01-Mar-2011 - Elemental Workshop IV

[michel555555]

From the looks of it this series is going to be a 7 parter (assuming they keep doing 2 machines per quest from now on).

 

EWV - Astral, and then Nature. Already doors there to foreshadow this.

EWVI - Death, and then Law. There's another door at the end of the hallway which will probably lead to the next area containing these machines.

EWVII/EWVIII? - Blood and then Soul. Possibly seperate quests for blood and soul, because the first two had their own, and especially since soul is likely to be the machine that finally, truly revives the apprentice, and will be mad complicated (body x5 anyone??)

 

what i want to know is what are they planning to do with astral. If they would have left astral out they would have had an item for each armour space. Are they going to be making arrows now?

[aspeeder]

From the looks of it this series is going to be a 7 parter (assuming they keep doing 2 machines per quest from now on).

 

EWV - Astral, and then Nature. Already doors there to foreshadow this.

EWVI - Death, and then Law. There's another door at the end of the hallway which will probably lead to the next area containing these machines.

EWVII/EWVIII? - Blood and then Soul. Possibly seperate quests for blood and soul, because the first two had their own, and especially since soul is likely to be the machine that finally, truly revives the apprentice, and will be mad complicated (body x5 anyone??)

 

what i want to know is what are they planning to do with astral. If they would have left astral out they would have had an item for each armour space. Are they going to be making arrows now?

Maybe by the time they're finishing off the last quest they'll already have added a belt slot (I remember hearing something about this from RuneFest, but if it will happen it'll probably be a looooong time off).

[Dragondan_Ro]

Hm, I wonder how great the end product will really be? The way things are going now, we might end up with a high summoning and medium/good magic defence armour. Or at least stylish red/white armour.

[aspeeder]

Hm, I wonder how great the end product will really be? The way things are going now, we might end up with a high summoning and medium/good magic defence armour. Or at least stylish red/white armour.

+1, I actually like the way this armor looks (Choice of colors being somewhat limited atm), maybe at the end this set could create some hybrid setups to take on summoning tanks.

[Sy_Accursed]

1 thing I do recall somewhere is that the final armour set is going to have a set effect. I could imagine it being along the lines of either: possible runes depending on type u wear (much like nat/law staves) OR some sort of defence shield type buffer (going by the wield animations) sort of like a forcefield tht either adds to defence or perhaps attacks like bulwark beast shield has to be broke b4 u get hurt.

[J35u5_M4]

That was quick. Didn't expect it today.

 

Not bothered by it, tbh. Unless the puzzles are significantly easier and can actually be done without the knowledge of Einstein, then I'll give it a shot.

 

The puzzles are easy, not like the Elemental Workshop III one >.<.

 

I did the quest already, it was fun :D

 

EDIT: About the fighting the apprentice theories... If there is a final fight maybe the boss only uses magic and you can't pray on it, and by the time we get to the last elemental set, it'll be the highest magic defence in game? Or maybe you're just forced to use a full set or each item from each quest (Like.. Elemental Shield, Mind Helmet, Body body, Cosmic gloves, Chaos Boots...)

[pgmr185]

I liked the quest, but the ending was a bit of a letdown. I made the boots and boom....quest over. I didn't really get the feeling that I accomplished anything.

 

I made a full cosmic set, and it gave me an idea. Instead of mutes and stat wipes, make people produce primed bars as a punishment. I only made six of them and it was torture.

[brunokiller]

Looks nice, needs more legs though. We should make 5 people a set of each element and run around yelling 'power rangers' :thumbup:

 

 

I made a full cosmic set, and it gave me an idea. Instead of mutes and stat wipes, make people produce primed bars as a punishment. I only made six of them and it was torture.

Should be an auto option after the quest tbh..same for chaos/cosmic/body puzzle resets.

[Sy_Accursed]

Looks nice, needs more legs though. We should make 5 people a set of each element and run around yelling 'power rangers' :thumbup:

 

 

I made a full cosmic set, and it gave me an idea. Instead of mutes and stat wipes, make people produce primed bars as a punishment. I only made six of them and it was torture.

Should be an auto option after the quest tbh..same for chaos/cosmic/body puzzle resets.

 

tbf the last 3 arent hard to redo.

 

If you follow tip.it quest guide its only 5 moves to recharge bar maker.

Cosmic one at most 1 random pillar swivels when you use it, so all u do is press "power up" and watch for the explosion of fail n rotate it.

Chaos one aint to bad to recharge either.

 

its just bar priming tht takes forever.

