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Cool, got my first T3 resources. Some blue, some purple, yay! Did not know that, Cal, thanks. So far the 2 monsterhexes I visited had T3 materials in their mining nodes so that makes me happy. Not that many monsterhexes around that have Mining nodes where I am living though.

High Road has it pretty good, concerning the amount of monster/home hexes near.... ;)

I activated one of my dormant accounts yesterday, dont'ask me why. :D Well, probably because I wanted to get a taste of harvesting some of that T3 stuff, I love me those purple colors. T3 stuff can only be found in monsterhexes, am I correct?

@Karlbob

I think it should be mandatory then that every player should at least be part of a certain faction, that at least has an Enemy faction associated with it. I also think it should be possible to belong to more then one NPC faction, which opens up more danger (and PvP possibilities) but also should give perks(each faction giving a perk, like being part of the merchant faction giving you a slight discount at AH's or something like that). I think this was kinda in the plans anyway, not sure.

Still, I hope someone from NewCorp will take a hard look at all those Blogs and can breathe new life into them. I feel that PFO only scratched the surface of what was explained in the blogs, and I am still hoping that most of it materializes.

I am curious what NewCorp will do with the "funnel of suck" that was supposed to curb griefing and a toxic game environment. :)

Just to make sure that people know what you are talking about, Drogon is looking for a so called "Adventurer Reward", that people who pledged for the second Kickstarter could buy back in 2013 when the pledge manager was live. These grant the receiver of the reward a Destinies Twin perk, amongst others.

(to avoid confusion since these really aren't cards or anything)

I hope you succeed!

Well, Leithlen, hardcore fan from the first hour here too (backed both Kickstarters) and I completely agree with your entire post.

In the past year I have been frequently calling out my frustration at the snailpace of development of this game, not only regarding pushing out content but also regarding bug-squashing, adding polish and updating graphics. So I was asked if I thought the development team was lazy?

No, but the team was obviously very inexperienced and probably could have done with better leadership. 3 years of development, 4-5 million in funding and a team of 20 people should have produced more then what we have now. I used to find excuses myself, like they are trying totally new stuf with the one-world Hex thing and such and I am sure those were major hurdles. But things like a workable UI, some water in the rivers, some more attention to graphical detail of the world always kept lacking. A more experienced team would have produced a new monster model every month. The fact that monsters and NPC's were still static and had no pathing also was a major downer that should have been adressed much sooner. Guards and trainers should have gotten actual names as to lessen the generic feel of the game, which was a big problem too. There are like a thousand fantasy-name generators out there, so this does not seem like breaking new ground that would have to take months to implement. No data-tracking tools so we ended up with knee-jerk changes to a lot of core systems like combat, nodes, escalations and such.

I also feel that the concept is still intact, and up for grabs. So my only hope is that a seasoned publisher can strike a deal with Paizo/Lisa and can put a seasoned development team to work on this concept.

Which would probably mean scrapping what we have now. Maybe not, since good stuff *can* be done with the UNity engine. Not so sure if the whole Keyword concept is salvagable though.

Btw, one of the things that worries me is the fact that Lisa said that they only fell short of the last million or so in funding "which would have brought the game to Open Enrollment".

Personally I do not see how one more million would salvage this game with the way they were developing it when they had 20 people. So this tells me that they are still looking rigidly at some sort of "feature-milestone" where all the core-systems are implemented and the "Game of Thrones" can begin. Exept that those core systems obviously are not enough to get enough traction with the populace.

I guess one lesson to be learned is that Graphics, UI and polish are important for an Indy project too.

I have decided to hang on to my current accounts, so I am not putting these up for sale. I have suspended 7 of them, so I will let these hibernate untill PFO gets revived or dies. I have a feeling that if another publisher picks up PFO, we will see some changes to monetization too so I think the whole "XP from day 1" thing will become less of a thing. Hopefully the DT-perk will still keep being honored in some way.

I am keeping my Main account subbed for nostalgia purposes.

Thanks for all the interest!

A minor failure I think the game made was trying to move discussion to unfinished forums. That really turned me off. If I'm going to leave Paizo, I expect to at least be given a Freeforums-tier forum in exchange. And that's real bare-minimum-type stuff. I never did follow the Goblinworks Forums discussions, and didn't really try.

