Shattered Kingdoms

Sorry, not for the idea. It would completely change the game and make it way to easy for someone to get a uber suit. We might as well have all the uber adamantine and mithril back in the game.

sleeper

Achernar - everyone already does have the same access to enchantments. The problem is that - should everyone be able to pick and choose the enchantments every item gets - that everyone would be walking around with 60mp sets and making 90% of casters spells do no damage to them, or go around with 40 willpower and make themselves sleep immune. Don't you realize how outrageously weakened casters would be by this changed?

Warriors are strengthened by this change, casters are made to be garbage. I cannot imagine anyone playing a caster other than a necro for animates or a priest for heal/res after this change. Warlocks + Sorcs will be gone.

Sorry to look at what you right in such an unfeeling tactical point of view - but if this change was implemented it would be so awkwardly unbalancing as to be sad.

This would make the vet to n00b gap even further. It would allow omfg voodoo cannons. You could have necros with 1000 hp undead. You could be immune to 2 types of magic on you. You could take z3r0 damage from spells. You could be so resistant that no spells touch you, ev4r.

I am very against this idea. Although Ghent would come out of enchanting retirement to make uber suits for his friends. In the end it would totally nullify magickal damage, and warriors would once again have the uber edge. Imagine having +50 MR and +50 MP on a d0rf bard, who can just take off their necklace/rings/bracelets so people could dump spells on them. All you would need is a mage friend with a lot of psuedo afk time.

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When it comes to mathematics, all of you are pretty freaking [REDACTED]. This is all hypothetical situations and conjecture. It's not solid data.

If this was implemented, the only way somebody would ever play a sorc/warlock would be to give them an enchant to add to art... or allow spells to have a maximum and minimum damage (and mp just varies the damage between these two).

But yeah, if this happened, I'd be hitting my friendly local enchanter for a full hp suit and a separate full mr suit=win sk.

Hey, if this happens, we might even see people try to take on Vaersarlak.

Why not just institute a limit for modification to attributes, similar to train caps? Wouldn't that be enough to keep it from being heavily abusable? Give every stat a cap, it doesn't have to be visible to mortals, just stop adding after a certain limit has been reached. Or don't let items stack seperately, whichever item has the highest modifier to that stat is the one that is used. Just tossing this out there.

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I'd rather wish there would be an institution to give these people brains.

I seriously doubt that, even if such an enchanting system was implemented, it would enable each and every player to make such an uber pimped out suit of armor and the fact that some you people are even suggesting it either shows that you don't think before you post or that you don't know this game well enough to judge.

I am fond of this idea though, it would certainly make things a lot more interesting and a lot less annoying. The fact that what kind of an enchantment you get is depended purely on chance makes the whole thing a lot less enjoyable, especially when you get enchantments that you didn't want.

I'm not sure about the stat increases, maybe if a cap was placed or something...

In any case, this enchanting system sounds like an improvement to me.

Fepel got one thing right:



The biggest problem I had with Daemaru was trying to remember how many times I could enchant something before it would fade or explode. Each item is different regardless of size and type and occassionally even items that were supposedly the same would enchant a different number of times depending on your rolls...

My suggestion: Leave enchanting basically the way it is, but up the level requirement to learn it (move it from Expert to Mentor) and up the ME cost a bit, and let the spells have a chance of adding attribute bonuses (Str, Con, Int, etc.). I had more people ask me if I could enchant attribute bonuses on to armor when I had access to the spells than any request for magic resistance or protection. This would lessen slightly the gap Fepel mentioned, making it easier for newbs to max their stats and not have to worry so much about where they are going to allocate their attribute points, something which I have learned is exceedingly difficult for someone who is not experienced in doing so.

Will this unblanace the higher levels of the game? Possibly. As much as Achernar's idea? Not even close...sorry Achernar.

Impliment it, though make the mana drain an entire mana pool per enchant. You may be able to make the suit you want, but the enchanter is not going to want to [REDACTED] around enchanting EVERYONEs armor.