Bloodriven Village Shops

Find out how you can extend your Duskruin using this one weird trick.

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Originally Posted by Androidpk

Find out how you can extend your Duskruin using this one weird trick.

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GMs hate him!

I bet they saw their corporate account virtually blowing up and were thinking...hmm, we extend this just a couple more days yes?

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Originally Posted by tyrant-201

Would be my guess. They're saturating the shit out of the enhancive market. Keeping it closed part of the time is more of an incentive to save scrip for the next run, I'd wager. Some items are 1 time only, and limited for purchase.

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This is one of the core rules of successful gamification- artificial scarcity. Though, the enhancive issue is definitely part of the problem. If you read the officials- it's clear Wyrom is trying to figure out how to do that without pissing everyone off. I don't envy him.

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Originally Posted by LivderaDeralleur

Has anyone tried the fully unlocked mechanical crossbows on a gnome? Don't they get some sort of bonus when cocking a crossbow? Wondering if it may apply here. I may have to consider switching my gnome to a crossbow from a longbow, if that's the case.

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I'll re-evaluate the math associated with a crossbow compared to a bow.. I know there's about a 20% DS contribution difference between bows and crossbows, favoring bows (.15 DS contribution in offensive for bows versus .12 for crossbows). I'll take a look at the DF values and such as well.

If you have ridiculously high RT, it seems like a good option, but if you're anywhere close to minimum RT, I couldn't any crossbow as advantageous, especially considering the additional verbs, and two sets of RT.

I went ahead and grabbed one of the 5x fully unlocked mechanical heavy crossbows. If nothing else, it may be nice to have along as a secondary weapon. I was more drawn by the fact it can hold 5 bolts before it needs to be reloaded. Only issue with any of this is the ridiculous encumbrance issues with a gnome already - carrying an extra weapon may be difficult.

I think I may have a 6 sec RT with my longbow, not sure. Will have to play around with the crossbow sometime this week.

From Facebook:

"Want to keep Duskruin Arena and the shops at Bloodriven Village open even longer? Well we have a way for you to do it! Take a picture of you playing GemStone IV. The picture must include you with GemStone IV opened up in the background. If you can't do that, a picture of you holding a sign with your character name and date will suffice! After you have your picture, tag GemStone IV and use ‪#‎keepduskruinopen‬ so we can all see you! If we can get 10 people to take part before Wednesday night at 9pm ET, we'll extend the event one day! If we can get 25 people to do it, we'll extend the event for two more days! Just check out GM Wyrom's example below!"

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LOL Mario. That's great.

What's the latest on the Duskruin extension? Does anyone have a firm closing date?

updated.

If anyone has spellbound rod/wand info can you post it here please.