True. They have made a lot of small mistakes like that. I do not even think that was a particular small mistake: for a game that needed to rely heavily on a Community during its development, solid forums and stuff like a friendslist should have been at the top of the list.

All of my Adventurer Rewards are sold, thanks everyone!

12 sold, 3 left.

10 sold, 5 left.

Ugh, more "Wort Salat".

Sold 9 Adventurer Rewards so far, 6 left.

I noticed that the link to the second picture of the description of the Adventurer Reward tier leads to the same picture as the first link.

Here is the correct link to view that second part of the perks of the Adventurer Reward tier:

Adventurer Rewards part 2

In case you have to show this to customerservice support to make sure they give you that second month. ;)

Still selling Adventurer Rewards, 6 gone, 9 left. For details, see a few posts up.

Thanks guys. I am sad too. I was in it for the long haul, but I lost hope that the game will be materialized in the way I envisioned from all those wonderful blogs.

Although I thought the course they fared was always in the direction they envisioned, development was so slow that it seemed as if that visage at the horizon kept getting further away from us every month, instead of closer.

Then with the recent cut in development, I simply can not see it at all anymore.

3 Rewards sold, 12 more to go.

1 million to bring this game to what exactly? A few extra barebone features in their first buggy iteration, while still no water in the rivers and stock-art bridges still clipping out of the landscape everywhere?

This game needs an entire new development team, a new engine, a new approach to the core mechanics and *at least* 20-40 million.

I should not be reading old blogs; makes me mad and sad at the same time. :(

Yes, I had expected a longer breath from the initial funding myself. Though when they presented the figures some time ago, where it became clear they already had spent over 4 million, I was worried, since it seemed to me that any initial funding could not keep up for long with that kind of spending.

I have said a few times that I thought development was very slow: what Nihimon sais about previous bug returning certainly fits in my idea that this was a very unexperienced team, that also could have done better with a real veteran at the helm. Who are probably very expensive to hire. Then again, 4 million in 3 years is not nothing.

At some point they said they had 20 people working full time on this: I always found that hard to believe: not when you look at the spending, I guess, but definately when you look at what they managed to bring to the table in that time, with 20 people.

I know they had a playable game with network functionality and all in that time-span, but looking at a lot of Indy projects lately, I am starting to think this was not a very efficient effort.

Maybe Ryans projections about the financing of this game were all based on his predictions of how subscriptions and population would develop. That is marketing spin for sure. I always interpreted his words as that they could finish this game without even a single sub: it just would take longer.

To be sure: these Adventurer Rewards do not give backdated xp to the second character you set to training, if you use the reward on an existing account. That second character will start to train from wherever his XP is at. From that point on, there will be two characters gaining 2400xp per day though.

So this is only a good buy if you believe in pfo going forward: it is not a fast way to a backlog of xp. If you are unsure about the future of pfo and consider the chances high that service will end soon, then you may be sorry that you bought these. These rewards and the DT perk are a big boon, but only if you believe in a bright future for pfo. :)

Selling Adventurer Rewards! These will allow you to create a fresh account with the Destinies Twin perk. They also come with some goodies from the Kickstarter.

See the following links for a description of this Reward:

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As shown in the pics they come with 2 months of game time, worth 30 dollars alone. Also Shieldmate, Daily Deals and other perks.

Please note that right now, if you redeem the invite, you will find only 1 month of game time in your Rewards. This is a known bug in the system. Both times that I redeemed an invite for myself, Ryan has corrected the issue without a problem and said he would forward the bug to the team. I am pretty sure this is not resolved yet for obvious reasons but just send an email to Goblinworks and they should set it straight. The pics above are "proof", though I am sure they are not needed.

Instructions on how to create your twin can be found here: How to make your Twin I am pretty sure they made it more fool-proof now but best follow those directions.

I have 15 of these for sale, for a price of 75 dollars each. If you still believe in PFO (and think they will stick to the current monetization), this is your chance to get one of those DT accounts!

Payment through paypal only. After payment is received, I will send you the invite. You then get an email from GW with the title "Redeem your invite", with a link that you have to click. Make sure that you are logged into the account that you want to transform into a DT-account, before you click the final Confirm button on the website!! You can also create an entire new account after clicking the link in the email, btw.

