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So just out of interest, who else is taking part?

I'm planning on taking part even though I suck at speed runs. Hell, I came 6th out of 6 in Harry's Maso contest.

But sounds like fun.

I was one of the people who was agreeing with Mana, despite not having a vortex suit/cycle. I think it's a bit underpowered. Just compare the vortex suit with the VHF1 fighter, the other suit/transport combo. Vortex: -5 seconds to the duration of each turn and +20% to initiative Suit: +6 damage abso...

I gave up since PvP discovering retcon, but these seem like good ideas

Hope you're doing well Lxnder - chemo is horrible, so I hope you are beating it.

I love this one.

I loved Treader of the Dust's sandals. Best footware in the game in my opinion, good for any class. -5 seconds with some excellent other effects.

Also for a spell slinger, the Polar star is good, but the level 70 Mirror of Nitocris is better.

[ Accidentally started a trainee run, so realising that 1 mettle wasn't enough to perm a skill, I did the space station adventure to earn bonus mettle. How does one even DO that? Check the wiki, but the gist is fly around the desert till you can throw a hubcap. Then do the space station with Susan....

Ryme wrote:Skill points go down? Or hit points/power points?

If the former: never heard of it. If the latter, old bug that I still don't know how to fix.

The latter - I'm just being a dope and getting confused over my words.

For what it's worth, my most recent run was 32h 57m 15s with a gadgeteer. I think I could have done it under 32 h if I hadn't thought I'd missed out and stopped using clockwork spiders and swapped to normal documentarian. That was using no squid discs, no flash powders (or any other fight ducking it...

Don't know if this has been reported already, but if you have a star equipped and you apply skill points to a skill, your maximum skill points go down permanently

I really like what you've done here Nardo. I think it's nice for everyone to see what the gap between buyer and seller price is, and also helps people get a fair price for items. For instance, already we've got two requests for Seppia's cephalopod skullcap at 20 stars, so it suggests to a seller tha...

In my opinion if you're gunning for speed, I'd say the sidekick at the start is unnecessary as clockwork spider surely is sidekick of choice at lower level. XP is my limiting step generally for my runs.

Good luck Cris!

But you have to remember that they still have to waste another 30+ minutes decrypting the code to try and get what they want. Unless I'm understanding the concept wrong, there is still a large amount of chance on what they get out of that code and so the odds are still in favor of getting a code yo...

Accidentally started a trainee run, so realising that 1 mettle wasn't enough to perm a skill, I did the space station adventure to earn bonus mettle. Only on retconning, found out that bonus mettle doesn't count and I wasn't allowed to perm a skill anyway. I've now probably got the longest trainee r...

Congratulations on the nuptials Lichen

Also, gum in 3 acts gives nice permanent buffs, and Manly man drinks makes you lose HP. It's partly about bidding wars - You can buy IQ80s which are the same as eyeballs for about 50 thanks to a bit of a low bid war between me and two others. The price of consumables is continuously dropping if they...

Thanks for the advice Cris. I was already using long knife and forcegloves and maxed Vim. The rest of it was generally items I didn't have. I took your advice and got powdered gingko which helped. Also spending so long in Yang meant I picked up plenty of Strength from the non-com there, and was usin...

Just in case anyone was wondering, I'm still plugging away.

I can't beat the Mick, so I'm off to level

Psions really suck with Maso.

I think we've got the answer. Although I had vim cast, I didn't bother maxing it out with points. Ooops.

Was wondering why I wasn't hitting anything

Still floundering along at the back here - I hate psions... They feel so weak.

I can't even adventure in bayside - I'm getting killed by normal foes, let alone the troutmaster

I do like the way Lxnder ended up with the one number he didn't list

I'm still playing - but as I'm only level 5 on my second Maso I'm very much competing for the consolation prizes... And Nommy - I just looked at your retcon history to try and understand what Harry meant by starting this contest... :shock: I don't understand... why? And although I love elemental, th...

Congratulations CS!

Gabriel Anthony seems ready to fight crime already, seems amazingly alert for a new baby fresh out of the bubblewrap!

Just finished my first Maso run - took me 18 days. Felt like much, much longer. Big improvement over my other Maso run near the start which took 43 days (but I went after the space station bonus mettle) I assume Nommy must be able to do it much faster than that. How long should I be aiming at (what'...

I can beat that Hannah - my transmog debacle was that I transmogged just before I tried to retcon, not realising that there was a level 11 requirement to retcon. Was not a happy bunny. Had to get to level 11 again from scratch :evil: Kicked myself for going after the transmog badge and doubly for no...

I'm pretty sure PP is right and the gadgeteer runs away better. I remember getting a message about pulling out a grappling hook type device (in the Batman "where does he get those wonderful toys" vein) and running away by pressing a button). And Cris - what kinds of consumables are the one...

Good grief... I'd forgotten how hard maso is. Especially as I don't have any healing as a naturalist. I'm glad the bands event dropped lots of bandaids.

Level 8 through my first maso run... How is everyone else doing?

Now my transmogrifying debacle is over, I'm coming for you all!

Let's go people.

Agreed. Thanks Ryme! At first I didn't know that the 10k start up came from deep storage too - good thinking

I see the Auction house going out of business in the not too distant future...

Me, I'm voting for "Take a longer vacation, Ryme, we don't need anything new until December!" With retcon there it's added quite a lot to the game, so more may be spoiling us. I'd rather have a constant stream of stuff, so retcon will keep me happy for a nice while. I'd like to anti-vote ...

Illuminum Falcon - transport (Either weld Illuminum to jetpack, or big weld like xentrium barding using illuminum, jetpack, eagle feather, electronic cabling, guidance system, laser macrodiode etc). This transport is fast - it can get from one side of the city to the other in less than 12 parsecs. E...

Decided I didn't like my idea - will come up with a better one.

Flashlight + digital saber = lightsaber (maybe weld two sabers to get the double-ended sith lightsaber?)) - maybe weld something a bit more impressive than the flashlight, like the laser macrodiode? Upgraded, more powerful digital saber, maybe with more defence/dodge to reflect the ability to block ...