Hi,

I haven't played the game in two\three years, I'm curious on any major changes that may have taken place and if someone can sum it all up for me so I wouldn't have to read all the patch notes.

I understand that spellcrafting is different now and something about overcharges ? If someone could clarify wth that means that would be great <3 I have a ton of BG toons.
Also getting geared with ToA items, Ive read that you can use BPs to obtain the items and also MLs? Is that how it works now?

I just don't want to be lost when i start the game later tonight, so any info you can give me to help me would be great

Even if you read all the patch notes, you're going to be lost. A reader's digest version of the patch notes isn't going to really help you. If you put down a class, we could probably give you a helpful reader's digest of those specific changes.

I'll give you a freebie though.

WARLOCK: Y E S. Your kind aren't needed here.

 

-----signature-----

Any summery will be lacking.


Your choices are to read the patch notes, review the new wiki/Herald and review the VN boards or jump into the game and find out about the game by playing it a bit. That is how all noobs find out how things work and it is the best way for returning players to find out exactly how things work.


If you left before Ywain, to keep the server population up Mythic needed to continue to cluster but there was a huge problem. Each of the cluster character databases had grown so huge that Mythic could no longer combine databases, which meant that they could not continue to cluster.


The solution was to create a new server (Ywain) and have active players transfer all their characters to Ywain. This way the new server character database would only contain a relatively small number of characters and not characters from 8-year-old canceled accounts.


As some players had dozens of characters on the old clusters, Mythic needed to devise a plan for players to have more than just 10 characters on the new Ywain server. Mythic’s answer was to create 10 log in servers. This allows a player to transfer up to 100 toons per realm to the new Ywain (10 for each Ywain 1-10) and it also allowed for 10 housing areas per realm.


See the Herald transfer info/FAQ page for info about transfers.


The following VN thread has some good/great info.

Subject: Very noobish questions


Google the following (cut and paste into google) to get more VN threads about 'returning' players.

returning site:http://vnboards.ign.com/daoc_general_board/b5176


gl

 

-----signature-----

Thanks for all the info guys seems all my bg toons need a new template now