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Lv 1000 -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 12:11:37)

I think that I'm mostly satisfied with the pet and shield. The pet more-so than the shield.



PD -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 14:08:27)

So this is going to be the choke suggestion. I guess in that sense we already have a good idea of what the rest of the items are going to do.

I can't say I'm surprised that it's not Wind and it's Water instead. The Pearl of Power misc is water so I felt that it only made sense that the rest of the set would be Water too.

That said, something does bother me a little about this - Now that it's water it feels a little too similar to the Fae Knight set which was also Water and Panic (which really does the same thing as Choke with saves every turn). I suppose they do different things with how they consume Choke/Panic so I guess that's where the difference really matter - One regenerates your resources (Fae Knight) and the other gives you extra damage (Paleskull). Though if you don't have specific pieces of the set they might not feel that "different".

EDIT: After using the Pet, I'm guessing that it's not supposed to allow you to get the eleEmpower from its own Pounce Effect? It only lasts for 1 turn and by the time you want to convert that choke into EleEmpower, it's 0-turned so that the choke is gone before you can even convert it. I suppose it's meant to be used with the other items that should have a longer duration. Nonetheless, using it against other monsters, its choke mod is extremely strong; .63x at 100% is a pretty significant reduction. I can only imagine against energy or fire monsters it's even more useful against those types. And at least Fire enemies are pretty common in AQ.



GwenMay -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 14:28:35)

@PD you're right, it makes sense the set is water because of pearl of power. Didn't think of that lol.

Yeah I don't think you're supposed to be able to consume Flincher's choke with Flincher; you need another choke source to eat in roar mode. The choke mod is strong, but I think it's identical to King Linus (besides the FSB). I am very happy with the pet personally after testing it out; it's useful for 0 cha characters because the choke consumption doesn't care about cha or connecting attacks at all. I like when a pet is usable by both cha and 0 cha builds.



battlesiege15 -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 15:55:31)

Are the plans to release the set all at once? I saw the info sub for the shield



Lv 1000 -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 16:13:12)

@battlesiege15

The Shield and Pet have been released, and the Armor should be this weekend as well. The Weapon and Misc will take more time.

As for obtaining the rewards, if you've met the requirements for a specific reward tier, you should be able to purchase them at Ballyhoo (quote from Hollow below regarding this).
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Hollow:
We're doing this distribution a little differently. Instead of the prizes being given out and waiting for the Ballyhoo shop, I've updated Ballyhoo to add the missing Orange Shieldcake and Umbralwalker package bonuses, and you'll see shops are already in place for PaleSkull Champion. I will let you know once the prizes are ready and in their shop and you can pick them up for yourself and all of your characters.



Sapphire -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 19:41:48)

If the misc/weapon are half as good as the pet/shield, this has been such a complete and total outstanding set.

The synergies with how the shield works and how the pet works IMO with guest/spell/weapon choke effects as well as how barriers are affected with choke *and* eleempower makes for some fantastic stuff .

Just wow



The Hollow -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 21:49:47)

Stop by Ballyhoo to pick up your new Paleskull Champion Armors!



PD -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 22:01:04)

While the Non-Prismatics aren't available yet (hopefully should be a short moment before the 11-15 winners can get theirs), looking at the Prismatic's armor preview the body looks a little too big for the stock face. I guess Pe-Man (He-Man + PaleSkull) forgot Head day.

Also a small bug to report - It seems that if you access the Prismatic shop, and then go to the Non-Prismatic shop and then back to Prismatic, the armor selection will disappear from the Prismatic shop. Appears to be fixed!


EDIT: As I suspected it looks like the armor is indeed the Choke Suggestion from Lv1000/Dreiko reading from just the description. I guess that can only mean the pieces we haven't gotten yet are also going to be part of that suggestion too.



Looks like the 11-25 winners can finally get the items. I can say I'm having fun using the armor with what we have available to use for the set. Next up is the weapon and the misc.



Lv 1000 -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 23:30:04)

Issues with the armor:

1) The power level scaling on the armor is messed up (incorrectly 150 instead of 153).

2) The Choke skill is missing a /0.85 in its calculation, so it should be applying a 42% Choke instead of 35.7% Choke.

3) Apparently not tagged as a "rider" armor (Source: Gwen).



GwenMay -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/10/2022 23:38:03)

I'm gonna +1 the rider tag on the armor. I know it seems insignificant, but for those of us with the thunderbird weapon and shield, which have MCs that trigger on riding armors, it's actually significant, especially since players (like myself) who use thunderbird weapon will want to use it in our water armor, i.e. paleskull. It should be a quick fix; for the record, thunderbird mount, veywild mount, and frostwrym armor are all tagged as riding armors, but desert raider is not. Since we're discussing the issue, I would really appreciate if desert raider could also be tagged as a riding armor.

But besides that, the armor is amazing. You guys really outdid yourselves with the animation, art, and implementing our suggestions in a practical and balanced manner. I am very grateful to the staff for the attention, effort, and responsiveness they put into designing this set. I also appreciate that staff made a female version of the armor, too. This is shaping up to be one of the best sets we've ever had --- and I'm not limiting that to donation sets, either.



Lv 1000 -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 0:20:09)

Armor Info: PaleSkull Champion



ValentzHunter -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 0:35:39)

Is it only me, that I haven't received the shield even though I have donated atleast 2k toks from the donation drive. Could not see it on my inventory. Pls check devs. Would appreciate it. Cheers!



