chattius

When playing the Waffenmeisterin (guide section) we noticed that if equipped with the right shrunken head viperish disease might be faster than using x% lifeleech allone. Viperish_Disease would not be modified for mass disease, but rather for boss fights: Gangrene, Headhunter, Gouge. Disease is at ultra high combat art levels at the Waffenmeisterin and she uses doublekicks with regeneration per hit for recharging. So one of the unsolved questions is: do disease effects stack? Only 3-4 combinations with disease/ravaged impact is not what I would call slow fighting Gar'Colossus niobium in CM-Patch with a weaponless dryad. So how would a voodoo boss hunter look like: Detheya's_Agility: x% life leech, because there are enemies with no fitting shrunken head or which are immune to disease Stalworth_Safeguard: no shield lore so going for good resistances Hit chance, run speed and casting speed would have to be socketed. But there is not much need to socket damage/deathblow: disease, life leech, pet don't need it. We can get damage by aiming for ultra high Combat Arts and recharge them with reg per hit. Every stat point into vitality. spell resistance, armor lore, constitution voodoo lore/focus, nature focus/lore, hunting focus, concentration, ancient magic

I am not at my game machine, but I think -- is used for comments in options.txt So perhaps we could collect all stuff and put it in a way that people have just to remove -- comment characters to activate settings. --Epilepsy suffering people may consider the following 2 settings --Remove -- at following line if you want no longer shaking camera effects --camera.cameraShake=0 --Remove -- at following line if you want weather effects switched off --video.weather=0 --People with bad eye sight may consider --Remove -- at following line if you want all characters having funny big heads, nice for party play --options.bigHeadMode=1 --Useful settings for everyone --Remove -- at following line if you don't want videos at game start --render.videos=0 --Remove -- at following line if you want to see sector borders for map exploring --render.d_sectorBorders=1 Pictures/video how bighead/bobble head setting is looking can be found in this thread. http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13996 Schot you wrote in quotes thread you wanted to make an own thread about bobble heads and how to turn them on. If it is not done yet, perhaps we could create a optionsCustom like in the code above for download and do some where to place it for the different windows.

Forgot to mention: I HATE GOETHE. My avatar is the coat of arms of Wetzlar, where I grew up. When young Goethe made too much trouble at his birthtown Frankfurt he was send to his aunt at Wetzlar to become an apprentice at the highest german court located there. One of his friends at Wetzlar suicided and this made him writing The sorrows of young Werther. The school I visited was named Goetheschule, the school my sister visited Lotteschule (after his girl friend) every year we had to read Goethe books or ballades or theatre playing, ... And this year my daughter came home with a Goethe-plant= friendship plant. It was a plant from madagascar which Goethe did research. He was sending leaves of his plant to friends with a rhyme how to care for them. The leaves laid on wet earth produced new plants -so once again Goethe. Wetzlar has a big optical industry (Leitz microscopes, leica and Minox cameras (the small James Bond spy cameras), Zeiss telescopes, ...) and Goethe did some early work on Colour Theory. Photons were unknown then and people were discussing what the physics of colours are. Goethe said colours are done by the brain and may be different from person to person or animal. Last year there were guided tours to celebrate his 200year old colour theory, ... When I had to write a half year work about Goethe at highschool I was the only one who was writing about his nature researches

So the english Karlu text is like a translation of the german Karlu text but without recognizing that it was a parody on Goethe's Erlkönig. Seems I am getting old, Erlkönig was already in this post: http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16529&view=findpost&p=6904368

