August 2008 News
August 26, 2008 -
It's Patch Day - the big one! The 100th patch is basically an expansion pack for the game, so there's a boatload of new content. It will take me some time to get all of the information together because... it will take months to complete the string of Society quests. I will do my best to get things up as quickly as possible. Check out the Patch Thread for information.
With the societies going live, it's time to choose your allegiance. I've already joined the Celestial Hand with Gyes and plan on siding with them with all of my characters (who are big enough, anyway). You are free to choose whichever faction you please, but I'd recommend the Celestial Hand. The Hand shares many of our core values, such as protecting the weak and fighting evil, something the other two factions cannot claim. Your choice of faction will affect how monsters treat you and whether you can do certain quests (including the new PK land control system), so you would also be at a disadvantage with regard to questing with your fellow Paladins.
This weekend is Labor Day and I will be out of town, so quests will be cancelled. I will not be around the following Saturday, but I will be free that Sunday. I would like to try an Aerbax trip that day, which will complete Xbow Gyes's armor suit. In the mean time, keep posting your quest requests!
August 11, 2008 -
Our first PoA Colosseum trip went smoothly despite my absence last Friday. Wulf will be MIA this Friday, but I'm willing to give leading a try until Wulf gets back. Check the quest section of the boards for specifics.
More information about the 100th Patch is steadily streaming in from Turbine. It looks like the patch will go live sometime in the last full week of August - perhaps the 26th. Check out the Patch Thread for a summary of what we know so far.
In a bit of crafting news, I now have the Charmed Smith augmentation on Kickem. If you have a particularly great item for imbuing, I'd be happy to try not to blow it up for you. Also, I recently maxed out all 4 of the tinkering skills across my two tinkering characters by finishing off Sarah's Item Tink skill. I'm thinking we'll have an overtink session sometime near the end of September. That will give everyone some time to collect the new weapons and armor coming this patch. On a somewhat related note, I have quite a few armor tink rares, but only one weapon tink rare left. If you have any to donate, I'd be very happy to accept.
This weekend's quests are still a bit TBD - please leave suggestions on the Quest Request thread like always.