Jasdemi's Corner

After a pretty long down downtime, the most recent expansion Conquer the Seas for Darkfall is finally up! Unfortunately AV had to bring the server down again due to a error in the database. I hope there will be no rollback, because it’s the first time I got something valuable from a chaos chest, a slot machine for gambling and sold it for 26k gold!

Thanks to the downtime, I can post some stuff here again. It will be of course about the expansion.

New features

Sea Fortresses

There are now 2 sea fortresses, one south, another north. Such fortresses float or stay on sea (must dive later to find out :p). Ships or its cannons must be used to destroy the stone at the top of the fortress and obtain control over it. Once a clan successfully takes it down and lands the final shot, it will belong to them for 3 days. After this time, it becomes vulnerable and can be taken by another clan. The current clan that owns it can protect their fortress by the installed cannons. The fortress cannons are currently the most powerful ones all over Agon, so it won’t be a piece of cake to take it down.

Of course there are also rewards for the owning clans. Once you gain control over it, the clan will receive gold and valuable items like ship modules, rare ores, etc. Check out this forum post for more info from the first clan that conquered one.

This is not all of course! There are clan stations in all NPC cities. Above them the name of the current clan that owns a sea fortress is floating. Now if a clanless player “uses” this clan station by pressing “F” in front of it, a window will open to apply for this clan. So this is another way to recruit members and become FAMOUS!

Racial Skills

Actually AV said that racial skills will be available at the launch but meh .. However, they’re here now.

Alfars got Alfar Cunning that increases the max. mana by up to 10 and Alfar Resilience which ads up to 3.0 acid protection.

Dwarves were blessed with the most useful racial skills, imo, especially Dwarven Steelmaster which increases the durability of crafted armor by up to 10%. Another one is Dwarven Durability, it gives you up to 5HP extra and Dwarven Perseverance which increases the protection against debuffs and causes less stamina loss on using melee skills.

Mirdain(Elf) got imo the worst ones … One of them is Elfsight and increases the max. ID range, means: You can identify players and most likely mobs from longer distances. The more useful one is Mirdain Insight which increases mana by up to 10. I’m a Mirdain and damn disappointed by these lame skills. :( QQ

Humans get a skill that increases the duration of nourishment effect by 50%, called Human Ingenuity. Also same like Mirdains, a bonus for mana, Human Willpower.

Mahirims got a skill that increases their running speed NOTE: Running, not sprinting. This makes this skill really useless, because you almost never run, but sprint. It’s called Mahirim Huntspeed btw. Another one is Mahirim Endurance => up to 5 moar HP.

Orks do up to 3 more damage by using high ranked greataxes(2-handed) thanks to the skill Orkish brutality and 5 maor HP with Orkish Toughness.

A GODDAMN KRAKEN!

Seamen, fishermen beware! The wide seas are no longer dull, boring, empty. The kraken will from now make your life harder. No longer romantic fishing afk trips, my childs.

The Kraken will from now on attack you, especially your expensive ships and rafts. You really shouldn’t underestimate it. Check out this video, the ships and its crew was pretty much pwned. Looks like a Brig wasn’t enough to take it down or there were not enough ship repairers. I personally can’t wait to experience this myself! My clan, Hew Hope is still not fully naval ready but very soon we’ll make the seas unsafe and possibly take this damn Kraken down! :D

Free-Spawn Objects

Alongside the chaos chests, there are now more things randomly spawning all over Agon. Broken chests, lobster cages etc. are included.

Trade Routes

This part is imo one of the most interesting ones. There are trading route societies on Agon. You can go to the locations which can be seen on the world map and “get a job” as a route runner from a NPC. Actually you buy stuff from him and get a backpack that is visible to all other players and tell you to deliver this one to the other trading route location. Once you’re done, you get more money than you invested and possible a special reward.

Like I said before, you get a backpack that is visible to everyone. This makes you to a target of course, because the PK’ers can make plenty of money from you. If one kills a trade runner, they can be looted for 80% of the invested money. So imagine you bought stuff for like 10k gold, the PK’er would get 8k gold. This is a lot and is I think a very profitable stuff for PK’er and trade runner.

kthxbye

I don’t want to post the less-interesting stuff here. Full patch notes can be read here.