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[2018 Q2] Orderly vs wild vs neither items

 
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Ceridwel
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:58 am    Post subject: [2018 Q2] Orderly vs wild vs neither items

How do people like how orderly/wild weapons work today?

I've been toying with whether we should allow any ethos to pick up any weapon (but then keeping it that only lawfuls can actually wield orderly weapons and only chaotics can actually wield wild weapons). This is to increase item circulation by allowing eg a lawful to put a wild weapon in the auction house.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:31 am    Post subject:

I feel like gear is fairly balanced as it is now. Do I think some of the orderly or wild gear is maybe a bit lackluster as far as the name goes? Yes. That’s really it though.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 4:21 pm    Post subject:

I've been thinking about this for a long time. Why not neutral-only ethos-based items? Wild, balance, orderly, right? It can be argued that its pointless, and perhaps it is, but it is the last brick in the wall as far as item origins. Whats the point?

We already have neutral only. Yes, and we have good only, and orderly, wild and evil only. Its just taking it one step further and polishing it if you will. And if you dont already have it, hard to get unique good/orderly neutral/balance evil/chaotic items ppl can group up and go get. Like spear of light could be good/orderly. Deathslinger evil/wild. And vaelsram for neutral/balance. You might want to come up with a better name for balance tho, and a little something for keepers to do as they notice someone wearing balance only, theyll know they are neut ethos maybe convert them to join keepers.

Sorry for hijack, i second Vertas. Is good
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:56 am    Post subject:

No worries dude, these forums are for discussions after all.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:19 am    Post subject:

we used to have a few items like that. like rod of neutrality

it used to be that items like the hell blade and holy avenger were really important because you would be stuck at level 16 to 20 for a very long time and having access to common weapons you could vulture was extremely important. Back then neutral alignment might have felt a lot more significant in terms of eq.

You could do a run to the high tower of sorcery to get both the white and black bracelets as a neutral and they were worth a lot of gold back then. The high tower was a mid level area, because there were mid level players in it, so going there was risky and could cost you a suit of gear.

Back then rooms felt a lot bigger than they do now because each room had a lot more players in it. Stepping outside the gates of Seringale was a pretty big deal because it meant you would be almost immediately attacked by dark knights and thieves and bashing stone giant warriors. So there was a lot more distance between Seringale and the High Tower back then.

People used to be quite terrible at the game. Barely functional. "Duels to the flee" were a thing. If you could flee/murder you were a god among men. But casting a lightning bolt was a serious thing, and could get you dogpiled by 5 guys
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