the way?
Is there a boss mob at the end of each adventure, by that i mean is there any thing driving you to get to the end of the dungeon?
Thats the best i can think of right now, thanks for your reply.

can you sell items back to the wayfarer merchants for points? obviously for less than you paid but is it possible? kinda like the horse return quest or something?

one final question, where are the camps located so i can park my wizzy near there for tomorrows patch =) my playing time is limited so this will help me a ton =)

EDIT -- and may i ask an opinion too? which one should i go to if im a 53 wizzy ? is there one that is more fun than the others? i am SO EXCITED hehe im sure they are all fun but im just asking =)

thank you all who posted useful info and i will see you tomorrow if the servers ever come back up hehe =)

Edited, Mon Sep 8 19:43:20 2003

How about SK spells?

Let me just say that this is extremely exciting! I also want to add my sincerest thanx to all you Beta testers for working out many bugs ( I'm sure) allowing us the pleasure of delving deeper into the ever-changing world we love so much. Bravo! As far as the rest of the world, whatever your views on Sony/Verant/whatever aside, I look foward to joining with you in search of further conquest.Onward and Upward!!!

Gaibban Druid of Karana
Stromm Server

Edited, Mon Sep 8 18:22:31 2003

what if any new bard songs are there?

I Heard LDoN comes out tomorrow ( tuesday the 9th ) is this at all true?

Hopefully this should help with some of your questions. This is a compilation of posts, by me mostly, the adventurers stone augment stuff is by nytrous. most of these posts have fallen off the first page, and answer most of the questions that have come up recently. all the pics at freepichosting.com will be taken down very soon (6k views in 3 or 4 days, basically anytime now they will be down) the bottom post about spells is from Call to Glory's guild boards (posted by me)
raids time limits seem to be about 3 hours. adventure time limits are 90 mins. raids take 18-36 people, adventures take 4-6. awarded points on each successful adventure completion depending on level and difficulty level (normal/hard.) you can only get an adventure in a group with people within 7 levels of you. a normal level 30 adventure will provide 3 points, a normal 65 will provide 51 points, and a hard 65 will provide 76 points. you start seeing items at the adventure merchants when you have over 100 points in any one theme. Augments can be dropped **OR** bought at an adventure merchant. adventures have 90 min time limits, twice that for most raids.
after you go through some dialogue in your hometown (or RM/karana if you are kos at home) and some at any adventurers camp, you get an "adventurers stone" to augment your charm. Once you have it you can port around the camps simply by saying the name of another camp near a magus. can add stats when you get a lot of adventure points also. most pure casters recieve disarm/unlock spells for chests. Paladins (my main in beta) recieve a spell called Guidance, which is a 1100hp + 54ac buff (basically on par with aego.) Also get temperance and group temperance. Enchanters get single target VoQuellious and illusion frost bone among other things. New series of spells for several classes that add spellshield %'s, similiar to the items found in potime. Clerics get a melee guard spell -- similiar to spell shield, except takes off melee damage instead of spell damage. various other interesting spells.all items that I saw have aug slots, old world items only one. depending on the level item it is, it will have a different slot. nubi items have slot 1, while time items have slot 8 etc. augments are both dropped, and found on the adventure merchants.
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https://everquest.allakhazam.com/screenshots/misc/augs%20time%20raid.JPG
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https://everquest.allakhazam.com/screenshots/misc/pressmiraguls.JPG
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/screenshots/misc/treetakish.JPG
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/screenshots/misc/vampmistmoore.JPG
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/screenshots/misc/wardentimeraid.JPG
-- various LDoN stuff,hosted thanks to illia

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http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/44591/4.jpg
The below screenshots were all taken by nytrous, bumping them to the top anyway as some of them are really nice.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmac024/ldon/QuintessenceOfSand.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmac024/ldon/3dmgaug.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmac024/ldon/frogghost.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmac024/ldon/numleou.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmac024/ldon/ojun.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmac024/ldon/takc.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmac024/ldon/takfight.jpg
some maps -- also by nytrous for the most part
http://ragedemon.netfirms.com/ldon/
Current mechanics of the Adventurer Stone charm augment:

Max stats: 10ac, 10 to all stats and sv's, 100hp/mana

10 successes in *one* theme = 5 bits of knowledge from the adventurer stone quest NPC = 1 boost to your augment

1 boost to your augment = 2hp/mana

every 10hp/mana = 1 ac, 1 to all stat/sv's

minimum successes required to max out aug = 500

as much as that sounds, it won't take that much time... perhaps a month or two if you're an above-average of a typical gamer (in between "typical" and "hardcore")

Currently I'm at around:
10 guk, 6 miragul, 14 mistmoore, 10 rujarkian, 10 takish`hiz wins... 8hp/mana on my charm aug (posted by nytrous)
(post by me on shammy spells) well.. to begin with you get a series of disarm/sense/unlock trap/chest spells. Lesser/normal/great versions of each.
http://lucy.fnord.net/spellhistory.html?id=4261&source=Test
http://lucy.fnord.net/spellhistory.html?id=4273&source=Test
http://lucy.fnord.net/spellhistory.html?id=4285&source=Test
they consume a component sold by the wayfarers, and if they ever get working correctly will be very nice. hopefully by release the traps will be level scaled (a trap on a chest in a 30 normal adventure did 500 damage a tick! http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=4114&source=Test )
you get a series of very nice curs based dots cuminating in the below linked Bane. They were changed to 5 ticks, and had the damage lowered slightly. Good change -- it lets them be extended via aas etc. more efficient but nukes, but faster than dots.
http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=4095&source=Test
They are adding in Remove Lesser Curse and Remove minor curse spells. http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=4056&source=Test
http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=4057&source=Test
You **WILL** need these spells in LDoN, EXP mobs, and especially traps curse. not to mention raids... Another important change, they are making RGC buyable with points earned from adventures. This means you can get a spell that drops off a contested mob (Rhag 1 in SSRA IIRC) by xping. To give an example of the significance of this... an MI cleric was recently offering 200kplat for it.
You are getting a new series of movement spells, spirit of the shrew. linking the group one below.. Its run speed is just about identical to run3, but very useful to lower level groups, or slackers who dont have run3 yet. IT CAN BE CAST INSIDE!
http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=4055&source=Test
paladins are getting a new, aego type spell. also getting temperance, and group temperance.
http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=4109&source=Test
this will allow you to self buff your hp higher than bot9+kazad can get you.
also -- these new spells will be purchasable at the adventure merchants. hard 65 adventures give 76 points, normal 65 give 51, normal 30 give 3... point cost has not been decided yet





Edited, Mon Sep 8 16:40:51 2003