[aspeeder]

tbf the last 3 arent hard to redo.

 

If you follow tip.it quest guide its only 5 moves to recharge bar maker.

Cosmic one at most 1 random pillar swivels when you use it, so all u do is press "power up" and watch for the explosion of fail n rotate it.

Chaos one aint to bad to recharge either.

 

its just bar priming tht takes forever.

And all the running around.

[Zaaps1]

tbf the last 3 arent hard to redo.

 

If you follow tip.it quest guide its only 5 moves to recharge bar maker.

Cosmic one at most 1 random pillar swivels when you use it, so all u do is press "power up" and watch for the explosion of fail n rotate it.

Chaos one aint to bad to recharge either.

 

its just bar priming tht takes forever.

And all the running around.

They better install an elevator in the Elemental Workshop.

[Blyaunte]

Looks nice, needs more legs though. We should make 5 people a set of each element and run around yelling 'power rangers' :thumbup:

 

Ok - I lol'd at this.

 

 

Love this look!

 

<3:

[Sir_Squab]

I haven't done the quest, but I'm hoping the next quest involves your character teaching the robot or whatever it is in there to do everything we've learned how to do so far. Or MAKE our own robot to do that.

 

Or hire an NPC. I mean, hiring a demon to do your bidding costs 10k, so how much would it cost to hire like some alchemist apprentice or something to make stuff for us?

[HunterDexter]

Yeah, maybe we might find an adventurer stupid enough to do all the work for us. Wait... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Den]

I liked the quest. Not as painful as the previous one, but still a little annoying with moving Da-Vi.

 

LOVE the look on the gloves and boots as well. :P

[Othelbark]

Really liked the puzzles this time, thought the rewards would be higher leveled tho.

Only 1 more mage def on the chaos shield over the body shield <_<.

[Sy_Accursed]

I definitely liked this brand of puzzle more.

It was less massive penalising if you go wrong challenge.

More intuitively suss how it works then its fairly straight forward.

 

Once you realise how cosmic controls work its not too hard to solve and same for chaos. All I don;t get is:

Why do we need Da-Vi to pick up and move the tablet to the workbench, yet after carving we can move it ourselves?

[BloodAngel]

I definitely liked this brand of puzzle more.

It was less massive penalising if you go wrong challenge.

More intuitively suss how it works then its fairly straight forward.

 

Once you realise how cosmic controls work its not too hard to solve and same for chaos. All I don;t get is:

Why do we need Da-Vi to pick up and move the tablet to the workbench, yet after carving we can move it ourselves?

 

Probably because, as far as I know, we can't walk through fire yet (unless you count log fires for fm) :P

[Sy_Accursed]

I definitely liked this brand of puzzle more.

It was less massive penalising if you go wrong challenge.

More intuitively suss how it works then its fairly straight forward.

 

Once you realise how cosmic controls work its not too hard to solve and same for chaos. All I don;t get is:

Why do we need Da-Vi to pick up and move the tablet to the workbench, yet after carving we can move it ourselves?

 

Probably because, as far as I know, we can't walk through fire yet (unless you count log fires for fm) :P

 

Doh. totally blanked that there was a fire there.

[Crossed_Body]

2/10, puzzles were too easy.

[StGerolf]

How to solve the cosmic one? I really have no clue where to start

[Sy_Accursed]

How to solve the cosmic one? I really have no clue where to start

 

Its relatively simple:

The "emitters" fire out a blast of energy for w/e rune they have on them.

Each pillar has the holes on them (eg a water/air pillar has two white, two blue on opposite sides.

The energy blasts have to get straight across the room; they can only move through their own colour.

 

So for each row/column in the grid you have to rotate the pillars so you have a complete line on 1 lens colour. then put a matching rune in the emitter and fire.

You can see where pillars don't work because you get an explosion.

 

2nd and 3rd round you have more than 1 level to each pillar, you only need 1 lvl to make a complete line and match the emitter hegith to tht level.

 

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[StGerolf]

How to rotate them? Nothing happens

 

OK, control pannel works, overlooked that

[Saunamajuri]

I liked this quest: It was fun and not too long or complicated. Astral and Nature doors already foreshadow the next part and the chaos book mentioned soul part, which is most likely behind the door in the end of the corridor. The book also hinted that the apprentice will most likely be the final boss of the series.

[Will H]

I'm curious why everyone's convinced that there's a boss at the end of the series, when it's a series that's strictly no combat, all puzzling. Sticking on combat at the end would just be weird and inconsistent.