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Nice Update of Protection

How much is the price for that item?

I'm getting 130ms ping for both...

Also, has anyone successfully reclaimed the missing ability point from merged Shield+Barrier? I tried resetting my abilities and picking the same stuff as before and I still ended up with the same amount of ability points.

I'm guessing that the testlive uses the h@h system or something, and since the patch has gone live, it shouldn't really matter all that much for HV which you use since you'd end up in the same place anyways.

Also, I'm getting an impressive 36 ms ping for testlive.hentaiverse.org, meaning it most likely uses a more local part of the network, since there is no way I'd get that ping from a server outside Europe.

Normal hentaiverse.org gives me an average of 90 ms, which is still pretty damn fast for something outside Europe.

How much is the price for that item?

Available as a perk only.
Second level updates haste and third level updates shadow veil.

Which is a rather major change in the spell itself, since it is a spell that normally dissolves upon use, and you want it to be permanent instead.

It's same with spark and now we have it in IA.
I know Spark have spirit cost, but Absorb has fail chance.

Shadow Veil and Haste doesn't protect a player either, it merely gives them a better chance.

Well, that what protection means, better chance to survive.

And it is also something that is a bit wrong when spark/spirit shield is a necessity to avoid being one-shotted by normal mobs at anything above normal difficulty.

I feel same way. At least spirit bar have now some usage, and spirit gems are useful. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

And doubling its duration will make it one of the cheapest supportive spells in cost/turn, beaten only by the elemental spikes spells.

Doubling duration is fine, however I will still stay with haste and shadow veil.

Making it auto-cast, meaning it will block big attacks but without costing you a turn, would make it vastly overpowered.

Nah, it still would have 25% chance to fail.
Generally this spell in IA would only save your spirit from spark sometimes, not having mana costs thanks to absorbtion.

It should not need IA, you should not need perks in order to play.

Player can still play without Absorb, so why not. It's like this now. However I like your point, we can't overpower hath perks.

- The loot bonuses for playing on higher difficulty levels have been increased.

Is it a fluke or ???
I did not get any equipment drops since this new "patch" for clearing the arenas today (up to A Rolling Stone).
Normally, even up to Road Less Traveled, I would have at least 2 - 3.
Best tally was 8 equipment for a day of clearing arenas.

Instead, I get more potions (60%) & crystals (40%).

Is this a bug?

The best thing of this patch is HV speed. It's much faster now and I don't have to wait 2-3 mins every rounds. Maybe my level is too low but I don't see anything different in loot bonus. Clearing arena up to "Blazing field" on hell difficulty today only to see me getting less equipments than normal. Instead, I got more potions and crystal.

Seems like the equipment drops for lower levels has significantly tapered off. I had only 2 equip drops today in the arenas, both of Fine quality though.
Is this part of the patching? Received more potions & crystals also.

Seems like the equipment drops for lower levels has significantly tapered off. I had only 2 equip drops today in the arenas, both of Fine quality though.
Is this part of the patching? Received more potions & crystals also.

You need to get a few week's data to prove your point.
Also, because of the lower drop chance from training, you guys may have large fluctuation in the number of equipments received.
It's like you may have 10-15 equipments per day, while we have 30-35 equipments. You can see there's not that much difference in numbers, but the fluctuation (in percentage) seems to be higher.

There are no changes to equipment drops outside of the increased bonuses for higher difficulties.

You need to get a few week's data to prove your point.
Also, because of the lower drop chance from training, you guys may have large fluctuation in the number of equipments received.
It's like you may have 10-15 equipments per day, while we have 30-35 equipments. You can see there's not that much difference in numbers, but the fluctuation (in percentage) seems to be higher.

Maybe it just today, but I've been getting equip drops (of various quality, playing on normal difficulty) on average 5 - 6 for clearing the arenas daily for the past few weeks. Will continue to monitor though.

My training status is as follows:
Scavenger - 6/50
Luck of the Draw - 2/25
Quartermaster - 1/20

This post has been edited by GeForce310: Sep 25 2011, 19:55

There are no changes to equipment drops outside of the increased bonuses for higher difficulties.

How about if we love you a whole bunch? <3

There are no changes to equipment drops outside of the increased bonuses for higher difficulties.

Interestingly, I'm also getting the same results. The first day the patch came out I did everything on a high difficulty to test out the new loot bonuses. Unfortunately, even completing all arenas up to trio, there were barely any equipment drops besides the arena clear bonus so I couldn't get a good feel to compare the bonus. On the few pieces that dropped, they were all fine and superior, which is no different than from before. The next day, I reduced the difficulty by a significant margin and I got a lot more drops than when I was playing on the higher difficulty, which seems to be back to the normal drop rate prior to the patch.

I only tested one day's worth of each so I thought it was a fluke or something but considering that other people also noticed reduced drops, figured it might be a good idea to post my results as well. This is a wild guess but maybe the higher loot bonus from playing on higher difficulties is somehow affecting the drop rate? I really have no idea what's going on here, maybe it's just bad luck or something, but I'll continue testing to see how it goes.

My drops appear to be down so far, as well.

Maybe the random number generator just needs to rev back up after the server change.

I'm loving the speed.
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+1 for HV speed
+1 for combining shield + barrier spell into protection (I use both, and that costs over 20 MP)

I don't really see a difference in the drops being changed

-1 for no AP returned upon a reset for the AP from barrier
-1 for wasting 3.3kC upon reset, damn, that's 2 AP Training sessions.

So, I'm neutral upon this update.

This post has been edited by Naughty Boy: Sep 25 2011, 20:49

It seems like my own equipment drops have gotten clumpy lately.

I'll go 4-5 arenas without a single drop anywhere, then i'll get a drop halfway through one, and three at the end.

It seems less like it's gone down and more like the RNG can't make up it's damn mind.

Maybe you earned bad karma by praying to the wrong god or something.

(For the record, outside of Snowflake, you should pray to Freyr, the Norse God of farming and penises.)

Maybe you earned bad karma by praying to the wrong god or something.

(For the record, outside of Snowflake, you should pray to Freyr, the Norse God of farming and penises.)

Don't forget to worship Lord Nyarlathotep! God of Trolling and Chaos.

Don't forget to worship Lord Nyarlathotep! God of Trolling and Chaos.

I never cared for Tesla...

Maybe you earned bad karma by praying to the wrong god or something.

(For the record, outside of Snowflake, you should pray to Freyr, the Norse God of farming and penises.)

Can we has second shrine in HV for those with no luck with snowflake?
With other possible drops from artifacts?
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Praying for anything never gives me luck (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

Luck isn't something I get regularly.

It seems I'm not going to get the ability point back if I reset, plus if I did I would have to pay credits for it, so I guess I'll cast my lot with the complainers on this one.

I've also noticed that the ability description for Spirit Shield copied the description for Protection.