User talk:Gares Redstorm/Archive1

Welcome
Welcome to the wiki, and thanks for the heartwarming story ;) Shandy 22:36, 20 February 2006 (CST)


 * Always good to be apart of something fun and that helps others :D --Gares Redstorm 07:04, 21 February 2006 (CST)

Wow, four accounts! How do you find time to care for and feed all of them? &mdash; Stabber 22:04, 6 March 2006 (CST)


 * I'm just glad they are all potty trained. --Gares Redstorm 22:33, 6 March 2006 (CST)

Hurt vs. Hurl
Are you sure that it wasn't Hurl Foulspine that you ran into? --Rainith 12:14, 26 February 2006 (CST)
 * Probably was. I put it up for deletion. Although Hurl says its a Necromancer and the color I saw was Ranger green. There is already a Necromancer level 9 devourer named Fester Fang. I got his skills and such, just didn't take a pic, so I'm leaving him off for now. --Gares Redstorm 12:23, 26 February 2006 (CST)
 * I'm not saying you were wrong, I was questioning it though because Hurt Foulspine also doesn't show up on the list of bosses here: Bestiary/RawDump. --Rainith 12:26, 26 February 2006 (CST)
 * Not what I meant at all :P. I've been mispelling boss names all day. What I was commenting about was I think the class of Foulspine is mistated. I just wanted to say something in case you or anyone else had any reservations about it. EDIT: I like that RawDump list though and I didn't even notice Fang is already on the list for Eastern Frontier. Either I'm tired or I need a smoke :D--Gares Redstorm 12:31, 26 February 2006 (CST)


 * I think you're probably right. I created the article originally, and if he had no skills, then when I used an SoC with my W/R I probably would have assumed that he was a necro and not a ranger.  --Rainith 12:38, 26 February 2006 (CST)
 * Seems we are playing mistake tag. You found one of mine, I found one of yours :P. Btw, the smoke didn't help. I must be tired. --Gares Redstorm 12:49, 26 February 2006 (CST)

PvP
Well, I was bored for a little bit and decided to take a stab at PvP with my new character, Agrias. She was level 10 so I went to Ascalon Arena. Went through one game, lost, but I got a feel as to what it was about. As I had never been in or been up against real players, at least real players with post sear weapons, armor, and skills.

Got back in there and paired with some level 8s and a level 9. 2 Rangers, a Necro, and myself, a Warrior. Needless to say I ran into every group and made them attack me. With Healing Signet and Ether Feast I was a hard character to kill, and even dished out my own damage, with the use of Battle Rage, Executioner's Strike, and Disrupting Chop.

Needless to say I was not suprised at the Droks Armor and 15k Armor I saw. Or all the Elite skills being cast. As I also had 15k Platemail and the Elite Battle Rage.

That team of ours won 12 straight games, most of them flawless. I think that means no one on our side died. My take...it was alright. If I was to do it again, it would have to be HoH where if you win you at least get prizes. What am I, a PvE person, going to do with Faction Points?

What was funny, was a ranger on my team, said "All Hail Agrias(me)" and we died that game. :P --Gares Redstorm 00:21, 11 March 2006 (CST)


 * Wow. That is a very long list of characters for no PvP. And here I was sitting, thinking "How did he ever find the time to unlock all his skills, while getting 15 pve characters up". --Xeeron 01:34, 16 March 2006 (CST)


 * I love to explore and build new characters. I also love to farm. I can farm for hours and I don't get tired of it. I guess its the thought of, "what will this monster drop, or this one, or this one, etc." I think its all those years of playing RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dungeons and Dragons.


 * Right now I am on a crusade to aquire and have in my possession all the green items in the game. I'm also collecting rare materials and mods, such as ectos, rubies, +1 mods, deathbane mods, etc. Rarely do I sell to the public. There is nothing more boring than sitting for an hour spamming the same "WTS ...." message. If I don't want something and my guildmates don't want it, I shop sell it.


 * And the list will get longer. I plan on creating a new character this weekend or so, if I can decide on a primary class. Need to do some testing in Pre Sear for Wiki and Pre Sear is so relaxing to play in too. :D --Gares Redstorm 06:12, 16 March 2006 (CST)


 * Faction points: Remember that they changed the game a while ago, such that you now can get any non-elite skill you've previously learned from any trainer. So one way to spend Faction Points is to unlock a late-game skill that you want to use on your new character in the early game, since all you need to do is take any of your characters to a Priest of Balthazar. This might be a nice way to get a leg up with Factions characters, if you have a few spare points. &mdash; 130.58 (talk) ( 10:05, 23 April 2006 (CDT) )

Factions
Well, I went to EB today and reserved 2 copies for 2 of my accounts and got the last 2 free disks. :D When I get home from work I will see if the Collector's Edition will be worth to preorder or just get 2 more regular editions for my other 2 accounts. I'm not really so ready to play the new classes as I am to see the new land and see what new items and monsters are in store. The new skills to the first 6 classes will be interesting. I hope they give Hammer Warriors some skills to increase attack speed. Its almost, as I call it, a dead weapon. But I love my Hammer Warrior regardless. --Gares Redstorm 02:58, 21 March 2006 (CST)

Avoiding Scales?
Hey Gares, I noticed that you changed the Crafter in Stingray Strand to say that you can avoid the Skales if you time it right. Do you have any suggestions for how? I stood in the area for a decent amount of time and they looked like they had it pretty well covered. --Rain Over Pebbles 06:05, 1 April 2006 (CST)


 * Unless they changed the AI, its easy. Let me go in-game and check it out. --Gares Redstorm 06:08, 1 April 2006 (CST)


 * Rain, just left from Sanctum Cay going to crafter trying to avoid Bog Skale Blighters. I did 4 runs. It depends on the spawn of the Blighters if you can get by or not. I successfully got by without aggroing them 2 out of the 4 times by waiting till they bunched up together and hugging the leftmost wall. 1 time they appeared right at the exit of the pathway and blocked it completely. The other time, they were not far enough to the right(even when bunched up) to pass safely by.


 * So the orginal author was wrong in stating it can be easily done, but it can be done with a good spawn and the right timing. I hope this helps. --Gares Redstorm 06:20, 1 April 2006 (CST)


 * Thanks! I think between the two of us the article is where it should be now, based on your research, so much goodness :) --Rain Over Pebbles 06:32, 1 April 2006 (CST)

Image overwrite problems
I think the issue you're having with the image overwrites is a cache problem. After you upload the newer image and go to the image's page, force a re-load by holding down your left shift button and hitting the refresh button on your browser. Each one that you put up for deletion has had the newer image that you uploaded showing in it. --Rainith 21:41, 14 May 2006 (CDT)


 * I thought it strange myself. Every image overwritten the previous on the image article, but didn't change it in the article. Not being a digital image expert, or novice, or anything really, I had no idea what the problem might have been. Nor did I do any research on the subject(too busy trying to get to an Abassador for my guild). I'll try to be less impatient from now on. At least the images are better. I try to help take the load off you admins, but I guess I added a little bit more. I'll make it up to ya. --Gares Redstorm 07:03, 15 May 2006 (CDT)


 * No problem. The same fix should work on the pages that use the images.  Hold down left shift and click the refresh button.  I know that this at least works for IE and Firefox if you use either of those browsers.  :)  --Rainith 11:10, 15 May 2006 (CDT)