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What do everyone has to say about update 1.88
Ravkeen
Member UncommonPosts: 310
All I have to say is WOW a update that they should have done along time ago EA you did good. 
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.88a Release Notes
Bounty Rewards and Vista Compatibility
February 15, 2007
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This patch begins version 1.88. In this version we plan on focusing significantly on revamping the archery system. The team is currently in the internal implementation phase for the archery revamp, but it is not yet ready for Pendragon testing. The new archery system will be rolled to Pendragon in the next few 1.88 versions.
GAME CLIENT CHANGES FOR VISTA COMPATIBILITY
In order to make Dark Age of Camelot Vista compatible, all files that the game client generates are now written to a user directory. By default, each user on Vista is a Standard User and only has limited access control. A Standard User does not have permissions to write to common locations, such as the root directory of the game.
Therefore, we've made a few changes to the way the game handles files in order to make DAOC fully Vista compatible. The changes affect everyone, not just Vista users. Read on:
Certain files will now be written to a new location. The location for Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows 95 is:
C:Documents and Settings(User)Application DataElectronic ArtsDark Age of Camelot
And for Vista:
C:Users(User)AppDataRoamingElectronic ArtsDark Age of Camelot
Note: The “Application Data” folder for XP and earlier, and the “AppData” folder for Vista, are hidden folders. When you navigate there, you will have to set your “display hidden files” under Folder Options in order to find it. (Go to C:Documents and Settings(whatever your user name is) - click "Tools" - click "Folder Options" - click the "View" tab - scroll until you see "Hidden files and folders" - click the radio button that says "Show hidden files and folders" - click "Apply" - click "OK.")
No one should fear losing any user settings or individual character settings. The game will take care of copying all of the affected files to the new location.
Files that will be automatically copied from the old location into the new:
(character name)-(Server).ini
(character name)-(Server).ign
default(window width).ini
user.dat
Files that will not be moved, but new versions will appear in the new location:
animnode.log
audio.log
char.bin
chat.log
chat_buffers.tmp
critical.log
debug.log
errorlog.txt
frame.txt
intel.log
ui.log
world.log
(Screen shot name).bmp
For example, existing screen shots that you have will remain in the original place, while new ones will be placed in the new directory.
NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug where accounts which were not eligible for the Elder title could still select it when having high crafting skills.
NEW BOUNTY POINT REWARDS
The availability of rewards which can be purchased with Bounty Points has been greatly increased. Many of these rewards are designed to reduce much of the need to continue PvEing after reaching 50 for those who would rather focus immediately on RvR.
- Realizing their Atlantean masters are not returning, four sphinxes have traveled to the Hall of Heroes to offer ML credit, artifact credit, and scrolls in exchange for stories from the frontiers (represented by bounty points). Credit is obtained by purchasing the tokens they sell, then handing the tokens to them. If a token is purchased for an encounter the player already has credit for, handing the token back to the sphinx will return the Bounty Points spent.
- Bounty Point Masters have been added to each realm's primary border keep (Castle Sauvage, Svasud Faste, and Druim Ligen). These new NPCs sell a variety of items including: realm respecs, Champion Level respecs, Master Level respecs, the chestnut horse, hastener speed gems, experience-granting scrolls (in both a 1% and 10% variety), and special new jewelry items.
- The NPCs in each housing market that already sell deeds, porches and consignment merchants now offer the same goods for bounty points as well as gold.
- Merchants have been added to house hookpoint stores which can obtained for free and placed on a house hookpoint to allow the purchase of interior and garden decorations for bounty points as opposed to gold.
- Existing bounty point rewards (i.e. stones, totems, and crystals) now have 20 charges instead of 1. Note that current charges will not be retroactively updated on previously purchased rewards.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
General - Albion
- The Armorsmiths, Fletchers, and Weaponsmith Masters of Camelot have relocated to 'Shorty' Malone's Inn which is located near the channelers in Camelot square near the forge.
- The Alchemist and Spellcraft Masters of Camelot have relocated to the Magus Shoppus immediately next to 'Shorty' Malone's Inn.
- The Guild of Shadows alchemy table has been relocated to just outside 'Shorty' Malone's Inn.
General - Midgard
- Merchants selling crafting materials have settled their differences and have relocated to the two longhouses just North of the Assembly Hall.
- All tradeskill masters can now be found in either the two longhouses or the smaller building to the north of them.
- The alchemy table behind the Assembly Hall has been relocated to near the forge in this same area.
Quests - General
- Basic Horse - A recent effort by the Kings of each realm to encourage citizens to trade in their old, basic horses for weapons has resulted in a surplus of basic horses taking up space in the royal stables. Therefore the Horse Voucher for the basic horse can now be obtained for free from the Horse Merchants in the capital cities and the quest completed at level 10.
Quests - Albion
- Imperiled Wizard - Players who have completed step 2 but not finished the quest and received their reward will now get a reminder in their journal on what to say to Master Narudos to finish the quest.
Albion Monsters
- Large ants have sworn off their diet of snakes meaning they no longer will have a chance to drop snake meat as loot.
SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES
General - Midgard
- The monsters named 'hrimthursa icetouch' will now no longer drop realm inappropriate items.
CATACOMBS WORLD NOTES
Instanced Adventuring
- Aurulite values have been increased by at least double.
