the above poll is for a guide specific section on the forum. i know there are a similar sections like "help" and "shard manual"....but a lot of random things get posted there that do not pertain to what this post is about.
i know there are guides plastered all over these forums (somewhat) and are found using the "search option". however searching for "cooking guide" etc yields about 45+ pages of posts, fishing guide alone pulls up a lot too.
i know it will take some work and i will help if i can, but how about a GUIDE ONLY section on the forums. this does not mean 1000 topics on how to level magery, but rather 1 topic of the best ways to level the skills.....a codex. over the years things changed so much and having a skill guide section worked on by the community for every skill in the game (worth using like other shards)
would be a great addition. those of us who come from other shards after leaving this one or even new players will know what to do, instead of asking yourself in vesper because nobody is on at 6am EST. But alas, when you do find what you are looking for....it typically ends up the posts and replies are from 1979:)
right now im trying to figure out why im not gaining fishing skill after fishing for a half hour (though a guide wont help me lol)......also i only gained 0.2% in cooking after cooking about 100 steaks.
what should i be making on my smith to get better gains since the Stratics blacksmithing guide is not relevant to this shard to an extent. ive seen guides that tell me what i can make at 58.x% and uses the least amount of ignots to get gains on other shards. wouldnt that be a nice thing to have here? blacksmithing takes a long time especially if you are making things that wont give you any gains.
how about animal taming? since this shard has animals that do not even exist on any of the shards ive played on this would be nice as well. i do know that tamers have the ability to "know" what it takes to tame an animal just by trying to tame it. so that kind of a guide would be fairly simple to create....just like magery guides.
how about a comprehensive guide on what all the metal types do (these are also scattered and hard to find if you dont know what you are looking for). a list of all of the weapon enchantments and what +x does. i.e. what does this new Super Leather armor of Hardening +9000 do?
and when these things are completed, they need to be stickied. im not complaining, i do use the search quite frequently but find what im looking for roughly 20% of the time....i just dont have the patience to look through 45 pages of posts that contain the word "gold armor" or "fishing"
thats an hour of work i could be using to level something!one example of outside guides being unable to be used on this shard:
training stealth. on other shards one has to use the hiding skill (which doesnt hide you here, stealth does) naked then walk to gain in stealth. after so much you put on rags.....then after a little more skill you work in heavier stuff. but it seems here you can train stealth in anything and get gains regardless of weight.
the main concern i have is about crafting guides. guides to raise most combat skills are 1 liners: "fight and ye shall gain". But skills like spell resistance are different since a lot of mobs cast some high level spells (like skeleton mages in brit graveyard spamming FS and EBOLT...but rarely cast clumsy etc which is more useful to level resistance).
also a list of what some of those skills actually do i.e.:
spell resistance does what on this shard? does anatomy and tactics add bonus damage like other shards? does inscription (disabled here like scrolls?) add bonus circles of protection like other shards?
how about Eval? does it increase spell dmg based on the skill checks/resistances?
now that ive opened myself to attack by bob, ill conclude this little post with:
lets have a vote! if this ever does get any attention ill get out the old notepad and start writing down findings.
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