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[PaMxl]

I find this topic a great idea. Here are a few things I needed to research:

Relative drop rates for the Fauztenville and Toraja Great runes are the same:
Taha / Ghal / Qor -> 3 / 2 / 1
Krys / Auhe / Sha’ad -> 3 / 2 / 1

To tank QuovTsin you need to have 80% of fire/cold/light max resistance and 200 Reduced Physical Damage.

Assur (Duncraig Boss) has -200% of enemy fire resistance.

[Ekital]

Umm I guess here's a few:

-Thunderfury is a 25% chance to proc on attack. (Docs haven't been updated since 1.1)
-Thunderfury on relic is a 8% chance to proc on attack. (Undocumented information)
-Doom on non-assassin characters does not give magic pierce.
-Faerie Fire does not give avoid on non-druid characters.
-Defensive harmony is +10 +4/lvl life when struck not +10 +5/lvl as stated in the newest patch notes.
-Medusa o-skill still uses the attack2 animation meaning that using a Necromancer with a scythe will cause the attacks to be no lower than 11-frames. (I'm sure there's more skills that still use this animation)
-The following items have their orange text disabled when dual-wielding [Only known by players who played in 1.1 or have read 1.1 patchnotes]:

The Colonel
Thunder King of Sescheron (Only Stormblast line)
Grandfather
Wizardspike

- Items cannot be MO'd past +150 level requirement to prevent Iron Golem abuse.
- Despite Xorine Ring description, the ring gives +1 projectile to both “Punisher” and “Punishers”
- Superbeast proc on Panthera’s bite only lasts approximately 5s-10s.
- As Paladin it is possible to receive both Vessel bonuses while still being able to pick up Superbeast. This is done by only applying points into the VoJ Tree and picking up Superbeast. (Obviously this is pretty useless as it makes the character lose survivability but it confuses the hell out of players.)
- Whirlwind and Windform can proc “On Attack” and “On Striking”.
- Kraken Stance and a few other skills that add passive elemental damage are affected by spell dmg% but ONLY with melee swings (Also whirlwind and windform).
- Spell damage buffs can be applied twice to totems (they can inherit it from you when you summon them, and then you can buff them).
- Totems inherit your re-animate% however they are not affected by the Slain Monsters Rest in Peace modifier meaning they can bypass the minor downside of items such as

Unveiling Eye

Unveiling Eye
Circlet (Sacred)
Defense: 505 to 571
Required Level: 130
Required Dexterity: 262
Item Level: 130
Hidden Reliquary
(Bonus per Hidden Crafts)
+25 Spell Focus
+20% to Elemental Spell Damage
+1 to All Skills
-(21 to 30)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
Slain Monsters Rest in Peace
50% Magic Find
Socketed (4)

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- WDM procs can proc “On Striking” procs as well meaning that Time strike procs can proc themselves multiple times in succession.

EDIT: Added a few more for ya guys

[Marco]

- You can actually multihit poison in MXL, because due to how it works (first frame reapplies). Spam Plague avatar on a boss as opposed to 1 cast and you will see a noticeable difference. It's also worth to re-apply poison to get a higher dps roll.

- Characters can become immune to both poison and burn damage types, using poison and fire res shrines respectively. Triune cheese anyone?

- Incineration Trap ignores %avoid.

- Assassins don't require keys to open chests

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Fren Slairea

Fren Slairea
Amulet
Required Level: 30
Item Level: 40
+1 to All Skills
+(16 to 20)% to Lightning Spell Damage
+(17 to 20) to Flash
Maximum Mana -25%
Lightning Absorb 5%

spelled backwards is "Aerial's Nerf". Back in Laz era, aerial would often influence balance/nerfs. Laz would ocassionally struggle to find a middle ground between aerial's opinion and community wanting OP, as any dev. Notable case is 1.F9 pouncesin, a build pioneered by aerial. This build was about as broken as any build can ever get, which is why ocassionally you can read a few people mentioning F9 as their fav version. Back then pounce was buffed/nerfed back and forth until killed and replaced by shunpo (much weaker than current) and a lot of people got really upset. There's many more references to aerial in the files, such as earthquake being called "Aerial's Disaster" internally or Static Lance's string index being...

