Viltaren

"The lengths people will go to to parade a corpse around... Its all so much fun until the fetid insides pop and you have to go bathe in a lake."

It had been quite a blessedly long time since the old Minister turned her sights to the goings on of the descendants. She was happy her old friend had sent a copy her way. Happy to be thought of. She was even pleased that the representation of her was not only fair, but spoke to the truth she had always known. Leaders do the best with what they have, and never anything more. She should send that man a letter, thank him for writing this, for caring about the nation she had devoted her life to once. But first, dinner needed making. She hoped the librarian liked the new recipe she had come up with. "Ah only to have done it over. To have supported my child Mika. To have made Alstreim my royal family. Ah to have done it all over again. Oh well." she hummed to herself, setting to chopping the carrots from their garden.

Thank you for fixing the regions Zacho ❤️

Glad to know someone else is keeping that map up. I had it on drop box with a link posted here but the no activity had it deleted and the account removed.

As someone on that team Id like to make it clear that we got so little direction or explanation whatsoever and were specifically told by telanir to just come up with what we were on our own. This is more direction than we ever received what so ever. The announcement was made with an Admin’s permission as well. The failure here was Telanir’s communication.

@Zarsies Are we submitting them to this thread or in some other place?

I am really glad to hear this and of the changes in general. I have an Aegis character that I enjoy a lot, but it can be exceedingly hard to play them realistically to the events that occurred. Following Aeriel, because she appeared in person before them while also disliking the ascended and their abandonment from those days is just a single aspect. As they learn of the druids and some of their own beliefs, it smacks into the “how do you treat it when your god appears before you as the only god fighting a singular demon god.” Every time the situation rears its head its a small headache in itself because of how differently things were dealt with then and they are now. I am really happy to hear this is being done and that it's being done by someone like you who has been around so long and knows their lore so well. Not to mention the quality of your writing. Love ya zarzar

I am really so happy to hear that. I look forward to this getting an Update, cause I stopped using Arcan due to being essentially unable to get information. And to be clear, I don't even want to min-max, it's just hard to know the range with no info. The LT does shame for being close to power gaming after all lol

So there's lots of different stuff but I can hop into VC with you and go into detail there. Largely what it boils down to is that while it may be true that it “Restricts Roleplay” to have emote counts, if you ask an LT they will tell you that these emote counts exist. Not only that but they punish people using those emote counts as a way to indicate power gaming. I have had people previously tell me that I am in some way a negative person for wanting to know the specifics of how magic is used. What it comes down to for me is that if I am a T5 Arcanist using my magic to defend my life, I want to know exactly, or at least ballpark, of how strong the magic is. The raider with the preloaded crossbow can attack from over 50 blocks away with no oversight, and it wouldn't be powergaming, which is far and above stronger than the magic. As much as magic is for flavor non-magic combatants will not wait for you to fully charge that Arcanism beam for the extra three emotes you want to make it look really pretty. To be clear, I dont think magic should be stronger. What I believe is that it should be specifically as strong as to compete with what nonmagical combat can do in a combat encounter. If you still want specifics I can point to two things concretely. There is no ballpark here so there is no idea how strong the spell actually is. I have been told multiple differing accounts of how strong this spell is. One teacher said it was so strong that if three people were standing next to each other, the middle person would be thrown back and have their armor and chest caved in, and the person to either side would be blown back 5 blocks each away from the beam impact point. An LT told me that there is no info on how strong it is, just to not power game. Another teacher told me it was strong enough to blow through any existing fortification. A user of the magic told me it was enough to deal with only a single opponent. I once saw it used in an event to one shot a minotaur the size of a house with an LT overseeing the effect to confirm. Which one of these am I to believe is or isn't power gaming? If my goal is to learn what the max is so I can take a step back from it and not power game, how am I supposed to ascertain that between all these conflicting answers? I had to ask three different LT and a teacher to learn the beam took five total emotes to charge and fire, and each one provided a different strength of impact. It shouldn't be that hard to learn about. This is the next thing. Simply enough, I want to be able to look at this and know why it's worth summoning an Arcane Bow to fire my bolts rather than just firing them normally. It says its faster, cool, what in the world does that mean? Well, I learned. After filing an LT req and waiting several hours and finally opting to just PM an LT, I got an answer. It lowers the charge time from 3 to 2. If this is a guide than not having that information is a major issue. In my eyes, there is no reasonable way that you can expect a person new to this magic to have any way to look at this guide and walk away with a full or at least workable knowledge of the magic that allows them to avoid power gaming. Beyond all that, there are also sections of what's on this guide that I have had Flam tell me have been shelved, are no longer accepted or have been changed in fundamental ways since this has been published thanks to LT rulings. All I want is to look at the Arcanism guide and know how to use the magic. It is currently too vague to understand what is and isn't power gaming. @Princeton Feel absolutely free to contact me on discord for any more information or clarity!

If the celestialists are trying to rework the magic a great place to start would be by getting rid of the massive amount of incredibly vague non-descriptions. No force comparisons or anything. Even when spells are listed as being able to be fired “more quickly” it doesn't say what the first emote amount needed is or what it changes too. There are also issues with certain rules not even being in any findable lore yet being enforced by the Story Team. I almost got a warning from flam over one of them till I pointed out there was nothing on what I was warned about to a manager and got the thing repealed. I love arcan but this guide is a joke if you are actually trying to know what the hell this magic does. @LorelessPuddleMancer And that is funny lol. Lore games are what this server needed tbh. So much outdated vague lore that's so abusable.

SMH you didnt even let me know your fantastic shop was gonna be abandoned

Uh... @LorelessPuddleMancer @Goblinberg you guys do know that this post is two years old now right?