Post:Enchantments - 03/02/2014 - 01:58

Enchantments · on 03/02/2014 01:58 AM CST	1538
As for the enchantments themselves, I would prefer we have a good balance of Guild-only to Everyone-can-use. What follows is a sleep-deprived brain dump of something I was working on all day. It is one of three possible design paths I've come up with. Keep in mind that for a single enchantment, different sigils can be used to get different results and many will be very, very bad. Elemental Malice Enchantments - Sigil Combination A - Fire Damage Sigil Combo B - Cold Damage Sigil Combo C - Electrical Damage Sigil ... D* - Aether (All types) Damage Sigil ... E - Your item explodes Sigil F - Your body explodes Sigil X - Blackfire, ugh oh? Lunar Malice - Sigil D - Cold and Impact Damage Sigil E - Fire and Impact Damage Sigil F* - Cold and Fire Damage Sigil A - Your item explodes Sigil B - A shadowling eats your face Sigil C - Pegleg knocks on your door Sigil X - Shadow Damage Holy Malice - Sigil E* - Allows 70% damage to incorporeal undead on hit Sigil F - Fire and Puncture Damage Sigil A - Cold and Electrical Damage Sigil B - You lose a favor Sigil C - Your item becomes cursed Sigil D - A Welkin appears and smacks you Sigil X - Life Malice - Sigil B - Cold and Slice Damage Sigil C - *Fire and Electrical Damage Sigil D - Electrical and Impact Damage Sigil F - You grow excessive body hair Sigil G - Bees. Oh God, the bees! Sigil H - Whoops, time to hibernate... AP Malice - Sigil F - Fire and Puncture damage Sigil A - Electrical and Puncture damage Sigil B - Cold and Slice damage Sigil C - Ribbit Sigil D - OOOoooOOooOOOOoOO! Sigil E - Teleport - Zing! denotes something you'd need to be able to use that mana type to enchant successfully. And then the same ones but for weapon procs (chance to fire bonus damage on-hit). Then each mana type will have a category for procs that are spell based, but weak enough for anyone to enchant. And then a category for procs that are Signature. Then each mana type will have a category for weak spells inside the item that everyone can enchant. Then each mana type will have a category for stronger spells that are all signature. Then a bunch of fluff categories of various strengths. Some for fluff verbs, others for pulsing atmo effects, and some fluff messages that proc re-actively (someone looking at you, someone casting on you). Then you have racial enemy enchantments like goblin killing or construct smashing. Then you have weapon enchantments that give combat bonuses for a short time when used. Mixture of signature and common. Then you have a catch-all for things like improved durability, lowering weight, reducing RT, and so on that most folks can use. Beyond that you hit more complicated systems like sentient weapons, weapons that build up a charge with use and can then be unleashed, and weapons that can fight alongside you... The trick will be balancing these so more than 1 or 2 are popular. As for Sigil A, B, C, that is kind of a simplification. I imagine it being more like - Induction = +20% fire damage Abolution = you implode Congruence = +20% electrical damage Permutation = +20% cold damage Rarefication = 5% fire/electrical/cold combined with Paradox = +10% more fire damage Nurture = you implode, or if Abolution your item explodes Congruence = random effect Evolution = random effect Antipode = +10% more cold damage Decay = your item explodes, or if Abolution you explode Ascension = +10% electrical damage Unity = Guild Only special Clarification = Guild Only special So the recipe would say - (1) Any metal, stone or bone weapon (1) Induction sigil (1) Enchanting fount (1) Congruence sigil (1) Primary sigils (1) Complex sigil And it is the last 2 sigils that effect the end result. My goal is to make a core that allows for many outcomes from a single enchantment. There would be no "fire shard" enchantment. It'd be elemental entrapment, and the sigil combination determines if you try to put fire shard, fire ball, shockwave, lightning bolt or air lash into it - but only if you know the spell or have some other pre-requisite (techniques may allow you to get 1st tier non-signature spells). Durr, wish I hadn't worked all day and had more time to sort through this better. Posting helps me organize my thoughts and get feedback at the same time though!
This message was originally posted in Lore \ Enchanting Skill, by DR-KODIUS on the play.net forums.