Sanya takes a moment or two or an hour to answer some of the various questions that pickles are asking...hehe. Sorry so many days late, will get back on track soon! Here's the latest edition. Champions, take note: Q: Will resist caps be raised? Currently I am at 24% spirit even though I wear 28% worth of gear. What I want to know is will the buff stack with my gear giving me, say, 48%? A: Yes. The item cap and the buff cap are separate. Q: (Insert unhappy comment about Champions and the new debuffs here.) A: The impact was heavier than intended. We are going to be revisiting the debuff changes next week. This applies to any class that uses debuffs, incidentally, but I used Champions in the question as they are a class that really built itself around debuffs. We're also going to be looking over the Champions in general, in addition to the Friars. And for the love of god, please stop using the word "disgruntled" in your headers, I wish I'd picked a more fun word like "pickled." Q: (Insert question answered on the Herald last month.) A: We do have a keyword search here on the Herald - it's on the left column. Q:(Insert buff here) does nothing for my class! Could you change it to be useful to me? A: This is a design choice - not every spell you may be able to cast will necessarily be usable by you. One example of such a spell, the acuity buff Midgard Shamen recently received, doesn't actually do anything for a Shaman. Rather, it helps Runemasters and Spiritmasters (with Piety increases) - this was to make Shamen more desirable in a group, not to necessarily make the Shaman himself any stronger. Q: Where are the spells.xml and styles.xml lists you spoke of lo these many moons ago? A: Well, we've been doing some serious revamping of this material lately, so we decided to hold off putting it into XML until we were finished reviewing it all. In addition, no one has had the time yet to put together the file. I'm afraid there is no ETA on this, although it's something we REALLY want to do. It has not been forgotten, merely pushed back on the priority list. Sorry =( Q: With the new display options coming soon for individual guilds on the Herald, why not make all the possible information (spec breakdowns per character, crafting skill levels per character, /played time, etc) available via XML but not displayed on the Herald itself? A: While we COULD do that, we SHOULDN'T do that - because anyone could get access to your guild's XML stuff and display it on their own website. This would be an egregious invasion of privacy, in our opinion. Password protection is an option, but we do not have the programmer time available to set up such a thing. Incidentally, check out the new Realm War pages, we've added some nifty features. The first version of this page did not include unguilded players in the Top Player listings - this was a bug, and now corrected to display people without an official guild. Q: I cannot solo a freaking blue. It is highly annoying. A: It should be highly annoying, since that is not our intent. BUT - we run tests whenever we get class/race/spec/target monster information, and more than half the time we can solo a blue just peachy. (When we can't, we get cracking on figuring out ways to fix that.) Here's one thing - our test characters are in blue/yellow armor. So, if you cannot kill a blue, AND you are wearing mostly blue or better armor, please send me your feedback (class/race/level/spec points/overall armor con color/target monster) with the heading PICKLED SOLOIST. Have a spiffy weekend!