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Rease! Wow it's been a while. Got that same email, mate.

You remember Damira?

I'm also thinking about getting back!

Can I get some help - James Brown

Falling In Between - Toto

Happy new year to everyone! May 13 be a lucky number this once *grins*

My best wishes to all Sylvans and their families!
A merry christmas, a happy New year!

And a huge thanks to the staff of Sylvan Heart, they always go out of their way to make sure people here have a good time.

Hah pretty far away, but false. I don't really follow american football.


The person below me doesn't have a christmas tree up (yet or at all)

Silver and Gold - Neil Young

My favorite build had, for a long time, been related to my favorite profession, blacksmithy. It involved being able to mine all my metal, craft basic tools (tongs and shovels), smith (of course), and being able to defend myself if I was attacked. That was in those old OSI days. Then the golems came. I rose my tinkering to make the metal guardians myself, and dropped a bit of my combat skills. I also replaced my magery with some chivalry, which in addition to allowing travel, aided even more to fight and cure myself from poison and  curses.

The higher skill cap of SH allowed interesting options for gatherers, notably to build "polygatherers" that could still hold their own in all but the toughest combats. It also allowed to take the idea of the "golem principle", and apply it to the new paradigm. With all those skill points, I was able to build myself an able animal tamer, and retain my gathering and crafting skills. I just got the idea when I came back to SH, so the build is not complete yet, especially since my playing has been very scarce lately, but here is what I have in mind:

Taming 120, Animal Lore 120, Veterinary 120 (these 3 skills maxed allow for more pets in the stable, in addition from the obvious advantages)
Mining 120, Blacksmithy 120, tinkering 90, Item ID 100, Arms Lore 100 (This character is also my socketer/augmenter for roleplay reasons)
Magery 100, (to cast invisibility and mark runes without fail, as well as some healing and utility spells)
Wrestling 100, Parry 110 (for defense).

This is not a build intended for maximum efficiency, but mainly for RP and gathering. While it won't take on the higher end beasts, depending on the pet(s) I take with me I can mine wherever I please with some peace of mind, while my dragon takes care of whatever is trying to disrupt my work. The main reason I love this build is I can do everything with it! Ok not everything, but I gather resources, craft, and do some decent monster hunting all with the same character. I find myself getting bored when all I do is hunting, so when this happens, I go for some mining or I fill BODs or I look for valorite spots. I can even look and mark spots in the bottom of dungeons, or go strip mining/paragon hunting in Ilsh, or even explore and drain ore from Fel.

For my main "high-end" hunter, I use a pretty standard warrior template, maxing anatomy, bushido, chivalry, focus, healing, parry and tactics. For choice of weapon skill, sword and mace are both good, but most use swords. I use both . I added lockpicking for added fun and augment hunting (dungeon chest give out the most augment from what I've seen), but 100 necro for vampiric embrace would give this build even more survivability.

While it is totally up to you, I don't think you really need to make a third character for hunting, unless you do something different enough because you really enjoy hunting. Otherwise it's just dividing your valuable time to develop more similar characters, which is a bit of a waste. If it were me I would got for a tamer probably, as you don't have one yet. But modifying the chars you already have should be enough to finish those nasty (in a good way ) quests. Cypress gave you some very good ideas for modifications, except for dropping focus. I am a sucker for stam and stam regen, so I never drop focus from my warriors, but it's just my style.

Just remember that a good skillset does not replace prudence and tactical ability, so practice will make you better at using your character's various assets.

As for socketing, don't be afraid to start slow, with one or two augments in an equipment piece that is already socketed or that you socketed only once or twice on it. No need to aim the full socket suit just yet, but a few more HP or points of DEX can go a long way to help you gather the funds to socket more and buy more augments.

Have a nice Holiday yourself if we don't see each other in game (I'll try to log in, but it's been difficult lately).

I would if it were true! (I'm Canadian, so no dice)

The person below thinks that for the same reason (being Canadian), I don't get attacked by turkeys.

As far as I know you can insta log in inns, but it's always been somewhat buggy, so you ave to try a few times before it works.

'fraid not

TPBM already decorated for christmas

All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan

Is i me or mining goes more slowly?

I used to mine 4 ores at a time at 120 mining, and now every hit  gives out 1 ore only. I don't know if it's a bug or intended.

As I remember they were far too buggy and whenever someone tried to put it in a keg, the shard crashed.

The solution was to NOT put the custom potions in a keg, but people did anyway, so it was removed.

I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Billie Holiday