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Ghosty Twofish wrote:
> Ghosty Twofish wrote:
>
>
>>Ice wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:11:17 GMT, "Ghosty Twofish"
>>><ghosty@gmail.com.deleteme> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ice wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:03:54 GMT, "Ghosty Twofish"
>>>>><ghosty@gmail.com.deleteme> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm on Atlantic ... anyone know going price for ancient sos
>>>
>>>chests >> > and fabled nets?
>>>
>>>>>>G
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The metal sos chest were selling for about 500gp, the colored
>>>
>>>nets for >> 3 to 5k, depending on the vendor, normal nets 1k. You
>>>cant give away >> the wood sos chests, so I just dump them.
>>>
>>>>>I have not noticed prices in a few months, so that could have
>>>
>>>changed. >>
>>>
>>>>>Ice
>>>>
>>>>Are you sure about this? Anceient sos chests are true white, as
>>>>are the fabled nets, which give a Leviathan and a shot at a ghost
>>>>anchor minor arty. Ancient sos's happen only 1 in 25 times, I find
>>>>it hard to believe they're selling for 3-5k.
>>>>
>>>>G
>>>>
>>>
>>>Sorry about that. I thought he was talking about the normal metal
>>>chests. Like I said, I have not had time to read up on all the new
>>>changes, and I have not had my fisher out in ages.
>>>
>>>Where do you get these "true white" chests? you said 1 in 25 times,
>>>but off of what? The Leviathan when you cast a normal net? or normal
>>>sea serpents?
>>>
>>>If it were not for the NG, I would be totally lost now days.
>>>
>>>Ice
>>
>>Ancient SOSes are true white, and occur 1 in every 25 times you would
>>get a normal SOS from a sea- or deep-sea serpent. You don't know if
>>it's an ancient SOS until you open the bottle and take the message
>>out.
>>
>>When you fish up an ancient SOS, you get a true white chest that is
>>one level higher than a regular SOS chest (level 2 - 4 instead of 1 -
>>3), and a true white net called a Fabled fish net.
>>
>>If you toss a Fabled fishing net, you will get a Leviathan, and if you
>>defeat it, you have a shot at receiving a Ghost Ship Anchor, which
>>does nothing at all except make a nice deco for your home. I have no
>>idea what they would sell for, as I have yet to see one outside the
>>test center servers.
>>
>>IMO, they should have made that anchor white too. ;-)
>>
>>G
>
>
> Correction: The tosser of a fabled fishing net, *if* a GM Fisherman,
> has a 1 in 4 chance of getting a minor artifact of some type (Luck does
> not modify this chance). If the net thrower does not get an artifact,
> but is a top attacker for the net spawn, then there will be a second
> chance to get a minor artifact (which can be modified by Luck), and the
> Ghost Ship Anchor can only be gotten by defeating a Leviathan.
> Should have been more clear about that. ;-)
> G
>
Very interesting. Thanx for the clarification. Time to get the fisherman
to work again maybe
🙂
/ZW
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