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Создана новая страница размером right ==Overview== '''Scrying''' is the act of using a stone on crystal to see into the past or future. In ...
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==Overview==
'''Scrying''' is the act of using a stone on crystal to see into the past or future. In EQ2, scrying involves using a stone at a special location to reveal what might hidden there. Specifically, scrying involves finding a ring of rainbow lights (similar to the picture shown here), examing [[a scrying stone]] while standing very near those lights, and waiting for your result.
Scrying, the stones and all, have been in the game since very close to the beginning of the game. The lore article here [[The Scrying Stones]] and the [http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/news_archive.vm?section=Development&month=012005&id=347&direction=back SoE article] date back to January of 2005, only few months after launch.
Although there are stories of the scrying stones costing a lot more early in the game, these reports are unsubstantiated rumor. We suspect people are confusing the price of stones with the price of an entire stack of stones and the relative investment return rate on scrying during a time when stacks were small, gold was scarce, and people were very new to the game.
==The Stones==
[[image:scrying_stone_icon.gif|right]]
To use the scrying rainbow lights, you need scrying stones. These are sold for {{Coin|||10}} each by two merchants, one each on the docks of [[The Thundering Steppes]] and [[Nektulos Forest]]. Choose the correct merchant for your alignment (good or evil):
*Good-aligned players: [[Liets Rolyat]], a Ratonga on the docks in [[The Thundering Steppes]] nearest the beach {{Loc|-439|-18|-436}}
*Evil-aligned players: [[Inaill Icoryk]], an Iksar on the docks in [[Nektulos Forest]] {{Loc|776|2|-152}}
Remember, good-aligned players can only purchase from Thundering Steppes and evil-aligned players from Nektulos Forest. If you're going to be using these stones alot, remember where your merchant is; you will be returning often.
==The Rainbow==
[[Image:A Light in the Forest.jpg|right|thumb|This is what you're looking for.]]
Scrying occurs near randomly spawning rainbows. These rainbow lights "escaping" from the ground will vary somewhat based on your graphic settings. Anything from a single "edge" of light to a pretty-looking multi-ring or line effect.
Much like harvesting nodes, rainbows tend to appear in the same areas but not the same location (most of the time). See the talk page of this article for known areas in which they appear frequently. Rainbows appear most often in tier 2, 3, and 4 zones. At present, no known rainbow sightings have occurred in tier 6 or 7 zones. Also, like harvesting nodes, if left alone, the rainbows will sit around for {{info|some time}} then vanish and appear in a new area.
Scrying rainbows have an internal timer on them; once you start using one, the clock starts. When the time is up, it's 'used', but it may not vanish. You can seven or eight times on a ring before it disappears. This is not a per person timer; once ''anyone'' starts scrying at a rainbow, the clock starts ticking but multiple people can use one ring at a time.
Note: As long as a rainbow doesn't vanish, you '''can''' use it again. Just move away from the rainbow about 5-10 meters (mind your aggro) and move back. Think of the distance you can walk away from a merchant before your purchase window closes. The same distance is true of scrying rainbows. By doing this, you can get up to 3 sets of scrying runs at 1 rainbow!
==The Event==
[[image:scry_rune_example.jpg|right|thumb|An example of a single pulse from a scrying result.]]
You have your stones and you've found a ring. Now what? Just examine a stone to start (we recommend dragging the stone onto an empty hotbar key to make it simpler). Once you examine the scrying stones, you begin what many people refer to as the "slot machine" effect. Three messages about runes of a particular brightness and color will flash across your screen in your notification window.
There are 3 runes:
*Tree
*Sword
*Coin
Each rune will "pulse" a "brightness" and a "color." There are four brightnesses:
*Dim
*Soft
*Bright
*Brilliant
and four colors:
*White
*Red
*Blue
*Green
Thats 4096 combinations (4096 = 16^3).
==The Results==
There are 3 different possible outcomes from a scrying attempt:
* Nothing may happen and you'll have to wait a few seconds for the event to finish before you can try again.
* The message '''''You disturbed something''''' will appear. A monster called a 'disturbed corpse' will pop and aggro on you or a group member (even if the monster is gray to you). These monsters are usually between levels 15 and 25 and anywhere from vvv to ^^^ in difficulty.
* You find an item of some sort.
[[image:scry_choice_example.gif|thumb|left|right|Shiny thing or rocks? hmm]]
==OMG, Shiny Things! (The Rewards)==
Assuming you do not disturb a corpse or simply find nothing, '''everything''' you find during a scrying attempts will have an alternate reward of more scrying stones. The number of stones you receive is determined by the relative worth of the item. In all cases, 1 stone = 10silver, so an item that has 3 stones as an alternate is worth 30silver or 3 stones.
