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[quote="HOUNDEYE"]Hi all, Just logged in again after years away. The nostalgia is amazing! Got a few questions... I'm at lvl 74, 124str 113dex. Knuck user. Hoarde Shanis? Also I vaguely remember there being a guaranteed repair at a blacksmith as long as your dura is above a certain amount. What is that? I only have 56 weapon crafting skill so can't SR. I'm glad i logged back in. I have periodically checked the forums over the years just to keep in touch with Soma and they paint a picture of negativity but within 10 minutes of hopelessly running around VoD trying to find Hoarde, everyone I've seen has been helpful and one even gave me loads of good items. This is what Soma always used to be about for me. Is there anything new i need to know going forward since I've been away for so long? I'm also going to be looking for a friendly active guild if anyone want's me! Cheers people![/quote]

[quote="SQUEEZIE"]Welcome back! Always try to repair an item while it has more than 20% of it's main durability. Though there are lot of SR's ingame and I'm quite sure there'll be one laying aruond. That said, I eat them all myseslf. xD With the new patch XP and Stat XP are sperated from eachother. This means no more optimal leveling patch that you NEED to follow. Just maybe some guidance on what you could do. At your str I'd as go for Titus Scale armor (125 str) and go test BLG. As for guilds, there's plenty about. I'd say hang about ingame a bit and if there's someone you like hunting with maybe join the guild they're in. There's quite a few out there at the moment and none of them seem to be bad. xD [/quote]

[quote="HOUNDEYE"]Brilliant thank you. Do you mind elaborating on the new xp system? So does this mean you can lvl on anything that's around your lvl and drops are more what you're aiming for? I can handle BLG and Shanis well[/quote]

[quote="SQUEEZIE"]The easiest the explain is to simply to point you to this: [url]https://myth-of-soma.com/News/Article.asp?id=306[/url][/quote]

[quote="HOUNDEYE"]Thank you. I did read this but found it a bit confusing after so long away. So essentially the best mobs to level on are ones slightly stronger than you, but not too much stronger or weaker? Was a struggle in itself trying to remember how to play the game again without a completely new levelling system haha[/quote]

[quote="SQUEEZIE"][quote="HOUNDEYE"]Thank you. I did read this but found it a bit confusing after so long away. So essentially the best mobs to level on are ones slightly stronger than you, but not too much stronger or weaker? Was a struggle in itself trying to remember how to play the game again without a completely new levelling system haha[/quote] Basically it's a trade off at the moment. Either you go for stronger your level or you go for kill speed with mobs under your level. Or anything in between of course. Basically, you can't muck up your character anymore. At the worst getting to top stats will take a bit longer. So I'd say just try out mobs, use the armory to check their stats and compare them to yours. Gains on mobs are based on your relative stats compared to it. So if you have less str than a mob, you'll gain faster str (in amount of kills) and if you have less str than a mob you'll gain less str (in amount of kills) but the second way might be faster time wise. There will be a balance here depending on the mob. ie d3 devil warriors will be good to stay at for a bit longer because the spawn is good and fast. The main path will most likely still be hoarde shanis then blg. It's just no longer set in stone when you do this at what stats exactly. So yeah, in one sentence. Test, play around and use the armory. [/quote]

[quote="HOUNDEYE"]Ah that makes sense now. I remember back in esoma completely destroying my char by just having fun rather than going for optimal stats. This sounds like it makes it a lot more laid back so you can have fun rather than being strict on what you can hit[/quote]