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When restoring Skill Awakening points at Dianann in Rocheste there is a new area above the skill list called "Collect Awakening Durability Points". It starts at 0/999999. You can click on it to fill it as per normal skills. I guess it's a universal pool that draws points from there to restore awakening points to your skills automatically when they're low.
Pretty handy feature with no mention of how to use it.
1. How did you find about Vindictus?
I was home on holidays from college and saw my younger sister playing with some highschool friends over Skype. They quit shortly after the Laghodessa update...I didn't.
2. How long have you been playing?
Since December-ish 2010? 7+ years. Now don't I feel old. I remember the first event I did was having to collect pieces of a picture from the kobolds in Hoarfrost Hollow and the complete set could be traded in for the Rudolph hat with the red nose and antlers.
3. Who was your first character?
I think first created was Evie. I mostly played Fiona until scythe was released...melee staff was...oh man...and everyone else seemed to be playing Lann. I still miss the old guard-a-hit-and-heavy-stander-a-smash Fiona playstyle but it wouldn't really work with the current meta. I switched to Vella at her release and played her almost exclusively for a couple years. I now play all of the characters but my favourite remains Twin Sword Vella.
4. What would you consider your greatest achievement?
Probably the fact that I haven't quit this game after so long, despite playing largely solo, honestly. Let's see...I once finished a God of Fomors RAR back during its release with only 5 people remaining and under 1 minute left on the clock. Back in the day, I also no-hit soloed Glas with TS Vella using nothing but Backlash from the second floor. Aside from that, I still feel a sense of accomplishment whenever I manage to suplex Siglint in a RAR, despite the lag(and bombing hemdrills being the easier and more effective option).
My goal for some Saturday in the nebulous future is to see if it's possible to do 100 runs of the Ancient Lakoria RAR on the same day. Whether I run out of alts, I run out of time or the server runs out of people first is something I'd like to find out.
5. Favorite color scheme to use on equipment?
Black and Gold/Orange or White and Icy Blue.
6. Favorite dungeon?
It still has to be the dragons in Heide/RAR. The opening scene for Elchulus where you get the zoom through this land frozen in time and you hear the *dun dun* *roar* and then it pans up the show a dragon flying over the battlefield is still one of my favourite intros. That and because Clashing bosses in a full RAR party still feels great, especially with new players who've never before witnessed the manly majesty of Karok. Although, It sucks that you can no longer do combos with Delia, Shout(ing) is impossible and the cooldown on Clash got nerfed(RIP).
Bonus: Best Memory
It's pretty dumb, but one of my best memories is from around 5 years ago. It was just a regular day of shooting the breeze when one of my guildies logged on and, without any preamble, suddenly asked me "guess what?". Little did I know that their innocuous question had just unleashed Pandora's Box.
After some token effort I gave the usual "I give up" response but the guildy who posed the question refused to give the answer and insisted I had to guess. So, all right, challenge accepted. By this time every other member of the guild online had noticed our exchange and I enlisted their help. As a collective, we started in on the whole twenty questions "is it a mineral?" B.S. trying to narrow it down, to seemingly no avail.
Anyway, after a stupid number of hours spent around the old Colhen campfire, the answer was revealed to be a simple"Hi!" After I finished breaking my keyboard, our guild went out and spent the rest of the day jump-smash killing bosses trying for cool screenshots.
P.S. My guild at the time was the late-but-great <Destilance>. I miss you crazy bunch, especially Hendawg and Cece. Add me on Malkah if any of the old gang is still around. +call
P.P.S. Second best memory is of a GoF RAR run where one of the players spent the entire raid making "Yo Mama" jokes in an attempt to make Elchulus cry(and thereby obtain his tear...which was still rare and worth a bunch at the time). My favourite was "Yo Mama is so ugly that even Hello Kitty said 'Goodbye!'", just for how dumb it was/is. It was so entertaining, I mailed them a tear I had gotten, just as thanks for the laughs. Good times.
Holy nostalgia, Batman! Time to go look up some old screenshots and relive the glory days.
