So just re-subbed for a month to get my nostalgia fix and see what's going on in Sosaria
still can't believe it's £9.99 a month
money grabbing ******** that EA are!!!
but It's still going after what..... 15 years?
bit mental really!
was actually quite pleasantly surprised when I returned.... initially there was nobody about, saw one person and had a chat... though he claimed he played it for 20 years... when I said but it was only out in 97-99 he laughed and ran away?
but later on there were quite a few people around brit bank
turns out theres a guild or two who are about between 5-8ish pm most nights willing to help n00bs and vets returning. giving some free repairs and advice about the changes and such.
was really good, had a nice long chat with them, got all my armor and weps repaired
and also one gave me a bit of cash to tide me over as I lost pretty much everything I had as it was all in my house
not that I needed the money though tbf. thought the item insurance was going to be a bit more but after running about to get used to the game I made a tasty little 25k gold from random mobs and some escort quests
a depressing thing was looking at my guild roster
was quite surprised to see that someone had actually logged in last month!!!
hopefully they'll come back while I'm playing so we can catch up!! but then the next character login following that was 2012... then a few in 2010... and so on.... the main guild leader hasn't been on since 2006
sucks wanting to reach out to these people but no real way to do it apart from hoping they somehow see forums posts or randomly return.
going to have to have a look at my build too as there's been even more skills added and some changes to weapons/armor ratings and stats so need to check my viability. like no longer need magery to cast recall from a rune book. that's nice as now I can drop those 34ish points and put them somewhere else. 0.4 points of being Elder in parrying
build:
Elder+ Swords (115)
(like a boss...though always yearned to be Legendary at 120.0
)
GM/Elder Healing
GM/Elder Anatomy
GM/Elder Parrying (109.6)
GM/Elder Tactics
Resist 48ish..... terrible
Mage 34ish and soon to be eradicated from my build
(Focus around 60-80...... not sure what to do with this as it can be useful to me (hp/etc.. regeneration) but came out after I had already done most of my build PRE-AoS)
I've put GM/Elder as I can't remember which skills are at which level but they're all 100.0 or higher. used to be able to check on the UO website under the MyUO section.... but that section (and most of the old website) appear to be long gone
Has been suggested to take chivalry for damage bonus and another healing option (cure and heal separate rather than bandaged twice to cure and then heal) .... but would probably mean dropping something
also everyone now has 720 skill cap, instead of the 700 +5.0 reward for every year spent subscribed. Think the STR/DEX/INT cap was set to the max too? (where before you needed to find/loot/buy the scroll to allow above the normal 225? so now 250? )
so far so good really
just need to make some more cash, check my skills, check my gear properly and maybe just buy an entire new set
then buy the expansion, get a house and live happily ever after
another thing I'm gutted about is that I'm pretty sure it's still a bannable offense to use 3rd part programs like razor and UOassist etc..etc... I've only ever used Razor when I've been playing on free shards. yeah they allow you to easily make macros to auto resource gather and such..... but I preferred the ease oh hot key binding it allowed! list of all the standard hot keys and you just put in the key press you want... boom! done! but in the classic UO client..... the macro window is a bit meh if you don't really know what you're looking for as it's a weird scrolling menu and not laid out in categories
not really a clue how to go about it now... haha!
So yeah.... come join me
