🚀 go-pugleaf

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Greg Vilardi" typed:
> In article <483f738e@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
> ~misfit~ <misfit61nz@hooya.com.au> wrote:


[snipetty-do-dah]

>> PlugY rocks! I'm yet to try the new runewords as I haven't
>> found a suitable base weapon for any that I want to make and,
>> although I have quite a few runes, it's not like I have a bottomless
>> supply.
>
> AFAICT, PlugY doesn't enable the 1.10/11 runewords in 1.09, although
> if it did that would be cool too.

Yeah, I discovered that when I attempted a Chains of Honour armour last 
night. :-(

There are very few 1.09 runewords when I look at my printout. (Thanks 
Britton Robbins). Also, with the lack of unique elite bows in 1.09 my 
strafer is looking decidedly ill-equiped. AFAICT there are only 5 
Genstone-specific runewords, none of which are killer. It seems the best I 
can do for my strafer is Silence. However, as it precludes all but two 
(fairly slow) elite bows (requiring 6 sockets as it does) it's limiting. 
Shame I can't make a runeword in a +3 bow skills Matriarchal or Grand Matron 
Bow, they only get 5 sockets.

My dreams of a Faith-equipped SP 1.09 Gemstone strafer are just that it 
seems, dreams.

Has anyone tried Stephen Gorrel's 1.10 Gemstone mod? I know Evilbill ruled 
it out as being beta. Any experiences?

> If on the other hand you're talking
> about the Gemstone rune words, I thought you would have tried them by
> now. Hmmm. I think I'll go look up a 'newer' rune word and make it,
> since I can reload my stash from my backup if it doesn't work right.

That's something I must try. LOL, I wish I'd backed up before trying to make 
CoH.

It's odd going back to playing 1.09. So many things are missing (elite 
unique weapons for instance) and the only really powerful runeword is 
Silence which, requiring 6 sockets as it does, limits the weapons that it 
can be used in. Also the skills are quite different. I notice my strafer 
only shoots one arrow at each target in range per strafe. In 1.1x she'd fire 
off the full salvo each time, hitting some monsters multiple times. Also her 
range seems severely limited. She won't shoot at monsters in the very edges 
of the screem whereas, again in 1.1x she'd actually fire at targets that 
were actually just off-screen. Very handy when scouting with a 'glass 
cannon". Also, I remember now why Valkaries were refered to back then as 
"dumb blondes". Their AI is crap compared with 1.1x.

It seems that I have a lot of (re)learning to do.

Thanks again,

Shaun.