Though the news posts are not searchable in-game, they are all available online and are crawled by search engines. This means you can use search filtering to find posts by only searching the Imperian site.
In the example above, you could search for "writhe site:imperian.com/game/news/Imperian/Announce" and the page that held the information we wanted was the second result.
Also, are there any enhancements that can be used by non-knight classes? (I think the answer to this is NO based on the AB file, but would like confirmation.)
Is it "okay" for me to have someone from my sect kill me to drop starburst, or... I could even kill myself? Basically, I do use starburst (instead of redemption), but in some situations I'd like to be able to drop starburst to preclude a double kill.
My thought was that if someone from my sect (or at least a friendly sect) drops me - or even better, I kill myself, the net belief gain/loss should be zero and then I can go out to die gloriously (just once). It makes perfect sense to me within the context of how belief and faith currently work, but it is also the sort of thing that, mainly due to the legacy of "having someone kill you", I'd want to make absolutely sure that admin wouldn't perceive it as some kind of "kill farming".
Killing yourself has always been fine. No permission required.
e: also, getting other people to kill you is also fine - a good 20% of my deaths are 'oops, sorry, accident.' or in Azefel's case, 'Yeap, looks about right.'
471[91] 493[85] eb db 74 0 33.89 0 (xxxxxxxxxx()xxxxxxxxxxx) You quickdraw a sharpened quarterstaff. You quickly summon a metallic wisp and with a commanding gesture, send it flying towards Dreacor. A metallic wisp flies directly at Dreacor, colliding painfully. The strength of the Air energy in a sharpened quarterstaff has increased to 70%. Mana Lost: 45 You focus intently on the swirling tornado here. The raging tornado begins spinning faster and faster, until it suddenly implodes into itself with an ear-splitting sound. You have slain Dreacor. Cleared all variables on Dreacor. ac on An immense cyanine icewyrm slinks off without a sound. You choke violently as the air is forced painfully out of your lungs. -109 [21.3%], 147 (25.9%) The strength of the Air energy in a sharpened quarterstaff has increased to 80%. Balance Taken: 3.40s 362[70] 447[77] e- db 74 0 33.89 0 (xxxxxxxxxx()xxxxxxxxxxx)
Honestly don't know why Dreacor hasn't given me xp in a while.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
In classlead stuff, is part of the process to go through the abilities, and if an ability goes pretty much unused, simply delete it, to clean up the profession's ability list? I mean, if I have an ability I tend to assume it's useful in some way, and sometimes, the answer I get is that things are "situationally useful", which... sometimes I do end up seeing people use it at least once in awhile, and other times, I just NEVER see it happen (which of course doesn't mean it never does, but does make me wonder what stars have to align for it to be "useful"). Other things, people advising me will simply flat out say "nope, not useful", and I guess my question is does stuff like that get cleaned up (deleted)? If not, why?
Abilites don't generally get deleted, no matter how redundant or useless they are. If they did certain classes (Defiler) would have such short skill lists that it would be just...I don't even know.
To be honest, that's part of my secret agenda. I mean, the people doing classleads must know which ones are silly and which mean something, but at first glance, having extraneous things seems to 1) just make things confusing for people learning the class 2) "pads" the class at first glance, making it look more fleshed out than it is.
I can also easily imagine people arguing (and I'll take that Defiler example here) "but you have X", fully knowing (or maybe not knowing, doesn't matter I guess) that X is a silly redundant and/or simply fairly worthless ability, because one thing all sides seem to agree on is that people do that sort of thing (always people from other circles of course :P). Keeping things neat also seems like it would help keep people honest.
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You quickdraw a sharpened quarterstaff.
You quickly summon a metallic wisp and with a commanding gesture, send it flying towards Dreacor.
A metallic wisp flies directly at Dreacor, colliding painfully.
The strength of the Air energy in a sharpened quarterstaff has increased to 70%.
Mana Lost: 45
You focus intently on the swirling tornado here.
The raging tornado begins spinning faster and faster, until it suddenly implodes into itself with an ear-splitting sound.
You have slain Dreacor.
Cleared all variables on Dreacor.
ac on
An immense cyanine icewyrm slinks off without a sound.
You choke violently as the air is forced painfully out of your lungs. -109 [21.3%], 147 (25.9%)
The strength of the Air energy in a sharpened quarterstaff has increased to 80%.
Balance Taken: 3.40s
362[70] 447[77] e- db 74 0 33.89 0 (xxxxxxxxxx()xxxxxxxxxxx)
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."