Maytag's Playhouse => Pop Culture => Topic started by: Brion Foulke on November 02, 2009, 12:43:00 pm
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Right now, me and my girlfriend Jen are playing this MMORPG <A HREF="http://megaten.aeriagames.com/">Shin Megami Tensei Imagine.</a> If you're not familiar with series, it's basically set in futuristic Tokyo where you fight against demons, and can recruit demons into your party. It's a free MMORPG, but you can buy items from thier website for real money.
Anyway, we are looking for some more people to play with. Just wondering if anyone here plays, or if anyone here would like to start playing? ^^
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I think I'll have to give it a go.
See you in there sometime mate.
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I'll see if I have time. Currently college applications and research projects are eating up all of my time and some of my health. x[
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I might join in later. The name Selan was already taken so be aware that that Selan is not me.
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If you decide to play, post what your name is, and when you are playing. We'll invite you to our clan and help you out. ^^
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I might sign up, but I'm often a bit busy to play. I'll see how I go.
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I might take the extra time to whip out vmware or virtual box and trouble shoot it into working since wine hates atlus to play again, but I haven't had time. :P
Still want to play with your girlfriend ;P
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I've downloaded the program but fell asleep before I could install it.
NOTE: Beware that bittorrent DNA stuff they use.
Installed it this morning so I'll make an account and have a play at it tonight.
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OK, I'm in with a character called TheFencer (charlesw81 for my login if that helps)
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Cool, I'll keep an eye out for you. We haven't been up that late lately, though.
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Right, I'm downloading now, and when I get in, it'll be under the username THEChurba (because some git pinched my name.)
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I got TheFencer to Lvl 10 last night then shut shop for the night. Interesting game. Hopefully I haven't taken a wrong path. I'm developing TheFencer as a warrior/fighter type since they're usually the easiest to manage (seriously, just walk up and keep hitting things and taking hits).
Maybe after I've got him a little way I'll take a transgender leap and develop a female character just for the LOLZ
@Brion: BTW are you going to tell us more about your lovely girlfriend Jen?
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Basically, you should invest all of your stat points into whichever is your main stat. If it's a warrior, it's STR. Then, just build up all of the melee expertise, and maybe talk. You get limited points for expertise so you don't want to waste them, they can be changed relatively easily until lv30, but after that you have to buy AP to change them.
I'm on right now, if anyone else wants to play.
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Basically, you should invest all of your stat points into whichever is your main stat. If it's a warrior, it's STR. Then, just build up all of the melee expertise, and maybe talk. You get limited points for expertise so you don't want to waste them, they can be changed relatively easily until lv30, but after that you have to buy AP to change them.
I'm on right now, if anyone else wants to play.
I'm installing as we speak, I should have a character by the end of the night.
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I've got experience going into attack and rush. I've concentrated on my attack and vitatility stats but also thrown some luck in on the side.
Discovered the hard way that after level 10 you loose your Exp when you die :( I've been avoiding that wounded cat since he just sucks all my experience but I think I'll have to start using him agian, until I get some better equipment to match my level.
Maybe I'll start a second character as a full supportive now I've got some knowledge of the starting game.
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It's okay to use Wounded Cerberus for the early game, he's the best demon you'll get for awhile. Since you are a melee fighter, don't put more than 10 points into VIT or LUC, put the rest of your points into STR. Also, you should probably raise spin, although I don't know much about melee builds, but it seems like spin is pretty useful. I don't think rush is too useful, but you might need 1 or 2 classes in it for something, I'm not sure. Also you should raise weapon knowledge too, and talk is useful upto class 1 rank 5 as well.
Actually I'm probably gonna go to bed soon, if you're on tommorow maybe we can play then.
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I did get back for lunch and spend 10-15 minutes playing, but I think I'm always going to be out of synch with you, playing at night. It's not exactly a game I can play at work ::)
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Right, I'm in, Character called churba, going for a Gunner, I'm thinking. Didn't play for that long, just plugged away, got a feel, and logged out.
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Yeah, we've been going to bed earlier lately. Well, try to let me know when you're on so I can add you to our clan.
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Downloading right now, my character name will probably saehra
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Awesome. I'll see if I can meet you in there.
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I lost my pants and boots and i declined about 10 invites that probably came from you Brion :p
I give up for today.... I wonder if i'll ever get those pants back tho ???
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I used to play that game, never really got into it though after my friends stopped.
I'll start up another account to play with you guys.
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@Selan: *LOL* oh dear, Now I've got to see if I can go around without pants the next time I play.
Damn! Leveling is slow when you get to level 10 and you've been accustomed to just continuously dying and resurrecting yourself to keep getting XP ::). Now I've actually got to use some strategy here.
