Newsletter 13 is out

https://mailchi.mp/broadsword/nls-newsletter-13

Very interesting reward slots for the Dungeon.  If these have good stats we may be changing some items.

Does someone recognize that Dungeon?

It was originally misspelled Frey  should have been Fey.

So make fey slayers @McDougle  

Another Medusa version boss for the Spawn.

No hint at those rewards.

See what happens when the UO gods know I'm quitting. They come out with new plants and birdhouses.....

@Kyronix ; that Bird house should be a rabbit house.  How we gonna come up with 30 more stable slots?

Looks Fun!  Thanks 

Pawain said:

https://mailchi.mp/broadsword/nls-newsletter-13

Very interesting reward slots for the Dungeon.  If these have good stats we may be changing some items.

Does someone recognize that Dungeon?

It was originally misspelled Frey  should have been Fey.

So make fey slayers @ McDougle  

It looks like the entrance to Destard.

KHAN said:

Pawain said:

https://mailchi.mp/broadsword/nls-newsletter-13

Very interesting reward slots for the Dungeon.  If these have good stats we may be changing some items.

Does someone recognize that Dungeon?

It was originally misspelled Frey  should have been Fey.

So make fey slayers @ McDougle  

It looks like the entrance to Destard.

I thought so but that has no Fey.  Cant wait for Popps to meet a Super Paragon Ancient Wyrm!

In Corp Mani Xen might be a Fey Slayer Talisman. Save you making Fey Slayers.

Typically you put dragon slayer on cold weapons. I made those for the Julia quest.

Have to see the  exact foes when it comes out.

Will these cuddly bunnies be murder bunnies??

Just guessing:
Destard will have its normal stuff plus maybe other mob types.
The spawn will have Fey for the spawn mobs.

Fey spawn can be nasty.

It's Destard...the one I thought it was going to be.



Side by Side comparison in game vs. newsletter.

Maybe fairy dragons?

"I need to make sure everyone understands we have a restriction and can not receive emails that come from a hotmail account.  If you are emailing us from that type of email please understand we are not ignoring you, we are not getting those emails. Please change your email and email us back.

*shrug* they get my hotmails" 

Looks like someone else is writing the newsletter now.

Merus said:

Maybe fairy dragons?

Aren't the mobs for despicable quivers in the back of destard kind of fey-like?

you are confusing Destard and Despise @Urge The quivers are from Despise. Destard is full of dragon-kind.

Urge said:

Merus said:

Maybe fairy dragons?

Aren't the mobs for despicable quivers in the back of destard kind of fey-like?

They are in Despise.   They do have wisp companion.  But the men do not have a known slayer. 

Mariah said:

you are confusing Destard and Despise @ Urge The quivers are from Despise. Destard is full of dragon-kind.

Why yes i did. Thanks for the correction. I haven't been in either in quite some years. 

sweet... new events and items... nothing to be updating with Pvp/combat. Ill just continue to run around in towns with no one there to get more war horses for the next few years I guess.

Pawain said:

Urge said:

Merus said:

Maybe fairy dragons?

Aren't the mobs for despicable quivers in the back of destard kind of fey-like?

They are in Despise.   They do have wisp companion.  But the men do not have a known slayer. 

I was thinking the fairy dragons in the abyss outside Stygian Dragon lair.

Merus said:

Pawain said:

Urge said:

Merus said:

Maybe fairy dragons?

Aren't the mobs for despicable quivers in the back of destard kind of fey-like?

They are in Despise.   They do have wisp companion.  But the men do not have a known slayer. 

I was thinking the fairy dragons in the abyss outside Stygian Dragon lair.

Right but I was replying to Urge. I was telling him where the Quiver guys were.

Fairy Dragons are dragons not fey.... Don't ask me why.

Which brings up Karma.  Will these Fey creatures reduce our Karma as we kill them?
The fey group in Blackthorns is not an easy group to fight.

Will they insta attack Negative Karma toons?  Sampires  😂

I can picture them running away from the spawn dragging 400 Mobs for me to kill with an area spell.

This has the potential to be fun in soooo many ways!

I also have to say that everything in there about NL sounds REALLY AWESOME!  I  cannot wait! 

The crafting menu's look really nice, the way resources are gathered I wish they would put into live! Maybe they will if it works out well!

