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Sounds a bit more like a potion than a salve to me. Still, a major healing salve is certainly begging to be added. As for stimulants - hey, you may just be joking, but since there's a 'life boost' spell... perhaps.

Ball is useful to the solo mage because it deals most damage in one shot. It's true it burns sp ridiculously fast, but solo mages have to deal out damage as fast as they can, then run and regen if they don't kill their foe in a couple of shots. Arrow is the way to go in parties - less damage per sho...

Ball is the next one up from missile and bolt. IMHO, only arrow and ball are worth training, they're the only ones I ever use.

The scale to which the map would have to be redrawn probably rules this idea out. I do agree with your point about the game being focussed on vaerlon though, but I'd suggest as future guilds (even opens and subs) are released, they be sited in other cities. Fire Priests to Atherton, naturally. Perha...

I'm sure there was a donation box at the rangers whin i was last there, but that was quite some time ago. Still, it souldn't take newbies long to figure out that they don't have to travel far to find lots of gear dropped, and even huge piles of silver, from highbies that don't care for such bulky wa...

Some time ago I pitched the idea of mage familiars on the 'ideas' section. Elementals are'nt too far removed from that, and there's the upside of Icesus already having a well developed element system in place already. Presumably these elements would be sensitive to the current phase, and the mage co...

Blaze, are you an earth priest? You certainly brought this thread back from a 3 - year death. THREAD NECROMANCY!

If you got all the information you want at low levels, there wouldn't be any point in training and practicing the skill now, would there?

Mages are built to blast foes at a range. They're all about dealing damage, but have all the defensive value of a sheet of tissue paper. It'd be totally out of the mages' theme to have them any good at melee at all. That said, you have given me an idea... perhaps a spell to buff the weapon only. Use...

events that run automatically in the background of Icesus, without the wizards having to host one every now and then. One that would happen daily at certain times. And leaves a permanent impression in Icesus. I think you've got half of a good idea there. How often do we all see 'event' on the wante...

I really don't know what others think about secondary characters, but I really don't understand why there is a limit of 300mil for that? why not rather make it check e.g. the relation between your characters true age and how many creatures you've killed?? Or perhaps just the characters true age? (Y...

[quote="apogThough I do agree the stat bonuses are way out of whack. The first sub guild levels all give a trifle bonus (2 give dex, 1 gives str, the last gives wis). That means for a combat oriented person, a 6 level sub guild would give the following total bonus (taking the 2 dex, 1 str guild...

Could loggers and carpenters be tweaked to make them more viable? [/canofworms]. Possibly alchemists too, to make them more than incense-makers?

cadus wrote:Shadowdancers actually have a few spells, so how does that work with your no-spell restriction? It sounds like a good subguild for wilders though.

Yeah, would suit wilder, or possibly templar, but with restrictions on what else the templar could do.

How would it play in partying with casters of any kind?