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How do damagetypes on weapons or specifically on melee hits work? Ie. how is it possible to crit with a weapon that deals 1% chaos damage, 99% physical, and get 2x "Monster screams in pain" as a result? Basically it's saying the hit dealt roughly the same amount of chaos and physical damag...

Couple of questions you asked to ask yourself, umm.. How does celerity work? Specifically, are they combat pool/ep free hits? Does weapon speed/size affect ie. does it favour big weapons or is there some balancing mechanism in effect? On that note, how does thaumaturgy work? Probably a bit easier to...

You mentioned that the str/dex ratio for natural weapons depends on player size. If a shifter transforms into a 4 meter tall tree, does the code check for the original player size (human) or the new size of 4 meters? This might be a bit out of scope for this type of Q&A but any chance of getting...

Is the list of quality adjectives linear? Enhancement shard usually gives exactly +1 adjective to item quality but in the case of void, it actually raises from good to exceptional (skipping high adjective). On that note, how does Void work?;) Not sure if this question fits the mythbusting mould but ...

You spoke of heavy armour penalties in your previous answer and how high/maxed skills would almost remove the penalties. Are you referring to some defence related penalties, the str/dex hinderance, highly increased ep usage or perhaps all of those things? The one thing that completely kills using he...

Other [Player] (Wed Jan 4 16:03) Belannaer: Agnes earned some vacation because of hunt botting. [Performance/Other] (Wed Jan 18 11:25) Belannaer: Server booted for unknown reason (blame SOPA). Let me know if you lost something. Restored all booths in Vaerlon that I could find. [Other] (Wed Jan 18 1...

Additions [Other] (Wed Feb 29 17:45) Belannaer: New gameinfo. (Recruit a friend) [ http://www.icesus.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=1762 ] [Command] (Wed Apr 18 13:42) Belannaer: Added command "reincers". [Command] (Wed Apr 25 23:43) Belannaer: Added wield check <weapon>. [Other] (Sun Apr 29 ...

Gameplay Changes and Tunes January-February-March [Shapeshifter] (Thu Mar 8 02:38) Belannaer: Drop all now works while shapeshifted and hopefully also got rid of some odd cases of people managing to remove and lose their pants while being shapeshifted. [Items] (Tue Mar 20 15:15) Zaltaiz: adjusted t...

Other [Other] (Sat Jan 1 10:26) Ginjeet: Some experimental changes were added into the game. Let us know if you notice something working oddly with lights, monsters, battle, etc. [Other] (Sat Jan 1 12:52) Vivian: Jää ry (Icesus Association) had 72 supporting members last year, which is two mo...

Additions [Area] (Sat Jan 1 13:34) Ginjeet: New gameinfo! (New Area: Clash of the Hives) [ http://www.icesus.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=1682 ] [Area] (Sun Jan 2 17:44) Ginjeet: New gameinfo! (New Area: Chromatic Forest) [ http://www.icesus.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=1684 ] [Area] (Sun Jan 9 14:26) ...

Gameplay Changes and Tunes January [Items] (Sat Jan 1 16:35) Zaltaiz: rescaled masteries in "blue dragonscale trident", the maximum potential is greater and there are more steps in the way, fully effective after reboot [Monster/Area] (Sun Jan 2 16:39) Zaltaiz: Cramlen, the fearsome man of...

Other [Performance] (Sat Jan 2 19:09) New year, new hard drive [ http://www.icesus.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=1616 ] [Other] (Tue Jan 5 13:08) Belannaer: Login monitoring should be now less pain in the ass than it used to be. [Other] (Thu Jan 7 18:53) Information about Annual General Meeting of JÃ...

Additions [Other] (Sun Mar 7 16:37) Belannaer: New gameinfo. (Lost property office) [ http://www.icesus.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=1622 ] [Guild] (Wed Mar 17 11:07) Belannaer: New gameinfo. (New guild: Priest of Fire) [ http://www.icesus.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=1624 ] [Command] (Mon May 10 22:28...

Gameplay Changes and Tunes January-February [Items] (Fri Jan 22 13:03) Belannaer: You should be now able to re-imbue defiance and spell damage over previous spell damage of same type. Effective after reboot. [General] (Mon Feb 8 05:44) Misrobo: The coachman is 80% less annoying now, knows a few mor...

Other [Other] (Wed Feb 18 21:09) Belannaer: News news news, terrible things are happening! ... or not, could be just new gameinfo. (Updated announcement of annual Jää ry meeting) [ http://www.icesus.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=1560 ] [Other] (Fri Feb 20 14:45) Ginjeet: Hello my little ones, do...