Happy May, everybody! We on Alter Aeon have been really busy reorganizing our crafting skills and guilds. Here’s an overview of what we’ve done recently: There are now three more crafting guilds in addition to the Smiths Guild: The Woodwrights Guild, The Rangers Guild and The Lapidarists Guild.
The Woodwrights Guild includes the ‘woodcrafting’, ‘bowcraft’ and ‘fletcher’ skills, and includes four new skills: ‘saw lumber’, ‘season wood’, ‘beadmaking’ and ‘planar finish’. These skills spread out existing woodcrafted abilities and add new functionality, such as whittling, which lets you reduce the size of gathered wood by a small amount at a time and seasoning wood, which increases the strength and defensive stats of items by heating them over a fire. Woodwrights advance in rank by making mastercraft woodcraft items. Higher ranks in the guild improve your chances of finding uncommon woods and successfully working with spalted and rotten wood types. The Rangers Guild encompasses the ‘butcher’, ‘skinning’, ‘leathercraft’, ‘furrier’ and ‘shellcraft’ skills, and includes two new ones: ‘tanner’ and ‘cobbler’. ‘Tanner’ includes the ability of splitting and preserving hides, while ‘cobbler’ gives crafters access to a variety of leathercrafted footwear with differing stats. Players advance in the Rangers Guild by butchering and skinning animals and making mastercraft leathercraft items. Higher ranks in the guild improve your chances of getting scraps when making leathercrafted items and making more powerful mastercrafted items. The Lapidarists Guild includes ‘mining’, ‘lapidary’ and ‘gemcutting’, and includes four new skills: ‘grind ore’, ‘polish gem’, ‘spangler’ and ‘diamantaire’. ‘Grind ore’ includes the crush ore and splitting abilities. ‘Polish gem’ attempts to improve the stats and quality of a gemstone. ‘Spangler’ allows finished gemstones to be split into spangles, which can be added to leathercrafted armor and tailored clothing similar to forged spikes and studs. ‘Diamantaire’ decreases the odds of breakage when working with high difficulty gems such as diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and topaz. Players advance in the Lapidarists Guild by finding uncommon minerals and making mastercrafted lapidary items. Higher ranks in the guild improve your ability to add effects to gemstones and gain increased yields on mineral deposits. Other skill updates include: * The skills ‘hone weapon’ and ‘balance weapon’ have been folded into ‘forge blade’ and ‘forge simple weapon’, respectively. ‘Metallurgy’, ‘forge simple weapon’, ‘jewelrysmithing’, ‘forge armor’, ‘forge blade’, ‘reinforce armor’, ‘forge ninhonto’ and ‘forge kozane’ are now Smith Guild skills. * All orienteering skills are now contingent on ranks in the Cartographers Guild. ‘Swimming’ is now dependent on ‘survey’ and is a prerequisite of ‘sea navigation’. * The ‘hone weapon’ skill has been replaced with a new warrior skill called ‘moulinet’. This is a swift strike with a bladed weapon made by rotating one's wrist. It causes long, shallow cuts than can bleed over time. * The ‘balance weapon’ skill has been replaced with another new warrior skill called ‘center’. This skill is used to re-balance yourself after an attack throws you off-balance. In addition: * Stealthy minions like vipers, vampires and panthers should now be sneakier. * You can no longer hide while you are on fire. * For dclient users, combat tracks should drop faster when combat ends, and combat music should continue playing if group members in the same room are in melee. Going forward, work continues on large building projects such as: * Primordial Chaos, a randomly generated landscape for high level players with variegated terrain. * Port Crimsonia, a level 42-43 zone for the continent of Ramanek. * The Naginag Arena, the event zone for this year’s upcoming Summer Solstice Celebration in June. For more information, please refer to our May 2022 update on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/vqcU1gZ76Nk -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#124945): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/124945 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/91011481/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