I also had the problem that I didn't know I could resurrect my dead demons, so I lost a few (including my experienced Garm :() and just ended the contracts with them no knowing what those orange ring things could do.
Unfortunately I tend to be a bit of a hoarder of items so I don't use them nearly as often as I should. I've got to actually put to use some of these heals, MP raises and consumables which increase my speed and attack for periods of time... After all, the increase of my luck is paying off quite nicely with drops from almost anything and everything I kill.
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Hey Selan.... sorry about earlier, the internet suddenly went down, and it's been down the last 4 hours. Anyway, if anyone else is playing right now, let me know.
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Hey Selan.... sorry about earlier, the internet suddenly went down, and it's been down the last 4 hours. Anyway, if anyone else is playing right now, let me know.
Once I get to 10 and get a bit more of a handle on things, I'll give you guys a shout.
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Follow the quests. They do a pretty good job. As soon as you get out the door from that snake fellow, follow the quest line given by that "Fatherly guard" right out the front of Snake's joint. That pretty much teaches you where everything is and gets you a heap of XP. All the quests are pretty much meeting people. They are pretty much all in HOME III except for the DB with the pixie who is the first person you see outside the doors of HOME III.
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Yeah, the initial quests are pretty good, you should try to do most of them. Are either of you guys playin right now?
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Nah, it's another hour before I'll be home and online sorry.
But feel free to hook Maytag up... I think she needs a hand
(http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt246/WockerJabi/FSDBsummon2.gif)
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I can't find my old account so I'll make a new person or whatever.
EDIT:
Scratch that, found it! :D
Name is Amadelle (Yay C/O)
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Managed to get Charles and Trombone in our clan. Selan and Churba, maybe you guys can leave me a message on the forum and let me know the next time you plan to log on. I'm availiable most hours of the day, but I can't stay logged on all day because it lags my computer too much.
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ok have no Idea about on line gaming but might give it a go.
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Cool, send me a message and let me know when you're coming in if you decide to play.
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Ok one question hos do you save this so I dont have to go through it all again?
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How do you save what?
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had to quit last night, came back to it earlier this afternoon and found my self at the start, does this mean you cant save your progress? (in just now)
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@Oddball: ??? Usually I restart exactly where I logged off. Maybe it's different if you quit while you're in the caves or something *shrug*
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I guess I must of logged of too early on in the game and it took me right to the begining again. Thanks to Brion got a bit further yesterday.
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I got my pants back on :p
i might play a bit later if i find the time
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*groan* accepted a mission from my Lost Hua Po and didn't realise what it was getting me into.
Now I've got to find monsters in places I haven't even been and where I don't know the way to.
*meh* I took a second character instead and decided to up him. Didn't even get out the door from Snakeman before someone offered to lvl me for some competition and by the end of the night I suddenly found myself at lvl 15 :o (higher than my other character).
Went for a magick user this time. Concentrating on curative and supportive magick. Only problem with the character is that it's hard as hell to fight monsters on my own. Gotta get with parties all the time and support them in killing stuff.
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Looks like I missed you today Selan.
Charles, with the demon quests, you want to try to only accept quests you can do, because the bigger your streak of successes the better the rewards. Basically, if it tells you to do something you're not sure about, just reject it. Especially reject any demon quest involving accomplished demons, as those are a huge pain to find. The best ones to do are usually the plasma quests, and fusing a demon. Here's a good website for figuring out how to fuse specific demons:
http://imagine.akukame.org/
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Yeah. I'm just using my second character (named charlesw) to go through the universe until I find the way to the place these other demons I need are. It's some field called onei or something. I need a Gaki demon and some other one that looks like a mop. I've got the levels to befriend them, but I'm just not sure where they are.
Didn't know about the benefits of a success streak until I took on the challenge and then went to drop it. Then it tells me about the success streak *lol*.
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Gaki, Datsu-ba, and Oni are all in Ueno. To get to Ueno, first you have to go to Shinjuku, then take the middle right exit to Ichigaya, then keep going right and you'll get to Ueno. The Gaki are right where you enter, the Oni are more towards the top. Not sure where the mop things are.
I'm making a support character too. The main thing you want to do is to go for the chain expertise Enhancing, which gives you really powerful buffing spells. You need curative magic to class 2, support to class 2, and bless at class 1. You can get bless from a quest in shinjuku, I believe you need a faded garnet earring to activate it, which comes from the blue plasmas in shibuya.
Also you might want to get the Curse of the Wretched chain expertise, which gives you really good debuff skills. For that, you need destruction magic at class 1, curse at class 2, bless at class 1, and magic control at class 1. The good spell from that chain expertise that everyone thinks is overpowered is erosion hex, which you get at class 1.
Also, if you're making a support character, you want to put most of your attribute points into INT, since you need it at lv99 eventually. You can also put some into luck and vitality.
