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Hey all my son and I are looking to return after quite the hiatus.  He has already logged in game but I seem to have forgotten my login id.  I have pm'd Kong already just waiting for a reply.

In the meantime can anyone tell me if the wiki regarding Imbuing is up to date and what content has been added over the past year or so.

Thanks,
Leaf Goldheart

They can also be bought with Ocoins which can be gathered and bought pretty easily.   Just in case you have problems getting one here.

My opinion so far:

like:
- pay to get keys to premium dungeons as suggested by Tyrone
- Repair and Fortifying stones as suggested by Zaxarus
- ToT Joker deed but I would suggest a number of ToTs per One trade in such as 5 or 10 ToTs plus a gold cost for one ToT random retry - original suggestion by Zaxarus
- Out of date deco items as suggested by Drake11
- Ingots, boards and Hides as suggested by Drake11.  I really like this.
- Slot Machine idea especially used with deco items.

dislike:
- minor ToT items - makes it too easy to get full ToTs.
- Coins:P, O, etc - One quick way for new players to fund themselves.


My own ideas:
- Any vet rewards.  They really don't have much value anyway but sometimes you just want something and are out of choices.
- house basements, saw these on another shard once they are pretty cool.
- Rare colored plant seeds from the silly library quest.  These take way to long to get and I'd rather pay for them. Random type with each purchase to increase the gold sink.
- Imbue gems - you could charge a lot for these and I would still end up buying some.

Billy, what's the name of the game ?

From UOGuide regarding luck and normal monster loot:

A character's total Luck is used when loot is spawned on creature corpses. It gives a chance of there being a greater amount of loot, a chance of a greater number of properties on said loot, and a chance that those properties will be of greater intensity. It should be noted, however, that this is only a chance of more and better loot, and that Luck has no direct affect on what specific items will spawn and what specific properties will spawn on those items.

From UOGuide regarding luck and the Gauntlet (Doom):

The Gauntlet
(Editor: This section is not really accurate anymore. The Gauntlet now uses the Treasures of Tokuno points system, so the following info is probably only a shadow of the truth, if that. This will be changed in the future when further information becomes available.)
When a boss dies in the Doom Gauntlet there is a certain chance that an artifact will be created. This chance is influenced by the Luck of the top attacker, and can be derived from the following equation:

From UOGuide regarding the new system for Gauntlet drops:

Publish 48 has the most recent changes for this drop system. Players now accumulate points the same way they did during the Treasures of Tokuno event. Each lesser boss and Dark Father that you kill and personally (not through a Party) receive looting rights on will award you points. As you gain more points, your chances of getting an artifact increase. The more damage you do relative to other players will earn you more points. Having Luck also increases the amount of points you get.
Eventually you will be awarded one of the possible artifacts. It will be placed in your backpack (or Bank Box if overweight) along with a system message to the effect of "For your valor in combating the fallen creature, a special artifact has been bestowed upon you." will inform you of the event. It is advisable to Insure it immediately.

From UOGuide regarding luck and other loot types:

Other
Virtue Artifact drops in the Anti-Virtue Dungeons are affected by Luck. It is believed that this may use the same points-based system as The Gauntlet and Treasures of Tokuno, but this has yet to be confirmed.
The chance of finding a Niter deposit while mining is positively affected by Luck, but the specific formulas for this effect are currently unknown.
Power Scrolls that drop from Champion Spawns are not affected whatsoever by the Luck of any attacker, and are generated and distributed randomly amongst all players that receive looting rights.
The drop rates of Mondain's Legacy Artifacts are positively affected by Luck.
Peerless Artifacts are not affected by Luck, but are instead governed by individual static drop rates.
The Imbuing system does not take Luck into account when calculating the chance-for-success of Imbuing a property onto an item.
Rewards from Quests, frequently referred to collectively as "strongboxes," are not affected by Luck in any way.

Hope this helps as it appears that Luck does have an effect on most items.  The actual system for Doom artifacts is brutal anyway, 1 in 1000 chance to get a drop from a boss.  1 in 100 for Dark Fathers with an increasing chance until you get one at which point it resets. 

I realize that Pandora is not OSI, but most of the treasure systems seem to work the same.

When the freezes first started a while back, I used to think that is what caused it.  My screen looked like that all the time in Bedlam.   The worst is when you see something in a corpse and accidently close it before you grab it.   Never gonna find it again.

Davies locker is the graphics of the Map table.   It can hold up to 500 tmaps, it might also fit sos but I can't remember.

I think you just wander around like goats.   Try the Minoc moongate area and south Moonglow island around the zoo there are usually pigs in both areas.

Just a note about this event.   

I have not been able to play much but the time that I have had, I've had a blast.  The mobs are well balanced for all levels of play and the drops are pretty cool from any of the mobs. 

As for the pvp, I really like the nonloot pk environment.  I am normally not much of a pvper but I have tried to help with a fight or two against the Headless, and even tried to help another player against pks.  Normally I just try to run away.  I think this environment is a good balance to give the pk/pvpers some action and get the blues who normally would dip out some encouragement to stick around and stand their ground. 

Over all great event Noll, you did a fantastic job.

What mobs have you noticed these drop off of. So far I have only encountered one mask and I am not even sure where I got it.

Token don't be afraid to do the event. So far The Headless guy is just messing with people. All guilds are here. He hasn't killed anyone who did not attack them from what I see. PvP was warned not to "take over" the event and we have not or will not i should say.

Where are these gates located.  I will sign on tonight and give this a try

The list shows you can get pet dyes. Regular, advanced and rare or something. I've yet to get a pet dye an it's what I'm after. I'm sick of the green charger and wasted my pcoins lol. Just want to know CAN u get dyes from taming bods?

I have never got dyes from it yet, but I don't turn in lots of them.   I will work on them this week, the alternative listed rewards for those bods would be ok for me even if I didn't get dyes.  I have a ton of already tamed animals, I will try to fill some bods tonight if I can. 

ok I'm at the point of collecting new things. Our WIKI has the taming bod rewards page but it's changed. Some rewards are not even on the WIKI. I just got a dragonhead trophy. Anyone know what others changed?

Edit: can we get the checks up'd on bods? they are more time consuming then other things and well don't pay worth crapola 

I remember a while back Noll did a revision of the rewards or at least the possibilities to get them for smithing and tailoring.   At that time someone pointed out they thought there were modifications made to the taming ones, but Noll said he hadn't touched them. 

I have a ton of taming bods, I would be willing to do a bunch of them and help track what rewards we get if you like.   Unless Noll can just look up the rewards and chances to get them.

Updated list.

After latest (client) patch and also following Noll's instructions (again^^) i froze multiple times in less than 5 mins.

Odd, for me it was just the opposit.  I have not patched and played today in Bedlam at the champ.  I lured every mob toward me into the center of the room, it became so bad that uo stopped responding three seperate times to the point of grey screen with the spinning icon in the center of the screen, yet everytime after a few seconds it would start working again then do the same thing.  After about 4 or 5 times of lagging out like that I was standing over a ton of dead mobs and all of my gear gained about 5k tier xp each.   I never once fully froze or disconnected.  I honestly think it may have been my processor and not UO since I had so many damn mobs on me.   It was kind of amazing actually.  I normally would have disconnected about 50 times just trying to escape that mob. 

I know lagging out and not responding sounds like a problem, but it is nothing compared to the nonstop disconnect and freeze ups from a few weeks ago and for the rest of the day I didn't have even a bit of lag.