[[image:scry_coin_purse.jpg|thumb|right|A coin purse event text]]
[[Image:scry_coin_purse2.jpg|thumb|right|The reward from a 'tiny' purse, 2 stones]]
===Coin Purses===
Coin purses comes in various sizes and contain ancient silver coins or ancient gold coins. The larger the coin purse, the more coins you get, though you will always have the option of obtaining more scrying stones of an equivalent amount to the monetary reward. Keep in mind the following values:
*[[Древняя серебряная монета]] = 1 камень = {{Coin|||10}}<br>
(This is not the same as the looted treasure item called an [[ancient silver coin]].)
*[[Древняя золотая монета]] = 100 камней = {{Coin||10}}<br>
(Ancient gold coins are VERY rare and likely the 'top' prize. They have been reported to appear from 3 brilliant white runes.)
===Artifacts and Equipment===
[[Image:A damaged fetish.jpg|thumb|200px|an example of artifact]]
You may find an artifact or a piece of equipment instead of coins. Both artifacts and equipment can be sold back to merchants for all or a portion of their actual value. But beware of which merchants you use! Some will pay more than others, depending on what you sell.
All artifacts share a common examine text that reads "''This item will probably be more valuable to a collector of artifacts than it is to me!''" Sell these back to scrying stone merchants for full (N stones * 10s) price. If you sell artifacts to any other merchants (in town or not) you will only get 80% of their actual worth. See [[:Category: Scried Items|Scried Items]] for a list of known scried artifacts.
Equipment pieces are pieces of equipment, such as armor or weapons, that could theoretically still be worn, but whose stats aren't quite up to the standard of the tier in which they're found. These equipment pieces usually have some form of the word ''ancient'' in their title, with modifiers like ''damaged'', ''intact'', or ''preserved''. Equipment uses the same value system as the artifacts and books, but you can sell them at standard merchants (NOT the stone merchants) for 100% of their value. See [[:Category: Scried Equipment|Scried Equipment]] for a list of known scried equipment.
===Training Tomes===
Training tomes are mini-quest starters. Examine one of these and you are prompted to accept a quest to "kill ''X'' of a type of mob in ''PLACE'' in ''Y'' minutes." The reward for training tome quests is some xp and another quest in your journal. You can also sell these back to merchants much like artifacts. See [[Training Tomes]] for more information about these quests.
==Scrying-Specific Quests==
[[A Scrying Shame]] is one of the few quests using the scrying system (this is the source of the colored torches). Another quest [[Daria and the Dwarf]], based in Nektulos, also involves scrying stones, but it doesn't seem as involved
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==Overview==
'''Scrying''' is the act of using a stone on crystal to see into the past or future. In EQ2, scrying involves using a stone at a special location to reveal what might hidden there. Specifically, scrying involves finding a ring of rainbow lights (similar to the picture shown here), examing [[a scrying stone]] while standing very near those lights, and waiting for your result.
Scrying, the stones and all, have been in the game since very close to the beginning of the game. The lore article here [[The Scrying Stones]] and the [http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/news_archive.vm?section=Development&month=012005&id=347&direction=back SoE article] date back to January of 2005, only few months after launch.
Although there are stories of the scrying stones costing a lot more early in the game, these reports are unsubstantiated rumor. We suspect people are confusing the price of stones with the price of an entire stack of stones and the relative investment return rate on scrying during a time when stacks were small, gold was scarce, and people were very new to the game.
==The Stones==
[[image:scrying_stone_icon.gif|right]]
To use the scrying rainbow lights, you need scrying stones. These are sold for {{Coin|||10}} each by two merchants, one each on the docks of [[The Thundering Steppes]] and [[Nektulos Forest]]. Choose the correct merchant for your alignment (good or evil):
*Good-aligned players: [[Liets Rolyat]], a Ratonga on the docks in [[The Thundering Steppes]] nearest the beach {{Loc|-439|-18|-436}}
*Evil-aligned players: [[Inaill Icoryk]], an Iksar on the docks in [[Nektulos Forest]] {{Loc|776|2|-152}}
Remember, good-aligned players can only purchase from Thundering Steppes and evil-aligned players from Nektulos Forest. If you're going to be using these stones alot, remember where your merchant is; you will be returning often.
==The Rainbow==
[[Image:A Light in the Forest.jpg|right|thumb|This is what you're looking for.]]
Scrying occurs near randomly spawning rainbows. These rainbow lights "escaping" from the ground will vary somewhat based on your graphic settings. Anything from a single "edge" of light to a pretty-looking multi-ring or line effect.
Much like harvesting nodes, rainbows tend to appear in the same areas but not the same location (most of the time). See the talk page of this article for known areas in which they appear frequently. Rainbows appear most often in tier 2, 3, and 4 zones. At present, no known rainbow sightings have occurred in tier 6 or 7 zones. Also, like harvesting nodes, if left alone, the rainbows will sit around for {{info|some time}} then vanish and appear in a new area.
