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It said "Nothing happened." so Jeff may have used a graphic from another game that was supposed to trigger something in that game like opening a passage in a wall. There are two versions of the plant pot graphic and it's likely Jeff used the wronging since he had problems with the anvil in the smithy being the Enchantment Anvil by mistake.

The gem merchant of the original now only sells herbs, no more place to sell gems. Same person and same location within Fort Muck.

Those fights, at least the early ones were toned down. The last one is something to not even consider doing until level 18. The resistances to stun and mental attacks make it really hard. I've always found luck played a big part in being able to start the fight with picking off and killing one before dealing with the rest.

E/A 1-3 and GF1 are the only real open worlds that Jeff made. After that he went to closed worlds with barriers to restrict players. It made it easier to balance the game so they didn't fight too many things above their level on normal difficulty. No more explore where you want until you die. If you were good at his games you could get through the difficult places and become powerful really early.

Puresteel is only good for that and selling. I'm guessing that Jeff might have planned another use since they replace puresteel rings. Maybe he was considering them for artifact crafting or he just wanted enough so you could get them easily.

"High-end crafting materials had a value of 0, because I didn’t want you to be able to sell them. But this was getting them marked as junk items. They now have a high cash value." - Jeff in beta b20 notes

Jeff seemed to make it 1400 XP per level, but I was only able to check up to level 24 because I was just about 100 XP reaching level 25 as a Barzite. The rwspawned creations in Gaza-Uss seem to give no experience after wiping out a certain number. There are a few other things you can still kill above level 20 that give 20 XP like the Sholai leaders, Yu=La, and Grimwing. Basically anything with over 400 health gives decent XP.

It's what Jeff said during beta testing since they were zero value before they became high priced items. Someone must have complained for him to mention it and make a change.

There was a time when zero value items were being removed with the sell all. I don't know if that got changed, but ir was useful in removing true junk that accidentally got picked up in some container.

The high value ingredients was a change Jeff made to prevent them from being accidentally sold if you forgot to remove them from the junk bag. I had one complaint near the end when playing a Shaper, all the inventory slots taken by charms since almost all of them are for creations. You really need more slots for pods and spores, swappable mechanics and leadership items, and ammunition, but you fixed that problem. I could fill up all the slots with "needed" items and then need to place some on the ground in order to swap out items from the junk bag to store instead of sell all.

Drypeak is filled with plant research, so adding a book somewhere to mention it would have been easy.

The benefit of quicklash is that you get a guaranteed second action. While I've seen 4 spell attacks in a round repeatedly with Gloves of Spell Mastery, you can't count on it. Sam with all the other chance second attacks. It's like quick action for a melee guardian. Sometimes you go with the guaranteed action instead of risking getting one when you really need it.

Agents even as Loyalist are great. It may be harder in places. The key is to take advantage of high damaging spells taking out lots of foes like airshhock and using quick lash to get an extra attack. Jeff tweaked some things since I tried battle shaping, but it seemed effective even on torment difficulty. Using iron claw bug and rothghroths for their range AoE attacks made a big difference. It's harder to get them in melee in several places because of barriers. That tuff of grass in the swamp meant I couldn't leap to target.

I remember it being you could do both quests with Teriel and then having him disappear immediately after turning in his quest in later betas. Jeff kept tweaking that infernal to block how I was doing it. He especially hated using airshock from distance to wipe him out without taking damage. Barrier of the Winds doors aren't that bad once you do the Clockwork Maze and get Infiltrator's Ring to get Mechanics over 12. Plus there is plenty of decent loot if you aren't an Awakened. You only need skill points to get Mechanics to 6 and use items and the book for more.

Also if you do the Kill Tuldaric quest for Infernal Teriel, once you turn it in he leaves so you can never kill 4 infernal for the Emissary.

Wyx is hard to fight because at that level you rarely can hit and he resists most negative effects like slow and stun. Agents can get through the game as a solo, so you shouldn't have that essence problem. As Slarti said, you have to play him differently with approaching slowly to pick off foes and not jump into battle. Take advantage of daze and later dominate to reduce your active foes in a fight. Use some crystals and wands to damage foes before hitting them with a spell. Also when you have essence you can buff yourself before engaging in a fight since it's easier for an agent to have it last longer.

There is no dialogue option to leave a faction like in other games. You go to the leader a faction you want to join and hopefully they aren't hostile because of the faction you are currently in and you have the right reputation.

Even on torment difficulty a Shaper can get away with two shaping types at level 9 that can still hit almost all the time against the worst bosses. They might be at 80% ro hit chance, but will be enough. So you can have 5 or 6 tier 4 creations using one type as the tanks with higher health like rothgroths and a second as the range attackers like drakons or gazers. Lower difficulties allow you to use less optimal builds that are still viable.

Leadership of 6 lets you join the Servants without needing a pro-Shaper reputation. If you join you are officially a Servant and Awakened merchants and trainers won't deal with you until you officially leave. You can't join a faction fro the benefits without blocking yourself from other faction benefits. You have to formally leave.

Jeff chosed getting too far into the tunnel and the tells you that. It is dependent on your PC position to trigger the message. Same with the Abandoned Thahd from the Crags.

Essence Mastery from the canisters in Everfrost Mine and the second Emissary reward are the two easiest to get unless you want to join the Barzites. Depending upon where you go and when you turn in the Bars of iron quest: Level 6 - Freegatge/Medab Level 12 most of the Awakened Lands Level 20 entering Benerii-Uss zones Level 22 cleared almost the entire map except Inner Gaza-Uss

Not whatever is cheaper in the early game, but which gives you the biggest boost. In the early game each extra point of essence mastery gives you less since it is tied to your current level. A shaping level increases all your creations of that class aiming them do more damage and harder to kill.

When playing above normal difficulty, Gazers and Eyebests have the added advantage of Roamers that their AoE attack will not affect your party. This makes them more effective than other AoE attack creations. Drakon chain lightning can arc back into your party if you don't maintain a 6 tile separation. All other cone and circular area attacks also have to be placed carefully not to hit your party.

That's why I stopped seeing the ghost after that play through. I missed him.

Jeff must have change it since I did it 8 times in the middle of testing. It isn't as useful as it sounds since as Slarti said the other methods also increase your chances and can be used for other actions.