Spell file 060312 is now available!Most of this weekend updates will be for the Ancient Shield Quest.
This Ancient Shield Quest is mostly done. The last major thing that I need to create (by Saturday night at latest) are the recipe combines for the Magic Box. The bosses, drops, and recipe book are all available already for raiding. So go ahead and get the components now and you'll be able to combine by tomorrow (Saturday).
You will need to be in the Crafters Guild to do this quest. The recipe book will be sold in the Crafters Zone. Components for the shield will be similar to strike augments, plus new components from 10 different bosses to start the first rank of the shield which are raided in Original and Kunark zones. Anyone can join the raid to fight the bosses, but you'll need to be Crafter Guilded for some of the combine components from the Crafters Zone.
Tried to make each of the 10 bosses a little bit different from each other, different stats, different spells, etc. Only thing I haven't added yet for them are pets or adds. This might get added later, so farm up your components before the bosses get harder!
When the server is down for reboot, will post a new spell file of 060112 before the server comes back up. You'll need this spell file to see what new spells the bosses are casting.
Anyone that gets max shield should be able to survive a lot better in end game zones without getting 1-rounded. Both the HP and the stackable Stonewall should make this item well worth getting. Paladins and SK's would probably benefit the most since they already like to use shields. Any other classes would highly benefit as well, sacraficing DPS for surviving.
As each new tier comes out at the end of the game, more ranks of the Ancient Shield will be made, adding 1% more Stonewall to the shield, per custom tier zone, and more HP too obviously. The HP per rank should scale per tier required (every 5 ranks) as to not trivialize lower tiers too quickly.
Will add more to this post as needed over the weekend.
Enjoy!
Ninjastrikes will be Magic Based Resist after next reboot. No spell file is yet available, and not needed either.
One of the bosses had some of the resistances tweaked. Each of the 10 bosses have different resist to different stuff such as Magic, Ice, Fire, Disease, and Poison. Figure out what works best. Something might be resistant to Fire based spells, but weak to Cold based spells, etc.
Everything else seems to be working as intended. Some stuff may have place holders that even look like the original boss.
Might need to tweak HP's as needed depending how difficult the fights are.
Necro AA Swarm of Decay should be fixed now:
http://ezserver.online/forums/index.php?topic=2679.msg38026#msg38026
Updated the spell file again to 060312 which includes some minor fixes.
Ninjastrike will now show as Magic Based instead of Fire Based proc spells.
New Focus and Worn effects for the Ancient Shield.
Enjoy!
