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Arctic Wyvern Armor and Thurgadin Gate Potion non-functional for 4 months (March 2001).

This also means that Shawl #4 shouldn't be in game in addition to the gate potion for a few more months.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331...eqtraders.com/

03/15/01-3/16/01
Even though folks were told to "check your books" by Verant, scouring the lands high and low has found nothing new in any books. The jewelry book text has been modified a bit, but contains nothing new. The only other "book" is the Terorantula silk stuff, which was live a week ago, and is totally useless until the silk is in game. Arctic wyvern armor doesn't count as new, because the recipe has been in-game since Velious launched, just nonfunctional. There are a couple of new things, but not from any book we've found ... a) there's a new pottery recipe for a Thurgadin quest, that can be used to make a no drop Thurgadin Gate potion. b) at least one velium weapon can now be smithed, possibly more. It wasn't found from a book, but from experimentation. Keep up the good work on trying stuff out and posting results, folks!

Bah ... the children are loose on the message boards without their babysitters again. Please ignore them, the more you respond to them, the more likely they are to continue here with their antics. Nuff said.

I'm pretty fed up/burnt out due to a lot of things right now, and will be taking several steps back to take a few deep breaths. I'll likely be less visible in-game for a while, which means less speedy verification of some information for the site. Hang in there, folks, the idjits may have me down, but I'm not giving up yet.

March 28, 2001 Velious Tailoring recipes now require Coldain Tanner's Kit

03/28/01
Velious recipes now need the Coldain Tanner's Kit. Imagine that. Almost 4 months AFTER the recipes are put in game, they retroactively "fix" the recipes to not work in a normal sewing kit, wait a day, then announce they were supposed to use a different kit all along, then they bring down Thurgadin on all servers to patch in said Tanner's Kit. Oh, SO sorry for the inconvenience folks, this is what we intended all along, but had to do bass-ackwards "fix" before we bothered telling anyone about the fix, nor before we fixed the recipe books or put the kit in place. That's no way to run a business.

Before this patch, earlier today, I posted about the Velious tailoring problems, and counseled patience, since I had faith that Verant would find the problem and fix it. Foolish halfling. My rose-colored glasses are now ground into dust, and the only thing I have faith in is that they've finally pushed me over the edge. Even when I've been upset at how things are working, and upset with snerts in-game, I've tried VERY hard to put a positive spin on things and not degenerate into Verant-bashing, but right now I am SO steamed at the folks responsible for this mismanaged "fix" that it isn't funny. It's taken two years, but I've lost my faith in them ... but not in the wonderful folks in this tradeskill community, so I'll keep plugging along, somehow, for your sake.