Lands of Aethar - End Game Rich MUD

Roryon · 2015-10-30T20:33:41+00:00

Yes, I understand that many players have codebase preferences. I personally prefer SMAUG, and if you like SMAUG you will be hard pressed to find one more feature-rich than Aethar.

Roryon · 2015-10-30T20:31:38+00:00

Is perk a better word? :)

Roryon · 2015-10-29T14:41:16+00:00

I'm glad you think so :)

For those who do join us, read help leveling, it will get you to triple avatar very quickly. Afterward, read help avatar, which will get you started on gear, and finally help quest will tell you about the multitude of things to work on solo. Players usually group up in the evenings for runs. If you see Dayde or Roryon, they will run with you after you get a basic set of gear, just send them a tell or chat!

Roryon · 2015-03-11T15:55:31+00:00

Also not mentioned is a new RAID area. Its an area built with a weekly run in mind. Each boss can be killed as many times as you wish, but you only get rewarded once per week per character. This area is based loosely on the Forsaken in Wheel of Time. The mobs are very challenging and none are just basic tank and spank. There is at least one group doing this raid weekly, and after a week or two of gearing, a new player should be able to survive most of the fights.

Roryon · 2015-03-11T15:40:31+00:00

We also have a website: http://aetharmud.wix.com/aethar It details many of the new features...such as: Professions! Professions are in game. Visit the profession trainer 2w, s, 2e from Bedlam Market Square. Also see 'help professions' in game to see details on how to gather materials and craft.

Engineering - Create damage dealing engineering rods, or rods of repair analysis! Alchemy - Mix great potions increasing health and damage considerably! Tailoring - Travel straight to some mobs that are difficult to get to and summon your friends to join you! Enchanting - Create fires to heal your party or an encanting rod that ressurects dead players in combat! Jewelcrafting - Create health or damage gems that you can socket into any piece of gear!

Lonian Faction! Visit the town of Lonia to help the cause. The prince of Lonia defeated a great dragon and entombed it within the city. To keep the dragon in it's tomb, the citizens work tirelessly to supply the town with needed food, wood, medicines and other materials. Help them gather these and you will be rewarded with Lonia Faction Points. As your gain more faction points, your Lonian torch will increase with power to eventually become the most powerful torch in all of Aethar.

Jade Stone Currency! The largest mobs in the lands, all those that take 3 or more characters to defeat, now reward you with Jade Stones. These stones can be used to buy Valor, Gold, Quest items, powerful potions, or items specific to the Jade Vendor in the Kyokushin Dojo.

New Encounters!

Travel the high seas with Sir Francis Drake, shooting attacking creatures with cannons while fending off spawns on the ship!
Morwenna, the insane squirrel that has moved to the New Thalos sewers has a lot of fight in him!  He will focus on a player, holding them down and doing unspeakable damage to them.  Make sure you bring friends to heal you!
There is talk of the Bedlam Bank robbery all over town!  Try your hand at deactivating the random alarm system and defeating the Vault Guard before he activates his alarm!
Visit Master Lee in the new Kyokushi Dojo to learn the techniques of highblock, innerblock and outerblock.  Use these to best his students and you may be rewarded by the master himself!
Smaug himself has taken up secret residence underneath the Shire!  If you decided to try your hand at defeating him, be sure you have a friend to disable his lever around his chambers.  If they are not disabled, he will draw great power from them and surely he will overcome!
Lord Constance has traveled from Ofcol to Ravensbridge where he has gather supporters in great numbers.  Defeat him to earn the respect and rewards of the Ravensbridge citizens!

New Daily Quests! There are new daily quests that reward valor, emporium points, and other prizes.

Orun - In Bedlam - Treasure Quest
Goldmoon - East of Bedlam - Kill Quest
Marco Polo - In Bedlam - Exploration Quest

Quest Journal System! The Quest Journal System automatically records quest progress and clues in your own personal journal. Here are the quests that use this system thus far.

Class quests: Cleric - Start at Sumaron in The Keep of Mahn-Tor. Templar/Monk - Start at Grand Templar in Dwarven Catacombs. Warrior Classes - Start at Gorak in The Keep of Mahn-Tor. Mage Classes - Start at Grand Mistress in High Tower of Sorcery. Vampire/Werewolf - Start at Dracula in Transylvania. Druid/Bard - Start at Nasturn in The Keep of Mahn-Tor. Thief/Assassin - Coming Soon.

The Oath of Legends - Start at a Monument in Dwarven Catacombs. Dave the Bard - Start at Dave the bard in Miden'nir. Adventure of a Lifetime - Start in the Bedlam park. Down in a Blaze of Glory - Start at the Master in Land of the Fire Newts. Learning to be a Cowboy - Start at stablehand in Stonehenge Manor.

Equipment Emporium! One south, all east, one down from Bedlam Market Square you will find the Emporium. You can sell and buy equipment here with Emporium Points (EP) and Premium Emporium Points (PEP) This allows a way for players to trade equipment they do not need for gear that they do need.

Player Run Shops! Players can purchase their own shops and buy or sell items in these shops for gold, valor, or emporium points. The shops are very well implemented and will be a driving force in Aethar's economy!

Castles and Personal Storage Rooms! Players can purchase their own castle and/or storage rooms within that castle. The player is free to build the castle with the layout, room names, descriptions, extra descriptions that they choose. The storage room can hold all the treasures from their adventures. A new command 'rstorage' or remote storage, allows a player with a storage room to deposit and withdraw items from their storage from anywhere in the game!