Super excited about NL!!!

I got 16 active accounts, all signed up for the newsletter, and as of this past September, I stopped getting them.  No I don't have a hotmail account, but GoDaddy did turn over the email services to Office 365, and I have to pay for it.  If that's the reason, when will this be fixed?

Also didn't receive the newsletter, using gmail.

Last month mine was flagged as spam by gmail, so scroll through and check that folder. Gmail must have done it by algorithm, because i know i didnt click spam.

It bothers me that the team would rather delete players homes instead of moving a bridge... homes that must have been legal when placed some there for decades...

  

How about equip able musical instruments? 
We would have to consider the best implementation of this idea were we to do it.  Are you whacking something over the head with a lute?  Bashing them with a harp?  Poking them with a drum stick?  Instruments as weapons might be a tall order, but perhaps as an accessory slung over the back like the quiver could work.  Stay tuned!  

Instrument as a weapon?  I got one word: BAGPIPES!  Especially played out of tune. O.o****

Arroth_Thaiel said:

In Corp Mani Xen might be a Fey Slayer Talisman. Save you making Fey Slayers.

There is only one type, so I hope it's for warrior and Cameo quality.

Luc_of_Legends said:

  

How about equip able musical instruments? 
We would have to consider the best implementation of this idea were we to do it.  Are you whacking something over the head with a lute?  Bashing them with a harp?  Poking them with a drum stick?  Instruments as weapons might be a tall order, but perhaps as an accessory slung over the back like the quiver could work.  Stay tuned!  

Instrument as a weapon?  I got one word: BAGPIPES!  Especially played out of tune. O.o****

I've been trying to wrap my head around why this request is so complicated.  Granted I am not a game designer or developer, but we now equip candles, lanterns, torches, bottles, and now orbs... none of these things are used as weapons.  I would have thought they could make art that fits in the left hand like a shield, and could have similar properties to a shield.  These would be magic musical instruments.  Instead of a full size drum, the drum could be a hand drum, the tambourine would be the easiest, a small lyre can replace the harp, and a lute would look natural along the side with a strap.  Sorry not the best photo-shopper.

Basically every feature I've seen them discuss for NL would make a lot more sense on the regular shards, which I point out again already exist, and these are no exception.

Seth said:

Arroth_Thaiel said:

In Corp Mani Xen might be a Fey Slayer Talisman. Save you making Fey Slayers.

There is only one type, so I hope it's for warrior and Cameo quality.

The Ribbon of Valor might also be a tali, maybe Dragon Slayer? Destard is the dungeon opposing the virtue Valor. Destard and a Dragon Slayer tali would go well together.

Hmm, maybe Fey and Draconic mix?

Oh, please let there be paragon renegade changelings...the whining, the whining will be magnificent.

Also:
In Corp Mani Xen = Cause Death Life Creature

No idea what that means, but there ya go. (Pretty sure it's Fey Slayer, but I've been way wrong many times before.)

Arroth_Thaiel said:

Seth said:

Arroth_Thaiel said:

In Corp Mani Xen might be a Fey Slayer Talisman. Save you making Fey Slayers.

There is only one type, so I hope it's for warrior and Cameo quality.

The Ribbon of Valor might also be a tali, maybe Dragon Slayer? Destard is the dungeon opposing the virtue Valor. Destard and a Dragon Slayer tali would go well together.

Hmm, maybe Fey and Draconic mix?

Oh, please let there be paragon renegade changelings...the whining, the whining will be magnificent.

Also:
In Corp Mani Xen = Cause Death Life Creature

No idea what that means, but there ya go. (Pretty sure it's Fey Slayer, but I've been way wrong many times before.)

I also believe it's a Fey Slayer but would only be useful if it is as good/similar if not better than Cameo. 

I forgot, slayer talisman does not work for mages. Since it's an event, I hope it's non-shard bound Fey Cameo at the price of 50 minor arties. 

  

The spring events look very promising.

And the NL craft/resources seem like a dream come true! (Those would be awesome to have implemented also in UO. btw). I believe I will be playing NL gladly!

Archangel said:

The spring events look very promising.

And the NL craft/resources seem like a dream come true! (Those would be awesome to have implemented also in UO. btw). I believe I will be playing NL gladly!