PM me here, so I can give you my Paypal email adress. Make sure that I can recognize your payment as being yours (by mentioning your forum name or some).

Disclaimer: PFO has hit a serious snag recently and GW had to lay off most of their staff. Only 3 people are left working on the game. Development will continue and servers will keep running as long as there are enough subscribers left. There is no guarantee that the game will keep running, or that all of the KS perks like the Daily Deals will materialize. Or that they keep the monetization and DT-perk as it is, if a new publisher may take over.

Locke, after seeing the Sale fee of Ebay (10%) I have decided to sell everything separately, on this forum. I remember the fees being lower!

I am going to start with the Adventurer Rewards that allow people to make a fresh DT account with some KS perks. The accounts will come later, so I can stick around a little longer. But they will end up for sale too, I think. I may do them separately then, but only one account will have all the Wealth, I am not going to spread that. Thanks for all the advice so far, guys.

I may do that, but right now I am waiting it out a bit. I may sell the Adventurer rewards separately, which was always my plan, off course. At least those would bring new blood and money to the game.

Ok, will keep you in mind.

Have to think it over, Cheatle. It will be on ebay anyway, with a reserver price and probably a buyout price. I do it on ebay because I want at least some protection. Not ready to PM about this just yet.

I could still decide to stop all subs and just let the accounts wither untill either the game dies completely, or a pubisher picks it up.

Will be putting this up soon, probably on ebay. Sorry for the sucky format, obviously that did not carry over from the doc document, and formatting it here is not doable because of the ancient forum software. See below for a link to the doc-file, which is MUCH more easily readable.

Deal of the Century.

Selling all my accounts in a bundle: we are talking 8 DT accounts, 6 of them are day 1 accounts that have been subscribed since day 1, two have been made later. See details of each account below.
The main account has a humongous amount of resources, refined goods, finished goods, Bulk Goods(around 13k), Victory Markers(85), Recipes, spells, Gold, maneuvers and other goodies (KS rewards).
Also a Smallholding (worth 200 dollars) and a Basecamp (50 bucks).

Also a total of 15 Adventurer Rewards to give out, that allow someone to create a brand new Destinies Twin account with more perks from the kickstarter like Shieldmate and Daily Deals. I sold 10 of these back in Januari for 100 dollars each within a day!

The 6x Day-1 DT accounts cover *all* craft and refine skills, in an efficient setup: 2 crafts per character, paired up for Ability, 2 characters per account gaining xp. Also, all 4 gathering skills are covered up to tier 2 by several characters: Miner 11, Scavenger 7, Dowser 10, Forester 9. Those characters also have at least two other gatheringskills at level 7, for fast and easy harvesting of a Hex.
One of these accounts has a pristine-xp day 1 character on it, zero xp used.

The last two DT accounts(not day 1) have 4 characters all with unused xp, see details.

Reputation of all characters: spotless both mechanical and real reputation. :)
"Unused xp" is as of this (sad) day, 3rd of September 2015.

Details of the accounts(not going to mention the 1k xp alts, though some of those have some achievements too):

Account 1: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from day 1.

• All Daily Deals
• Memorial of Honor
• Soundtrack Download
• Alliance Pack
• Smallholding
• Base Camp
• Regional Traitpack
• Shield Mate
• Secret Salute
• Honorable Title
• Character Name reservation
• Twice Marked of Pharasma
• Adventurer Reward 13x (this will allow another person to create a new Destinies Twin account with perks)

Character 1: DT, Main, Regalo Harnoncourt, Elf, Fighter 12, Cleric 7, Dex 14, Wis 13, Str 12, Con 11. Unused XP 13k. Archer (Attacks at 4, Overdraw at level 5), Swordsman (longsword attacks at 4) and Cleric (attacks at 4) Many T2 expendables(also still in vault). Archer Armorfeat at level 8 (wears and can utilize T2 +3 armor), Bow Spec Feat at level 6 and so forth. Forester 9, Scavenger 7, Dowser 7. Leader of the Company and currently operating 3 Holdings around Callambea(Inn, Tradepost and Shrine) and 6 outposts, all +3 exept one that is +2 and one that is +4. These produce a large amount of Bulk goods daily.

