waterboytkd
03-02-2012, 11:50 AM
It's been confirmed a couple times by the devs that we're getting Greensteel Deconstruction. It's something the player base has been asking for for a long time now because, frankly, who wants to be stuck running the Shroud forever (which we do because every time cool new loot comes out, it forces us to reconsider our gear layout all over again)?
But there's another form of construction that could use a deconstruction counterpart: epic gear. As new epics come out, and new gear comes out, it's not just GS stuff that can get shelved. I personally have shelved more epics than I care to admit (including epic Jidz-Tet'ka and epic Spectral Gloves), and in the near future will even shelve an epic Claw set.
Now, no one in their right mind would just vendor or destroy that stuff; it's far too valuable and we put in far too much effort to get it. But it would be nice for that stuff to not just collect dust, too. So, here's something a guildy came up with:
What if we could deconstruct our epic gear? It'd be some kind of ritual in the epic altar, and when you perform it, your epic item is destroyed, you get your seal and shard back, but lose your scroll and base item. That way, when we outgrow our old epic gear, we could still get something of value out of it for our other toons, but not in a way that would equate to unbinding epic gear (you'd have to go through the mess of getting the base item and scroll again--not necessarily hard, but not effortless).
Or perhaps there could be a few options for deconning? Like you could pick one of three decon rituals: one gets you the seal and shard, but you lose the scroll and base item; a second gives you the scroll and base item back, but you lose the seal and shard; the third, you lose the base item, scroll, seal, and shard, and it just gives you a bunch of tokens back, like 20, which would be useful if you didn't want the item at all anymore, but lament over tokens spent augmenting the item, or augmenting other items around that one. The last option would alleviate some of the complaints that are fairly regular on these forums that epic augments cost too many tokens, and that token farming is boring and grindy and feels like a penalty after putting epic gear together.
But there's another form of construction that could use a deconstruction counterpart: epic gear. As new epics come out, and new gear comes out, it's not just GS stuff that can get shelved. I personally have shelved more epics than I care to admit (including epic Jidz-Tet'ka and epic Spectral Gloves), and in the near future will even shelve an epic Claw set.
Now, no one in their right mind would just vendor or destroy that stuff; it's far too valuable and we put in far too much effort to get it. But it would be nice for that stuff to not just collect dust, too. So, here's something a guildy came up with:
What if we could deconstruct our epic gear? It'd be some kind of ritual in the epic altar, and when you perform it, your epic item is destroyed, you get your seal and shard back, but lose your scroll and base item. That way, when we outgrow our old epic gear, we could still get something of value out of it for our other toons, but not in a way that would equate to unbinding epic gear (you'd have to go through the mess of getting the base item and scroll again--not necessarily hard, but not effortless).
Or perhaps there could be a few options for deconning? Like you could pick one of three decon rituals: one gets you the seal and shard, but you lose the scroll and base item; a second gives you the scroll and base item back, but you lose the seal and shard; the third, you lose the base item, scroll, seal, and shard, and it just gives you a bunch of tokens back, like 20, which would be useful if you didn't want the item at all anymore, but lament over tokens spent augmenting the item, or augmenting other items around that one. The last option would alleviate some of the complaints that are fairly regular on these forums that epic augments cost too many tokens, and that token farming is boring and grindy and feels like a penalty after putting epic gear together.