Nerf you.

After finding out the Aetheric quickening ring is 500 credits, I may have to wait for an artifact sale before I buy one. It's still nifty though.

I wish the marauder's masks would stop being on the list. They don't actually benefit the people getting them very much; instead, they render a dozen other skills and artifacts pointless due to the constant false alarms caused by every idiot and his pet dog wearing one 24/7 for no reason.

I actually agree with Lendren on this one. He is an idiot.

EDIT:On topic, I like this idea very much. I got a prism and it's a very nice toy, my first artie!

Wow. This looks like fun.
<_< Anyone know if bandits can be influenced?

Edit: Xikue got a pair faerie wings. ^_^

On the other hand, this really makes me a want a Mask. Aethersight, Spectacles of Clairvoyance, and a Gem of Cloaking just aren't enough for me! Even if I only do get jumped when I'm afk, mostly.

If you pay attention to deathsight, the fulcrux is actually the center of combat once in a while. I wouldn't consider it a safe place.

Feyrll isn't a combatant either and she got jumped at random just cause she was an enemy. I'm surprised you think that just because you're not threatening anyone actively at the moment, you're not a target, or that you deserve some kind of griefing immunity. You want that, then build up your rep to the point that no one has the guts to jump you.

Alternatively, learn to run faster or get divinefire.

On a random note to steal the thread You guys should really look at the city helpfiles when a person is masked and you know who it is. It will show them in the Able to Induct New Members part as a masked (whatever).

so thats how they know who I am, darn you Help files

So bandits have really low drop rates now, and Estarra has said that she put the auction arties into the possible drops.

Anyone get any of those? Or has anyone even gotten anything at all since the nerf?

I got nothin last week and so far, nothin this week. It makes me sad. Everytime I kill a bandit and nothing falls out, I feel like I opened an empty box at Christmas.

Killed a half dozen bandits or more and nothing at all. Fixplz!

I've killed over thirty for nothing myself.

I'm beginning to suspect that when you kill a bandit, the game looks at how many artifacts are in your inventory and removes another 1% probability of getting a drop for each one it finds.

I'm beginning to think that these bandits are just terrible failures.

Like, E.T. on the Atari failures.

The first week was awesome and made me want to buy artifacts. These last two make me wish they hadn't wasted this month's promo on it.

Exactly, it seems counter-intuitive as a marketing strategy to -lower- the rate of artifact drops, since the items that drop anyway aren't exactly crazy broken combat artifacts.

Why wouldn't the admin want more people to experience the arties so they (the players) might want to purchase one for themselves in the future?

Plus I really wanted to try that artifact cloak before the auction resolves, but I think it's too late now.

Way too late since the auctions would resolve by the last tuesday of the month. I adored the first week where I got to try out a Fire and Air ring and resolved to save up for them, but the lowered drops kinda, well, killed anything else after.

Lowered drop rate == failed promotion.

Anyone tried the other games? Is their's low and we got brought down to match?