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I agree with all your points and figured the refit room would be the perfect explaination for the weapons. It would be nice to be able to see these in the war room also.

I think the trick to the icons on the action screen is to try and figure what information we need to see to win the game/make good decisions. For example, we abosultly need to know if a ship is an enemy or friendly as soon as we see it. This should not be mouse over information. On the other hand, we don't really need to know where the objectives are, that is information we don't need to make a split second decision on and is fine either as a "show objectives" button, a minimap function, or as a war room function.

I know nothing of the Iron curtian.

The village, Riverend, is up. It has been heavily neglected and needs to go through some remodeling and expanding. It is a tad overwhelming right now. I created an alt just to help gathering stones and the such.

That being said we have 2 stone mansions and many many timber houses. We have metals and tools, but lack some basic stuff like freely available leather armor and bear cloaks.

My plan is to fix some problems I have had with the village (creates everywhere and full of crap, disoragized tools, the animal pen) while leveling up an industry alt.

Once that is all taken care of and we have some villagers I'd like to start in on a mega project. It will be either an areana/trade zone or sinister slave camp.

I think I tried SoD and it crashed every 2 minutes. I can't remember if that was on Vanilla or WB.

Native Expansion had a decent enough kingdom system. I am going to try the compilation mod tonight.

What is the best mod for running your own kingdom? It must be stable. Can be vanilla or Warband.

I can play tonight for sure.

40 or 50% of the game? Not even close. We managed to find every metal but gold, grow every crop, raise every animal, do pretty much everything in the game and we were mostly a band of newbs. About the only thing we didn't ever try was raiding, but I don't think any of us were really interested in that anyways.

As for the forums, they are a fun read. There is so much history in the game already that the drama plays out interestingly enough. People join the game, get big eyes and suddenly lose everything. It shocks them and they cry. This is the HnH meme. People lock themselves behind palisades spot tree folk, find scents, and post about it on the forums, for everyone to laugh at them.

On the other hand, if you do have questions, people really are generally helpful.

I am willing to take over lawspeaker/chieften of the village. I have all the skills and LP for it anyways. I'll be on tonight, after 4:30 Pacific time.

Is it still possible to find patch preview notes? I hate their videos.

I recently started playing trynd. He is tough. My general build is Zeal, inf edge, either attack speed boots or merc treads (if the team has good mages and CC), upgrade Zeal to Phantom Dancer, then grab Spirit visage.

I don't remember my rune setup exactly, but I start the game with around 33% crit chance. When I am done with Inf Edge and PD my crit chance is 91% and easily raises to 100% when I take some damage.

Early game you have to play cautiously. You suffer from the same problem every melee class does, you have to put yourself in the enemy zone to attack but you have the added bonus of a self heal. At level 1 if you crit strike kill a minion you can heal yourself for 30 points. If you are going to take more than 30 damage getting that shot in you have a net loss of health. Generally it is better to just get those last hits at the tower.

In mid/late game team fights it is possible to "spinning slash" in and have it off cool down by the time you need to run (it is on an 8 second CD, lowered by crits, your ulti means you always survive at least 5 seconds). If you are the first one in, however, this will rarely ever work and you will die without causing much damage.

The best way to play Trynd in a team fight is to wait for your tank to engage, pick a target and hit them with everything you have. Use “w” to lower the attack damage for their entire team, spinning slash in, throw everything you have at their support or squishy DPS and hope for the best.

What I have found is that people really like to focus Trynd. If you can get the enemy team to blow their abilities on you and STILL get a kill, you are doing a good job.

I have had mixed results with Trynd, but enjoy a positive kill to death ratio.

I think you are wrong about WW Dakk. He is an excellent laner since his hungering strike is a great last hit attack (good damage, decent cool down, low mana costs) and, along with every attack, it heals him, which leads to more lane staying power. All of this offers you proper lane control (keeping enemies close to your tower, without being able to attack it) for a good portion of the early game. He is also a great melee harasser since he can jump out of the bushes, take some damage, and heal it with hungering strike.

I don't know how anyone can deny that he is great at jungling. Shaco can only jungle by stacking a bunch of JItBs which leads to pretty slow assaulting. Once he has blue buff WW has almost constant full life.

And while it is true that he only has the one CC ability, no other melee DPS can lock people down as long as he can.