Something weird just happened. I have Bleeding resistance up to 12 (which is already strange) and Bleeding actually HEALS me.
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sometimes my bleed resistance would also jump up by 2, then go back down whenever it felt like it
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Server when do you plan on making the next game, later this year?
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Certainly this year! :) As a matter of fact Games have been held rougly once a month so far.
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ahaha finally realised where the swamp was, wasnt paying attention to the direction i was facing. kept on going in circles i swear.
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Oh, well it's easy to get lost in the dark forest :)
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I have an idea. How about putting an info about the types of artifacts. I'm sometimes at a loss when I don't know if the artifact will be a new type or it will take spot instead of something I already have... My question is actually about Holey Slicker... Is it torso or a new category (for me): back?
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If it will replace something it will say which spot.
Holey slicker is cloak, I currently have 7 different artifacts equipped.
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Thanks for your reply. So torso and cloak are two different slots? It's logical but I better check hehe.
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Ding! nice game :)
Especially that feeling in the end, mightily overpowered with tons of imbalanced equipment and high on energy potions, pointing my Legendary Doom Bringer right, left and anywhere else.
PS. And I have to say 'SORRY' to a guy I robbed of exactly 999 gold approaching the shop, but in the end that was my ticket to victory :)
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Lol i was a pretty failed thied, most i've stolen was around 50 gold i think
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I don't get how people get insane amounts of gold for the shop. (unless they are thieves)
I'm always near-broke, due to the many thefts I have suffered.
At this moment the shop will do practically nothing to me (even if I do find it).
The more gold I find the faster it is stolen, haha! Imagine that.
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I just randomly killed stuff, and just used theft as soon as it got off CD.
Killing stuff gave me a lot more money than theiving.
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Well of course most is from killings, however it depends on lucky steals, but this doesn't prevent it from being stolen mind you.
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So true, so true. Better not stand still in one place for long. Those who stand still or lie dead are robbed most often.
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Well it's only natural to stand still for big amounts of time to get EP points. Don't forget that not all classes have OP energy regen...
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Well, never happened to me as a matter of fact. I almost never stood still. Simply because I was lying dead...
The fact that you need energy even to fight effectively is quite discouraging. As I remember now, I almost always died because of that
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Well, I'll only tell you that when I was lying dead I got robbed of 95% of my coins. Two times. Yup. So it's certainly safer to be alive. And moving with super low energy will only end up in death that's correct.
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If you moved everytime you got energy (meaning once every 15 minutes) you would lose many coins cause every movement removes the "steal protection". If you waited for your energy to be full and then moved, you wouldn't lose so much money cause you can only be robed once when not moving
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Once from each person actually. And there's load of people in it. And most stealing did happen indeed when stationary to fill all EP while sleeping irl. So as you see it's completely luck-based.^^
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If that wizard who sucked my 23 EP is here, know that I will find you and rob everything you have. You will be left with your underwear while you are facing the dragon.
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Whaaaaaaat? This almost sounds like a bug. I thought it was impossible to steal more than 7-8 points at best. Never got more. Usually it's just 2 or 3 points. Or even 1. Has been an almost useless skill for me till now. Just a minor thing really. I guess everyone has different luck in everything....
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Mono stole at least 16 from me, my max is 7, but usually 3.
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Like a thief's luck, but you've got to be a lot luckier to catch an active and moving character.
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The best target is stationary who hasn't been on for a while with max energy,
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I had exactly 23 EP and whoever it was, have stolen it all.
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Certainly a bug. Unless there's a legendary artifact or something that makes energy leech so OP.
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I think a possible reason for all the low energy leeching is because everyone doesn't have energy O: Perhaps if you leeched from someone with lots of energy you'll get more too.
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Yes that's correct and that's exactly my point when I addressed that I don't like it as a skill at all much earlier. Whatever you do in the game you spend energy so it's really hard to find anyone with lots of it. Its the reason that this skill is so luck based and situational, that it's actually the worst one of all classes. You just can't depend on it. At all.
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The name of the one who drained you should be mentioned, maybe you were to enraged/weak to notice it?
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Ok this time I really found something that smells of a bug. @Server, I had my energy leech ready, and one adventurer was in the area. I tried leeching it said not enough energy to leech. After a minute I tried again while with 0 energy. I got this text :
"You leeched energy from !" But guess what. I got 0. And I lost my cooldown for it too. :( Maybe this bug is connected to the fact that I had no energy when I was trying to use it? I don't know.... Sucks. :( And fact is I had my cooldown since at least 10 steps before but I could not find a single adventurer with energy all this time... I kept getting that leech failed for quite some time now, like everyone was always empty... :( Tis strange no?
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This does seem strange indeed. I have recharged your ability and will look into the problem.
