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Mage apprentice specifically has to be an arcane powered artifact -- just bump into the guy and it should give you the option to hand stuff over. The quest info's not been updated to reflect the change yet, iirc, though the initial dialogue has been.

As for the slavers, if you killed the boss critter on that level, the orb won't work. Otherwise, try talking to the critter first, maybe.

Probably wouldn't be much of an issue, so long as you're careful about when you swap out. It might mean spread out weapon XP, though. Maybe not too big of a deal -- you don't have to invest much into short blades to hit min speed.

... did it work?

I'd probably recommend checking the wiki and/or knowledge bot on stabbing mechanics -- unless something major got changed while I wasn't looking, the thing about daggers and stabbing is that daggers are more appealing when you've got a lower stabbing skill, as the raw damage boost from stabbing with a dagger caps off, while the multiplier is a short blades in general thing, not specific to a dagger. When you hit the point with stabbing (iirc, mid-upper teens or low twenties) that other short blades are capping off with that bonus damage, daggers become pretty much useless. Possibly even earlier, because the base damage in daggers is crap. Long blades, however, have a lower multiplier, so they're probably going to do less stab damage regardless.

There's a possibility you'll still be doing more damage with a sufficiently sexy long blade (because, outside the attack speed and aforementioned damage boost, daggers are shit), but you'd probably be better off with a sabre or (if particularly lucky, you're a bit early for them) quickblade.

Basically, the higher your stabbing gets, the less attractive daggers are, but short blades are going to more-or-less trump long blades regardless (for stabbing damage, anyway). Still, though, the stabbing multiplier is a stabbing multiplier. It's always going to help, it just takes short blades to make somewhat silly.

That said, while I've unlocked almost all the classes legitimately (I haven't got around to unlocking paradox magi yet, hum, though I've been through the rift a couple times with TWs), I unlocked them a lot earlier than that by editing

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

allow_build.profile, in ...\T-Engine\4.0\profiles\online\modules\tome\. If anyone's interested, I can spoiler them a full unlock list

An action I wholeheartedly recommend for everyone, and not so subtly mention just about every time an unlock comes up. I vehemently hate the unlock system

T4's good enough I can happily edit my way around it and move on with enjoying the game, heh.

Archmage unlock is to

It requires knowledge of a game mechanic peculiar to Ryze - his abilities do more damage the more mana he has, so he can increase his damage output without buying ability power (AP) items. Every other mage will tend to build AP, so he's a bit of an oddball. Playing LoL at level 30 (so you can participate in the tribunal) and not knowing about this is a faux pas equivalent to being sat at the captain's table, complaining that your gazpacho soup is cold.

Yeah, figured it was something like that. I've played maybe ten LoL games so far, mostly co-op dominion (because it takes like half or less the amount of time to play), so I'm not exactly familiar with all the quirks

I guess it's possible the reporting critter was borrowing (or bought or some such nonsense) a L30, but it's a bit silly of a thing for someone who actually played their way to that point to miss, heh.

I wish I could parse that picture, because it looks like it's supposed to be hilarious. I wish I had regular access to a computer capable of playing LoL, heh.