Equip idea - set bonus

Borrowing an idea from Diablo 2 which i booted up after a few years away.

Give certain items a 'set bonus' when the full set is worn. Examples might be the mithril set (make the vest non rare! Its only +1 dam after all.) red dragon etc...

That would make the re-equip stuff better without improving any individual piece, it would also be possible to put a set bonus on some of the more 'average' rares, if you could define what would make up a set at least, as pieces tend to be more individual at higher ranks.

What this would do is bring lower end rares more into line with god sets, but only when somebody chose to wear a full set. There would always be a trade-off between wearing the full set for the bonus, and choosing items from different sets, or just individual items, to get specific stats.

That sounds like a good idea, IMHO.

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Mithril Vest Unraring would prevent it's sharpning for rare material Daggers/Shurikens/Cards by Thieves/Ninjas/Bards.

Which might prove quite good for my Elves.

But it's quite a good idea. More diversity would make it great.

Talking about excellent, we should have a rare Mithril Mailshirt.

So that Clerics could walk around in Mail Shirts. Give it some sort of bonus to be on par with decent Breastplates for Clerics.

Yes, I know that there is already a Mithril MailShirt in Avalon, but I would rather wear The Minoma Silver Armor than the Shirt From Avalon. It's a bit ... low powered.

In fact most of the Avalon Class Gear could be better. If you make a Class EQ it must have a very strong perk to be usefull for that class. No be a Quest Area EQ, that is hard to get and that you can get better with more ease at 50.

I've thought about something like that. The idea has a lot of potential.

I like.

Awesome, love it. Question though, how will you be able to identify it's affects? Will it show up as a buff, eg..

Mithril set: perm

adds + 2 hit

adds + 2 dam

parry by 5

I like it

This would ONLY work with the mithril set though as all the "evil" suits would put your dex to hell if you wore it all.

Some non-rare eq that is pretty nice will be available to all soon, so I'd say be a bit patient and see if you like it.

I really like the non rare part

But not so much typing on this new blackberry from my hotel room mad:

I think we could get rid of the Dex penalty on Chimera, Red Dragons and Tainted Armors.

The armor is not that great to garned the penalties.

Reminds me of abandoned realms and their 'set bonus' stuff. It's a good idea, too.

I actually agree with the queen

I just talked to a few friends of mine about this, I mean we talked for like an hour one of them used to play but they all said they would play the hell outta this game if it was implented. But I agree, but if you did it to a few suits you would have to get them all including platinum and why stop there make a few new suits that would be cool. It would really up the ante to all the uber eq thats either never in or impossible to gather.

But I agree' date=' but if you did it to a few suits you would have to get them all including platinum and why stop there make a few new suits that would be cool. It would really up the ante to all the uber eq thats either never in or impossible to gather.[/quote']

A whole suit can give a range of bonuses, example:

2 hit

2 dam

2 svs

-20 ac

10 hitgain

10 managain

10 movegain

20 HP 7 bonuses for 7 pieces and 1 bonus for a "full suit".

If you don't have the whole suit, lets say you have only 2 pieces, you get only the first two bonuses.

This can be tweaked in many ways, for example you can increase the number of bonsus for "complete suit" and decrease those about "partial suit"

Say, 3 bonuses for 6 pieces and 3 bonuses for complete suit. If you have 2 pieces only, you get 1 bonus. If you have 4 - you get 2. If you have the whole 6 though, you get 6 bonuses.

There are many ways, still the idea is quite cool.

I was thinking more along the lines of making re equip eq worth it, like a +10 to hit and dam and -50 ac at lvl 50, but the effects would be less helpful at lower ranks. And I agree with the removal of the -dex but then again I'm just so used to not wearing that crap it doesn't matter.

And I agree with the removal of the -dex but then again I'm just so used to not wearing that crap it doesn't matter.

Yes and the worst thing is that ALL the evil fast re-equip sets have -dex penalty - red daragon, chimera, tainted gear...

And some people like Mya keep telling newbies to use that gear as re-equip one while the truth is that this -dex penalty makes it useless.

What is funnier is that the mithril gear, which you can take at lvl 15 is much better than the red dragon/chimera/tainted which you need at least lvl 30 to obtain. It is paradoxes like this one which create not a small amount of annoyance in me

Plus some mithril raises dex among other stats. And you can get it solo before 20.

This would ONLY work with the mithril set though as all the "evil" suits would put your dex to hell if you wore it all.

Some non-rare eq that is pretty nice will be available to all soon, so I'd say be a bit patient and see if you like it.

Really? Two items offsets the lot from memory....

L-A