04-20-2005, 08:15 AM
LochnarITB,Apr 20 2005, 12:42 AM Wrote:Does this mean you can now skill weapons past level*5? I never knew this was a bug and thought it was working as intended.
You can get items that give you a bonuses to your weapon skills and some races have special bonuses to certain weapon skills. I believe the bug was that basically your weapon skill was capped at level*5 even if you had such bonuses. That is, at level 60, your weapon skill would be at most 300 even if you had items that should have brought you above 300 skill.
As far as the patch goes, Tichondrius has been doing pretty well stability-wise, although I did see some people get suddenly dropped but never where I was. As you can imagine, Tichondrius is a total war zone now. Every high level flight path have raid-level wars going on around them. It's quite insane. Hella fun, too. I avoided Hillsbrad myself, since I didn't want to experience that level of lag. Instead, I joined up with a group fighting in the Western Plaguelands zone in the area around Andorhol, Chillwind Camp, and the Bulwark. I have 75 honorable kills listed in my Honor tab. Of course, I was in a large raid, so that's not really as impressive as it sounds.
I also went on a 5-man run of Scholomance. Some of the encounters have changed subtlely. The gargoyle guy is tougher with a knockback attack and the ability to charm players. Also, in the room past the summoning room, one of the caster mobs now has some kind of freezing ice block ability. The loot's pretty nice now, too. I got a mantle that gives me +19 int and +26 to all spells.
Anderhol looks totally different now. It's no longer walled and ruins are in different places. Also, it doesn't seem as densely populated as it was before.
All my +healing spells items got a 10% boost and all the +all magic items got an even bigger boost -- around 33%.