Could always try, if it doesn't work, it won't go through.

My questions:

How useful is the Gem of Cloaking really? is not being on qw and such lists really that helpful when raiding or such?

How useful is the Shield Rune for cudgels?

Is the artifact soap better than having a cleanse ring? 2sec balance that good compared to a normal enchantment?

Gem of Cloaking is great for the paranoid types. Even better if you have Aethersight since you'd know if someone was looking for you specifically.

Shield rune stats are greater than normal forged shields, so that's a buff alone. Non-decaying cudgels is another perk.

Cleanse is around..4s? Scrub is 2s. Much faster.

Gem of Cloaking is all a matter of perspective. It's also very conditional. It prevents you from being jumped in enemy territory, but if people don't particularly like you, they'll be on the look out for you anyways. If you are raiding, scent will find you. If you want to get the gem for anti-jump, you'll really need to scent spam or get aethersight for it to be effective. If you are generally innocuous, no one's going to bother you anyways.

With that in mind, the value is up to you.

Shield rune is always a good idea for classes that use shields. Better than any shield that can be forged, and frees up your other hand for (potentially) something else.

Soap is always good, but might not be the first thing on your list if you still have key skills to obtain or lack artie pipes.

I found it very useful for not getting jumped, particularly in the Undervault. Of course, this was when people kept an active lookout for enemies down there. If they still do, then I wouldn't know!

What are the effects of a Disruption scroll on someone who is not a psionics user?

Will Bookbinding ever get any true love and be made useful?

Does having Skunk totem, a Gem of Cloaking, Aethersight, and Spectacles of Clairvoyance mean I'm paranoid?

You forgot wolf. So... no.

Out of curiosity, what is the % modifier on Knighthood combatstyle aggressive and concentrated? How much of a speed boost does combatstyle lightning provide?

I don't have a Marauder's Mask either.

Here's some of my old notes, though from before the weapon stat effect overhaul thing:

SK C 1110/676
SK A 1325/539
SK L 1073/539
SK D 1001/437
SK N 1214/608

Being weapon/style/damage/wounds. Don't have the speed boost from lightning though recorded. Hope it helps a little.

Do the will recovery artifacts recover aetherwill? Going off that if they do, how fast is the rune of iron will recover rate on aetherwill?

I've been told that they don't but I haven't tested and it might have changed by now.

Can anyone PM me the Harmonics learning message? Thanks.

How can I figure out when I started playing? Characters won't help, since it's saying the last updated registering was in 2010, which I'm pretty sure I started before then.

Thanks...

Nothing.

Also, no.

None.

If you started at 18, you've been playing 121 years, and with each year at roughly 12.5 RL days, that's 1512.5 days, which is something like 4 years, a month and a half (done in my head so maths may be horrible)

I started at 21, but I've been aeonics deaged back 20 years, and I know 2 of those years were misweaves...?

You'd think there'd be a record somewhere of you characters creation date. You might have to ask the admins.