Yeah, they should bring it over prodo shard... all forms of automation.

Yoshi said:

"I'm hoping any new items/rewards are not going to be more powerful than anything current. I don't think i have the heart to rebuild all my char's suits for the third time this year..

After Yukio's earrings,

followed by HCI earrings. "

First world problems. 

No reason to put something in the game If it is not an upgrade.

Pawain said:

Yoshi said:

"I'm hoping any new items/rewards are not going to be more powerful than anything current. I don't think i have the heart to rebuild all my char's suits for the third time this year..

After Yukio's earrings,

followed by HCI earrings. "

First world problems. 

No reason to put something in the game If it is not an upgrade.

So how will players be able to play NL and ignore new items on home shard? 

NL has not been released.  And these items will be long gone by then.

So you're suggesting that once NL is released production shards will get nothing? 

They should give us 3 months to play NL and concentrate on that.  After 3 months we will be bored and need something else.  Up to them to decide where.

To redirect this conversation away from the non-stop NL kvetching,

I want to highlight how excited I am that there is new virtue content coming! I hope that monk standing there gives away the 'Ankh of Devotion' which has a cool effect. (I also hope we get those neat candles..)

There is a lot in this upcoming event that seems to involve plants, birds, and bugs. Obviously pretty timed to the spring season, but is also really welcome cause anything that strengthens the feel of the "natural world" of the game is a good idea. Makes it more of a real place (especially as expressed through fun quests) as opposed to just a series of areas where certain mobs tend to appear. 

Finally, boy that NL calendar raises a ton of questions, doesn't it? For RP purposes I've tried to figure out what year we are in, in a way that makes sense for the game universe and the real world. This has been difficult.

So, from that picture of the calendar they put up, 73 days in that month * 12 = 876 days per Britannian year. To me this is news because it confirms (or reconfirms again cause when was the last time the dev team talked about this?) what is on the UOGuide page about time. If that page is still correct and one Earth year equals five Britannian years, then 125 years have passed since the start of the game.

If the game starts at Britannia year 300 (based upon that old Seer timeline where year 0 was the breaking of the Gem) or year 289 (based on the UOGuide page) then we're around year 414-425. If you were around for the spell that split the facets into Trammel and Felucca (let's say year 315) then your character is well over a hundred years old. Blackthorn has been on the throne for 50 years. Maybe most importantly that unfinished marble statue in Minoc has been sitting around for hundreds of years at this point..

Pawain said:

Yoshi said:

"I'm hoping any new items/rewards are not going to be more powerful than anything current. I don't think i have the heart to rebuild all my char's suits for the third time this year..

After Yukio's earrings,

followed by HCI earrings. "

First world problems. 

No reason to put something in the game If it is not an upgrade.

We need to put this statement at the top of the UO.com to remind @Kyronix please give us good reasonS upgrade our suits every year.

Pawain said:

They should give us 3 months to play NL and concentrate on that.  After 3 months we will be bored and need something else.  Up to them to decide where.

They took 3 years to make something we get bored in 3 months  😂

+1

Jepeth said:

To redirect this conversation away from the non-stop NL kvetching,

I want to highlight how excited I am that there is new virtue content coming! I hope that monk standing there gives away the 'Ankh of Devotion' which has a cool effect. (I also hope we get those neat candles..)

There is a lot in this upcoming event that seems to involve plants, birds, and bugs. Obviously pretty timed to the spring season, but is also really welcome cause anything that strengthens the feel of the "natural world" of the game is a good idea. Makes it more of a real place (especially as expressed through fun quests) as opposed to just a series of areas where certain mobs tend to appear. 

Finally, boy that NL calendar raises a ton of questions, doesn't it? For RP purposes I've tried to figure out what year we are in, in a way that makes sense for the game universe and the real world. This has been difficult.

So, from that picture of the calendar they put up, 73 days in that month * 12 = 876 days per Britannian year. To me this is news because it confirms (or reconfirms again cause when was the last time the dev team talked about this?) what is on the UOGuide page about time. If that page is still correct and one Earth year equals five Britannian years, then 125 years have passed since the start of the game.