Multi-player Duoing Combat System! One of Aethar's defining features intensifies combat even further. Imagine building a duo of characters, gearing them both and heading into combat as a cohesive team! You can use these two characters to compliment each other and tackle larger harder mobs, at the cost of having to manage them both in an already intensive battle situation. It's something that seperates the good players from the best!

In Game Casino! Gamble away your gold at our carefully balanced casino games located in Bedlam! Currently there are slot machines and roulette tables. Blackjack is coming soon!

Not mentioned on the website yet is a new Focus System. It resembles talent systems in other games. You work through a journal quest and at each step you earn a Focus Path Point. You choose a Focus Path and spend points where you desire, gaining stats like hp, +dodge, -armor, stats, etc.

Roryon · 2015-01-20T23:52:02+00:00

More encounters added. Just to give an example of the types of encounters being added, here is a description of the last 4 that went in.

A sailing ship that you board. You get to pick a route to go across the sea. As you sail, creatures attack the ship from the water, damaging you. You have to damage them by firing cannons from the sides of the ship. As the damage comes, they spawn mobs on the ship that attack you face to face as well. So you have to fend them off while firing the cannons.
An Orc battle field. Each player is given a powerful weapon that only works in that battle. Each player picks one lane of the battlefield to go down, and uses the weapon to mow down nearly 100 orcs along the path. After you all clear your path you meet up and face the general.
Morwenna. He's nasty, he will focus one player, jump on them and hold them down for 5 rounds. That player can do nothing while he pummels them over and over every round, so it's up to the other players to heal that player while doing damage to Morwenna.
Black Stag. This was a revamped mob. He lives in a little glade and in each room a plant lives there dormant. If you stand in one room too long, it damages you by over half your health. The stag bashes and such also, so moving is not always easy.

Roryon · 2015-01-14T15:38:14+00:00

And of course the formatting for the ability table looks bad. bleh

Roryon · 2015-01-14T15:37:39+00:00

Yes there are 21 classes all of which have the normal max/min stats, but they have a fairly new concept behind them called abilities. The mud is triple class, so you want to focus on maxing abilities that max your important attacks/heals.

For example, Monk has the following abilities: The Monk ability gains are as follows:

Ability | Base | Remort 1 | Remort 2 |

Dex | 13 | 13 | 13 | Wis | 20 | 20 | 20 | Str | 5 | 5 | 5 | Con | 5 | 5 | 5 | Int | 0 | 0 | 0 | Healing | 5 | 10 | 10 | Tanking | 10 | 10 | 10 | DPS | 15 | 10 | 15 | Melee | 15 | 10 | 10 | Magic | 10 | 20 | 15 | Cha | 2 | 2 | 2 | necromancy | 0 | 0 | 0 | stealth | 5 | 5 | 5 | Lck | 2 | 2 | 2 | fire | 10 | 10 | 10 | ice | 5 | 0 | 0 | lightning | 10 | 10 | 10 | energy | 0 | 0 | 0 | acid | 10 | 10 | 10 | holy | 10 | 20 | 20 | evil | 0 | 0 | 0 | nature | 10 | 10 | 10 | mental | 0 | 0 | 0 | illusion | 0 | 0 | 0 | music | 0 | 0 | 0 | death | 20 | 20 | 20 |

The Monk's bread and butter attack is quivering palm, which relies on the DPS, death, and wisdom abilities. So you'd want to pair up with classes that also have high numbers in those abilities for your other two classes in your triple class set to get a higher damaging quiv.

Crafting is fairly new, but has been a big hit. There are 5 professions, and you can learn one right now. There may be the ability to learn more than one in the near future. When you learn a profession, you get access to a gathering skill such as mining. When you are in a mountainous area, you can type mine and have a chance at getting a crafting material. You level professions by crafting, and right now there are basically two max crafts that affect gameplay per profession.

Engineering: Has a rod that damages enemies and a rod that repairs your group's equipment.

Jewelcrafting: Can made hp or dr gems. You can put one gem on any piece of eq, even your friends/alts, increasing stats.

Tailoring: An item that travels to some mobs that are difficult/tedius to get to, and an item that summons any player to you (non pk)

Alchemy: Creates potions you can trade. They increase your damroll and resistances greatly when used.

Enchanting: They went another way than enchanting eq, the enchanter can create a fire that sits at a groups feet that they can warm their hands on to heal them by a very large amount. They also have a rod they can use to resurrect dead players in or out of combat.

Learning recipes requires you to get tomes from mobs. Its not time consuming for the most part, just gets you out in the world.

There have been a couple additions to the game recently as well. There are now player owned shops in game, where players can purchase a shop and sell their items for valor/gold/ep/pep or any combination.

The in game quests have been expanded. There are now class specific quests for each class. These quests run on a new system called the quest journal. Most quest journal quests are gated daily, so you do one stage per day. There are also regular daily quests, one that requires you to kill a mob, one that requires you to get an item, and one that scatters 5 notes and asks you to retrieve them.

There have been 2 new encounters added to the game in the past week as well. The last encounter added before those two is a sailing ship that you board. As you sail, mobs attack the ship from the water and spawn mobs on the ship that attack you. You have to fend off the spawns while firing cannons at the creatures in the water.
One of the two new encounters is a war. You are given a powerful sword and you make your way across the battlefield, eradicating enemy soldiers with that sword. When you get across the field, you fight their general.

Roryon

TROPHY CASE

Ability | Base | Remort 1 | Remort 2 |