Old Values:
Aurulite Chip, Value 1
Aurulite Fragment, Value 5
Aurulite Shard, Value 10
Aurulite Cluster, Value 15
Aurulite Cluster, Value 20
New Values:
Aurulite Chip, Value 5
Aurulite Fragment, Value 10
Aurulite Shard, Value 20
Aurulite Cluster, Value 30
Aurulite Cluster, Value 40
Note: These changes are not retroactive and only apply to newly-dropped Aurulite.
Hi I'm Ravkeen! 
Emilia_Emi Lvl 56 Witch
Now Playing : Black Desert Online
"America is not at war, the US Military is at war, America is at the mall."
Comments
ML2- 1230 BP
ML3- 3360 BP
ML4- 2640 BP
ML5- 1605 BP
ML6- 2730 BP
ML7- 2145 BP
ML8- 3135 BP
ML9- 3420 BP
ML10- 4800 BP
You can buy any individual credits (ie- ml 2.4) for a much smaller price
The ML credit tokens are marked No Trade / No Sell
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Scrolls are priced by 1 2 3
1o3 10BP
2o3 100BP
3o3 200BP
The scrolls are only marked "cannot be sold to merchants" and appear to be tradeable.
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Arty credits range from
370 BP - Band of Stars to 1210 BP - Flamedancer's boots
Artifact Credit tokens are marked No Trade / No Sell
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BP Items range from 10 BP for 1 charge speed enhancement to 5000 BP for RA respec stones.
The new items range from 1360 BP to 1540 BP
Cenzia's Belt of Reason:
Body 7%
Energy 7%
Heat 6%
Cold 6%
Matter 6%
Spirit 6%
Bonus AF 1
4 Rings, 4 Bracers, 5 Gems, 6 Belts, 6 Necks, and 5 Cloaks
These items are all marked No Trade/No Sell. Some of these items have stat caps, +All Magic/All Melee, and +Magic/Melee damage speed ect.
Edit:
XP scrolls/MLxp scrolls give 1%xp for 10 BP or 10% for 100 BP. These items seem to have a 2-3 sec reuse and Grant the xp as marked
/use the 10% xp gives the following message to a lvl 50
You have earned 2400 Champion Experience!
You have earned 4,800,000,000 Experience!
These scrolls do not grant arty xp.
Hi I'm Ravkeen!
Emilia_Emi Lvl 56 Witch
Now Playing : Black Desert Online
"America is not at war, the US Military is at war, America is at the mall."
hummm...is this true?
Yeah, that actually sounds pretty good. Hopefully people will come back now. There will be some archery changes too, can't remember if it was 1.88 or 1.89 when those changes will be implemented
Edit: Just noticed my stupidity
"I actually cook my meat with nothing but my burning hatred for vegetables"
Since I have both a 50 Hunter on Dred (mostly retired) and a 49 Ranger on Gareth I'll be watching for more info on the archery changes.....
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I have mixed opinions on this one - so going to wait and see.....
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I'd love to play DAoC again, but reverting to the old style "grind" PVE just sends shivers down my spine. They need to find a way to encourage 1-30 grouping. They also need to bring players into the game, thus making low level grouping possible, im not sure what the US servers are like, but EU are almost empty. Making DAoC original free would resolve these issues.
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MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
It doesn't solve the buffbot problem though.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
/shrug
Hi I'm Ravkeen!
Emilia_Emi Lvl 56 Witch
Now Playing : Black Desert Online
"America is not at war, the US Military is at war, America is at the mall."
www.classesofcamelot.com/misc/BountyItems.asp
It doesn't solve the buffbot problem though.
You do realize that there are 'Buffbot' free servers in Daoc, unlike Blizzard, Mythic decided to allow people a choice in the way they play.
I wouldn't have put it quite that way -- but yes indeed there are buff bots on classic. The rules say they have to be grouped - but people fix that but bringing the bot along on auto follow.
BBs on stick are Free RPs!
It doesn't solve the buffbot problem though.
You do realize that there are 'Buffbot' free servers in Daoc, unlike Blizzard, Mythic decided to allow people a choice in the way they play.
You do realize that if you would have read who I quoted and then thought critically about what I was responding to, you would have figured out that my response was to his comment that he hopes those of us who play Classic would return since you can buy ML stuff now.
You people may not have a problem with buffbots, but I do. I respect your right to like buffbots so don't trash my opinion for not liking them. I do play on Classic servers and have been since their release.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
So far so good, I am glad to hear I'll never have to sit through an ML raid again.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
Do you all plan on implementing an in-game guide on how to play a Cabalist? With the changes to pets and now the /imbue and other commands, a newb isn't going to know what the hell is going on. You can't expect a new Cabalist to know all the /slash commands you just added in the patch if they are not in the game manual or in the in-game tutorial. You can make an excuse and say that they can research the patch notes and experiment, but you know that is not right. Mythic should stive for polishness. Adding an in-game guide for Cabalists and every other class that has had changes to it would really polish this game up. Spell descriptions when you click on info at the trainers would help too. The character builder that one of the members made on daoccatacombs.com is severely outdated and you know it is suicide to not go into the game without a spec plan. Since you all won't implement a character builder on your own website like Blizzard has, can't you at least add the spell descriptions at the trainer, so when you click "info" we can know what we are getting ourselves into?
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.