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So is the game any better with the new expansion?
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I am an old Uo player who left the game after the last expansion. Did the new one add alot to the game? Is it worth buying and coming back to play, or did they just add more room for houses, a new dungeon, and a few skills? I was really looking forward to UXO, and was sad to see the project cancelled, but supposedly UO is to receive alot of new attention. Is this so? Have you noticed any major improvements?
MMO Vet since AOL Neverwinter Nights circa 1992. My MMO beat up your MMO. =S
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I'm GM Fencing I was fighting an Elite Ninja, I hit less than 50% of the time. 110 dex 90 str. I was being double teamed at one point and losing stamina with each hit they hit me. So at the end wieldilng a minor artifact called "night's kiss" which is a dagger I was not able to deal enough damage fast enough myself to kill them, had mage friend help me.
Suprise I am not a paladin, merely a dexing fencer who is only GM Fencing. Oh yeah the powerscrolls to go above GM skill are controlled by the PvP Guilds or the Super Huge Guilds. Or go buy them if your like me and want to earn them you gotta sell yourself out or be a PK.
Ultima Online not a friendly game to start out in.
The Expansion has 3 islands, two of which are not newbie friendly.
SO lets start with unless you have Tamer,Peacing Bard,Paladin, or Paladin/Archer, or Necromancy and the always dominant Magery in your template in ANY WAY whatsoever you simply have no reason to bother playing the new expansion or for that matter being competitive in the present state of Ultima Online.
EDIT ADD-on, the really cool thing is the islands are well designed, and it is not a trailer park, trouble is the very best houses were scooped up by Scripters.I would not know about housing only what I read on Stratics because I did not have Samurai Empire expansion when the housing was opened up, the delayed placing of houses for one day from when it was "available" at stores. So basically the new housing around the new city which is a newbie friendly island is a new Luna Type City, which is being scammed the hell out by the scripters to squeeze out more gold for the honest players. So the housing design was well thought out the availability to place the new houses was horribly thought out. If you want a house that is on one of the other two islands your will have MUCH aggro mobs nearby it most likely. THERE is very little housing on the other two islands. Some have said on Stratics there are only like 5-8 18x18 housing plots. That was good design by the UO Devs. Wow I shoulda put more paragraphs into this paragraph.
well hell im a paladin/fighter meself and i still get my arse whooped by those bloody overpowered monsters on the new islands. it has forced me to sink so low as to pick up archery just to survive!
yes, now that they fixed some of the archer problems/bugs. Paladin/Archers are one of the better templates to have, you deal Massive damage and you can avoid getting melee hit by monsters go figure.
I say the UO Developers are stupid because they never voice any acknowledgement that such class imbalances exist, they may know it but they never admit sopeople like me who refuse to sell out are well just screwed.
I was just in the fan dancer dungeon, and I saw a long time enemy of mine in game, soloing the balron and fan dancers, he was provking the fan dancers onto the balron. Doing this solo. The Fan Dancer is one of the top5 toughest new monstersin Tokuno Islands.
Why do you want any player to be able to solo. The Balron. The Fan Dancer should be soloable but with much work, it is not enough work as it is right now. Estimate, Ultima Online is a broken game, which means the game plays but you have to find why you want to play it not because its a really good example of how a game should be.