Its getting time to prep for private servers

While I do not plan on installing a public/private server, I do have plans to create a private server for myself and my son and grandkids.


With that in mind, I have a number of constraints that I plan on implementing on this server.


1. No Decal or 3rd party apps.
2. Tweaking of the database where possible for events and options from the past.


As we really do not know anything right now about the contents and formats of the database tables, that will have to wait until its time.


What I can do is build some characters and play AC without any Decal to see how characters can evolve and survive in these new worlds.


I have started out with a War Mage template. I kept the attributes standard and dropped MC from spec to trained.


Robins Mage started in Sanamar and hit the Penguin Dungeon and followed that up with the Wasp Beacon Quest. I looted everything of value and arrived in Holtburg with some coin to hit up the level 2 spells for War and Life.


I then hit the Holtburg Drudge Hideout to get some XP and loot. At level 2, the spells were taking down the drudges quickly. I picked up the seeds and the head and returned to town to turn them in.

I am now about ready for the Facilities.

Before that, I decided that I needed a second character to help me level and recover corpses. I went to anothe raccount and created a Bowmaster called Robins Archer. I retained the attributes but modified the skills to be a complete Missile character. I dropped the Finesse weapons and Shield and specced Fletching. Robins Mage had picked up a 130 Xbow that would work well to start out his journey. I also made this character a Tumerok.

I swore Archer to Mage and started him on his initial journey.

At level 12, I sent Archer into the Facilities to try his luck. He acquired the Ice Tachi and levelled. I then gate the Tachi to Mage for his levelling, Now I need a mule. Again, I went to another account and created Robins Mule and swore him to Mage. I then handed off some loot from Archer and Mage to Mule.

Archer decided to go to the dungeon and get the daggers. I had trained Alchemy on Archer in order to make oils. I had been able to get some Bloodseeker oils made and applied to some Frogcrotch heads.

I headed off to the dungeon from Facilities and started through the quest. I was doing pretty good until I got to the Sclavus at the end. They mopped me up quickly and I suffered my first death.

OK, I got a reality check that I needed a few more levels to be successful in there. I headed off to Shoushi to the Shoushi Grotto for some serious Drudge thinning. I was very successful and gained a couple of levels.