Sapphire -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 0:44:29)

The delivery method was changed this year. In the past, They placed items in people's inventories, then go and build the ballyhoo shop afterwards.

This time they built the ballyhoo shop first, placed the items there, then tagged the players with what they earned, and players have to go and get the items themselves. Maybe a good QoL change for staff.



Dreiko Shadrack -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 2:31:30)

@ValentzHunter

They're no longer automatically awarding prizes like that for donation items, you have to manually go to ballyhoo to buy them. This was officially stated on the first page of the thread. [8D]



Dreiko Shadrack -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 14:12:41)

Sorry for the double post but wanted to make sure the new reply showed up for a bit: I just noticed that the Legion's Violence package still doesn't have a shop in ballyhoo. [:)]



Sapphire -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 14:41:11)

Will the other items be released today or are we expected more like Monday/Tuesday I think the last I read it was "soon to follow", so just trying to plan around an expected timeframe. Thanks



Aura Knight -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 21:26:53)

I'm confused. When I donated at least 2k tokens for this I expected the helm and shield. I have nothing showing in the helm shop and am unable to purchase the shield. Attempting to do so gives a message I had to purchase a prize which I have no clue what that's about. Did I donate for no reward? I'm unsure what's up because others have their rewards.



PD -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/11/2022 21:39:11)

^^ The Misc is not ready yet. It will be done at a later time along with the weapons. Though I think there should probably be some kind of in-game message to check out Ballywho since non-forumers and non-discordites will probably be un-aware that the prizes aren't going automatically distributed this year.

As for the shield, if you're sure you've donated 2k tokens, then you should verify through support about how many tokens you donated through player support. That could definitely be a bug if it's verified you actually did donate 2k.

Speaking of verification, still petitioning to be able to see the true, obscured numbers of the token donations. Since it's all over it can't hurt to have anyone see it and most people already have self-reported what they donated.



LUPUL LUNATIC -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/12/2022 1:06:24)

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Why do the lower tier items have FSBs that need the armor? That seems like a bit of an insult to most people that participated in the donation event. Could they at least just be incremental FSBs like what was done with the Hexbound weapon?


I have to agree with this and i dont think you need incremental FSBs either if they lower the set bonus. My suggestion is that only the armor should have a full FSB and the rest of the items mini FSBs with their lower tier items like this :

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Full FSB: Armor + Pet + Weapon (for Armor)
Mini FSB: Pet + Weapon (for Pet); Weapon + Shield (for Weapon); Shield + Misc (for Shield). Miscs no FSBs because they are the lowest tier items.


I think everyone will be happy with this tiering of FSB/mini FSBs [:)]



Korriban Gaming -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/12/2022 1:25:39)

With regards to the mini FSB idea. I support it IF it does not mean nerfing the overall FSB. Since this is a new standard, numbers and formula aren't set in stone, while I don't think the proposed reduction to the overall FSB is significant, it is completely unnecessary. This new standard can just be that teeny bit better than the old one. It's not anything game-breaking by any means. Contest items are highly exclusive, having them as outliers is fine

The main point of having mini FSBs is to decouple the armor from the rest of the items (since armor is the highest tier). But in order for it to be good, the mini FSBs also have to make sense. These are my ideas on how it can work.

Overall FSB
1. Armor + Weapon + Pet
2. Armor + Weapon + Shield
(Yes, I'm proposing that we have 2 ways of hitting overall FSB, both of which should involve the armor in order to make sure that the armor still retains its value)

Mini FSB
1. Weapon + Pet
2. Shield + Misc
3. Weapon + Shield (???)
Not too sure if weapon and shield is a good idea since most people won't be using the same element weapon and shield together. Of course, there are very specific sets that makes them work well together but unless all future donation weapon and shields can be used very well together then I think it may not be that useful

The mini FSBs can be something like half the power of the overall FSB (e.g overall FSB is +10% damage, mini FSB is only +5%). I feel like that still makes things somewhat balanced without having a need to nerf the overall FSB



dr jo -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/12/2022 2:10:42)

I agree with what @korriban has suggested if FSB does not get lowered



battlesiege15 -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/12/2022 10:00:15)

Hmmm, I think the default art in the shop got the armor confused with the Headless Horseman armor



The Hollow -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/12/2022 15:36:37)

The Paleskull Champion Weaponry can now be picked up from Ballyhoo! Kam is still working on the Misc and once I have an eta I'll let you folks know.

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I'm confused. When I donated at least 2k tokens for this I expected the helm and shield. I have nothing showing in the helm shop and am unable to purchase the shield. Attempting to do so gives a message I had to purchase a prize which I have no clue what that's about. Did I donate for no reward? I'm unsure what's up because others have their rewards.


Is that for character id# 2698598? The record shows you only gifted 1000 on that character.



PD -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/12/2022 16:28:39)

I think a good and helpful suggestion towards that is to be able to view your own personal donated amount in-game somewhere. This would be helpful especially if you're not going for a top prize and you just want to make sure you at least qualified for a minimum prize or one of the fixed tier sets. Even for some of the top rankers I'd imagine this would be helpful to remind themselves how much they've donated.



Jue Viole Grace -> RE: =AQ= Coming this week: Paleskull Items and Z-finity Gauntlets (9/12/2022 16:33:33)

cant wait for misc



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