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spells/skills should bee in the same system. they are the different sides of the same coin. With spells you type 'cast <thingy>' and then stand around looking stupid for a while, and then stuff happens or doesnt'. With skills if you ingore automatic skills there are still some skills that don't fai...

That is a pretty good idea about jewelers, and I would toss in one other thing: customizing armours. I know I would definately pay a bit of a premium for a piece of armour that was engraved with an eagle in platinum and had rubies set into it or something like that. It would be nice if jewellers cou...

I halfway agree with Mr. Dunny Bunny that artisans should not be making 'uber' items comparable to the best eq-mob loot. However, there is a difference between 'uber' and 'uber'. Right now there are some items that would fall under the 'uber' description which are trivial to get, like raptor armour,...

If those silly wizzish sorts wanted to fix smiths not to be out of balance while at the same time not sucking, the first thing they need to do is tone down the speed of item creation. Icesus usually has 1-2 dozen players unidle at any given time, so there is no sane reason for a smith to sit down an...

I think that the main concerns to think about are: 1. Does ranger guild really need an area attack like this? 2. Once the wizzies have taken sledgehammers to this to put it in balance with the current position of the ranger guild, would anyone be crazy enough to use it? I don't see much of any way t...

As I understand it, whips don't work quite right since weapon weight/mass and the strength needed to wield is affected by weapon length and it doesn't take into account that a whip would be handled as a significantly shorter weapon. You'd probably be best advised to go with a different weapon, since...

Two topics on this, so not really sure which one I should be posting to, but it seems to me that clans of a sort are exactly what Icesus needs to spruce up current events. Instead of clans that randomly exist without much connection to the game world other than a pile of corpses, how about a chance ...

I finally managed to lower myself to the very depths of insanity reachable by an infecti, and although the things other people see at that point are pretty crazy, the things the psionicist herself sees are just random statements from portal sickness. It's simply amazing how good this guild is, espec...

I think it would be neat if instead of having pretitles only for the guild leader there would be a series of pretitles that shifters could have in animal form, since normal titles don't show up. For us trees it would be something like: Sapling, Small, Slender, Healthy, Tall, Lush, Old, and then Crom...

Just adding my 2 silver, but since I very much miss being an epriest I'd like them to come back as cool as they used to be (just not as powerful). Anyway, Thoran's idea of dividing the guild into a caster section and a crafting/engineer section sounds like a good idea... Along that general line, sin...