If the game starts at Britannia year 300 (based upon that old Seer timeline where year 0 was the breaking of the Gem) or year 289 (based on the UOGuide page) then we're around year 414-425. If you were around for the spell that split the facets into Trammel and Felucca (let's say year 315) then your character is well over a hundred years old. Blackthorn has been on the throne for 50 years. Maybe most importantly that unfinished marble statue in Minoc has been sitting around for hundreds of years at this point..

Yes it looks like it is decorative. So what do you think the Ankh would do?

I'm hoping the Ribbon of valor is a wall hanging,  hopefully it at least makes some affect when you click it.

The Plinth makes a better base for the Dove cage than mine sitting on a Trash Barrel.  Hopefully a Bust will fit nicely on top of those.

I assume the Bird House will do something.  Maybe a colorful bird comes out when you click it.
The mud pile may make a Squish noise.

I have interest in all of the items shown.  But so far none of the weapons from these events have made me want to buy them.

The clothing be interesting if it has stats that will make us consider changing our suits.
Or if it is completely new and has a new property or has something that will enhance a specific template.
Quiver will have to be pretty special for me to change from Despicable.

@seth The slayer tali will probably be like the last one, No SSI.

@ seth The slayer tali will probably be like the last one, No SSI.

Then its not an upgrade...


"our focus this year has been on wrapping up Resource Acquisition & Crafting before moving on to the Guild & Social & PvP side of things. 
"

so this means
2022 Resource Acquisition & Crafting
2023 Guild
2024 Social
2025 PVP (this must be most interesting).
2026 Beta test, final QC, debug and debug.
2027 Released

I still haven't got the latest newsletter and I get all of them! Update: Sure enough it was in gmail's spam folder.

Seth said:

@ seth The slayer tali will probably be like the last one, No SSI.

Then its not an upgrade...

Since there is no Fey Tali.  It would be an upgrade...

Pawain said:

Seth said:

@ seth The slayer tali will probably be like the last one, No SSI.

Then its not an upgrade...

Since there is no Fey Tali.  It would be an upgrade...

 why.. u... we... could have... conned... the dev... to give us... a fey cameo.

@Mariah @Mesanna
Is it possible to update the link newsletter archive to the website navigation?

https://uo.com/newsletter-archive/

Now they only have old newsletter.

I know there is another latest archive link but why is it not updated on the top nav bar?

Seth said:

@ Mariah @ Mesanna
Is it possible to update the link newsletter archive to the website navigation?

https://uo.com/newsletter-archive/

Now they only have old newsletter.

I know there is another latest archive link but why is it not updated on the top nav bar?

Any newsletter has a link at the top left to past newsletters. No need to fix what is not broken.

https://us9.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=17d7bd79de495239fca33bcf5&id=3b563e3983

Pawain said:

Seth said:

@ Mariah @ Mesanna
Is it possible to update the link newsletter archive to the website navigation?

https://uo.com/newsletter-archive/

Now they only have old newsletter.

I know there is another latest archive link but why is it not updated on the top nav bar?

Any newsletter has a link at the top left to past newsletters. No need to fix what is not broken.

https://us9.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=17d7bd79de495239fca33bcf5&id=3b563e3983

I didn't ask where is the new link.

I am asking to fix the Broken Link in UO.COM nav bar above.

Seth said:

Pawain said:

Seth said:

@ Mariah @ Mesanna
Is it possible to update the link newsletter archive to the website navigation?

https://uo.com/newsletter-archive/

Now they only have old newsletter.

I know there is another latest archive link but why is it not updated on the top nav bar?

Any newsletter has a link at the top left to past newsletters. No need to fix what is not broken.

https://us9.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=17d7bd79de495239fca33bcf5&id=3b563e3983

I didn't ask where is the new link.

I am asking to fix the Broken Link in UO.COM nav bar above.

The link in your post works for me.  It does take a while to load.  But things like this would be acknowledged faster here: https://forum.uo.com/categories/forum-feedback ; Her personal fix this please area.

It loads pretty fast for me, but it is loading an outdated webpage instead of the new link.

The best place to get attention is still in the main forum as it is right on top of the forum page, while the "Forum Feedback" is right at the bottom like all the forgotten bug post. 

Did anyone make it to the Dev Meet and Greet on Monday, March 21st at 7pm ET? I missed it but can't find any information about it.