The Herald has 1.69I up.

• Some Pendragon Only stuff
• Gossiping NPCs?

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I don't think "big" is enough, really. "Huge" might come close. Anyway, Mythic has posted an outline of the changes they plan to make to the RA system with Frontiers, although they remind us that this is not the final document...

Read about some of the major changes here.

See the proposed RAs chart here.

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Mythic announced on their corporate website yesterday that they will use the EMotion FX 2 SDK, created by Mystic Game Development, in "all current and future games".

EMotion is a development tool that plugs into a graphics engine and can be used to create realistic character animations, particularly facial expressions. Here's hoping it's used in DAoC.

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Two notes on the Herald.

• 1.69g patch notes
• Hide and Seek on Pendragon

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The Herald has 1.69e and 1.69f posted.

Some highlinghts include:

• Client performance improvements
• Changes to buff shearing
• New buff ability - Focus Shell
• New Hunter ability

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For a while, the DAoC community has been using a weapon speed calculator at Spydor's Web to figure out how fast they were swinging with various levels of quickness, haste, and MoA.

But, because the Spydor's Web version doesn't have separate boxes for ToA and normal haste, I made my own. Incidentally, I discovered an error in the MoA code at Spydor's Web that may have resulted in speeds lower than they should have been (though not by very much, and only when using MoA as well as haste).

You can find my calculator at http://www.classesofcamelot.com/misc/weapspeed.asp. Please note that it is ONLY a weapon speed calculator - it does not do anything at all with Dual Wield, as its Spydor's Web counterpart does. The formulas are as accurate as the experts in the DAoC community (namely Wyrd) can determine.

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Edit: It's now working fine again. Note to self - make sure any new additions (even simple ones) work before posting news and sending it to other sites.

Matt Frior, Executive Producer at Mythic, was interviewed over at worthplaying.com.

some highlights include:

• Possible new battlegrounds
• the end on classic camelot game engine
• possible change in /level and other realm population balance

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New patch notes up on the Herald

A little bit of everything in here - ToA, Foundations, crafting, etc.

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Also - I missed putting 1.69C up here - I've copied those notes in the above link as well.

Sanya posted a new contest for testing 1.69 in order to get serious testers over to Pendragon.

Copy over to Pendragon for a chance to get into the Frontiers beta test.

Detail on the Herald are here

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The next set of Buff changes for 1.69. 1.69B Notes

• Buff shearing is better explained
• Increase in ranger and hunter buffs
• Necro, Bonedancer and Animist cure pet mezz spells

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The 1.69a patch notes are up here. They include...

A long-awaited or -dreaded (depending on what class you play) Dragonfang nerf
Radius effect buff spells
"Buff shearing" (in other words, buff removal) spells
Decrease in max # of turrets an Animist can cast
Nightshade DD damage increase
New tradeskill quests
And of course, an awful lot of Artifact/ML fixes

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I've been finding lots of goodies in my mailbox recently, so prepare yourself for a mildy scatterbrained update...

First, there's a new Necro website, the NecroGnomicon. It looks like the Crypt of Albion is down for good, so hopefully the NecroGnomicon can be the go-to site for everyone's Necro Needs!

Second, there's a new neat little tool developed by Open Book Productions called "DaoC Server Status". Basically, it's a little app that sits in your program tray, and shows you the current status of all the servers, with who owns DF, etc. Pretty handy for when you're offline and want to keep abreast of what's happening.

Third, even though it's been around for a while, we've never actually linked to this (what can I say, we're lazy.), but the Northern Reavers Char Planner is definately a decent alternative to the one over at Catacombs, and if you haven't used it before, you should check it out.

In related news, there's a spoof e-mail circulating regarding DAoC. It's in French, so we've got no idea what it says, but we know it's a hoax, so here's a heads up - don't give them your username and password... unless, of course, you just want to have fun with them and type in some random stuff, like we do (username:"hahahah" password:"fooledyou!").

Finally, alas, poor Andred is closing. Let us all bow our heads in a moment of silence.

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