Spellcaster boost, new areas, campaign changes.

New Area Conversion – Thandel’s Conflict:

A brave rock climber has recently discovered a new realm not far the Jungles of Verume. Surprised he was the first to visit the new land, he decided to explore as much as he could. That was a big mistake. After discovering two separate villages, one of vampires and the other lizardmen, he found a house made of glass! This would be the last time the poor adventurer saw the light of day. He’s now a slave of Thandeld, forever.

Thandeld is looking for brave souls to become a slave and complete a few tasks he appears too lazy to do. Some tasks are simple, while others are dangerous and will require some quick thinking. Those brave enough to complete all his tasks receive a special prize obtainable nowhere else in Andolor!

Level Range          : 20 to 50
Goal Difficulty      : Medium
Goal Recommended at  : Level 40
Area Author          : Rhuli
Goal Author          : Rhuli

Note: This area replaces ‘The Mirror Realm’.

New Area Goal – Great Salt Flats:

Talk to anyone, and their opinion is always the same: The Great Salt Flats is a region of the world best to be simply avoided. Apparently, the snakesthere are especially large, with exceptionally humungous fangs. In addition to this, mystifying objects are said to randomly fall from the sky and end the lives of unsuspecting travelers.

Curiously enough, however, the strangest part about this arid region of Andolor, is the tale of one lonely ghost who inhabits it. It seems that he was once a prospector, who lost his life there while exploring for gold. What is intriguing, is the fact that he continues to haunt these Great Salt Flats. Definitely a mystery worth looking into, in spite of the snakes.

The snakes are probably just a tall tale anyway. And the strange items falling from the sky …. hallucinations brought on by excessive thirst. It will definitely be a good idea to remember to bring several mega-canteens of water. A hat and some sunscreen, would also be a capital idea. Then it will just be a matter of putting those super-novice paranormal investigator skills to good use.

Level Range         : 40 to 50
Goal Difficulty     : Easy
Goal Recommended at : 45
Goal Converter      : Guinness
Area Author         : Claire

Game changes this reboot:

• A number of mage, cleric and psi spells now have a bonus percentage to base damage that increases with tier when you are in the primary class the spell belongs to. The amount varies by spell but the higher tiers in each of these classes should notice a difference. Several people have suggested similar changes over the years so no specific credit on this one, but some recent conversations with several players helped move it forward. Spells modified so far are:

  Miasma, Air skewer, Toxic Cloud, Earthen Hammer, Acid Stream, Ice Daggers, Immolate, Spear of Odin, Caustic Rain, Vengeance, Spiritual Disruption, Starburst, Finger of Death, Voice of God, Blast Undead, Nightmare touch, Megablast, Neural Overload, Pyromania, Desolation, Necrocide, Ultrablast, Death Field, Purge

• Once you get to 10 campaigns completed in a day while on a t9 redo the rewards will start to reduce with each subsequent campaign. The timer is based on a 24 hour period and resets at midnight mud time. Campaign complete and ‘cp check’ while not on a campaign will show how many campaigns you have completed today, and there is always the daily ranking of course.
• The first campaign you take each day (define the same as above) will now average higher qp rewards than the rest.
• The ‘retell’ command has been changed, it now works like ‘reply’ but will send the message to the last person *you* sent a tell to. Useful for when you are having a conversation with someone and don’t want incoming tells from other people to switch your reply pointer. Whenever you send a tell (including a reply), it will be reset to that person.
• The command that used to be retell has been renamed to ‘relay’. So if you send a tell to Lasher than want to send the same tell to Razor, you can ‘relay Razor’ without having to type it out again.
• It is now possible to ‘note forward’ any note that you are on the recipient list of. The original sender will still receive a copy of the forward.
• Using objstat and objlower no longer set ownership if the item does not already have it. Remember that since these features were added we now have the ability to track every item by its ID so using this to transfer qps to an alt would not work out well for you.
• Using ‘rbid’ to list remort auction items will now show colors in the item names and correctly handle @@ characters in the item description.
• Proxy bids will no longer show “-proxy” when viewed in lbid. The fact that a bid was via proxy does still show in the outbid messages.
• We’ve had something of a stand-off between clans who swear they have a legitimate use for rot-death / melt-drop on their tier equipment and raiders who claim they are running foul of the ‘undesirable equipment’ rule. Raid buy will now remove these flags from items automatically. This allows the clans to keep the flags for their own legitimate reasons without affecting the raiding side of it. I guess it will be interesting to see if these flags that were needed for theme / freshness of eq reasons suddenly get removed.
• It is no longer possible to setwanted someone while they are defending inside a clan hall. It is already impossible to setwanted someone in an active raiding party.