Some general newbish questions

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telove2

Dalayan Beginner
I have some questions about this game. Hoping some kind peeps might help me out.

1) People talk about tier 5 raid gear, tier 6, tier 4 etc.. What are these tiers and is there somewhere I can read about it?

2) I haven't played over Christmas and when I logged in today, I saw "Skyfire Connected" or something like that, when a zone goes down and back up. Have they added that old Kunark Skyfire zone now? Either way, what happened over the Christmas period in terms of new zones? I looked at the main SoD page and saw the updates but saw no mention of new zones or anything.

3) What's the deal with healing someone after they have feigned death with a bunch of mobs on them? Will I get the aggro?

4) I accidentally disenchanted an item when I meant to just unbind it. What did this do? I can't quite make out what the difference is. The item looks pretty similar to how it did originally, but I can't really remember it exactly so I'm not sure.

5) Can anyone confirm for sure if giving pets the mage haste ring has any effect?

6) Is this map absolutely up to date?
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8586/sodmapfe4.png

7) Can you only get a house if you donate?


Thanks in advance! :)
 
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telove2 said:
I have some questions about this game. Hoping some kind peeps might help me out.

1) People talk about tier 5 raid gear, tier 6, tier 4 etc.. What are these tiers and is there somewhere I can read about it?
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Tiers are an approximation of difficulty. The most organized and best formatted list exists on the wiki here http://wiki.shardsofdalaya.com/index.php/Raid_Tiers


2) I haven't played over Christmas and when I logged in today, I saw "Skyfire Connected" or something like that, when a zone goes down and back up. Have they added that old Kunark Skyfire zone now? Either way, what happened over the Christmas period in terms of new zones? I looked at the main SoD page and saw the updates but saw no mention of new zones or anything.
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We are ALWAYS deving new things. Ikisith still has alot of work to be done to meet our standards. No new zones are out yet, but new content is in the pipeline and some fun stuff will be out in the next month or two.

3) What's the deal with healing someone after they have feigned death with a bunch of mobs on them? Will I get the aggro?
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Most spells yes.

4) I accidentally disenchanted an item when I meant to just unbind it. What did this do? I can't quite make out what the difference is. The item looks pretty similar to how it did originally, but I can't really remember it exactly so I'm not sure.
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I believe this just makes it so you can sell it to a vendor, and not equip it. I don't use the unbinders much now.

5) Can anyone confirm for sure if giving pets the mage haste ring has any effect?
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It certainly should. Do parses suggest otherwise?

6) Is this map absolutely up to date?
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8586/sodmapfe4.png
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This map lacks the Vah mini expansion zones. A map of that should exist somewhere.

7) How are babies made?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_babies
 
telove2 said:
3) What's the deal with healing someone after they have feigned death with a bunch of mobs on them? Will I get the aggro?
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From my understanding/experience its mainly spells that effect hps of the target. I am pretty sure you could throw Spirit of Wolf on a monk that has FD with aggro. But Any buffs taht effect hps, Heals, etc will break the FD and also give you aggro.

telove2 said:
4) I accidentally disenchanted an item when I meant to just unbind it. What did this do? I can't quite make out what the difference is. The item looks pretty similar to how it did originally, but I can't really remember it exactly so I'm not sure.
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Disenchanted removes Class and Race (both change to None) so the item is only good for selling at this point.
telove2 said:
5) Can anyone confirm for sure if giving pets the mage haste ring has any effect?
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My understanding from the last few months of other doing test is its still a ... No... Haste rings dont do anything for pets. *a more current parse is needed*
 
Thank you both :) That's all really clear to me now.

The ring thing could do with a bit of clarification though. I would parse it myself but I'm not sure how to do that. I'm a mage so I always just give one to my pet, but I sometimes give a few rings to my friends for their pets (and future pets if one dies etc..). If I knew that it didn't work, I would be able to give them more daggers or something instead.

Thanks again for all the other info, that helped me a lot.
 
Thanks! I knew it :) I give my pet rings all the time and a few times I've forgotten to do it and noticed no difference so I was pretty sure it wasn't doing anything. I assumed that might be working as intended though.

Thanks for going through the effort to parse it though! Now we know for sure. No big deal, but I'm sure pet classes will be happy some day when that gets changed =D
 
Thanks that map is great! Can anyone with wiki access get that added?

I have one last question. What are tomes? I hear people talking about them lovingly, but I don't really know what they are or where they are from. TY :)

Oh also still hoping to find out about houses. Does everyone get one? Is it only if you donate?
 
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FYI wiki is public, anyone can, and should, add to it if they sign up. He in fact did update the link there just as he posted =)
 
Tomes are addition beneifits you can aquire throw Xp besides AAs.

Currently the Tome of Power is what everyone talks about. It cost roughly 200 AAs worth of Xp per tome. Each tome adds +5% to Melee damage, Spell Damage, and Heals. Currently you can buy up to 5 Tomes of power.

Later in expansions and updates they will be adding other tomes for other things. The newer tomes are suppose to be not as powerful as the Tomes of Power but also be much much cheaper.
 
Zaknafean said:
FYI wiki is public, anyone can, and should, add to it if they sign up. He in fact did update the link there just as he posted =)
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Cool thanks. I'll use that map from now on. I plan to register soon but I don't have a whole lot to offer yet.

Kirin Folken said:
Tomes are addition beneifits you can aquire throw Xp besides AAs.

Currently the Tome of Power is what everyone talks about. It cost roughly 200 AAs worth of Xp per tome. Each tome adds +5% to Melee damage, Spell Damage, and Heals. Currently you can buy up to 5 Tomes of power.

Later in expansions and updates they will be adding other tomes for other things. The newer tomes are suppose to be not as powerful as the Tomes of Power but also be much much cheaper.
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WOW. Where do you get the tome? And how does it work, you need to have 200 AA's stored up and instead of getting all the AA's, they get converted in to a tome?

p.s. I can see no mention of these tomes on the wiki, and a forum search didn't really bring anything up either. Is there a page somewhere that describes them?

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Everyone gets their own house as soon as they hit level 20 and type /cm housekey. You'll only have access to the basic areas if you aren't a donater. You can summon other people your housekey as well if you have them targetted when you type /cm housekey; use the key while in any city to go to your house.
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Wow great thanks I didn't know about this!
 
telove2 said:
WOW. Where do you get the tome? And how does it work, you need to have 200 AA's stored up and instead of getting all the AA's, they get converted in to a tome?

p.s. I can see no mention of these tomes on the wiki, and a forum search didn't really bring anything up either. Is there a page somewhere that describes them?
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Tomes can be bought in Erimal library, they cost about 1.7k platin per volume. To use them, you need 250+ AAs. Then activate them by opening the book, set XP to level and xp. Your level bar will move (very very slowly), and once it is full, you can start the next codex.
 
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