Soulstones

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Any one seen more information on these things? All I can find is
the official page at UO.

If I'm reading it correctly, the stone will only hold one skill
at a time. That's so mind numbingly dumb that I would believe it
has a cap of 100 too.

 

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0500, Jaeger Prelac <jprelac@softhome.net>
wrote:

>Any one seen more information on these things? All I can find is
>the official page at UO.
>
>If I'm reading it correctly, the stone will only hold one skill
>at a time. That's so mind numbingly dumb that I would believe it
>has a cap of 100 too.

There is a Soulstone faq thread locked at the top of on one of the
Stratics forums.

To me it seems kind of useless since it doesn't work across accounts.

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"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0500, Jaeger Prelac <jprelac@softhome.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Any one seen more information on these things? All I can find is
> >the official page at UO.
> >
> >If I'm reading it correctly, the stone will only hold one skill
> >at a time. That's so mind numbingly dumb that I would believe it
> >has a cap of 100 too.
>
> There is a Soulstone faq thread locked at the top of on one of the
> Stratics forums.
>
> To me it seems kind of useless since it doesn't work across accounts.
>

Well, I'm not sure... my favourite character is my T-hunter, who is a bard
as well...sometimes I would like to take her out with some Eval Int, as
right now she can barely even cure herself if she gets poisoned (silly,
that). So if she could swap the lockpicking for the eval.... etc etc

Or I could build a seperate bard/mage with my 6th char slot, but it's taken
me 4 years or so to get to near GM peacing!

What worries me as a European player is that yet again we are being
overlooked as far as these promotions go. I understand that the stones are
only available as a pre-order item, and guess what!

We can't pre-order the damn thing.

Archeon

 

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:26:17 GMT, Polychromic
<macecil@comcast.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0500, Jaeger Prelac <jprelac@softhome.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Any one seen more information on these things? All I can find is
>>the official page at UO.
>>
>>If I'm reading it correctly, the stone will only hold one skill
>>at a time. That's so mind numbingly dumb that I would believe it
>>has a cap of 100 too.
>
>There is a Soulstone faq thread locked at the top of on one of the
>Stratics forums.
>
>To me it seems kind of useless since it doesn't work across accounts.

Found it, thank you.

It doesn't look very useful. Holds one skill at a time. You
need two of them if you want to swap skills on a maxed out char.
One to hold a skill to free up space on the char, while the other
holds the skill you want to add.

 

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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:02:13 +0100, "Archeon"
<archeon@ukgateway.net> wrote:

>
>"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:04qjk0975to3f60lu4offv6qq1t3m49c5b@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0500, Jaeger Prelac <jprelac@softhome.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Any one seen more information on these things? All I can find is
>> >the official page at UO.
>> To me it seems kind of useless since it doesn't work across accounts.

>Well, I'm not sure... my favourite character is my T-hunter, who is a bard
>as well...sometimes I would like to take her out with some Eval Int, as
>right now she can barely even cure herself if she gets poisoned (silly,
>that). So if she could swap the lockpicking for the eval.... etc etc

Unless your char has that amount of skill points free, you will
need a second stone.

>Or I could build a seperate bard/mage with my 6th char slot, but it's taken
>me 4 years or so to get to near GM peacing!

You could use your 6th as storage space for excess skill points,
but you can only make one transfer per day, so it would take a
while.

>What worries me as a European player is that yet again we are being
>overlooked as far as these promotions go. I understand that the stones are
>only available as a pre-order item, and guess what!
>
>We can't pre-order the damn thing.

Canada too. I made a few calls to EB, two local stores and head
office somewhere in the US. Sure I can pre-order, but no one
knows if I will get the promo. I probably would if I did my
pre-order through the EB web site, but that system won't accept
Canadian postal codes.

The codes would still work for you though. There's always eBay
😉

 

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Archeon wrote:

> "Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:04qjk0975to3f60lu4offv6qq1t3m49c5b@4ax.com...
>
>>On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0500, Jaeger Prelac <jprelac@softhome.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Any one seen more information on these things? All I can find is
>>>the official page at UO.
>>>
>>>If I'm reading it correctly, the stone will only hold one skill
>>>at a time. That's so mind numbingly dumb that I would believe it
>>>has a cap of 100 too.
>>
>>There is a Soulstone faq thread locked at the top of on one of the
>>Stratics forums.
>>
>>To me it seems kind of useless since it doesn't work across accounts.
>>
>
>
> Well, I'm not sure... my favourite character is my T-hunter, who is a bard
> as well...sometimes I would like to take her out with some Eval Int, as
> right now she can barely even cure herself if she gets poisoned (silly,
> that). So if she could swap the lockpicking for the eval.... etc etc
>
> Or I could build a seperate bard/mage with my 6th char slot, but it's taken
> me 4 years or so to get to near GM peacing!
>
> What worries me as a European player is that yet again we are being
> overlooked as far as these promotions go. I understand that the stones are
> only available as a pre-order item, and guess what!
>
> We can't pre-order the damn thing.

While I realize EA is a business and means to make money I don't like
the way this comes in.

Specifically the game was redesigned such that must have skill groups
were added to PvP and that made anyone with a trade sheeple. Now to get
out of the sheeple pen you have to give up $20 to buy a couple of
soulstones.

I looked at the threads on the topic and guess who are the biggest
whiners about soulstones? The PvP morons from SP and Mungen of course.
It's not only have they driven everyone that doesn't want to dedicate
700 points into PvP survival off the shards, they want to keep it that
way. Paranoid jerks IMO. It's not like I am going to spend $40 to buy
four soulstones so I can drop lockpicking and detect hidden on my SP and
pick up some resist and hiding so I can 'almost' compete with their 3rd
party hacks and exploits.

 

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"Jaeger Prelac" <jprelac@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:02:13 +0100, "Archeon"
> <archeon@ukgateway.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>news:04qjk0975to3f60lu4offv6qq1t3m49c5b@4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0500, Jaeger Prelac <jprelac@softhome.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Any one seen more information on these things? All I can find is
>>> >the official page at UO.
>>> To me it seems kind of useless since it doesn't work across accounts.
>
>>Well, I'm not sure... my favourite character is my T-hunter, who is a bard
>>as well...sometimes I would like to take her out with some Eval Int, as
>>right now she can barely even cure herself if she gets poisoned (silly,
>>that). So if she could swap the lockpicking for the eval.... etc etc
>
> Unless your char has that amount of skill points free, you will
> need a second stone.
>
>>Or I could build a seperate bard/mage with my 6th char slot, but it's
>>taken
>>me 4 years or so to get to near GM peacing!
>
> You could use your 6th as storage space for excess skill points,
> but you can only make one transfer per day, so it would take a
> while.
>
>>What worries me as a European player is that yet again we are being
>>overlooked as far as these promotions go. I understand that the stones are
>>only available as a pre-order item, and guess what!
>>
>>We can't pre-order the damn thing.
>
> Canada too. I made a few calls to EB, two local stores and head
> office somewhere in the US. Sure I can pre-order, but no one
> knows if I will get the promo. I probably would if I did my
> pre-order through the EB web site, but that system won't accept
> Canadian postal codes.
>
> The codes would still work for you though. There's always eBay
> 😉


Actually, there's a company in Germany doing European Soulstone Pre-Orders:

http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/uo/showflat.php?Cat=1&Board=uo3d&Number=5347966&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&what2=postlist&fpart=&nocookies=1

--
psz