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8/3/2025 18:05:19   
CarrionSpike
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 COMING THIS WEEK!

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This month's Golden Giftboxes hold ancient, untold knowledge! Discover the legendary Tome of Oulbara and, with it, the power to call upon the supreme wisdom of the ancient owl deity. Plus, complete your enlightened look with 4 new Scholar of Oulbara faces.

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An owlstanding release! Tag, you're it. ~Anim

< Message edited by AnimalKing -- 8/4/2025 3:17:52 >
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8/3/2025 18:39:51   
CH4OT1C!
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A bird-themed tome? This is already looking very positive.

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AQ  Post #: 2
8/3/2025 20:42:34   
JhyShy
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 With these new faces I have to ask if it would be okay to make these faces a permanent addition to the GGBs or at least let them be seasonal, unlike certain unreturned GGB faces like the hivediver faces or some of the magus faces (Which I still hope return one day)

Also makes me wonder if the owl will have some lore hints or drops
Post #: 3
8/5/2025 8:09:05   
Ninjaty
Member

I second JhyShy's suggestion and I share the enthusiasm of CH4OT1C!.
Unless there is a technical limitation on the contents a shop can contain, I see little reason to not simply return all GGBs that have not been explicitly stated to be perma rare, and create variants for those that have. If there is such a limitation, perhaps all said items could be put into an automatic rotation, so the staff merely have to add new items to said rotation system, rather than manually adding and removing all those items from the shops each cycle.

As for the new tome: My mage shall be pleased with learning its ancient secrets. He collects tomes, as one does when time loses all meaning and yearning for knowledge becomes an eternal obsession that the mailman couldn't possibly fathom the importance of when he dares be late with a tome delivery!!
... He's a bit eccentric that one. Also the mailman is now a horse that runs at Mach 4.


#JusticeForSparkleHoof
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8/5/2025 12:17:47   
Progseeks
Member
 

 Owls are often thought of as angry as they defend their woodland homes. This one is just plain wise!
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8/5/2025 15:45:24   
chaosnecro
Member

@CH4OT1C! : Don't you mean pawsitive? ...wait, hm. No, that's not quite right. I'll think on it and get back to you

What a stinkin' cute looking bird set! I look forward to seeing how it plays.

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AQ  Post #: 6
8/5/2025 19:44:52   
ArchNero
Member

Really excited for the tome, I just hope it's not going to be a light clone of glacial short staff, and instead hopefully they do something different and unique with it.
Post #: 7
8/6/2025 10:06:53   
Kaizoku
Member

Always excited for tomes! (or less represented equipment in general)
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 8
8/7/2025 15:43:46   
  The Hollow
AQ Lead


 Indeed, our shop system has a maximum item capacity. The release is live and as part of this latest release, we've brought back the Hivediver and Magus faces for a limited time!


Rare:
  • 4x Scholar of Oulbara Faces
  • 6x Hivediver Faces
  • 4x Magus Faces

    UR:
  • Tome of Oulbara
    • AQ  Post #: 9
    8/7/2025 19:23:20   
    JhyShy
    Member
     

    		 Thanks for bringing back the faces Hollow!
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    8/8/2025 7:04:10   
    KhalJJ
    Member
     

    		 Excellent art!

    I want to raise a point of confusion regarding the INT boost from the tome.

    Personally I think it is completely fine to have such a boost (QC +117 INT). This is good, and seems like something a lot of players would and do enjoy.

    However, it's certainly very confusing from a player perspective when the Reign misc was reduced from similar to ~+40 STR, and one of the explicit reasons given was because it exceeded Buffalot (token package), and this tome does exactly that with respect to Arcane Amplification.



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    8/8/2025 13:09:35   
    CH4OT1C!
    Member

    		There is definitely something to be said regarding this tome exceeding the INT boost provided by Arcane Amplification, especially when it's also capable of casting other spells. With that said, I'm not sure how helpful it is to compare it with Eternal Reign's Memory. The initial version of that misc had quite a few more problems than just its STR boost exceeding the one provided by Buffalot's Beach Bod.
    AQ  Post #: 12
    8/8/2025 14:27:14   
    KhalJJ
    Member
     

    		 I'm just slightly baffled, and I want to have confidence in buying any such items.

    I think it's a perfectly legitimate comparison - the explicit reasoning given at the time for Reign (from LK) was: "It's still going to be really good, just not stronger than any misc gets to be and even stronger than Buffalot."

    My understanding of this was that it was an issue that it was stronger than buffalot. Yes, you could argue there were other issues, but that doesn't mean that it being stronger than buffalot was not an issue. Happy to be corrected on this if I have misunderstood. If not, I don't see how this is any different.

    Again, I think the item is good at its current power and don't necessarily think it should change, I just don't understand.
    Post #: 13
    8/8/2025 14:57:29   
    Aura Knight
    Member

    		There's no concern as tome's boost functions differently with having cooldown and costing mp which despite ways to recover remains a finite resource especially how mp heavy this tome is. If anything a swap between boosts on tome vs arcane amp could be ok. I'm fine if nothing changes too. It's a fun addition to tome users.
    AQ DF AQW  Post #: 14
    8/8/2025 19:16:23   
    CarrionSpike
    Helpful


    		 I think the differences in the INT boosts from Arcane Amplification and Tome of Oulbara highlight how stat-boosting statuses have been valued differently over the last 7-8 years. Thankfully, stat-boosting statuses have been valued fairly consistently in recent times.

    If anything, it would be nice for spells like Buffalot's Beach Bod and Arcane Amplification to be updated to the current standard (which would buff them). Moonwalker's Grace is a bit of an oddball because it appears that instead of a x1.1 always-useful penalty being applied to the spell cost (like the two aforementioned spells), a x0.85 penalty was applied to the DEX boost (I don't know why, this is just what the numbers tell me). In addition, just because it has an MP cost, it was slapped with a 125% melee MP cost rather than the 100% melee MP cost that it should have been.
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