<r><CODE><s>[code]</s>Dear Young Adventurers, On my last several trips to Gont, I have noticed that someone has sold skunk berries to the herbalist there. Now that's all good and well, except that you're cheating yourself out of some coin. I believe market rate is about 2 platinum coins per handful ...

Over the last year or two, changes have been made to 'balance' SOHM (and WOHS), and there are significant drawbacks now. It's not like it was when I started where you could be drunk, blast everything without components, and lose no mana. It's not like that at all.

If the intention of my post was unclear: I was suggesting a new regime/rule set for how to balance guilds in the future, and in time retroactively to re-balance (in particular, but not exlusively) magic guilds that do all combat aspects better than, or equal, to a "specialist". There has to be draw...

Drazon / Zhar: I don't think making grinding completely useless after a certain point would in any way be benefical to the game, so that's not likely to happen. Besides, it would only solve the align issues for the mega myths, but imbalances in align and grinding areas are obviously a concern at lo...

Killing Khaaz and his guards takes me from holy to blessed. I can't imagine how it'd go if I tried to do ents. Evils complaining about alignment is laughable at best. Sorry. No sympathy here. You complain that you can't do Ents and Qualinesti and Kabal AND GK, TT, Mithas, and Icewall. But I can't do...

My two coppers is that there should be NO nondulling weapons and NO nondamaging armours. I get frustrated when I get some nice armours--especially imbued ones--and they only last a few days, but such is life. I would also point out that many of the nondulling weapons, such as the HSC and FBB, were i...

Just to weigh in, I think Grenneth hit the nail on the head. The problem with knights, and to a lesser extent Calians, has to do with being on the losing end of a war--worse, in the knights' case, a hard coded one they can't get out of--than with difficulties in joining. Walk up to join would be fun...

Re: Cherek

Yes. Keep the numbers out!

--P

<r><CODE><s>[code]</s>Quackzy is a savage senile male minotaur, presenting himself as: Quackzy De-Kaz of Mithas, the Powerful Gladiator of Athas and Musclebound Challenger of the Bloodsea Minotaurs, adept, male minotaur. He has scars on his left leg, right leg, nose, left arm, right arm, left hand, ...