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Hey, it's hard to meet up with people who aren't already in my clan, cause it's hard to know if they're online. Selan and Churba, and anyone else who wants to play, give me a call on the Flipline the next time you're on so that I can come on and invite you.
http://www.flipsidecomics.com/secret-flipline.html
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This is the first time you're trying to get a guy to call you on the flipline, instead of the hot girls, isn't it? It's ok, I understand, Churba is bi and sexy ;P
./just teasing
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I just don't have the time now, but maybe later next year or so ;)
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Well, if sexy Selan is going to be playing...
No, seriously, I'm going to try and stick it on my secondary laptop sometime soon if my life doesn't get too crazy.
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Well, if sexy Selan is going to be playing...
I have a character ready, but school, work and other stuff is eating my time
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finding my slef in there a lot now, CoH has taken a back seat.
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I've been AWOL from here because of that game *LOL*
Been using my other character sorry so you probably haven't seen me. Need to go back to him and just drop that beast quest though.
Nearly finished another one from my Lost Hua Poe. Had to befriend a Jack Frost. SOOOOO Close but then time ran out :(
If I'm not on with TheFencer then it'll be charlesw at level 19.
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For those who dont know I'm McQueen. and I'm not going on a dungeon run with Brion for a while those two runs where bad for the nerves lol (jumped up from Lvl 17 to 20).
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Charles, let me know when's the next time you're gonna be in so I can invite you...
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Getting in there now. I'll be on channel 4 with charlesw. Still not sure exactly what the significance is of the channels as we all seem to be on the same server but *shrug*
If there is a significance then maybe we should all choose a default channel to call home.
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Getting in now for 10 minutes. Hope I catch you.
charlesw
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Guess I missed you. Call me on the flipline the next time you come in.
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*lol* I think it'll be well past your bedtime by then... about 2:45am your time if I'm not mistaken. Doubt you want a wakeup call then ;D
I'll just keep logging in between 7:30 and 8:00am my time for a short period, which should be around 4:30-5pm your time.
I've also been up fairly late (until about 11am your time) so It wouldn't surprise me if you catch me in the morning as well.
Heck, I'll log in with my other character and grab your screen name so I know what to look for. I've just forgotten.
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Well, I guess I'll try to find you around those times... but y'know, you can call me during the day!
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DAMN! I've just found a manual out there which pretty much tells me I've been increasing the wrong stat.
I thought if I increased the MAGICK stat then my spells would be more powerful and INT only controlled how much MP I had. Now I work out that MAGICK only controls how powerful destruction spells are while INT controls how much MP AND how powerful my healing spells are :(
Maybe I'll just make a destruction mage instead of a support mage with charlesw now *shrug*
I'll tell you what, you want a quick way to make heaps of XP? Take a Lost Hua Po and go massacre one Rainbow Jack Frost after another up near HOME III camp ground. It's a bit slow at first since you need to help her out, but once she has some levels herself she just murders them with an Agi (fire) spell and a kiss (later it takes only one Agi). I just sat there and kept targeting 'em and sendin her to kill. Because of their special type (almost only rush attacks) it's a bloody picnic.
Although it seems to really piss off anyone who comes there to complete the quest assigned to 'em *lol*
Only problem with this is that you don't get expertise. So I'm stuck at level 20 and am only just starting to get into Class1 on a few of the areas.
@Brion: I'm going to lvl TheFencer some, so if I see you come in then I'll let you know I'm in and switch characters. Channel 4 for what it's worth *shrug*
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Charles, I did mention that a support mage should be putting all thier points into INT. If you have any other questions, let me know.
It's not too late to fix your build, though. Before level 30 you can buy an item from the magic shop that removes expertise that you want to get rid of. It only costs a small amount of macca. After lv30 you have to spend real money or a ton of macca to change your expertise. Anyway, if your character was focusing on magic, make them into a Demolition Dash mage. That's a chain expertise from getting rush / destruction magic / magic control up to class 1. It's basically a combination of destruction magic and dash, and it's a really good skill that does tons of damage to monsters in a wide area.
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@Brion: *lol* I know, I read back and saw that your post mentioned INT over Magick. Don't know why I confused it.
Yeah, I haven't gotten too far into class 1 with my support and curative magick (thanks mostly to my Jack Frost massacre leveling tactic) so I'll just start letting my destruction magick grow again (already class 1) and either put the others on hold, or let them grow until I learn the next spell.
It's going to be a pain to raise my RUSH from scratch but *shrug*
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The real pain of leveling up your expertise doesn't begin at all until the higher classes. You should really buy those items that delete the expertise you don't need, because there's a limit to how much expertise you can have, and you'll need all of it you can get. Once you go past level 30 it becomes very expensive to get rid of unwanted expetise.
