Mini-quest. Although it might be passive, I'm not sure.

It's all a miniquest, which is why a month or so ago Kalikai yelled at us for not caring for the pots as most of them were at 0. Now the one we need to be at 4000+ is at a little over 1000 and the one least used it at 4000+

Hallifax's spheres just need one to place gems into the correct sphere which it just grows facets, rather simple.

I love the new skills and all the flavour that goes with them. Only thing that concerns me is there are three different fatten morphs for belly, torso, and legs. Also I was hoping the Illuminati bashing skill would be more interesting and flavourful that punching things in the jaw.

Do the Institute have a bashing attack other than cosmicfire?

Yeah, you can point your crystalwand at something. At the moment, though, it's doing less damage than cosmicfire. Buff please!

Protip: don't bug it, they will tell you to use cosmicfire. Don't issue the bug resolution they will tell you to talk to your envoy.

Hands aren't amazing either. I'm seeing more from Cosmicfire then my Uberpunch. Heavy damage my foot!

That would be why I bugged it and then issued the bug resolution. So expect to wait at least a month and a half for the envoy process to fix it.

Have to wonder why. I thought the main point of the symbols was because guardians sucked so hard at bashing. Seems silly to go through it again.

Step 1) Get an envoy.

Hence the month+ wait.

That was my thought too, but hey, I was told if I don't like how a skill is designed then there is an envoy process... after being told that our seemingly bashing attack is not a bashing attack and to use cosmicfire to bash.

Symbols also arent that much of a step up from Cosmicfire, which is why one of the important things about them is etching a hexangle and pentangle, which make it alot more useful.

Though im not sure if Illuminati members can etch symbols on their hands....

Envoying gauntlets and wands to be etchable is fine. I just wanted my only specced attack that hits denizens, marking it as the obvious specced bashing attack.... to do more than my novice attack and reasonably assumed it was a bug that it didn't do this, and further reasonably assumed the bug handler was mistaken in trying to say "use cosmicfire" because we went down this road years ago with the other Guardian guilds...

hmm yeah I get what your saying, I also just now tested with a friend both Cosmicfire and symbol strike with me having no defenses up, the damage was the same, 700. We then tried with a Hexangle and it was then 800. Though I do find it a bit annoying that we have to get etching in spellcraft to make our later "stronger" bashing skill actually stronger in bashing

I actually had updates ready on Friday, but they chose to release the guilds while I was in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean. Only just got Internet now, and will be posting them soon.

Is the beak balance fast enough for one person to actually peck out both eyes?

Man. I was expecting to really like Hallifax and the Institute, but Transmology is just so epic in its flavor. I'm going to be really interested to see what the guild leaders do with it.