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Artifacts.

Artifacts can be exchanged for a random
Reward. depending on your luck and earlier
Rewards, you can get one of the following:
- some hath
- a bunch of crystals
- some rare consumables
- one additional ability point
- a permanent +1 bonus to a primary stat
Note that you cannot receive more than
+10 to any primary stat...

Ahh, I don't have any Artifacts at the moment.

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Is it safe to assume I should now cash in my Shimmering Present and Tenbora's Box?

Ok, ok, I just did To Kill A God and Crusade (on hard) and didn't gain even 0.01 of elemental proficiency. I used only elemental spells (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) That's a first.
Also couldn't trigger Channeling in IW.

Also couldn't trigger Channeling in IW.

HAH! I'm not insane!

Bah, i wished that i didn't spend over 200k for LotD, because of spelunker and some other new trainings

This post has been edited by hyl: Jan 30 2011, 15:00

More likely it'll be cheap to start, then get more and more expensive the nastier they get.

Bingo. But I haven't decided on just how exponential that's going to look yet. Legendary-class monsters will probably need millions.

Bingo. But I haven't decided on just how exponential that's going to look yet. Legendary-class monsters will probably need millions.

You can make legendary class monsters from them?

Are these monsters suppoed to be fought against or can you use them in a later update? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by hyl: Jan 30 2011, 15:03

Ok, ok, I just did To Kill A God and Crusade (on hard) and didn't gain even 0.01 of elemental proficiency. I used only elemental spells (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) That's a first.

HAH! I'm not insane!

Yeah, something's up when I'm not gaining proficiencies on magic stuff that I'm about 200+ levels behind.

You can make legendary class monsters from them?

You'll be able to make quite powerful ones at the very least. But it will require a ton of crystals and a ton of tokens.

Yeah, something's up when I'm not gaining proficiencies on magic stuff that I'm about 200+ levels behind.

I casted over 300 times weaken in an arena and not a single point of depreciating proficiency, so i don't think you can get any magic proficiencies (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Yeah, something's up when I'm not gaining proficiencies on magic stuff that I'm about 200+ levels behind.

Glad to see I'm not the only one noticing this. Are we sure it's not that the proficiency gains in battle are silent now? I hadn't paid that much attention to my exact proficiency levels before/after battle...

It seems Coalesced works only on target mob (for aoe spells), so if you kill it, you will not get ET.
Also I assume, if you kill on ether theft you will not get Channeling or procs is way off from true.

This post has been edited by Rikis: Jan 30 2011, 15:39

You'll be able to make quite powerful ones at the very least. But it will require a ton of crystals and a ton of tokens.

So with enough effort we can make the game unplayable hard for anyone?
Just imagine fighting 8 legendary class monsters in every round of IW (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Just did 291 rounds on Grindfest(hard), used only Banish and again didn't gain even 0.01 of Divine proficiency. It's getting annoying.

Are we sure it's not that the proficiency gains in battle are silent now?

I got Cloth proficiency messages.
It's the magic (and possibly weapon) profs that aren't gaining points.

Those crystals are simply jamming my looting RNDgen.
Getting a bunch of potions are okay, since I can surely use them well;
But the crystals are cheap, having no other purpose than the monster lab thing, which means little to low level players like me.

In short, I hate crystals as frequent loot.

the released patch looks great (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
but it seems difficent to understand what are the function of monster lab & crystal

magic is utterly broken now
no coalesced mana on untargeted
no prof increase

plus:
50% of every damn drop is a crystal
artifacts now give shitty things worth of few credits

and: what will become hv when everyone will have buffed their monsters?

This post has been edited by tribalspirit: Jan 30 2011, 15:28

Yeah, something's up when I'm not gaining proficiencies on magic stuff that I'm about 200+ levels behind.

Alright, seems like the thing that tells the battle system that it's ok to go nuts with proficiency gains was triggering after the thing that checked for proficiency gains for casting spells. Whops.

So with enough effort we can make the game unplayable hard for anyone?
Just imagine fighting 8 legendary class monsters in every round of IW (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Well gee, I guess I'll just have to add more powerful equipment and stuff to compensate for that. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Seriously though, you might have noticed that monsters have a "level". They don't actually level up by fighting, but the level will be an indicator of how powerful they are - and monsters will be limited to spawning for players at or above their level.

artifacts now give shitty things worth of few credits

once crystals have a use High levels may or may not buy them for much more then 2c each (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Well gee, I guess I'll just have to add more powerful equipment and stuff to compensate for that. wink.gif

Seriously though, you might have noticed that monsters have a "level". They don't actually level up by fighting, but the level will be an indicator of how powerful they are - and monsters will be limited to spawning for players at or above their level.

Nice to hear that (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by Ichy: Jan 30 2011, 15:33

Even if they have some worth getting 100 of them : 2 C * 100 vs. 1 AP(priceless!!!) vs 2-4 hath(*3,5-4 k C) or vs x number of rare consumables (at least it's more valuable option than crystals) looks miserably. It needs some balancing (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif). Also crystals drop too often, so it's non-explicit nerfing Scavenger as we get less potions and other stuff. Crystals can drop, but as extra stuff not instead of potions as their usability is questionable and for pure entertainment only.

This post has been edited by HNTI: Jan 30 2011, 15:42