The nearby (30 minutes with a motorbike in my case ) manufacturer of the Rohloff Speedhub gearbox says that, even they produce an adapter (above picture) for the carbon drive, you have to be really really careful with carbon drives. http://www.rohloff.de/en/info/faq/faq_detail/article/Gates_Carbon_Drive_with_Rohloff_SPEEDHUB_50014//bp/284/index.html Small invisible damage to the carbon drive might result in a sudden rupture and severe accidents. So our Speedhubs still have normal chains. We live mid in forest with many hills and the risc that a twig or stone may damage the carbondrive is just to high. The reason for the Speedhub is that you can change gears while standing uphill at a red traffic light, even only 14 gears they are all different and nicely placed, not as with a 3*8 where you have just 12 real gears normally, life long guarantee, damage to chain is less probabby because of no chaincage, a centered gearbox is symmetric, less risc of wheel damage, ... We are considering something like this with a Speedhub for our 8 year olf daughter:

Good Friday is a silent day in my state: no dancing or parties allowed. Traditional fish is served. Our second daughter finally left hospital the day before (so I was able to upload the Waffenmeisterin dryad she was playing while at hospital). She is still not agile enough to jump and run and wanted to tell about all the stuff she had to undergo at hospital. So I took her for some fishing at a nearby lake which is owned by the local fishing club. We got 10 Elsässer Saibling, a sort of hybrid breeding of an artic charr and a red trout. Who ever told you you have to be silent while fishing, we got more than enough while talking. I wanted to try a recipe from a video I saw a year ago. I did some changes because some of my daughters don't like certain herbs. We prepared half of the charrs for lunch as Saibling in Pergament (charr in parchment paper). You spray some olive oil on parchment papers, do a layer of 2 papers. You fill the charr with Kräuterbutter(butter mixed with spicing herbs). I use to lay some long leaves of beargarlic between the fish halves so the ends are visible. get some small tomatoes, some fine cut fresh young herbs (bear garlic is ripe her at the moment) and lay it around the fish. Then paper is rolled around and the ends tied. Half an our in the baking oven and served with potatoes in skin. The paper is opened at the table, so it doesn't cooldown so quickly. When opening the nice smell leaves and I normally get real hungry when I see the fish 'swimming' in the herb butter. The advantage is that the juices stay inside the paper and the fish keeps its taste. The german video can be found here: first 90s is preparing the butter with herbs, then preparing the fish. I think even it is in german you get an idea how it is done. german video: charr in pergament We experimented with some other food prepared in paper, and it is easy to do after some failures. But failures can happen if you want to be creative. So what is left: 5 elsac charrs. You can do them as trouts in your follow up recipe. So left are 5 trouts.

I wonder if someone could/should do a commented optionsCustom.txt with all the settings we found for download. So people wouldn't have to search all the posts and could just mark out stuff they don#t want in the downloaded optionsCustom.txt. My kids really like the big heads setting at PvP.

Speed, combat value, block chance, ... are red modifier names. If you have the unlocking skill they turn into attack speed or casting speed / attack value or defense value or both / blockchance melee or block chance ranged, ....

File Name: Waffenmeisterin File Submitter: chattius File Submitted: 23 Apr 2011 File Category: Ice & Blood Dryad Builds The Waffenmeisterin from the dryad guide section. Played in CM-patch but we hope that all items are Ice and Blood. Level 155- Kungfu Build Zipped with 7zip, I have no Winzip at home. Hero number is 3. Click here to download this file

The upload still has to be approved: I uploaded a first version: only detheya set. I had no Winzip but I tried 7zip, probably better than a tar.bz2 with linux. I hope all items are Ice and Blood except perhaps a few items in inventory, but not worn. How you can play the character, a few examples: Kungfu vs mob: ravaged impact and then left and right mouse button pressed. Kungfu vs colossus: dustdevil/ri and then twisted_torment/ri till the end or if you want to see boss killing with disease: replace twisted torment with disease Or try out bow, blow-pipe or shuriken with darting assault(rabaged impact combination in orc lands I hope that after easter breaks the same character, but without detheya and no x% life leech, can demonstrate disease boss hunting.

