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As the title says, looking to buy two Radiant Rys (+3 FCR).

Post in this thread if you have them!

Im a bit late for this, but happy late late birthday! Hope 2012 is a good year for you!

With the new shard host and everything, where do donations go now? I actually have a visa debit card now, yay! So I can donate

Hey rease I still remember you Although you probably dont remember me

Happy bday mate, miss venting and hunting with ya but hope everything you wish for will be fulfilled

Two great and kind people, I have to say I didn't see it coming (too ninja for me) but grats none the less!

I havent been able to get on much due to uni starting (taking FIVE papers, dear lord what did I get into...) but dont be strangers and say hello if either of you see me on msn

I'd go hunting with ya, but atm Visk is pretty much naked with the exception of his imp slavers and toxic mustang lol

Maybe I'll get some of my junk back off Misty and will go hunting Roughly what time are you usually on?

Mostly just bored of the game itself, grinded myself to death and could solo about 95% of the shard without much difficulty (with the exception of silly 1 hit firebreathers. I dont know ANYONE who likes those lol). Also the lack of fresh blood and guild unity/rivalry/pvp that kinda stuff that keeps me going in most games was missing for me so it got boring eventually Sort of kept going for the community and friends, but after my break, more than half of them disappeared

Congratulations! I bet you and Berak will be very busy taking care of that little one

Shinyyyyyyy.... O_O

You should check out Nasduirche's Mage I dunno if he still plays or not but he had a mage that could cast so fast it would lag the server hehe. I can also vouch for Link's Bless statement - my character had 110 eval int and it would give me 18 to all stats (120 would give you 19.5 but the decimal is ignored). Yes druids are powerful, but they were orginally SUPPOSED to be difficult to become one. Nowadays I know most new players have a druid within the first few days of playing due to getting told about the quest etc. And yes pure mages will probably never be as powerful as druids or tank fighters, one of the reasons being that the spell damage increase on this shard is broken (however we dont have a scriptor to fix it). From what I understand, only the GMs have that cap removed, so if we did get a scriptor, fixing that issue would probably be very easy. So if you want to solo Fel, its probably not the best idea not to use a mage. However, if you enjoy role-playing in a party, creating a mage isnt too bad.

Its important to note that this shard is nothing like the OSI shards - game dynamics here are different (e.g. tank fighters generally tend to do much better solo than anything else). However thats not to say you cannot change this. People told me back in the day having 400 hp on a character was crazy, but I believe just before I stopped, my character had hit something like 540+. So, I'd encourage you to try out new things that no-one else has tried before and change the game dynamics for yourself ^^

False, anything musical not related to metal/rock/classical, I remain ignorant of XD

TPBM knows that living without internet is a real hassle (having to go to mates houses and lan cafes sucks) >_<

I wish you the best of luck with your guild

Kind of agree with most of the points that Knossos has made. I'm going to be talking mostly about powergaming aspect of this shard, because I believe the majority of our players are powergamers atm. (Evident from seeing the RP events, its usually always the same 5-6 people)

There is a very large gap between mobs - from personal experience its either mobs that can barely scratch players to 100% parry mobs to 1 hit fire breathers. Now Im a bit of a powergamer (or was) so I enjoyed challenging myself and trying to solo everything I could. However this inevitably did get boring after a while and I'm really not sure what can be done to fix that seeing as we dont have a scriptor. The way drops are, if you were to draw a graph about uber-gear, it'd looks something like a diminishing returns graph - it begins to get extremely tedious and painful to get to the next stage in better gear which doesnt even really make that much difference, its just for the sake of having perfect gear (powergaming mentality) e.g. getting full mythics or getting a perfect set of runic gear etc. I think the gear aspect has been a little neglected - I say this because there are constantly new "levels" of monsters and dungeons being brought out, however the gear isn't really keeping up with this new level of difficulty (nor are pets) and I think this is making people fustrated. You can talk all you like about strategy and stuff but some people just don't like to think when they play games. They prefer to just whack stuff and let it die, or continously throw themselves at the monster and chip it down. But doing this usually means dying a lot, which usually means people arent going to come back to fight it after they beat it once, which means chances are that particular monster's "uber" drop or deco isn't going to be gotten. Now you could say, "well that's their problem if they don't want to put in the effort to get the drop" - however, I think this stance is causing many players to leave, so we must treat players like customers in a store if you want to keep them here. If you look at people hunting, I think the most frequented places would be certain hunting spots like Chaos, Alaric's Dungeon etc. This kinda shows to me that what people want isn't harder monsters, they want more farmable places, more gold, atones, gear etc. and also for it to be convenient and close.

What else would make it a little more interesting (for me at least if I still played), is perhaps if we had more players, we could have an actual economy, rather than 1 person supplying the entire shard with all the gear or having to go out and get everything yourself. Theres very little you can do with cash other than throw it at stuff at auctions which are rarely held due to low amount of items/players. Also more players would hopefully mean the rise of a bit of guild rivalry which is something I've always been interested in. This doesn't mean it has to be PvP (as much as I love PvP), it could be something like player-set PvM guild events such as, see which guild can farm the most amount of gold in an hour etc. and maybe even some day have a ranking board for the guilds! (probably not going to happen though )

Another thing would be perhaps a wider variety of events. From what I've seen, the odd event that we do get is either a Champ Spawn or paintball which kinda does get dull after a while especially Champ Spawns because once you've done them all it just becomes boring grind. I generally participate in these to help out new players who want to participate or just to make up the numbers. Which brings me onto another topic - new player friendliness. This is a bit of a touchy subject because I've seen new players being completely ignored by some of our older Sylvan Heart players. However we also have people like Link and Misty who even went as far as making a new player starter pack (which is something staffers should probably be doing). But it isn't always our fault, I've also seen extremely rude new players who completely ignore our new player helpers.

Staff wise I think theyre doing a great job but problem is that there are times I see more staffers online than players >.> which really should not be happening. Once again its the player population problem.

Anyways those were just couple of the things that bugged me and I think could be fixed with a bit of feedback and thought.

Hey Sylvanians,

Just posting for the benefit of those who care/know me, just in case if I can't catch them online, I am sad to say I will probably have to leave for good. Stuff has come up in RL, and I will no longer have an internet connection here in 2 weeks and will be moving out (and most likely will not have an internet connection there either. NZ internet is expensive for a poor university student, like 60-80 $$$ a month).

Sylvan Heart is a real gem, and I had a great time being here, enjoyed making new friends and meeting people from all across the globe. I wish you all the best of luck in whatever you guys choose to do, and above all make sure you have fun and take it easy! *waves*