October 2006 News
October 30, 2006 -
More updates to the Quest Section, including a writeup for this month's only real quest, Lunnum's Defilement. I've also updated the Hunter Kill Tasks with last month's rare monster tasks. Also check out the updates to old quests (SoCS, Mi Krau-Li's Jitte, and Composite weapons). I've also made some minor corrections to a couple other quests here and there, but nothing too major.
Congrats to everyone who completed the <100 version of Killing Grael last night. It wasn't easy, but we recovered all corpses, even those in the horrible falling rock section! Unfortunately Lee wasn't able to complete the quest, but the rest of us made it to Grael and managed to complete the quest. The low version of the Grael Spear housing item is now up at the Mansion. It is on the north wall outside by the back door, replacing the Golden Gromnie that used to be there. Unfortunately, I needed to remove the Wallbound Niffis in order to put the spear up - there is a limit on how many magical items you can have up at one time and the Squid I deemed to be the least useful. The spear casts a 2 hour buff that adds 10 to armor and another buff that improves your shield's AL by 240 points. You can only use one of the two spears every 20 hours though, so I might end up taking the low level spear down.
In other news, I would like to do a "Moderate" Harbinger quest during one of the next weekend. I will post a final date later in the week, but if you are interested, you should probably track down your Harbinger item now. This is one annoyingly hard quest and we will need at least one full fellow to do it, so I will be making this a public quest. If we can't field a full fellow, then we will do the easy version. Also, we've put it off for ages, but we are long overdue for a Magic Item Overtink. Himura will be using the rare and slapping as much Green Garnet on your wands as is possible. He should have no trouble doing 10 tinkers on w6 wands and should be able to get to 99% with w10 salvage on w7 wands. Expect a final date soon!
October 19, 2006 -
In an ongoing effort on my behalf to keep things reasonably up to date, I've worked on a couple quests in the Quest Section to update them or include new information and strategies. Also, I've finally added the Sanamar quest guides Elyria sent me ages ago!
In related Turbine news, the devs have hired on new help for the first time in ages! Instead of simply replacing programmers, they've actually created a new position. That bodes well for the long-term viability of the game. I suppose the digital distribution deal has worked out very well and that's good news for all of us.
October 11, 2006 -
I've been amazingly lax in keeping this page updated and I apologize for that. I finally had a chance to sit down and update things today, but given how long it's been since I actually did update things, I'm fairly certain I've left a good bit out. I've updated the Quest Section to list September and October's quests, but none of those are actually available. The news from August is now in the Archive. I've also made a couple cosmetic changes here and there, but nothing really substantial. I should also have much more free time for the rest of the year as my real-life obligations are scaling back a bit. Hopefully the site won't go so long without an update!