Character 2: DT, Tyndael Weverelf, Elf, dedicated Dex-based Crafter, Dex 17. Weaver 14, Bowyer 8. (another character is leveling up Bowyer, this is a double for Dex requirement) Crafting achievements unlocked to train up to level 16 for both crafts. Unused xp 125492.

This account was my Main account(Regalo is the only leader of the Company) and thus has access to *all* the resources, spells, goodies, recipes etcetera. (The other accounts do have the recipes that they have yet to learn.)

A pick from the vaults:
• Bulk Wood 7367
• Bulk Trade Goods 2414
• Bulk Food 2155
• Bulk Stone 996
• Victory Markers: 85
• Lesser token of Riposting 4018 (similar amounts for the other Lesser Tokens)
• Greater Token of Healing 308 (similar amounts for the other Greater Tokens)
• Novitiate's Scale 23 (similar amounts for all the other newbie armors that dropped from the starter goblins)
• Steel Greatsword 40 (similar amounts for all the other newbie weapons and implements that drop of starter mobs)
• Coal: 2235
• Iron: 1370
• Silver ore: 1506
• Hemp: 1850
• Cotton: 879
• Potent Antimony(t2): 865
• Potent Cabbleweed(t1): 1116
• Uncanny esoteric essence(t1): 2455
• Deep Blue Spinel(t2): 682
• And so on, and so forth. *All* resources are there, since they had to cater to ALL crafter and refiner professions. Not all resources are in the 300+ range, if you want I could list all that are above that level. Many are in the 1000+ range though. I have acquired most of my resources by frantically working the AH, posting buy orders, buying low etcetera, for the past 8 months on a daily basis. Paid for by gold that I earned from my finished products off course. My main fun in this game! :)
• 66x spare Tier 2 recipes.
• 1x tier 3 recipe. :)
• An average of 6 copies of *each* tier 1 recipe there is. Thats about 2500 t1 recipes.
• Many spells and maneuvers, amongst which are several level 5 and 6's: Symbol of Fear, Greater Dispel Magic, Freezing Sphere, Chain Lightning, Biting Gaze, SMoke Bomb, Repelling Onslaught, Journeymans Protective Salve, Full Bore, Abrupt Laceration, Redouble, Ripping Shears, Stop. These are just the purple colored ones.
• Many, many refined resources: +0, +1, +2, +3, also a nice collection of +4 and even +5 lucky procs, also for T2. All my crafters and refiners shared the Company Secure Vault and I made sure I had refines of mostly everything, so my Crafters could constantly make stuff. Green, blue and purple stuff everywhere!
• Many finished goods, ready to go on the AH or for future use. Including all those items I had to make for crafter achievements. There's even an unused Lumbermill Holding Kit +3 in there. :) There's also like 8x t2 armors on the AH right now, and about 12 T2 weapons/implements plus lots of potions.

Account 2: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from day 1.

• All Daily Deals
• Memorial of Honor
• Soundtrack Download
• Alliance Pack
• Regional Traitpack
• Shield Mate
• Secret Salute
• Honorable Title
• Character Name reservation
• Twice Marked of Pharasma
• Adventurer Reward 2x (this will allow another person to create a new Destinies Twin account with perks)

Character 1: DT, Groflah Zager, Dwarf, dedicated Con-based crafter, Con 17. Sawyer 13, Tanner 11. Pioneer 4. Sawyer Achievement unlocked to level 16, Tanner Achievement unlocked till level 15. Unused xp: 84020 This character also has a million of the Lore scraps that can be used to make recycled paper sheets. He only misses a few (and LOTS of copies) so if you want the whole library, this is your guy.

Character 2: DT,Trumbull Weaver, Dwarf, dedicated Wis-based crafter, Wis 17. Apothecary 11, Iconographer 13. Apothecary Achievement unlocked till level 14, Iconographer Achievement unlocked till level 16. Unused xp: 83272

Account 3: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from day 1.

