Changes between 1.10s and 1.10

[Ruvanal]

All in all the trendline so far is clear: anti-rushing was not treated as a serious problem for release. Sorry Ruvanal.

I did not expect to be addressed even when I first posted on it. But if no one said anything then there absolutly would be no effort to address it either. The biggest safety in my opinion right now is wether there is a place to be rushed to or not for things like leveling. The item gathering exploits that you are looking at will not really have that major of an effect for quite some time and only if they really offer by far the best way to achive certain 'goals'. Most of the 'runs' that you invision would be done in private games and not end up disrupting the regular play of the bulk of the open type of games. This could not be said of the way 'rushing' was encroaching on every open game in the 1.09 version.

I also noted in about 10 minutes of looking at the files that there would be very little that would change with the 'rushing' techniques that you were looking at previously. Most of said changes would actually be due the changes of some fo the character skills which might in some cases change a little of the 'timing' of doing certain things.

Act 3 Gidbinn reward of free Act 3 merc for clvl 1 char: no problem (got charged bolt guy and he counts as a major twink)... note that Gidbinn ring reward was not claimed (saving for higher clvl--is that necessary?)

I would say so. I do not have the number available right now, but the quest were set to generate the items at a particular ilvl or the clvl if it was lower. You might try doing some searches at the Phrozen Keep to see if you can find some of the target ilvls for some of the quests. In which case you may want to save the ring rewards (act 1 and act 3) along with the class specific item reward from act 5 till you can get the maximum benefit from it.