Ah, ok. Thanks!

Greatrobes are in the 'normal' layer. Things in the 'overwear' layer are: slippers, coats, cloaks, capes, tabards, vests, scarfs, aprons, masks. And you can wear accessories as well: backpacks, belts, bags blankets, satchels, pouches, shawls, stoles, veils.

I don't know for sure, but I think it works the same, since you are making a purchase.

How exactly do the storytelling abilities in Dramatics work? They just make it harder to influence a denizen? How long does it last and does it work after they've been influenced? If you do it before you influence do you get more experience for the added difficulty?

Thanks!

Storytelling makes it harder to influence them, essentially giving them more ego, I think. You do not get more experience points for influencing them. You just use up more bromide.

Hmm. Do you know how long the added ego effect lasts?

Are illuminati gauntlets something you wear or wield?

Wear.

Does dwarven/brewmeister alchohol tolerance keep it from being suicide to actually fight while drunk? Or do you still get a bunch of missed commands and such?

You get fewer missed commands, but fewer isn't none, and you have to be awfully drunk for the damage resistance to really stack up. It's not bad for bashing, though.

Now a follow-up question on tolerance.

For alcohol tolerance, does normal tolerance also decrease the amount of missed commands? So, by raising tolerance, it increases the amount you have to drink to get drunk, but does it also make you a little more manageable once you get there?

Also, does the "damage" that darkbrew increases count for influencing as well, as that is dealing ego damage?

For question one, if that is the case, it's not noticeable without measurement. I can't tell you definitely no, since it's not something I thought to check, but it doesn't feel like it.

For question two, the answer also appears to be no, but darkbrew isn't all that awesome, and influence has a relatively large random factor.

Well that's all depressing. Oh well. Thanks for the answers though.

Damage buffs, by necessity, need to scale in a way that makes sense for PvP, even if the buff is only really practical for bashing.

Think of it this way. You have an attack that deals 2000 damage every ten seconds to a target with 5000 health. That same target can heal 1800 health every ten seconds. Your target dies in 150 seconds. It would be intuitive to think that a 10% damage boost means that your target dies 10% faster, or in 135 seconds, but you'd be wrong. Your target actually dies in 70 seconds--better than half. That same 10% can be lost in the noise of influence randomness, though.

Actually its not so much the damage being sucky that I have an issue with. Its that I wish it was more viable to do anything, even bashing, while drunk, if that's what its all meant to be for.

Bashing with fumbles seems like a pretty bad idea. Though I guess if you've got a system to auto-repeat your command its not as bad as it could be. Maybe in my head I'm just assuming its worse than it is.

If you have a failsafe auto sipper and a finger that can hit your bashing macro twice, it's not hard to bash drunk.

Maybe I'm just used to influencing, where an extra second delay can get you smacked pretty hard. Whereas in bashing you're getting hit no matter what.

You feel a presence next to you.
A Daughter of the Night floats in from the south, trailing shadows.

Does anyone know what that is?

A farheal attempt that didn't actually heal anything since you were at max health/weren't afflicted.

Which is also weird since there was no one else in Ethereal when that happened.