• All Daily Deals
• Memorial of Honor
• Soundtrack Download
• Behind the scenes PDF
• Alliance Pack
• Regional Traitpack
• Shield Mate
• Secret Salute
• Honorable Title
• Character Name reservation
• Twice Marked of Pharasma

Character 1: DT, Alan Treesong, Human, dedicated Dex-based Crafter, Dex 17. Leatherworker 12, Tailor 12. Both crafts Achievements unlocked up to level 15. Unused XP: 91146

Character 2: DT, Tyncale Harnoncourt, Human, dedicated Personality-based Crafter/dowser, Per 16. Sage 13, Seneschal 5, Dowser 10, Scavenger 7, Forester 7. Some Mage feats, still tier 1, minor xp spent. Sage-achievement unlocked to level 16. Unused XP: 100167

Account 4: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from day 1.

• All Daily Deals
• Alliance Pack
• Shield Mate
• Character Name Reservation

Character 1: DT, Redd Firerock, Dwarf, dedicated Con-based Crafter/Miner/Hauler, Con 16. Smelter 14, Miner 11, Dowser 7, Forester 7, Scavenger 6. Pioneer 6, Encumbrance Bonus 5, Strongback 3. Some fighter feats, still tier 1, minor xp spent. Smelter Achievements unlocked till level 16. Unused XP: 85589

Character 2: DT, Mirdan Juwel, Elf, dedicated Int-based Crafter, Int 17. Alchemist 13, Jeweler 11. Alchemist Achievement unlocked till level 15, Jeweler Achievement unlocked till level 16. Unused XP: 85268

Account 5: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from day 1.

• All Daily Deals
• Alliance Pack x2
• Shield Mate
• Character Name Reservation

Character 1: DT, Brom Smitty, Dwarf, dedicated Str-based Crafter, Str 17. Armorsmith 11, Weaponsmith 13. Wright 6. Weaponsmith Achievement unlocked till level 15, Armorsmith Achievement unlocked till level 16. Unused XP: 80952

Character 2: DT, Solana Artifex, Elf, dedicated Int-based Crafter, Int 17. Engineer 13, Artificer 11. Wright 6. Artificer Achievement unlocked till lele 15, Engineer Achievement unlocked till level 17. Unused XP: 80962

Account 6: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from day 1.

• All Daily Deals
• Alliance Pack
• Shield Mate
• Character Name Reservation

Character 1: DT, Elisanne Robayn, Elf, dedicated Dex-based crafter, Dex 17. Gemcutter 12, Bowyer 12. Bowyer Achievement unlocked till level 16, Gemcutter Achievement unlocked till level 15. Unused XP: 94839

Character 2: DT, undisclosed, unknown, never been seen in game Human with a cool name, pristine XP from day 1: 590839!!

Account 7: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from 23rd of April 2015.

Character 1: DT, undisclosed Human with a cool name, Str 12, Armorsmith 10, Armorsmith Achievement unlocked till level 15. Unused XP: 168818
Character 2: DT, undisclosed Human with a cool name. Pristine XP from the above date: 315701

Account 8: Destinies Twin, uninterrupted XP from 28th of June 2015.

Character 1: DT, undisclosed Human with a cool name. Pristine XP from the above date: 160977

Character 2: DT, undisclosed Human with a cool name. Pristine XP from the above date: 160977

For a better formatted overview of these accounts, download this doc file:

Deal of the Century

Still thinking about a price.

I am guessing we are not going to see any updates to your wonderful XP-training tool(that I still use daily). :( Thanks for providing that, Nightdrifter.

Thinking of throwing in the towel myself.

Another long time supporter bites the dust. Makes me sad.

You should ask at least 350 for this account.

135 dollars for the 9 months of game time, 100+ dollars for the fact that it is a DT account (still too low if you ask me) and 100+ dollars for the fact that it has unspent xp and it is a day 1 account.

I would not take the first offer, Darklord.

People will hate me for this but the OP might not. :(

1 day, 8 hours left on Ebay auction for DT account. Current high bid is $150, see attached link for further.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pathfinder-Online-DT-Account-XP-since-04-01-2015-/2 61937256778?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cfcad594a

Alagos, only the first link you gave is working, this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/261937256778?

I'll link it up for you: Alagos DT account on Ebay

I think Tagnar is from Forgeholm? He could talk about the epic deal he made with a certain Merchant where he received 10x T2 recipes, a Mass Strength and a Redouble Maneuever for a Hunting Outpost recipe, because the citizens of Callambea needed Food and Tradegoods. :D

I have to say, who wouldn't want to be part of this game after reading this blog. :)

Very nice, I hope we get these with regular intervals. :D

I am not paying for access to the game, I am paying for my monthly box of XP. I know I can not access the game if I do not pay but there's a difference there.

