So where does one learn about guilds? what does one need to do to join a guild?
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 7:29 AM Alter Aeon <alter.aeon....@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy May, everybody! We on Alter Aeon have been really busy reorganizing > our crafting skills and guilds. Here’s an overview of what we’ve done > recently: > There are now three more crafting guilds in addition to the Smiths Guild: > The Woodwrights Guild, The Rangers Guild and The Lapidarists Guild. > > The Woodwrights Guild includes the ‘woodcrafting’, ‘bowcraft’ and > ‘fletcher’ skills, and includes four new skills: ‘saw lumber’, ‘season > wood’, ‘beadmaking’ and ‘planar finish’. These skills spread out existing > woodcrafted abilities and add new functionality, such as whittling, which > lets you reduce the size of gathered wood by a small amount at a time and > seasoning wood, which increases the strength and defensive stats of items > by heating them over a fire. Woodwrights advance in rank by making > mastercraft woodcraft items. Higher ranks in the guild improve your chances > of finding uncommon woods and successfully working with spalted and rotten > wood types. > > The Rangers Guild encompasses the ‘butcher’, ‘skinning’, ‘leathercraft’, > ‘furrier’ and ‘shellcraft’ skills, and includes two new ones: ‘tanner’ and > ‘cobbler’. ‘Tanner’ includes the ability of splitting and preserving hides, > while ‘cobbler’ gives crafters access to a variety of leathercrafted > footwear with differing stats. Players advance in the Rangers Guild by > butchering and skinning animals and making mastercraft leathercraft items. > Higher ranks in the guild improve your chances of getting scraps when > making leathercrafted items and making more powerful mastercrafted items. > The Lapidarists Guild includes ‘mining’, ‘lapidary’ and ‘gemcutting’, and > includes four new skills: ‘grind ore’, ‘polish gem’, ‘spangler’ and > ‘diamantaire’. ‘Grind ore’ includes the crush ore and splitting abilities. > ‘Polish gem’ attempts to improve the stats and quality of a gemstone. > ‘Spangler’ allows finished gemstones to be split into spangles, which can > be added to leathercrafted armor and tailored clothing similar to forged > spikes and studs. ‘Diamantaire’ decreases the odds of breakage when working > with high difficulty gems such as diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and > topaz. Players advance in the Lapidarists Guild by finding uncommon > minerals and making mastercrafted lapidary items. Higher ranks in the guild > improve your ability to add effects to gemstones and gain increased yields > on mineral deposits. > > Other skill updates include: > > - The skills ‘hone weapon’ and ‘balance weapon’ have been folded into > ‘forge blade’ and ‘forge simple weapon’, respectively. ‘Metallurgy’, ‘forge > simple weapon’, ‘jewelrysmithing’, ‘forge armor’, ‘forge blade’, ‘reinforce > armor’, ‘forge ninhonto’ and ‘forge kozane’ are now Smith Guild skills. > - All orienteering skills are now contingent on ranks in the > Cartographers Guild. ‘Swimming’ is now dependent on ‘survey’ and is a > prerequisite of ‘sea navigation’. > - The ‘hone weapon’ skill has been replaced with a new warrior skill > called ‘moulinet’. This is a swift strike with a bladed weapon made by > rotating one's wrist. It causes long, shallow cuts than can bleed over > time. > - The ‘balance weapon’ skill has been replaced with another new > warrior skill called ‘center’. This skill is used to re-balance yourself > after an attack throws you off-balance. > > In addition: > > - Stealthy minions like vipers, vampires and panthers should now be > sneakier. > - You can no longer hide while you are on fire. > - For dclient users, combat tracks should drop faster when combat > ends, and combat music should continue playing if group members in the same > room are in melee. > > Going forward, work continues on large building projects such as: > > - Primordial Chaos, a randomly generated landscape for high level > players with variegated terrain. > - Port Crimsonia, a level 42-43 zone for the continent of Ramanek. > - The Naginag Arena, the event zone for this year’s upcoming Summer > Solstice Celebration in June. > > For more information, please refer to our May 2022 update on Youtube here: > https://youtu.be/vqcU1gZ76Nk > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#124946): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/124946 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/91011481/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
