"No.".
The answer is "No.".
Bismarck Normal, FC dude just unlocked, asked if anyone wanted to help. I'm a helpful chap, and Bizzy is a piece of piss. 5 minutes tops, right?
charlie_murphy_saying_wrong.mp3
We load in and Dragoon here immediately backflips off the edge once combat starts. I've seen this strategy before - die at the start, get carried, earn tomes for fuck all.
I suggest it might be deliberate, and FC dude asks if we should kick. I agree, suggest wiping, and jump off to reset. Alas, no-one else does, so looks like I'M a dickhead too.
NOTE: It was I who suggested DRG backflip was deliberate, FC dude merely asked if kicking was an option. DRG spoke up, and turns out my assumption was wrong. Neither DRG nor FC dude was not at fault here.
While I'm dead, I notice the other healer doing... nothing. Just throwing out Regens and running back and forth. Then it's dragonkiller time - they all pile on and bashy-bashy the carapace.
Except WHM.
I tell them to climb aboard, but they do not. I soon discover why...
THEY DON'T DO KILLY THINGS. ONLY CUREY THINGS.
The run goes from bad to worse - I accept my sacrifice did nothing to help this, but least I did more damage in my 20 seconds alive than this guy did all fight.
The carapace stage is failed again and again, and one by one the party drops until they wipe. A Bizzy Normal wipe - haven't seen that since 3.0.
Then our friend the Dragoon speaks up, says it was a mistake, and so we all try again. This time, Dragoon actually smashes it - I'm glad we didn't kick them now.
We fail the first carapace with 4% or so left - guess why. If you guessed "GCBTW WHM doing fuck all", give yourself a pat on the back.
We clear the wyrms, despite them getting too close, we get to the very last phase of the fight, and me and one other guy get lightning bolted to planet fucked, but surprisingly I get a rez! I get the other lad up and we finish.
According to the Lodestone, they're a level 74 WHM with a whole bunch of other midlevel jobs, but holy shit, not so much why but HOW do these people get this far into the fucking game doing this?
New player here, just got caught up to 5.4 and starting to get through eden's. So I queue into E3n, and this is the result:
https://imgur.com/a/EsNY9Rh
rank 1 dps is champ dragoon tank, rank 2 is RDM that singlehandedly raised half the party. Then we have no-dps WHM at the bottom. I don't understand how you make it to current raids and decide to not press a single dps button. No Dia, no Glare, nothing. Just a blood lily, assize, and one singular cane smack.
Now I don't claim to be the best WHM out there, and this is my 1st time going thru eden's, and the party had plenty of other 1st timers so we failed basically every mechanic (half the party went down when boss took down middle third of platform), but seriously, how can you possibly spend most of your time doing absolutely nothing :/
I was reading Sherlock holmes and they mention it a lot. From what i gather it was a court that was held occasionally, and also it was more severe than other courts? When people are "recommended to the assizes" they faint or protest very loudly. Did theynot have normal courts inbetween? Would people just wait in jail for the entire year until the assizes met? thanks
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First of all, sorry for the late post. Some unexpected stuff came up a couple of days ago that kept me miserably busy, namely a partial/temporary move while some work is done on the house.
Discussion starters:
1.) Okay, so another reason this is late is because the chapter was putting me to sleep. What purpose do you think it serves?
2.) What do you think about these guys being more likely to believe a child is the poisoner than his mother with a known interest and collection? Is it due to gender or reputation?
3). Other points of discussion?
Final Line: >A noise was heard in the hall; the sergeant called his two patrons with an energetic βhem!β and the door-keeper appearing, called out with that shrill voice peculiar to his order, ever since the days of Beaumarchais:
>βThe court, gentlemen!β
The next discussion will be up this Saturday.
I was looking at the 1181 Assize of Arms, and became curious about two 'tiers' of armor that certain people were expected to have.
Knight's fee holders and freemen with 16+ marks (2,560 silver) needed a shirt of mail (among other things), whereas freemen with around 10 marks (1,600 silver) needed a 'haubergel'.
Is there a significant difference between these two types of armor? I heard that mail was around 100 shillings, so I'm curious if a haubergel would be significantly cheaper, because if the 10 mark freemen had to pay that price, it'd be asking him to potentially spend over half of his money, and that's not including the price shield, helmet, spear, and possibly sword.
It gets a little more confusing because I've heard 'hauberk' be used to refer to both of these armors. Does anybody have knowledge on the subject?
The Assize of Clarendon was an act produced by Henry II of England in 1166 and is regarded as providing an important foundation for the common law many countries use today. I'm interested in the written journey of the Assize, how was this act communicated across Henry's kingdom? Would it have been through royal writ? I'm also finding it hard to obtain sources about the Assize of Clarendon, does anybody know of any good texts on this? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks everyone!
Is there anything like the Assize of Arms of 1181/1252 proscribing the minimum equipment levels to be paid as a knight versus a sergeant, say in Edward III's army, or Henry V's? I was reading Andrew Ayton's "Knights and Warhorses" and he discusses that there were gates that had to be hit with equipment and horses to go up the pay scale. For the life of me, I can't seem to find anything like that. Thanks for any help you can give in tracking that down.
Searching for ancestors in the parish of Lamberhurst, Kent, I found some overseer disbursement records from 1669:
>paid William King's wife for relief in her sickness he being committed to the jail - paid 6s
>paid widow King for to go to the Assizes as a witness against Thomas King - paid 5s
I want to learn more about Thomas and William's case. Do I have any options other than personally examining Assize records at the National Archives?
Looking at the text, it says that each free man should have a gambeson, iron helmet, and lance; was it realistic to expect the burgesses and freemen to have this level of equipment, based on what we know of prices/wages in England at this time? Do we know how common it was for the people of the various property levels to meet their respective requirements?
Before SB the skill could either be chose to heal the party or do decent healer dps if one decided to use it in cleric stance. Now that mind is being the damage stat for healer, as well as the healing stat, how do you all see or predict it working out? It is the only heal that also damages so it'd be very interesting if it was given both a decent heal and decent dps- especially in pvp.
I know there are a lot of different meanings for assizes, but I need some on the medieval court type. All I can find are assize records. Thanks for any help!
Forgive the title, I'm not quite sure how to concisely ask the question.
Thanks to several answers on this sub, I've taken a look at the Assizes of Arms, 1181 and 1252. Thing is, I'm not sufficiently educated in currency matters, so my question is - how rich is 15 pounds' worth of land? Would that be an outright knight's fee, or is that merely a rich merchant? Same question for the other wealth brackets specified; I suppose what I'm trying to ask is, who are the people being called out for each bracket? What sort of person in those days would have 'cattle of 40 marks' worth'? (I already know straight-up currency conversions are iffy, and I wouldn't know how to frame that in my understanding anyway.)
Also, not quite a wealth-related question. The text of the Assize of Arms 1252 as I found here specifies for armour 'coat of mail', 'hauberk', and 'doublet'. My present speculation is that the 'doublet' in question is a gambeson, but I'm drawing a blank as regards the coat of mail versus the hauberk, as to my understanding, the two terms are synonymous. Would anyone know what the Assize actually means to say?
The Assize of Clarendon was an act produced by Henry II of England in 1166 and is regarded as providing an important foundation for the common law many countries use today. I'm interested in the written journey of the Assize, how was this act communicated across Henry's kingdom? Would it have been through royal writ? I'm also finding it hard to obtain sources about the Assize of Clarendon, does anybody know of any good texts on this? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks everyone!
