Tons of Newbie Questions

I just want to know what a log analyzer is

lol see thats what im talking about a simple question about where ur getting ur info from is 'abrasive' lol like i said ur not the only one of those here. 'it just from my conclusion as a player based on analyzing my logs' explains it well

back in the old days of games like everquest, the only numbers you ever saw were your damage and I think the damage other people did. people didn't even know the HP of monsters or bosses, much less things like DPS and how much stats effected it. so they wrote log analyzers, which would take the combat logs and statistically analyze them to figure out the data. people still do it with MMOs today to figure out the impact that stats have on

arm intentionally hides numbers the best that it can. this leads to players basically being in the dark for how much stats impact the damage they do, being able to compare weapons, which fighting style does the most DPS, etc. the only sure way of being able to do it would pretty much just be sparring with your buddy and correlating the data from the two logs. hence the need for a log analyzer. even if that was developed though, it would still be reliant on some guesswork due to the constant increase of skills and random nature of mob stats.

I don't think anyone actually has, although conceptually I don't think it would take more than a few hours at most to code. The information is going to be somewhat accurate, but again it depends on the control you're using. You can't just spar against your buddy and compare logs from day 1 with day 14 because too many variables have changed - your offense/defense, weapon skill, parry skill, and your buddy's as well. The only people who would be able to run these tests would be imms that could manually set all the variables the same. I guess you could argue that it's 'close enough' since we're not really trying to publish a journal article and show that yes, 2handed does more dps than dual wield and it is statistically significant with a p value of <.05. idk, it'd be an interesting exercise though.

edit: In addition to above I'd be a little surprised/disappointed if staff (read: Morgenes) didn't have programs or scripts set up for that since it would be fundamentally necessary to setting up a somewhat balanced combat system.

Experience with RPIs says you're going to be disappointed. Balance doesn't matter, especially if the players can't see the difference anyways.

Respectfully, half giants commonly do around 20hp on a bash against a human size target. Often it seems exactly 20hp. Tested many times recently.

I believe it is a hard cap, as bashing a mek does 20 damage too.

Mostly just salt. You can forage spice around Red Storm, but don't bring it back to Allanak if you don't know what you're doing. There might be a couple of places to forage "artifacts" (apparent trash that's somehow used as magick components) but I can't remember anymore, and they're a bit tricky to sell.

You can also pick bimbal (green sap-filled leaves) from certain plants around Allanak. These will sell for 18+ each at the herbalist, and she seems to clear her inventory of them every dawn. There should still be a bimbal plant just northwest of the west gates.

If you're really desperate, some types of rocks will sell for like one or two 'sid at the rock shop on Miner's Road. If you're able to forage food (it used to be that only rangers and subguild-scavengers could do this; no idea if this is still the case) then foraged food can also be sold at the grocer for small change.

A much easier and more lucrative "job" is to dress in shitty clothes and go around the Labyrinth a bit to collect stuff from dead NPCs and sell it. Their clothes and weapons are worth surprisingly decent money and the NPCs will continuously kill eachother.



I don't think there's a way to tell. However, plenty of movement-boosting gear (usually sandcloth-based) is sold by NPCs around the world, particularly in Luir's. It tends to offer poor protection, though. It's not that great unless you're a city-elf trying to do shit in the desert, which is a bad idea altogether. If you're a human, just wear armor and depend on your mount for movement. It's not worth going out of your way to get +mv gear.



Can't recall if it gives the exact same information as view, but 'assess' (and 'assess -v' for more details; no idea what the -v stands for) gives some feedback that usually isn't readily apparent elsewhere. You can also assess people.



Most scrab are sort of medium difficulty. They can hit kinda hard, but they don't fight so well. They're some of the easiest animals in the southlands, but that's not saying much.



You can skin with pretty much any kind of knife/dagger, as well as axes. Skinning knives typically have a slight bonus to the skill check, but it never seemed significant to me. I've had characters that would skin with longknives and hand axes without any trouble.