Devs: about Soul Gems. One more time.

[Venar]

About once a month, i ask about the futur of soul gems (the end result of a Trap the Soul spell). Never got an answer.
With the recent mod 9 previews, i'm hoping maybe somebody will feel genereous with an answer!

Anyways, i even prepared a multiple choice answer, so answering will only take 2 seconds!


a) Soul Gems will see some use in Mod 9. Stay tune!

b) Mod 9 won't adress Soul Gems. But we have plans for them in the futur, they are somewhere on our to-do-list. Hold on to them and keep the faith!

c) We currently don't have any plans to further extend on Soul Gems. They were added for flavor and will remain that way.


Thanks.

[Aesop]

d. Vast and Mysterious


just sayin


Aesop

[Borror0]

d. Vast and Mysterious

I prefer :

I'll poke Eladrin about that. More on this Soon™.

Followed by:

Sorry guys. He said it was Top Secret.

And most likely followed by:

*burp*

All Hail the Cube!

[Venar]

The Cube better stay nice, i already captured his Soul Gem.

[FluffyCalico]

The Cube better stay nice, i already captured his Soul Gem.

Cubes don't have souls they have jello

[ChaelaAnne]

But do they smell of cheese?

[RTN]

You forgot:
Option D: when we give you the complete crafting system we've been promising you for several mods (in other words, never).

[Borror0]

You forgot:
Option D: when we give you the complete crafting system we've been promising you for several mods (in other words, never).

Didn't you know? We will get it in M8, this summer, along with the continuation of the "Invasion of Shavarath" storyline.

[Tarackian]

Dude...they can't even fix the mass charm monster spell........

About once a month, i ask about the futur of soul gems (the end result of a Trap the Soul spell). Never got an answer.
With the recent mod 9 previews, i'm hoping maybe somebody will feel genereous with an answer!

Anyways, i even prepared a multiple choice answer, so answering will only take 2 seconds!


a) Soul Gems will see some use in Mod 9. Stay tune!

b) Mod 9 won't adress Soul Gems. But we have plans for them in the futur, they are somewhere on our to-do-list. Hold on to them and keep the faith!

c) We currently don't have any plans to further extend on Soul Gems. They were added for flavor and will remain that way.


Thanks.

[Eladrin]

Dude...they can't even fix the mass charm monster spell........

Sorry to steal your thunder. Mass Charm is back in Mod 9.

[Phidius]

Eladrin responds to a question with a specific answer...

Then he responds to something that wasn't even addressed as a question...

Thank you for the responses, Eladrin. Thunder was meant to be stolen, or it wouldn't come second every time.

[Tarackian]

Heck I'm happy! Now the 3 million i spent buying the scroll back in the day to have the spell will be put to good use. Mod 9 release notes will be interesting reading.

Eladrin responds to a question with a specific answer...

Then he responds to something that wasn't even addressed as a question...

Thank you for the responses, Eladrin. Thunder was meant to be stolen, or it wouldn't come second every time.

[Gordo]

What about refuge armor "crafting"? Will it be made less random or addressed at all or left as is?

Thanks

[Eladrin]

What about refuge armor "crafting"? Will it be made less random or addressed at all or left as is?

The design theory behind the Dragontouched Armor was that it would be essentially randomly generated armor with three enchantments (instead of the "prefix / suffix" system that normal randomly generated armor has) that gives the owner the option to "reroll" each enchantment individually until the owner gets things that they find "good enough".

Once you have a "good enough" piece of armor, it was expected that people would then try to make a second one that was "perfect".

[Impaqt]

The design theory behind the Dragontouched Armor was that it would be essentially randomly generated armor with three enchantments (instead of the "prefix / suffix" system that normal randomly generated armor has) that gives the owner the option to "reroll" each enchantment individually until the owner gets things that they find "good enough".

Once you have a "good enough" piece of armor, it was expected that people would then try to make a second one that was "perfect".

ANd how has that Worked out?

For me, This was the case with my first 2 characters I took through the refuge. After those first 2 characters, I lost all desire to continue trying.... I have one set on a CLeric that is pretty close to what I wanted, and one set on my Bard thats close. Most of my other characters combo's are so horrible I dont even carry the armor in my Inventory anymore. it sits in the bank. and if the guild needs a hand, and I happen to have all my Essenses, I'll go along and roll another die, but I just cant get myself to realy work at it because theres no payoff at the end thats controlled by me. Between Effects that are generaly useless to everyone and Effects that are only helpful to Specific characters its a gamble thats just not worth investing huge amounts of time.

[Borror0]

Will we see more accurate description for feats/enhancements/spells?

[GoldyGopher]

The design theory behind the Dragontouched Armor was that it would be essentially randomly generated armor with three enchantments (instead of the "prefix / suffix" system that normal randomly generated armor has) that gives the owner the option to "reroll" each enchantment individually until the owner gets things that they find "good enough".

Once you have a "good enough" piece of armor, it was expected that people would then try to make a second one that was "perfect".

I will say what many people are either thinking or thought... That was/is not working as expected.

Players found the randomness frustrating and shall we say very frustrating and virtually worthless.

It owuld have been better to have a system more like the Shroud, where we collect stuff to make intermediaries to make what we want. Gives us a point to doing the farming of the quests.

[Tanka]

The design theory behind the Dragontouched Armor was that it would be essentially randomly generated armor with three enchantments (instead of the "prefix / suffix" system that normal randomly generated armor has) that gives the owner the option to "reroll" each enchantment individually until the owner gets things that they find "good enough".

Once you have a "good enough" piece of armor, it was expected that people would then try to make a second one that was "perfect".

Which, for me, means I've gotten so sick of running it I haven't stepped in the Refuge in several weeks.

Randomness is not fun. You were aiming for a fun grind to keep us occupied, right?

[eyepuppy]

The design theory behind the Dragontouched Armor was that it would be essentially randomly generated armor with three enchantments (instead of the "prefix / suffix" system that normal randomly generated armor has) that gives the owner the option to "reroll" each enchantment individually until the owner gets things that they find "good enough".

Once you have a "good enough" piece of armor, it was expected that people would then try to make a second one that was "perfect".

normally I would agree with what the devs do, but I don't like the system for DT armor. It's a pain running SoS 10 times and getting melodic guard 8 times. It would be awesome if we can see what runes we pull for our list when we turn in our 40/80/120. WE only get to choose from 10 or so. That's not too game breaking is it?

[Xaxx]

The design theory behind the Dragontouched Armor was that it would be essentially randomly generated armor with three enchantments (instead of the "prefix / suffix" system that normal randomly generated armor has) that gives the owner the option to "reroll" each enchantment individually until the owner gets things that they find "good enough".

Once you have a "good enough" piece of armor, it was expected that people would then try to make a second one that was "perfect".

in other words kiss off its stayin as it is