new patch

for the HD's
Even if a turtle can live the longest life, it must eventually die.
Copy it exactly for the 1 RTD quest. Including the full stop

If anybody found out what does the "hardness of the weapons" mean and what the effect of the new mastery-skills is, plz tell me/us. big THX

I am not sure about the mastery part but if I am not wrong hardness is to prevent your weapon from disappearing if refinement fails....

Well, the mastery skills effects are stated where you can choose them...

As far as I know, we now have the following masteries (not sure for all clans, since I only glanced at them apart from my BoT healer):

weapon mastery - damage bonus (the "old" one) clan's primary weapon
weapon mastery - critical chance bonus (after maxing that weapon's damage bonus) clan's primary weapon
weapon mastery - damage bonus (the "old" one) clan's secondary weapon
weapon mastery - critical chance bonus (after maxing that weapon's damage bonus) clan's secondary weapon
weapon mastery - damage bonus (the "old" one) bracers
weapon mastery - balance bonus (after maxing damage bonus) bracers

"defense" mastery - adds to defense vs. one attribute, e.g. Yang (whatever these attributes are/do - but since demons got a Yin/Yang damage buff...) available after maxing the two masteries for one weapon
"passive" mastery - adds a bonus to something, for BoTs to anger growth, i.e. rage more often available after maxing "defense" mastery
mastery skill - gain a new skill (...), e.g. berserk rage for BoTs (damage bonus, huge defense penalty, defense becomes NEGATIVE!!! - kill fast or be killed even faster!) available after maxing "passive" mastery

It's not yet clear whether all the masteries are actually worth the points, but a damage or critical bonus is always welcome, additional defenses might come in handy and "passive" mastery and mastery skill can be useful on occasion (depending on clan and thus their effects).
Additionally, if you max your role's weapon masteries and the "neutral" ones (those not depending on a weapon), you'll still have loads of points to spare. So if you want to get all available masteries...

If you have put points into weapons not associated with your clan (e.g. spade mastery for demons), they seem to be lost at the moment, but the mastery reset after attaining your second role (or whenever you can reset masteries) might return ALL the points. Not sure about this, though.

P.S.: Yes, MurongXian, as far as I Know, hardness is supposed to work as a kind of "refinement insurance".

Just want to reinforce that tomes for smashes and some nukes can be bought using contribution points (about 5000 points per C12 tome) at clan base - the NPC that you learn skills from. So don't buy at high prices in Hefei unless it's those that cannot be bought from clan base.

lol...need EC6 =/

For those who feel their defense sux even if u hv 3.xk defense... I'll try it tomorrow *yawnz*

Posted by VGM Chronos: 10 Dec 2008 18:24

Alright guys and Gals Ive found out what the cause of the glitch is. It has to do with the weapon in game. If you are experiencing a def glitch issue. I have a temporary solution. Say for example if you are wearing a CS level wep attempt to either move up to a GL weapon or down to a FC level weapon. Everyone is affected differently by this glitch and I believe it could connect with your current level.

Posted by smoothru: 12 Dec 2008 09:49

Do not attempt to delete any characters as it might delete the wrong one. For those who have done so and have lost the incorrect character please send an e-mail to 9dsupport@acclaim.com. Please be patient as they are working on alot of other things so you wont be able to get a response in the quickest of manners. This is due to the number of reports/complaints they are getting among other things.

Anyone interested in a nice round of Russian Roulette (aka deleting a character)?

no ty, delete my main = crazy
delete my pvp char = no more fun
delete my seller char = fvcked up xD