740 and OTF

[Goat]

People have told me it's possible to skip the swim with 740. I would love to, since it's the only hunting ground keeping me trained in swimming (seeking and return get me in and out of nelemar and the rift).

I agree that it's possible with fancy chalk, but I haven't been able to find two rooms where it will work with cheap chalk. Everything on the Illistim side of the swim is a sapphire blue rune, and everything near the swim on the OTF side is scarlet (or just won't let me sense a pattern). Does anyone know of an exception?

[Moonwitch]

That's interesting. My sorceress isn't old enough to hunt OTF so I never have tried looking. I take it that OTF is considered on the Vaalor side then? From one side of the swim to the other it is different?

[rolfard]

ta'vaalor is another color as well. i don't think it's likely to find a ta'illistim or ta'vaalor rune in OTF. but then again if you do it could be a bug. it would be similar to finding a room in OTF where you could hear the crystal amulet from one of those towns.

[subzero]

They intentionally made OTF another 'zone' so skill checks couldn't be bypassed. Same reason Nelemar can't - couldn't previously- be ported into; don't want people bypassing those skill checks! And then they updated Voln, said fuck the skill check, and fuck you, too, sorcerers, cause you're still not porting in. Simu-logic ftw!

[Anebriated]

Not sure how much different 740 is but I bard song out of the rift once I hit Gyldemar Road and it drops me off at Feystone.

[Goat]

The thing with the OTF realm is it's not a completely consistent boundary. You can use symbol of return to get past the swim, for instance. I think that's in spots where you can't sense a 740 pattern, though.

Kind of glad to hear that I'm not missing a known trick, even if it's not the result I wa hoping for. I can re-spend the PTPs and get on with hunting.

[Goat]

For what it's worth, 25 ranks of swimming seems fine to get in and out unencumbered (with +24 STR bonus and 96 ranks PF). I've missed the check a few times but I haven't gotten close to drowning. Now that the bowels are past me, I think I'll stick with just those 25 ranks.

[nindon]

Swim it with your hands empty. If I remember correctly, the swim into OTF and several other swims (but not Nelemar) were updated a while ago to cause you to drop held items if you drown.

[Goat]

I dropped in an item in there on accident, I think because I was running go2 at same time as some other inventory management script. I freaked out, but after more than a couple minutes I found out you *can* recover stuff from in there (subject to the janitor, I'm sure.) I think I had to search and then get it,

[Nattor]

I was just using expensive chalk to enter/exit.