The game is slowly getting better and I hope they can manage to make it so much fun that more people will want to play it. When that happens, they will also be willing to pay for their XP, just like hundreds of thousands of people are willing to pay for EvE and for World of Warcraft.

For me the game is fun enough already, so I am happy to start accumulating XP so soon already.

2 things though:

I totally understand that for many the game is not fun enough so they do not want to pay for their XP yet;
I also understand that there is a serious risk that the game will fold before it ever gets fun for the larger crowd; development certainly is slow and I feel the GW team is clearly a rookie in many things, (well, they are). So it's a definate risk to start liking this game so much that you want to pay the sub: it may fold because we are not talking Cryptic Studios here or Blizzard or Bethesda, who can crank out a MMO/game and not even blink. It's a start up.

I am weighing those factors and so far I am still willing to keep subbing.

Could you "math it up" a little more, Avena, that was not nearly enough. Every time you post, I somehow get a picture of Russel Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" in my head. :)

Good stuff. That Emerald Spire Dungeon *must* materialize some day in PFO, it could be one of the main draws to the game at some point, both from a PvE and PvP perspective.

I realize it's a massive amount of work, but it looks to cool to pass on.

I dunno. I think you over-estimate the number of people that are so competitive that they refuse to play a MMO where they can't poopsock their way to max level in 2 weeks, and run with the big boys.

Those people exist for sure, but they are also usually the loudest people in the MMO communities so they seem a bit over-represented. There is a huge batch of people that just enjoy a game for what it is and can pick up any MMO, no matter where its playerbase is at.

Now, an *empty* MMO, that's a real downer.

MidknightDiamond wrote:

Tyncale wrote:

I do not agree with the whole XP-gap thing, and the perceived unfairness about a batch of players that already are closing in on tier 3.

First, I sense a contradiction with those people: they do not think the game is worth a 15 dollar subscription in its current state so they keep harping on that fact. At the same time, when the game reaches a playable state in their minds, all of a sudden, they think it is unfair that certain players already have XP.

XP for which they will be paying the exact same amount of dollars for, exept later, for a game in a much more finished state. Where's the unfairness in that? Unfair to us, who paid for their XP while the game was unfinished still? ;)

Also, I am convinced that if the game is fun, players will come and not bother with the fact that they start "behind the curve". This game will need to cater to other players then just those hardcore competitive PvP folk anyway if it ever wants to be successful. This is not an Arena-match where you start late, with all sorts of handicaps: it's a rich engaging Fantasyworld with lots of PvE and Building and social stuff.

You, sir, are my hero for the day.

Unless the game never reaches "that state". Then those who have bailed early on, will have been proven the wiser.

The reason I won't let my subscription, with some 21 months to go, lapse is that it is already money spent. If the game never reaches the supposed OE (although it can be argued we are already there), at least I left nothing on the table if the doors shut.

Even if I find myself more invested in another game, I'll continue to bank that time and look to sell off my characters with close to a million unspent XP. I play enough of the game to grind the gates away, almost all tier 9 gates reached for my primary and secondary weapons.

True. I am having fun though so my money is currently well spent. In the meantime I have huge doubts if this game will ever take off. I even have huge doubts that *if* this game takes off, it might be in a way that is less fun for me and I will simply quit. But right now I am going with the flow, I am having fun doing the building and watching the PvP antics and enjoy the rollercoaster ride of new buggy and unfinished features being implemented every few weeks. The game is an ugly, buggy and unfinished hotchpotch, but there are already elements in that hotchptoch that keep drawing me in. Many of the recent Themepark MMO's did not manage to keep that interest.

To name two simple things:

I LOVE that its one, single world. I can put my marker 80 hexes to the South and start running. (yes, the world is monotonous). All the people in the same world. LOVE it.

I also LOVE the character-building where you can mix and match. Yes, it takes way too much XP and takes too long and ability gates and what not, but I have never had so much fun planning out my character (and making the wrong choice though nothing is truly ever wrong).

