Egwexem and Naxatilor’s Quests

These quests allow entry to the Stygian Abyss but will not be offered to characters that have completed Garamon’s quest. Egwexem is found on the steps at the entrance to Royal City, not far from the town moongate.   Make your way to the far south end of the land and find Naxatilor the Seer in one of the buildings in the Holy City. There is no need to mark the writ as a quest item, double clicking him will open the quest dialogue and recognise the item. You could, at this point, return to Egwexem for your reward, but […]


Skills, Stats and Attributes

Stats, short for ‘Statistics’ refers to the three physical qualities of your character: Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence, from which are derived your attributes: hit points, mana and stamina. Your stats are viewed and managed through the stat gump in classic client, opened by double clicking the character’s lifebar, and through the character sheet in enhanced client, opened from the icon, top right corner of the paper doll, or by dragging the icon from ‘actions’ > ‘menu actions’ to a hotbar slot or macro. Stat Management   Each individual stat, Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence, can be set to either one of […]


Champion Spawns

Locations | Summoning | Rewards | The Harrower | Monster Groups | Titles Champion spawns are set groups of creatures, spawning in selected locations and normally around an altar. The exception being the Tormented Minotaur spawn in The Labyrinth, which has no altar. The monsters appear in waves of increasing difficulty until finally the Champion him/herself appears and must be defeated. There are a total of 28 different permanent locations where you might find a Champion Spawn, in addition publish 109, in the summer of 2020, saw the introduction of 26 dynamic locations that may be activated for the duration […]


Special Rewards from Champions

When killing the champion, players who have worked a certain percentage of the spawn have a chance of receiving one of three types of items: A boss specific replica; A boss specific decorative item; A shared replica. The replicas are artifacts originally created by the former EMs and Seers. They have the same mods and stats as the originals but Power of Fortification cannot be used on them. They can be repaired, insured and blessed. Some of them are only obtainable from a specific boss whereas others drop on various champs. Decorative items include some animated tiles, statuettes, furniture, etc. […]


Stealing from Monsters

Publish 57, December 2008 introduced the ability to steal various items from monsters: A given monster can be stolen from once in its lifetime There is no backpack to snoop, use random steal and target the monster. Gold, bandages, gems, potions, scrolls Thieves with GM skills or higher have a chance at stealing rare items Seed of Life, Mana Draught, Gem of Salvation, Balm of Strength, Balm of Wisdom, Balm of Swiftness, Balm of protection, Stone Skin Lotion and Life Shield Lotion. Drop rate on stealables: GM Stealing: 2% 100.1 to 110 Stealing: 5% 110.1 to 119.9 Stealing: 8% 120.0 […]


Treasure Maps

Map Carrying Monsters | Decode Skill Needed | Finding the Chest | Lockpick Requirements |Inaccessible Locations | Chest Content & Guardians | Completed Maps A major update in publish 105, Spring 2019, reduced the number of map levels from 7 to 5 In addition, treasure chests have now been themed based on the following profession inspired packages: Artisan Assassin Mage Ranger Warrior This results in a map that will read like this “A Tattered Treasures Map Leading to a Mage’s Hoard” There are also three qualities of chest, rusty, the familiar normal metal or gold. Chest Quality is determined at […]


Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing, in basic terms, is the skill with which a player can make and repair weapons, shields and metal armor, he can also make cannons, cannonballs and metal kegs for distilling! What Skills? The easiest way is to choose the pre-made Blacksmith template when you make a new character. This gives you a useful set of skills and stats to begin with. Suggested skills are: Blacksmithy; obviously Arms Lore; gives bonuses to exceptionally made items in addition to the normal Exceptional Bonus; Mining; needed for recycling/salvaging items you don’t want, as well as mining the raw material you will craft […]


Magic Item Properties

Items may become endowed with magical properties in five different ways. These are: Runic Crafting Imbuing Runic Reforging Random Generated loot Special Crafted items (minor crafted, major crafted, spellbooks) The range of items an individual property can be found on, and the intensity range of the property, will depend on the method by which the item was created. Properties imparted by runic crafting or imbuing were greatly surpassed on the introduction of Runic reforging and the random loot generator, however imbuing has the advantage of granting more control over the combination of properties that can be applied. In some instances […]


Spellweaving

Spellweaving is the spellcasting skill of an Arcanist, it is markedly different from magery. The arcanist is able to summon powerful forces of nature and manifest them into various spell effects. To attain the full power of his art the Arcanist must work in concert with others to cast an ‘arcane focus’. This need for co-operative effort is one of the features which sets Spellweaving apart from other spellcasting schools.  An Arcanist having the Spellweaving Mastery active is able to cast a lesser focus alone. The first difference you will encounter is the inability to select spellweaving as a starting […]


Publish to Origin and Izumo Today (3/17/2014)

With us publishing out Vendor search we are having to take down the Housing warehouse and the Character transfer warehouse for a few hours today to make sure we update those also. This should be a one time only occurance so please be patient with us. Vendor Search Players will not see these improvements for the first 3 hours until the data base has been rebuilt. Added the ability to search “Artifact Rarity” values Vendor Maps: Added message when vendor map is placed in backpack. Removed ability to sell vendor maps to mapmakers. Removed ability to use vendor maps to […]