Sylvian’s Chronicles

Finally, the box with collector’s edition went into my hands. I belive all of you already know what it’s containing, but either way i put some photos.
PS. You can belive me or not but in RL figure looks way more better.

So it’s done - our legion leader finally has beed choosen. Gratz to Zakne. He not only won with most points but gained more than 50% of whole clan votes - which is pretty good result.
On the other side, i’m little bit worry coz of second place in our elections. Secret also recived really high number of votes (and her program is totally different then Zakne’s). This shows only one thing - as a clan we are not really have the same objectives and I only hope this won’t cause any interneal issues. But as I used to say… time will tell

AmberEye Legion’s leader elections going pretty well and in mean time whole clan went crazy about new game. You will ask - what kind of game? Well, we are talking about Heroes of Newerth, made by S2Games (the same guys who made 2 parts of online game called Savage).
For those who never heard about this title - HoN is spritual successor of most popular Warcrafr 3 mod - Defense of the Ancients (called simply DotA).
I have to honstly admint that i’ve never ever played DotA before, but game rules are so simple that after 10minutes of playing you know exactly what’s going on.I won’t spoil your fun discovering this title but belive me - it’s really worth giving a try. The way it keeps you in front of screen is incredible.

As most of us already noticed, I was absent for last few weeks. Unfortunetlly I had some serious forblems with my ISP, and I was cutted out from net at my home. Thanks’s god everything is fine already - so i’m back again.

Coz of this silence you could think that nothing interesting happened in mean time - nothing more wrong. Our clan survived little revolution and reformed from the begin. At this moment we are at selecting legion leader stage and after few fights amongs members everything going in good direction now. So stay tuned for more news.

Yesterday Aion pre-orders finally started. They are 2 editions available (normal one and collectioner’s edition) and so called pre-order pack, which gives access to pre-retail events and some cool in-game items:
- Black Cloud Hat (gives boosts to HP, MP, magical resistance, and evasion)
- Lodas’ Amulet (gives a +20% experience boost for 1 hour)
- One Ancient Ring of Power (type depends on your retail channel): Ancient Ring of Fire, Ancient Ring of Magic, Ancient Ring of Earth, Ancient Ring of Water, or Ancient Ring of Wind.
- Head Start Program: Get a 48-hour head start to the live game before the game releases.
- Preselection: Select your character names and server in advance of the game going live.

Collectioner’s Edition contains:

- 6.5″-tall, hand-painted figurine of Aiva, a winged Asmodian Daeva
- Exclusive in-game items, including:
- Black Cloud Wings (gives 40 seconds of additional flight time)
- Black Cloud Earring (gives an HP and an MP boost)
- Special character title with stat boost
- Color dye to tint one in-game item
- Two character emotes
- Official Aion soundtrack CD
- Two dual-sided, full-color posters
- Full-color, trifold quick reference card
- Two game DVDs
- Game manual
- First 30 days of gameplay

I don’t know how about you guys & girls but I already bought pre-order pack with collectioner’s edition.

I have to admit that I wasn’t playing my second sub-class (tyrant) for a quite long time. There was few reasons of that thing. First and most important - i was trying to reach 78lev with my Fortune Seeker. Second, with last chronicle NCsoft nerfed Tyrants pretty bad, taking away their main totem, which was Bizon (it reuse time increased to 5min). After that i lost a heart to my tyrant and focused on FS.

But as you can see, last days i managed to get this 78lev on my FS so this is a best time to start playing Tyrant again. Of course, I do play in duo with my Shilien Elder (and her Greater Wolf)… at this point you can ask “and what happened”? Well it was like a blast, i got shocked - Tyrant with SE and wolf are ultimate duo (or trio maybe?). I’m not sure if patch notes mentioned any change to Ogre totem (which is now our main skill) but i think it recived pretty nice boost. But it’s not about Ogre totem which is nothing special itself. The difference is… new SE skill called Stigma. This “thing” causing target to recive 50% more melee damage and last 30sec.! If you take it with VR, natural hight DPS of Tyrant and Greater Wolf reasults are trully amazing - mobs are vanishing in matter of seconds. Seriously you have to see thins on your own eyes.

