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April 24, 2002 04:08 pm ET - research by Melantus
Veteran Questions: Part II

Why is the level 50 bonus for mage not in the game yet and when is it predicted that it will come.
The bonus to a stat is available to all classes at level 51 and above. The mage bonus at 50 you are talking about needs some re-evaluation. We have some plans in the future as far as the bonuses for high levels, but we can't reveal that yet. Needless to say, it is something that has our attention. I should have more info on this in the future.

Is Antharas earth resistance and if we erupt him will he gain hp or will the damage be less or will the damage be equal but still has to be updated? Also with his MR is it possible to slow or weapon break him? And what does Antharas drops at this moment?
Eruption will not heal Antharas. Since Antharas does not carry a weapon, weapon break would have no effect on him. He does have high resistance, so that is a factor. I don't want to list out all the items he carries, but I will tell you that he carries tsurugi and crystal plate mail.

There are con mages, and int mages, con knights, and str knights. dex elves and con elves. All of these characters are made with maxed out stats in these areas because it's known that these areas are the only effects to those characters...why not add advantages for making a more rounded character?
The advantage to a more rounded character is being able to handle and adapt to a wider variety of situations. This is an inherited natural advantage in characters that more evenly distribute the stats. Such is the decision a player must make when creating a character. Do they want a more specialized character, that will be great doing one or two things but weak in others. Or does the player want a more rounded character, that is good in everything but not the best in one single thing?

Can a weapon have a hit with a delivered damage of zero?
There was at one time a bug that could have shown a graphic of a hit when one did not actually occur. That was corrected. It is not possible to deliver a damage of zero from a weapon hit. The weapon either hits and does damage, or it doesn’t hit.

Does an enchanted weapon give an increased chance to hit, or just to damage?
Yes to both.

Will we ever be able to tame a drake?
No plans to change drakes in that way.

Will all the mage spells be put into the game?
We are planning some new spells, yes. All of them put in? Probably not. There are certain spells that will probably never return because of the drastic imbalances with them, or the ways in which such spells could be abused.

Will the dragons be put in display in the Giran Arena?
By now you know the answer to this is yes. :)

Will we ever see Kurtz again?
Maybe. :)

Is there some kind of critical hit? (that would explain the inner working of the dice dagger)
The dice dagger is a special weapon. There is no other critical hit.

Different weapons have different number of dices?
Each weapon has a different “range” of minimum and maximum damage possible, if the weapon does a hit on the monster. This can be affected by several other factors, including the monster’s defenses. The term “dice” will be explained a bit later on.

How does STR affect damage?
It affects only melee damage, not bow damage. We will be answering this a bit more in some following answers.

April 24, 2002 04:16 pm ET (#1)
BurningDeath
Loyal Fan

42 posts
04-20-02

First post! ^^;

Will we ever see Kurtz again?
Maybe. :)

Yeah i'm happy with that. Good answer. o.0

April 24, 2002 04:24 pm ET (#2)
Elbryan
Loyal Fan

180 posts
01-21-02

I disagree with str affecting bow damage bit - It sure does. I even tested it out after Mel posted this. But he did say that he would get back to us with more info, so I'm waiting on that.

April 24, 2002 04:24 pm ET (#3)
sikrob
Loyal Fan

98 posts
04-03-02

still kinda avoiding some q's.

April 24, 2002 04:34 pm ET (#4)
EdgyAsHell
Loyal Fan

128 posts
10-11-01

Oh so vague...

April 24, 2002 04:43 pm ET (#5)
BigPope
LC Admin

622 posts
01-18-02

I never knew that enchant weapon increased hit too.
Why do you want kurtz so much. he never droped anything that good.

April 24, 2002 05:09 pm ET (#6)
amer
LC Admin

864 posts
07-11-01

I'm so glad Melantus cleared that up about eruption "healing" Antharas. I think that goes in "Top 5 Completely Ridiculous Lineage Rumors of All Time"

April 24, 2002 05:10 pm ET (#7)
cruelgame
LC Reporter

290 posts
04-04-02

I don't want Kurtz. I want Cray. o.o

April 24, 2002 05:58 pm ET (#8)
aupairKing
Loyal Fan

320 posts
03-11-02

Why are these answers so vague at times? If you do not want to be specific then just don't answer the question mel, don't jerk us around.