When I did my diploma our university did math code for GSI at Darmstadt. GSI= Gesellschaft für SchwerIonenforschung = company for heavy ion research. The guys at GSI discovered 4-5 new elements. While at university we visited GSI several dozen times (same german state) and CERN 4 times. One of the people from my workgroup at my university is now at CERN. The physical department of my university did the ion engine for the artemis satellite. We did a weekend full of party when the satellite reached his final orbit. The last chemical rocket booster failed and it was too low in orbit. The experimental ion engine was re-programmed and used its full half horsepower to move the satellite to its planed orbit. Somehow I think that mistakes which are turned to success are most impressive - something like Apollo 13.

@Lujate: Sadly the Gone with the wind quest is red at wiki. I wanted to look up if there might have been an english text whhich I could search at a literature search machine. But if the text would have made into a parody, as it was in the german version, I would need an english reader would would recognize the original

I just looked up: the german quest name is: 'Vom Winde verweht' which is just the german name for the book and the movie. Anyone having the english version noticed if Karlu was perhaps quoting some famous english ballade, movie, ...?

I did the writing mainly to train me on the editor. The character is level 155, but on the notebook of our second daughter. I will put it on download probably at monday or tuesday. We plan to add an alternativ armour setting (setting not set) into the chest. This setting would hopefully allow to hunt bosses without x% lifeleech, nature spells or totems. Disease is still a bit low on runes, but we want to try out a 100+ level disease build which recharges with reg per hit. We will probably not do a second build specialized on voodoo. Our second just returned from 2 month hospital and we will spend some time with the whole family in the easter breaks. And then she can't play because she has to catch up with the rest of class befoer the tests are written. But watching my daughter playing I thought that a bosshunting disease build may be added just by choosing special equipment. If some additional melee damage is needed, lifeleech shuriken or a kaldur can be easily added: if you can hit weaponless you can hit with every weapon. So 2-3 hours searching chests, 2-3 more house hunting some bosses and then the character is ready for upload. But can't say yet when thisn will be probably tuesday.

My daughter stumpled over an easteregg in the german version (was already on GSF as I looked). They did Goethe at school and so his ballades were fresh ion memory. I would have remembered this ballade too, but I wasn't playing in blood forest area that much. You can get a quest in Destroyed_Village from a Zombie named Karlu called 'Gone with the wind' which is a famous book and holywood movie. In the german version the zombie does a Parody on Goethe's famous ballade Der Erlkönig. English and german text of the ballade is in the quoted wiki page. The original starts with: Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Who rides, so late, through night and wind? It is the father with his child. In the german version Karlu rhymes: Wer reitet so spät durch Sumpf und Wald? Es ist der Zombie in finstrer Gestalt! Who rides, so late, through swamp and forest? It is the zombie as dark beast! The karlu translation are my futile attempts to do a rhyming in english. Gestalt can be a shape, silhouet,... I wonder what Karlu is rhyming in the english version, something from Gone with the Wind?

Is is said to result in a higher cancer risc. The problem is that animals tests may not give correct results. The coumarin in plants creates a satiated feeling in big plant eaters so they stop eating even still hungry. The lethal dosis varies extremely depending which animal was used for tests, so health laws do the lowest risc way and forbid the use. The human body seems to change it into something way less harmful, but most of the tests were done with european people. There are theories that similiar to milk allergy people in areas with wild woodruff built a resistance because of a mutation. But others says coumarin is in many plants all over the world, so probably all humans change it into something with a smaller toxity. But the tests started just a few years ago and until they are finished the ban on woodruff is still on. Cinnamon bark is similiar,one of the several plants used for it has to be carefully prepared. For woodruff, take young plants and filter the plants away before icing or making may wine seems to be okay. Using it only few celebrations days a year I think I can savely do it.

I always liked the gadgeteer or however it was spelled. Was it Wizardry 3 or 4 with reversed roles: playing a dungeon keeper to keep this nasty heroes out of the cave.

Except fixing some typos, adding the download and perhaps a few more links this write down is more or less finished. Feedback would be welcome if you miss something, if you think it is too technical ,...