Scrying rainbows have an internal timer on them; once you start using one, the clock starts. When the time is up, it's 'used', but it may not vanish. You can seven or eight times on a ring before it disappears. This is not a per person timer; once ''anyone'' starts scrying at a rainbow, the clock starts ticking but multiple people can use one ring at a time.
Note: As long as a rainbow doesn't vanish, you '''can''' use it again. Just move away from the rainbow about 5-10 meters (mind your aggro) and move back. Think of the distance you can walk away from a merchant before your purchase window closes. The same distance is true of scrying rainbows. By doing this, you can get up to 3 sets of scrying runs at 1 rainbow!
==The Event==
[[image:scry_rune_example.jpg|right|thumb|An example of a single pulse from a scrying result.]]
You have your stones and you've found a ring. Now what? Just examine a stone to start (we recommend dragging the stone onto an empty hotbar key to make it simpler). Once you examine the scrying stones, you begin what many people refer to as the "slot machine" effect. Three messages about runes of a particular brightness and color will flash across your screen in your notification window.
There are 3 runes:
*Tree
*Sword
*Coin
Each rune will "pulse" a "brightness" and a "color." There are four brightnesses:
*Dim
*Soft
*Bright
*Brilliant
and four colors:
*White
*Red
*Blue
*Green
Thats 4096 combinations (4096 = 16^3).
==The Results==
There are 3 different possible outcomes from a scrying attempt:
* Nothing may happen and you'll have to wait a few seconds for the event to finish before you can try again.
* The message '''''You disturbed something''''' will appear. A monster called a 'disturbed corpse' will pop and aggro on you or a group member (even if the monster is gray to you). These monsters are usually between levels 15 and 25 and anywhere from vvv to ^^^ in difficulty.
* You find an item of some sort.
[[image:scry_choice_example.gif|thumb|left|right|Shiny thing or rocks? hmm]]
==OMG, Shiny Things! (The Rewards)==
Assuming you do not disturb a corpse or simply find nothing, '''everything''' you find during a scrying attempts will have an alternate reward of more scrying stones. The number of stones you receive is determined by the relative worth of the item. In all cases, 1 stone = 10silver, so an item that has 3 stones as an alternate is worth 30silver or 3 stones.
[[image:scry_coin_purse.jpg|thumb|right|A coin purse event text]]
[[Image:scry_coin_purse2.jpg|thumb|right|The reward from a 'tiny' purse, 2 stones]]
===Coin Purses===
Coin purses comes in various sizes and contain ancient silver coins or ancient gold coins. The larger the coin purse, the more coins you get, though you will always have the option of obtaining more scrying stones of an equivalent amount to the monetary reward. Keep in mind the following values:
*[[Древняя серебряная монета]] = 1 камень = {{Coin|||10}}<br>
(This is not the same as the looted treasure item called an [[ancient silver coin]].)
*[[Древняя золотая монета]] = 100 камней = {{Coin||10}}<br>
(Ancient gold coins are VERY rare and likely the 'top' prize. They have been reported to appear from 3 brilliant white runes.)
===Artifacts and Equipment===
[[Image:A damaged fetish.jpg|thumb|200px|an example of artifact]]
You may find an artifact or a piece of equipment instead of coins. Both artifacts and equipment can be sold back to merchants for all or a portion of their actual value. But beware of which merchants you use! Some will pay more than others, depending on what you sell.
All artifacts share a common examine text that reads "''This item will probably be more valuable to a collector of artifacts than it is to me!''" Sell these back to scrying stone merchants for full (N stones * 10s) price. If you sell artifacts to any other merchants (in town or not) you will only get 80% of their actual worth. See [[:Category: Scried Items|Scried Items]] for a list of known scried artifacts.
Equipment pieces are pieces of equipment, such as armor or weapons, that could theoretically still be worn, but whose stats aren't quite up to the standard of the tier in which they're found. These equipment pieces usually have some form of the word ''ancient'' in their title, with modifiers like ''damaged'', ''intact'', or ''preserved''. Equipment uses the same value system as the artifacts and books, but you can sell them at standard merchants (NOT the stone merchants) for 100% of their value. See [[:Category: Scried Equipment|Scried Equipment]] for a list of known scried equipment.
===Training Tomes===
Training tomes are mini-quest starters. Examine one of these and you are prompted to accept a quest to "kill ''X'' of a type of mob in ''PLACE'' in ''Y'' minutes." The reward for training tome quests is some xp and another quest in your journal. You can also sell these back to merchants much like artifacts. See [[Training Tomes]] for more information about these quests.
==Scrying-Specific Quests==
[[A Scrying Shame]] is one of the few quests using the scrying system (this is the source of the colored torches). Another quest [[Daria and the Dwarf]], based in Nektulos, also involves scrying stones, but it doesn't seem as involved
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