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Thnx. Well another adventurer came and I just tried again. I still got this :
"There is no one with enough energy around here." It's actually the same thing I've been getting for the last 12 steps. I can't believe everyone is empty, wtf. Never had this happen on other days. :P
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Well this is okay, means there is either no one with more than 0 energy, or someone has stolen energy from the guys on that location already while there are idle. If you are idle, someone can use a special ability against you only once, then you get "protection" from it until you make a step or check. If there is a "protected" guy on your location and you try to drain energy from him, same message will show up: "There is no one with enough energy around here."
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Well these were not protected guys because at least two adventurers passed from the spot, one at a time, and I was unable to leech from any of them . they even left afterwards, away to other places. Could never leech them. I'm the only one stationary in this scenario. Feels as if my ability is a fake now. Will see if it works on next one... :O
EDIT: indeed another just came and I still got the not enough same msg. The ability is broken. Now he is gone.
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You just made me check it and steal 24 energy from someone. Works perfectly.
If he will be complaining, it's all your fault :p
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Ouch. I pity him ! :O
Well come to my computer and steal with my character too. :P You seem to have luck. xD Which I need. Hahaha.
PS: Anyway will check again after some steps, let's just hope this will not be permanent... It can't be true that everyone has 0 energy and then they are gone from the spot. It just does not make sense at all.
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I might suppose that the cause might be a problem with internet connection, so that when you activate the ability, it has a small lag and the person who was with you at some moment has already left the place, and thus your ability doesn't "catch" him.
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It was probably the connection. It did work after a while when I tried from home, then again, I had also changed area completely. Too many steps wasted but it did work after all.
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According to my estimations, I should be in top 3 on the leaderboard right now but each time I check, my score keeps dropping for some reason. I'm 12th at the moment. Not that it's too important, just saying.
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There seems to be something strange with the leaderboard, I finished the game last night, but now don't show on it at all. On the main top 10, where it previously showed your rank at the bottom, even if you weren't among the leaders, it doesn't show anything.
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There are guys of 10th level in top 3 :) Why did you suppose you should be there?
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Well, I was at the rank 12, when this happened:
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Oh, you are the one with the insane amount of steps. :P
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Well, yeah. I literally had 4 tours in the dungeon ^^
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3 tours here but i used teleport scrolls ! (Thief with 10 magic)
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I only found one of them and had the joy of using them once my character was level 10. I don't know, I might play as a mage for the next game.
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I found one too, i had to get the rest using "another way" (i don't know if you understand which in-game mechaning i'm talking about, trying no to spoil it for other players and don't know how to use spoilers)
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The winners will be shown in a different table later :) Congratulations on winning the Game!
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Notice that someone just donated 28.55$, this is amazing (ಥ﹏ಥ)
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I can't describe how grateful I am for such support!
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It was worth it, I think that everyone should donate, even a little bit, to help this game.
Even though i never spend that much on regular games (i buy mostly discounts and bundles) i believe that a person ,who devoted that much time to make a game so that others could enjoy, should be rewarded.
Also I had a really great time and I hope my donation will help and motivate SErVER release more Game of sWORDS instances.
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You are an amazing person! Thank you for kind words and such huge support! I will do my best to keep improving Game of sWords further :)
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Did not mannage to die before the resurrection.
50/1142 hp and 0 energy.
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There should be a 'Suicide' button! Also for cases when you have no energy potions but have a Res scroll or a Phoenix blood.
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^This sounds like a good idea, i was thinking of how i couldnt die in level 10 in order to rez with full energy
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Curse DarkX stealing my energy with which I could die.
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Not that it was much, but I'm bleeding so 50 hp is 2 or 3 steps. :D
And with phoenix blood I could res to half and come back in a few hours to almost full energy.
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Yea, I know. I don't get to choose who I leech from so you just had some bad luck :D
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How many mages and barbarians have finished the game so far? Any statistics on winners? Cant we have access to that separate table?
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Could barely find a spare minute today to work on it. It will be made soon. Just 1 mage has finished the Game currently.
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Yay! Finally barbarians are climbing up the Hall of Fame :)
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Hey Server51, just wanted to point out :) a 'Suicide' option would be very welcome
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The 6 hours to respawn should start from the time you die. Or there should be bigger penalties upon death - losing coins; weapons and artifacts breaking, etc. Otherwise there really is no point in "Suicide" which is basically hp and energy regen when you use it a minute before the respawn time.
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EDIT: SErVER51, I am not sure whether I encountered a bug or not. I'll try to contact you on Steam.
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As I feared. I found the shop but I could only buy 2 potions from it and I'm already out of energy again. :(
The thieves saw to that....
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I don't think there is only one pool of items.. That seems weird
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You probably didn't understand. That's all the money I had left from all the stealing. Two potions max. :P
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Yep didnt understand. Well i only used the shop at the end of my energy run so i could use the gold i gathered. Never after a long rest.!
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When I was close to the end, some items were "out of stock" for me, if that is what you mean.