- You can cube Malus Domestica on it's own and something happens.

- Have you ever wondered what's up with

Dacana's Fist

Dacana's Fist
Chain Gloves (Sacred)
Defense: (515 - 1545) to (565 - 1695)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 575
Item Level: 105
+(0 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
(-300 to 300) to Life
Elemental Resists (-50 to 30)%
1% Reanimate as: Random Monster
(-25 to 15)% to Experience Gained
(-100 to 60)% Gold Find
(0 to 60)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)

? The item is a reference to whist, Dacana being an anagram for Canada and "fist" being how we call him in the team. The stat rolls are as such because you never know what you're gonna get, sometimes you'll be disappointed but other times amazed. (ps. we love you anyway)

- Whimsyshire exists? I don't think so. Or does it?

- Quov tsin's internal name is "omgitslaz". This may explain what kickstarted his crazy "uber endless lazorbeam" concept. However, both QT and Laz bosses were introduced in MXL alpha and QT was never called Laz ingame. Maybe he was the initial plan, until Laz realised he'd rather make a different boss out of that battle.

- There's a merc of each act that references a community member. Zennyel being probably the least known, was a member that posted really weird stuff in the old forums 7 years ago. He made a radio station where he identified himself as a "bisexual turbo squirrel" and would post pop music video with their giant colored lyrics and weird unrelated stock imagery. He would later start posting tons of pictures of himself traveling, extreme close-up pics of his face, eventually himself borderline naked "posing for art" (NSFW). He had some really uplifting energy. Legend lives on.

- You can tell if a skill requires IAS or FCR simply by looking at what animation the player does. This seems pretty obvious but people still ask the question all the time. You can always cast town portal (cast anim) or swing normal attack (swing anim) as a reference.



PS. I know many of them aren't median specific, but probably a few people don't know about them. Hope I didn't derail much into community/history stuff. Will add more as they come to mind

[Vikan]

- You can cube Malus Domestica on it's own and something happens.

INTERESTING

[Ekital]

There is also a little bit of a riddle on the the item

Saber of the Stormsail

Saber of the Stormsail
Saber (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: (107 - 148) to (139 - 180)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 443
Item Level: 105
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
5% Chance to cast level 5 Squall Wave on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 5 Charged Strike on Melee Attack
20% Attack Speed
Adds (30 to 50)-(60 to 80) Damage
Adds 100-200 Lightning Damage
Adds 100-200 Cold Damage
-(5 to 15)% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(90 to 140)% Enhanced Damage
-(5 to 15)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
Half Freeze Duration
''Cross the Wide, Somber Seas I Will Sail
Three's a Company''
Socketed (3)

. Cubing three of them provides a fun result as well.

[Zodnuck]

Did you know you are allowed to mule with just yourself?
Seriously, MXL is fine with someone opening two different accounts from the same IP address so long as both characters stay in town. You can easily, quickly, and safely transfer items in TSW between your characters in a private room.

I have met a lot of people here that did not know that. I hope they read this

[Vikan]

There is also a little bit of a riddle on the the item

Saber of the Stormsail

Saber of the Stormsail
Saber (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: (107 - 148) to (139 - 180)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 443
Item Level: 105
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
5% Chance to cast level 5 Squall Wave on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 5 Charged Strike on Melee Attack
20% Attack Speed
Adds (30 to 50)-(60 to 80) Damage
Adds 100-200 Lightning Damage
Adds 100-200 Cold Damage
-(5 to 15)% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(90 to 140)% Enhanced Damage
-(5 to 15)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
Half Freeze Duration
''Cross the Wide, Somber Seas I Will Sail
Three's a Company''
Socketed (3)

. Cubing three of them provides a fun result as well.

Watch how you can turn 3 sigs into 1 with this simple trick

[Istaryu]

- Assassin's don't require keys to open chests

NANI

[Johnny Impak]

Once upon a time, there was a SSSU short bow in the game. That bow was mod-wise, the best in the entire game.

[dongflexer]

Once upon a time, there was a SSSU short bow in the game. That bow was mod-wise, the best in the entire game.

Referring to Dear Esther? Didnt that just turn into Etrayu? Or was it a different bow?