>>You don't have to have a pocket cleric, just gweth for a bless and there are plenty willing to come to you or give their location to bless weapons. There were plenty in the Empath guild and in triage too that were willing to bless weapons. I had to get my weapon blessed several times through out the invasion and never had a problem finding a cleric willing to help.


That only works if there actually are clerics around, and there wasn't anyone around where I was at that night. I would be fine if the creatures were just harder to kill without a Blessed weapon, or if there was some defense against the ghosts, but there isn't.

Plus, the ghosts spawned from critters that were completely beneath my notice, but the ghosts still killed me. I don't know if they were higher level than the corpses that spawned them, or if there's just no way to defend yourself against the spirit damage.

Veil of ice stops the spirit drain cold. Pun intended.

- Starlear -

I appreciate the work that goes into the invasions by the GM's. I just don't tend to like them since my characters are all low level and are essentially cannon-fodder. If you get caught short on favors, or run out from multiple deaths, as happened to me recently you just aren't Rezzed by the clerics, then face multiple favorless deaths to scramble to retrieve belongings.

My personal way of handling them is to just not play as much. The frustration of dying just because isn't in my wheelhouse frankly.

Crossing, Haven, Shard, and Theren probably have enough locals that you can always find a cleric, but there are places besides the 4 big mainland cities. If Lay Ward works, then that's great, and I might try it next time. But that still leaves me surrounded by a bunch of ghosts I can't kill and can't keep from spawning. If the Akul'tiz came back as some kind of zombie that was resistant to physical and magical damage but not immune to it, that would at least be fair to everyone. Or of there was some easily accessible way to get Bless, like a wandering missionary NPC that would show up and bless weapons for a small (or not so small) fee.

Right now, the experience is so frustrating that, if I'm playing my bard and there's an invasion, I just log out and do something else.

>My personal way of handling them is to just not play as much. The frustration of dying just because isn't in my wheelhouse frankly.

Deaths: 765 Departs: 687

Practice, Practice, Practice.

~Nefidyne

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Two Ranger journeymen materialize out of the surrounding trees and begin to whisper to Kssarh as they escort him out of the area.

I'd just like to chime and and say that these recent events have been some of the most exciting times I've experienced in my ~14 years of playing Dragonrealms. Very well thought out and executed on all sides, so I'd just like to send a huge thanks to everybody involved, GM's and players alike. Looking forward to seeing what comes next!

I would love it if the moths were skinable or the birds..

Idony

My guess is that the moths are not skinnable to discourage their use as resources and also to make clean-up quicker, and also probably limit dev time invested in them. If you are like me, and have a loot script that runs a certain amount of auto-arranging, then you would be locking yourself up for ~10 seconds every time you drop a moth. Sure, you could not run that script, but if the primary method of looting them was skinning, it would feel like you lost something if you didn't do that. Making it search-and-go prevents you from losing both time and the skin, and also makes your reward for participating in the fighting independent of an economic skill that might not be in your normal purview.

Also, it would be really weird for them to only teach skinning or have parts worth about gargoyles/snowbeasts even though they're training people with 400-rank Combats, and the other option is to have them have different skinning ratings and parts over the entire range of the umbral moth span, which is over a hundred circles, so each one would require separate QC time to make sure the invasion monster skins properly, etc.

I'd sure love special invasion-only skins and bones so people can have rad, unique, and rare weapons and armor made from them, but I strongly suspect it doesn't "mesh" with the invasion setup here.

Also, I really love the fire-raining-down-from-the-heavens schtick going on, partly because it makes the eruptions feel like, well, eruptions, and also because of the added element of danger. Even if I think the "sobbing child outside" noises are going to make my character into a nervous wreck.

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