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Dragon slain! Handcuffs of War slowed me down, but I overcame it lol! I'm surprised I never got another hand artifact to drop after I equipped it. Was that intentional, or was I unlucky? Either way, fun game. A big thank you to SErVER51 and all the contributors. :)
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The Statistics page (http://gameofswords.net/stats) now shows the number of winners for each class.
17 Thieves have already completed the Game! 7 Winners places remain for Thieves!
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Btw I don't think that it updates "live". The one with the winners at least. Where is tnr who just posted below? :O
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Those stats are live. The guy might have just posted his message some time after winning.
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Battle Mages finally managed to conquer the Hall of Fame :)
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Damn it was time. :) Quite a difference from the first thief. 2 days or something?
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I will tell you a fairy tale:
Once upon a time there was a dragon. Then came the sneaky thief Akwilla. And then there was no more dragon.
Akwilla took dragon's gold and now is entering 27 of 80+ giveaways. The question/moral of the story: Is Akwilla greedy?
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Akwilla is the Dragon Slayer and deserved all the treasures :)
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You have got the Dragon's treasures and are now known as tnr the Dragon Slayer!
You had to make 1157 steps and 343 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 160 enemies.
You died 34 times.
I am probably holding the most died record :)
Thank you for the game, it drove me nuts on day 2 but it got better as i got used to the game mechanics :)
Here are my suggestions/thoughts (because why not ^^):
- Imho a separate energy for attack would be much better
- Info about the enemy like attack value, abilities (can fly, has armor, magic user) etc. would be helpful (Maybe another skill where you can improve your ability to see those enemy stats?)
- You could add the skill information from faq as mouse over text for quicker view
- As a mage I found the magic attack scrolls useless (Probably because i didnt have enough points on fire mastery). Mages could have debuffs (blind/cut/poison enemy) instead of those attack scrolls.
- I didnt really understand for what the magic attack was useful. I never knew when i was using the magic att and when normal att.
- Really hated that you lost your ep after dying, because if you were unlucky and died right after the resurrection, you would have to wait 6 hour to resurrect + another couple of hours for your ep to replenish. I almost gave up on day 2 because of that happening several times, but after your update with 5 extra skill points and 2 generous (dead) player giving me 900+ coins, i was able to buy/use some scrolls. :)
- And I dont even wanna talk about the lever puzzle :P
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Congratulations and thanks for the suggestions list! I will definitely take them into account :)
Magic Value of your weapon determines the amount of one of three damage types it can deal - magical damage, just like Attack Value determines physical damage and Fire Value - fire damage. If your weapon has several Values, they are all used together; effectiveness of each Value (type of damage) depends on strengths and weaknesses of the enemy that you are facing.
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Wild Targunitoth has attacked and hit you! He killed me :(
And now my post pigeon has flown away.
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:O What post pigeon? I didn't know barbarians could also kill.However they would have helped me cause "I'm dying" to die at this moment. :P Literally. xD Or is that an NPC ?
(and look who is below you- EDIT: well its a "was" now)
PS: Basiliscs (strange that it is not Basilisks) hit like a train. But the XP still seems worth it.
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A hint: Pigeons eat something.
I think I can make a rush to the finish line atm. As for the basilisc, I like encountering them, but I do have 7(+7) agility, was +8, but changed an aritfact. As for dmg I have a balanced ranged weapon: 200 of all 3 types.
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I didn't even understand what was the matter with this pigeon. I also lost it but I have no idea how or what it was supposed for. I don't think it even matters. No quest seems associated with it anyway.
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Real spoiler: It is a gift for a 'brother' in the south from another 'brother' in the north
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Well I had already teleported there, so I didn't even realize that I gave it to him. :P Already finished the game (all in almost 1 sitting from lvl3), so your real spoiler is a bit late. :P
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Only with resistance. Just wait for the turns to run out. (check FAQ)
PS: Was indeed the first resistance I almost maxed asap.
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Tnx, any other tips on what to focus on upgrading as a Barbarian?
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You'll probably always need to have max agility and accuracy (1point per level only unfortunately) and then focus on other stuff such as strength and defenses. Just keep in mind that depending on enemies some types of weapons may not be able to hurt them enough. Again read the FAQ.
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Tnx, the problem with enemies is that it's not exactly clear what type of attacks they're vulnerable to, by the time you realize your weapon is ineffective you're dead.
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Do boss enemies regenerate their HP full after we die? Or can we keep whacking them and dieing till they die too? :O
(yes that's the new strategy I will try now lol. I'll find out soon enough but I just thought I'd ask for the heck of it)
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No, they don't regenerate, from what I remember. I was one hit away from killing something. When I went back, they only had 51 HP left.
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I know I just abused it 15 minutes ago, and it worked like wonders. :)
Amazing stuff you can do with deaths, yup. It was really a cool idea to abuse.
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