Even so I consider the chance that this game is still around in 3 years about 20%.

I do not agree with the whole XP-gap thing, and the perceived unfairness about a batch of players that already are closing in on tier 3.

First, I sense a contradiction with those people: they do not think the game is worth a 15 dollar subscription in its current state so they keep harping on that fact. At the same time, when the game reaches a playable state in their minds, all of a sudden, they think it is unfair that certain players already have XP.

XP for which they will be paying the exact same amount of dollars for, exept later, for a game in a much more finished state. Where's the unfairness in that? Unfair to us, who paid for their XP while the game was unfinished still? ;)

Also, I am convinced that if the game is fun, players will come and not bother with the fact that they start "behind the curve". This game will need to cater to other players then just those hardcore competitive PvP folk anyway if it ever wants to be successful. This is not an Arena-match where you start late, with all sorts of handicaps: it's a rich engaging Fantasyworld with lots of PvE and Building and social stuff.

It's definately one of the cooler things of the crafting system. I love lucky procs, and mixing and matching with them. I am saving all my +4 and +5's for later though. :)

I hope this hasn't anything to do with Ryans reaction about the group thing and the free month. That's just Ryan being Ryan.

Deianira, I can assure you, that if this game makes it out of the gates (whenever that is, I am thinking 5 years from now) it will be a rich, engaging Fantasyworld with Pathfinder all over it. You may want to have your XP then.

I can't assure you it will ever come out of the gates though. :(

Yes, these forums can stay for sure, just want to make sure people do not think the community has abandoned the game. :) It's very quiet here.

Chris or Lisa, you think that is possible? Not sure how many left (temporarily) before the GW forums were a thing, but for those that come check back here we should make it known that we are now on the GW forums.

Thanks. :)

Not much since Enchantments are not in yet, but you should save it for the future. +4 and +5 refined goods are used to make +4 and +5 items which will be able to hold enchantments in the future.

Those gems are used in tier 1 Jewelery, if you manage to secure a whole batch of +5 refined materials, you can make a +5 item that will be able to hold an Enchantment(you put the enchantment on it at the same time the item is crafted).. Nobody knows how good these enchantments will be, there is not much known yet. But a single +5 refined resource is not much yet.

It usually takes a lot of refining before you get those, so +5 items will be rare, but value also depends on usefullness. Also, I do not see many Tier 1 +4 and +5 items being made, since people outgrow that tier very quickly.

There is one more use for a +4 and +5 resource: you can try to use it to "pull up" a crafting recipe to a higher + level.

Diego Rossi wrote:

Thod wrote:

Rank 1 is sufficient to find iron - actually no training at all is good enough.

But moving from 0 to 1 rank reduce noticeably the time you spend to gather from a node of the right kind.

Every rank reduce the time you spend gathering from a node, but the largest difference is from 0 to 1.

Also the 994 XP for the first 3 ranks of Miner gets you 0.31 CON which is pretty much the cheapest CON boost in the game. It is worth training Miner 3 even if you never mine.

I would love to see more "quickest pathways" to boost a certain Ability. I am currently looking at the 12--->14 Dex gap, while I am only truly interested in longbow and associated skills like Ranged attack bonus, Bow Spec and Archer armorfeat, and not so much in Shortbow, misc rogue and skirmisher skills and/or utilities. Also not interested in a lot of LOngbow attacks either which makes for a lof of unfun choices to spend my xp.

Can someone explain to me again why we have the Ability gates? Aren't the achievement and XP gates enough?

Thanks Harad. There are indeed several highland and crophexes missing on the terrain type map in the nothern part of the map around callamabea and near Thornkeep.

Thanks all, I changed it thanks to your help. There is indeed an edit button when you get that first pop-up window when you start it up. I had been looking in the menu's after I already was logged in.

[Callambea]Tyncale-Regalo it is.

How do I adjust the name that appears in the Chat? I am currently Tyncale, but would like it to be [Callambea]Tyncale/Regalo

I am not registered, but when I try to do that it seems it wants to lock in that name? Can I change it later?

Thanks for any help. :)

Welcome Brimstone! :)

Q, your first link of the Trading Post is incorrect, links to this thread. :)

Good time to sell accounts after such a cool Patch. :)