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Found the items to delete expertise... Can you believe I somehow haven't spotted the magic shop until now?
I saw your user come online at one point but when I changed to my other character to get him into the guild I suddenly couldn't PM you :(
*meh* A few of the other clan members, including Lyon, spotted me and decided to make TheFencer a bit of a leveling test bunny... Before I knew it he was well into level 23 thanks to some silver runs and a heap of EXP incense I had.
I'm leveling all the physical expertise traits right now. I'm not sure what I'll end up with, but I figure it's a good way to see what I get and then I'll just kill anything I don't need/want when I get to level 29 (i.e. before level 30). There's a certain chain expertise which needs Attack, Survival and Weapon knowledge. I've also learned my lesson about armor... BUY SOME!
Seriously, I can see now why there are so many low levels out there farming for plasma. You get the money, buy the equipment and your whole life is FAR easier.
Hope to catch you in there at some other time.
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I haven't been on much this week, sorry.
Is anyone here interested in some free AP? I have been playing on the Aeria poker site and I have like 7 million chips saved up. But you can only convert 20k chips a day into AP, for which you get 200 AP which is the equivalent of 2 dollars. Anyway, it'll take forever to convert all of my chips, so if anyone here wants some chips they are welcome to take some. All you need to do is sign up for a facebook account, and then link your facebook account to your Aeria account. You can do that here:
http://apps.facebook.com/poker-heroes/
You can also play poker with the chips if you want to win more, but please don't do that unless you're confident in your poker skills. If you want some chips to convert into free AP, let me know!
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Thanks for the chips Brion! Already traded in 20k of 'em (gave 184 AP *shrug* exchange rate *lol*)
Whats the best thing to save up and spend on? Anything that increases your Experience limit?
Also, is it just me or does poker heroes have some special thing in it's programming to cause big hands? In short session, I've seen more four of a kinds (including 4 aces) and straight flushes (including a bloody royal flush) than in my entire life.
P.S. learned the secret of gaining experience. Take a character to the Virtual Battle room, strip them of EVERYTHING and start fighting with your fists. Rapidly rising up the chains now.
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"experience" limit? Do you mean expertise? There are incense you can buy on the item store that increase both your experience and your expertise gain by as much as x5. But just between you and me, those things are not worth buying from the item store. AP has a macca equivalent, in general you can sell 100 AP for 100k macca easily. Most of the items from the item store are actually a rip off in terms of AP price, you can get them cheaper for macca.
Your best bet is to either sell AP to someone in the game, (you do that by buying stuff for them, and they pay you the equivalent price in macce) The best item in terms of macca worth in the item store, as far as I can tell, is 10 Link Melons. You can get 10 for 1000 AP, and sell them for 100k each pretty easily, that gets you 1 million macca. I don't think there's anything in the item store with that good a conversion rate that is as easy to sell. You can then turn around and use the macca you got to buy stuff like incense at a much cheaper price than you would at the item store.
Right now 5x expertise incense is really cheap for some reason, I'm not sure why, but you can buy it for 150k each. Best way is to go to Babel and listen for people's shouts. Also, the best way to sell stuff is to go to Babel, channel 1, and shout. You can also use the bazaars, but it's a waste of money if you don't have 5 things to sell. Also the bazaar tax is pretty large, so it's better not to use them on big money items. When I'm trying to sell Link Melons, I usually go to channel 1 and repeat this shout: "S> Link Melons 100k" every 5 minutes or so. I can draw or do whatever while I'm doing this so it's pretty easy.
About poker heroes... yeah, when I first started playing I thought the same thing as you. It seemed like pocket A's and K's were coming up too frequentally. But after playing there for awhile, I think I was mistaken, it seems pretty normal. It was probably just luck that that happened. Everyone calls on most hands, and nobody ever seems to fold draws, so you're going to see more big hands in general.
Yeah, the virtual room with the slimes is where most people build expertise. It's great for building all kinds of stuff. Hey, if you're building up a melee character, make sure you don't ignore spin attack.
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Damn! I noticed a ranking on the Poker Heroes website and noticed that Brion is the highest earner for the past 7 days and 30 days.
He's about 9 times higher than the 2nd place for the last 7 days and twice the 2nd palce of the last 30.
You're right mate. No-one in there compares to you.
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Don't have a pass for you, but I'll be happy to give you poker chips which you can exchange for AP.
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Oh man...I love SMT, but I hate how Aeria makes you pay $$$ for good items.
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Yeah, pretty much. But if you have Aeria poker chips, you can get free AP.
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Ooh. o.o That does sound better.
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Yep. Just let me know if you need some.
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Started a new character, and playing again...yeah
Name: Osseous
Lvl: 11
Realized I wasn't doing the expertise thing right, so I started over.