There is one upside tho… if you are using VR there is no damn chance to get below 30% of your HP to use Zeal or/and Bizon. I don’t know how do you feel about that, buy I myself can live with that

In last weekend for a first time we had a chance to test how the Territory Wars looks like. You may ask “what’s it at all”? Well, NCsoft gave us another sige-like event in which we can fight not only for one castle/fortress but over whole territory/zone (like Oren or Giran for example). In every castle, there is a flag of current zone - every clan which signed for territory war can try to capture that flag, take it to siege camp (made by clan leader) and crest there. What’s most interesting we are not limited to one area only and what’s more - state of territory wars is “saved” to next one (which mean - if one castle take control over few others territories those flags gonna be in their castle when another war launch).

OK, everything is cool but what is the event where there is no prize! And here is the coolest thing about Territory Wars. While the event last you party recives orders / tasks to acomplish (like “kill enemy buffers”) and for each completed task your team reacive some points. At the end you are able to spend those point to purchase few different things… and belts in specific. To each belt you can attach a pin (which increase one total weight) or pouch (which increase inventory slots). Both pins and pouchces are in all grades and rarity (low, normal, top).

In general, Territory Wars are pretty cool - way much more intensive then regular sieges, with non-stop battle and possibility to take every territory.  Unfortunetly nothing is perfect, so does the Territory Wars are. Distance between castle and camp is so small, so with a force you are able to take every single territory flag for one clan. Also, when you kill someone not signed for specific area (who is not in war with you) you… going red (at some point i had almost heart attack when my dwarf went red with 8 PK points just in front of huge enemy lines). Anyway i enjoyed whole event pretty much

Last days i’m playing my Fortune Seeken more actively. No matter if I have any party or not, if I play couple of hours or only 1-2 buffrounds. Slowly but methodicaly I’m heading to 78 level. Even if last 3% was really long - of course our enemies started to jump up out of the bushes, I finally made it, and today my fat dwarven ass hitted 78 level.
And it’s OK that i had SP only for 1/3 of my skills

Last day i put my hands on Naga Storm dagger recipe. I took it with idea of reselling for profit, but as you can imagine my small dwarven brain was tempted by other idea. Did you ever heard those voices? “Let’s give a try!”, “We gonna be rich” and so on, etc.
Well, normally i would craft it without thinking, but last days i’m quite short on money. So I prefer to use them for Elemental Stones since i lack some element in my second weapon and armour. And then i though… “man my TH gonna rock with such weapon”. And this in fact made my final decision.

I was looking for main parts on the market, but it’s not easy thing to find those. Thanks god, I found 4 pieces which allowed me to setup shop and to my suprise i bought in 1 night all i wanted. I thought i have everything i need and then 2 difficulties went up. I lack 1200 charcoal and bloody crafter with Naga recipe. First issue was solved thanks to KRWAWYMARKUS (thanks mate!). The second one i found almost when I gaved up. Crafter was a guy called Bohemond and damn he was pricing his services pretty high, but the hell he sucessfully made my dagger. Yay lucky me!

So it’s happened. After long time of waiting we finally have our brand new chronicle - Chaotic Throne 2.3 called Gracia Final. Some people may think “it’s impossible” - but yes, after 5 years of waiting we finally have in-game capes. It doesn’t matter that only toons with 80level+ can wear it - NCsoft finally made it!

Well, enough of sarcasm. Gracia Final brings us a few interesting features about which noone whish to say before. My favorite one - we got new game client which finally solves “invisible drops” bug - so yes, i can see drops once again - madness

Another cool thing - belt system, which allow one to increse inventory slots and capacity. As for megreat thing which help a lot with switching between subs.

At the whole end a cherry. NCsoft understood his great mistake, and we have full drops again!

So there is a lot pretty positive changes was made - to bad those ones aren’t this promoted the most.