At easter I will do at least one real Woodruff ice. The wild plants are just the right age now (as soon as blossoms appear it is too old and contains too much of unwanted stuff=coumarin). Woodruff contains the same stuff as cinnamon, so preparing wild woodruff for selling is not allowed in germany anymore. Probably town people never learned to use it savely. But our region is used to it for centuries and preparing it the right way it is okay if you don't eat it each day. Since we don't have an ice machine we do the ice the classical way: thin layer of ice mix on a cooled down plate and moving downside up as soon tze downside is frozen a bit. I found some photos which may describe it. I don't decorate with young woodruff plants as in last picture, too dangerous with small kids at table. Some known german drinks which originally had Woodruff (we call it Waldmeister= Forest Master): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiwein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Weisse I still do original may-wine when we do our 'dance into the may' at firefighters. Traditionaly last of april is a dance meeting at village and the firefighting building is the largest one when the trucks are moved out. Since the may wine is not sold but people put an amount of money into the firefighter supporting moneybox it is okay I think

My feeling is that on full servers it is better to give away some damage to get more of it back again by using deathblow. A higher deathblow seems to be more important the more hits you need for killing. There are obviously 2 approaches: A) Get as much damage as you can and perhaps the finals blows will be deathblows with a single item. or b) It will take too much sockets to double my damage, way more than bringing deathblow to 80+%. All but the few first hits will be double damage deathblows. So if your main combat art is predamaging enemies already: double-hits, explosions on nearbies, ... wanting an early death blow becomes a real option. As I said: the 4 hits scenario in first post are just 2 ravaged impacts. NOTE to myself: I have to look if life leech damage is doubled too. Boss hunting would be better with highest death blow then.

I am currently writing down the experiences my daughter made with her Waffenmeisterin (female weapon master). She had Deathblow, Opponent_level_for_death_blow at around 88%. She said that her feeling was that she got most of it this way. Every class build is different of cause and she was playing a type of a weaponless Kungfu-Dryad where you had to choose between base damage and deathblow. So doing a guide for Death Blow will be hard. But we can do some basic maths which hopefully allow the reader to understand how to optimize death blow. How much deathblow is enough: One Hit Kills doing more damage than the full health of an enemy. Obviously deathblow is not needed in this case. 100 Two Hit Kills: Either each hit doing more than half of the health of the enemy as damage 50+50 or doing a third and having a deathblow of more than 66.7%. 33+67 Three hit kills: Either we do one third of the health of the enemy as damage 34+34+34 or doing a quarter and have deathblow at 50.1+% 25+25+50 or doing a fifth of the damage and have deathblow at 80,1+% 20+40+40 Four hit kills: a quarter of the health as damage 25+25+25+25 a fifth and deathblow at 60+% 20+20+20+40 a sixth and death blow at 66,7+% 17+17+34+34 a 7th and deathblow at 85,8+% 15+30+30+30 So for the weaponless Kungfu dryad a balance had to be reached: is it better to socket base damage and x% damage or deathblow. If you look at the 4 hit kill numbers (which are actually only 2 ravaged impacts because of the double hit): you can nearly half your damage if you have deathblow above 86%. Since the Kungfu has no weapon damage, you can take away more than half your damage related sockets(more than half because tactic lore and combat art add to the damage but are not socketed) and change them for deathblow. If you need less sockets to reach this deathblow values we should go for deathblow, even it has high diminishing returns.

I hope that I will be able to add the Waffenmeisterin-build (weaponmaster) of a Kungfu dryad to downloads next week. I will search some other characters to add some juwelry into the chest: damage x-x/+x allSkills, damage x-x/+x% (physical) damage, nice death blow juwelry, ... So people can play around a bit with different combinations. It doesn't matter which hero number I am choosing for a uploading the character?

If I remember correct fixed life leech was added to x%life leech damage: Doing a melee elf with x% life leech polearm and having magic coup modified for fixed life leech. Normal attacks were showing less life leech damage.

Discussion if 'certain' staff lore builds in Ice and Blood would be cheating: http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=14317 Discussion of a massive Area of Effect dryad using staff lore in Ice and Blood http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=14581