April 24, 2002 10:28 pm ET (#9)
xanth
Loyal Fan

11 posts
12-06-01

The part about not being able to do 0 damage is questionable. I've attacked monsters before that have 1hp (as far as I know) that should have died in one hit no matter what. However, that was not that case, in fact have lived several hits. And rather recently too, (a few days ago in fact) a goblin (3hp) took several hits from a +6 Rapier. Anyone want to tell me how that is possible?

Almost forgot...Rounded characters. I don't know about the rest of you, but rounded character (with VERY few exceptions) have next to no value. Those rounded characters cannot compete in anyway with or without all those supposed benefits. Obviously rounded characters are mostly a waste of time. The elf that my name represents was a rounded elf, and as good as he was to me, other non-rounded elves were far better in every respect. In no way did I see any benefit where I was better at anything then others.

April 24, 2002 11:10 pm ET (#10)
Ramza
Loyal Fan

722 posts
01-11-02

i noticed the same thing with the goblin it took 4 hits from my +7yumi to kill one. I also used to ahve a rounded knight named askari with 17con 17 str and con knights and str knights beat him very easily now i ahvea all out dex elf and its way much better.

April 24, 2002 11:43 pm ET (#11)
Arkaine
Loyal Fan

153 posts
04-23-02

yea rounded chars suck. I used to have a 17 17 knight too and he couldnt compete at all. Now i have 20 str knight and he much better

April 25, 2002 12:13 am ET (#12)
DumbPig
Loyal Fan

54 posts
02-28-02

i wonder too what rounded chars good on?
wasting more money to lv up?
DumbPig
(~oo~)

April 25, 2002 02:00 am ET (#13)
Vail
Loyal Fan

260 posts
02-27-02

Melantus, I read lots of the posts on the Veteran Questions thread, but it seems to me like you're answering ones that were not asked by the majority of players. Almost everyone asked what Blessed Items do/don't do. When will you answer that.

You also have to know that Rounded Characters are crap. Too many of the Character Stats to to little to balance the Characters out. The day that rounded Characters have some value will be the day you guys decide that stats like Cha. Int, and Dex should do something more. Charisma really needs some help. As a Princess who places little value in her Pledge (currently) I find that Charisma does very little to help me, and is almost useless since it can't go below 13.

April 25, 2002 10:38 am ET (#14)
Pepper
Loyal Fan

135 posts
02-11-02

Ohhhhhh veteran questions and answers.
Well, I dun quite agree to the answer he gave to the question 'Can a weapon have a hit with a delivered damage of zero', since they played around with your stats and the capabilities of doing more / less dmg, carrying stuffs now are somewhat changed...there is possiblity that you can hit and do a dmg of 0.
I dunno if it's a bug but try to hit someone with a +0 Staff of Sorcery WITH an 18 int & 18 wis mage (which means they have Str 8? i dunno o.o ) But it's possible that no damage is inflicted even though the person seems to have received a hit. Or...can it be a bug too? Lineage is full of wonders.

April 25, 2002 11:17 am ET (#15)
Protocol
Loyal Fan

271 posts
03-26-02

to vail, this is wat i got from hklineage but i'm not sure if its true or even the same on our server:
Also, what's special about blessed armor and weapon? Are they less
likely to drop? Do more damage, more protection? Easier to enchant? ^^
Blessed items are more resistant to eroding. And blessed weapons
inflict more damage to the undead monsters (including the death knight).

pls dont quote me on that... its jus sumthing i read off hklineage -.-

April 25, 2002 06:56 pm ET (#16)
FlyZ
Loyal Fan

791 posts
11-11-01

Can a weapon have a hit with a delivered damage of zero?
There was at one time a bug that could have shown a graphic of a hit when one did not actually occur. That was corrected. It is not possible to deliver a damage of zero from a weapon hit. The weapon either hits and does damage, or it doesn’t hit.

lmao.. i can still do 0 damage on a mage. Corrected? I laugh at you.

April 26, 2002 02:38 am ET (#17)
Pepper
Loyal Fan

135 posts
02-11-02

LOL shuddap babo flyz -_____-
(He's the mage that does no dmg kakakaka)

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