Shattered Kingdoms

I always dream of the deadlier herbs being used by rogues to create and apply leet poisons to their daggers and by scouts to add effects to their arrows.

Of course, this is definitely one oft discussed application of those herbs. I'd be fine with herbs that cause sleep, poison, or weakness being applied to weapons. I suppose the affects could be linked to the ambush and backstab/dual backstab skills so that it could be limited in use, but still useful in the heat of that moment when a scout or rogue attacks from the foliage or shadows. Perhaps the application itself would take a certain amount of PE/ME/lag.

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Perhaps you are the wrong immortal on the wrong game? come on, lets not use childish arguments.

Since one of the scouts primary skills is herb lore one would suspect that he knows what he is picking up. Have you ever been out in the forest to gather mushrooms? You don't pick up different mushrooms unless you are certain whether they are poisinous... Its like being a doctor without knowing the name of the body parts on the person you are about to do surgery on

And its not like I can't write down the name of the herbs or make a trigger... its not that hard..

Scouts should be able to learn through the experience as a player and memorize.

That being said, scouts ICly should be able to know.

I say a scout that eats and herb ten times should be able to identify it's uses if the player forgets.

The player might forget due to many outside influences, but the char would not.

I say that the herbalism skill it's self should resolve this.

Allow scouts to identify herbs after use.

Heck, if the scout is smart enough to find an herb that could be useful, he better know what he is picking up in the first place!

I wish people would stop wanting to have things in the game spoonfed to them.

This is coming from the Chairman of the "Let scouts camo on the beach" campaign.

But I am not one to talk

Lets be honest scouts are not smart, they pick stuff off the ground that numerous people and animals have walked and stick it in their mouth. So scouts are essentially really big and mean two year olds romping around taming, skinning, eating and finding hundreds of pounds of diamonds all day long.

Apples and oranges, Kerrien. Apples and Oranges.

And for the rest of your post, I have three words for you.

Gau! Gau! Gau!!!!

*note* Only hard-core FF-ers will get that response.

I'm just wondering what exactly herbalism is supposed to be teaching, then. I mean, if they are taught that these certain plants may have a beneficial property to them, then I would think that they would at least be able to know -something- about it.



I have yet to see a really good reason as to why scouts wouldn't be able to at least have a sort of "herb memory" to know what herbs they have played with do. And/or the lower level, more common herbs could be identified. This isn't having the game handed to you. I could think of a lot of other things that have been asked for that are having the game handed to you, and this is so small you insult the list of other outrageous claims.

On a side note, I think I actually get it, GL!

On that note, I suggest a new "white herb", called Oleander.
When eaten it instakills the eater.

I'd also suggest the coloration on mugwort be changed. It is currently targettable by "white", when it is clearly black and green.