Striding Buff

[Syllph]

Ok so I think we all agree moving slowly sucks. When I TR I'm back in the harbor moving at most +5%. I can't even chug haste pots for a few levels and even then it's annoying. For anyone is enjoys TRing and moving quickly here are so sensible suggestions:

A guy in the marketplace that sells a 12 hour buff to striding 30% for 10k plat.

The Airship has a 30% striding buff at Guild level 80 (10% / 20% at lower guild levels) We get 30 res why not this?

For higher levels:

At level 20 we gain a free feat Striding. 30% automatically

Epic Augment Crystal: Striding 30%

Thanks.

[The_Brave2]

Or you could buy some boots w/ striding
or you could get haste clickies
or you could get expeditious retreat clickies
or you could play a caster/monk/barbarian/ranger for speed boosts

[nerdychaz]

Scroll of longstrider available the divine vendor in the market.

Or get some boots, you know you can switch between striding and feather fall right?

[Syllph]

Or you could buy some boots w/ striding
or you could get haste clickies
or you could get expeditious retreat clickies
or you could play a caster/monk/barbarian/ranger for speed boosts

Doesn't help at level 2.

At higher levels I have Epic Boots of Corrosion. Why would I want to wear striders over them?

Clickies last a very short time and are rather annoying.

i could play a caster, but what about when I'm not

[Syllph]

Scroll of longstrider available the divine vendor in the market.

Or get some boots, you know you can switch between striding and feather fall right?

Switching to +5% striders doesn't really help at level 2.

I'll assume you're joking

[Syllph]

My point is many people, including myself, have better gear for each slot. To slot in striders over something that is much more useful (Striders being a convenience and little more) is rather difficult

Adding in the fact that at low levels these is not good option except for a constant stack of haste pots and we all know that isn't very fun.

Adding a bit of running speed isn't going to ruin any aspect of the game

[Faelyndel]

I think your point for why this should be added is exactly the reason it's not. There are 'better' gear options in the same slot as you might otherwise have striding gear. Thus it is a trade-off you have to make, run speed for <insert benefit from alternative item here>.

[The_Brave2]

My point is many people, including myself, have better gear for each slot. To slot in striders over something that is much more useful (Striders being a convenience and little more) is rather difficult

Adding a bit of running speed isn't going to ruin any aspect of the game

I have the same 'better gear' that you have. However, for running around normal areas you can switch them out, and in a Quest you should be perma-hasted at lv.20 anyways. If not, you should have epic gogs of time sensing for 1:30 clickies.

[honkuimushi]

I think that adding some form of Striding to Epic Augment Crystals is a resonable option. I could even see adding a Guild Augment Crystal.

[The_Brave2]

I think that adding some form of Striding to Epic Augment Crystals is a resonable option. I could even see adding a Guild Augment Crystal.

/Signed

[Rdonaccount]

I would suggest that striding should be added as a possible slot in epic gear (30% in a yellow slot, maybe?). It is a little silly that they keep making epic boots (where most people slot striding) that have low or no striding on them. If they can't fix that, just give us striding as a slot option.

Another suggestion would be to add superior potency (or maybe just the single element effect) 6 or 7 as an epic slot. It would still be inferior to clickies, but would provide something that casters might actually want to slot in epic gear.

I guess what I'm saying is, the epic slot choices are too limited with some obvious areas for improvement.

[Therigar]

Actually, there is a favor item that will boost your speed when you are not in quests. When you are in quests you almost always have haste. But, even with haste it is sometimes annoying to see others running off and leaving you behind.

For non-quest movement try the Pendant of Time from house P favor. It works and recharges -- and because it is only good outside of quests it doesn't take up any critical slot.

In quests just remind the wizard/sorcerer/bard that they are the haste bots and to get to work serving your needs.

[R0cksteady]

I agree. Striding shouldn't have to be slotted, it's a convenience effect. it wouldn't hurt anything in the game to have capped toons all have 30 striding.

[AnYtHiNg23]

it wouldn't hurt anything in the game to have capped toons all have 30 striding.

Yeah it would, my Ranger will then have a totally useless lvl4 spell (Mass Longstrider) - unless, this "Giving all capped toons 30% striding" includes some more ranger spells ^^

Jk aside, it does make sense to have striding included on more items.

You could always slot it in DT armor *hides*

[Jay203]

dear op:
this is part of the "choice" that you have to make when it comes to gear selection
if you wish for speed, pick up striding gear
if you wish to dump striding gear for epic gear, then that's a choice you made yourself, no one forced you

just a note tho, striding also comes on rings as well if you haven't noticed
and before you go on a rant about how "I have [insert epic gear here] on that slot, why would i want to replace it with striding gear?", have you ever though about wearing the striding when you're on the move and swap to your combat gear when you engage in enemy...?

seriously...

[Syllph]

dear op:
this is part of the "choice" that you have to make when it comes to gear selection
if you wish for speed, pick up striding gear
if you wish to dump striding gear for epic gear, then that's a choice you made yourself, no one forced you

just a note tho, striding also comes on rings as well if you haven't noticed
and before you go on a rant about how "I have [insert epic gear here] on that slot, why would i want to replace it with striding gear?", have you ever though about wearing the striding when you're on the move and swap to your combat gear when you engage in enemy...?

seriously...

Have you tried this? When you have a +6 constitution and toughness slotted you do realize you're now walking around the quest with -80 HP yeah? You realize on a caster you might have your caster stat slotted and then you'd be down SP?

Yes, I can "just make epic goggle of time sensing" - not a very good suggestion. I have seven lives of gear and very little room in my inventory as it is. Besides Epic items, including this one, aren't things i just go to the crafting hall and make.

Additionally, none of these epic solutions help when when I've TRed. Whole lot of good those epic time sensing gogs do when I'm in the marketplace on level 2. Have none of those that thought this a bad idea TRed? If you haven't I can assure you it's quite annoying to run slowly in a long quest.

Can I walk around with striders then swap while fighting? sure. Doesn't help at low levels, but sure. Would it really be so bad to simply have a ship buff give me striding 30% not at all.

I see several replies where people are acting aggressively toward a very simple suggestion. What gives? Why so angry? It's not asking much, it's not game-breaking, it's not simply being lazy.

[Jay203]

Have you tried this? When you have a +6 constitution and toughness slotted you do realize you're now walking around the quest with -80 HP yeah? You realize on a caster you might have your caster stat slotted and then you'd be down SP?

never had that problem

Yes, I can "just make epic goggle of time sensing" - not a very good suggestion. I have seven lives of gear and very little room in my inventory as it is. Besides Epic items, including this one, aren't things i just go to the crafting hall and make.

you could, but it'd be a lot easier to just grab a striding item....

Additionally, none of these epic solutions help when when I've TRed. Whole lot of good those epic time sensing gogs do when I'm in the marketplace on level 2. Have none of those that thought this a bad idea TRed? If you haven't I can assure you it's quite annoying to run slowly in a long quest.

bta striding items are lower lvl than usual... so at lvl 2 you can get 10% striding
obviously you haven't planned out enough for low lvl seeing how you're overstuffed with lvl 20 epic gears and who knows how many greensteel items
yes, i know it's annoying to move "slow", but that's only because we've been spoiled by speed... what you consider as "slow" is actually normal moving speed
i bet the real slow would outright kill you just from its nuisance

Can I walk around with striders then swap while fighting? sure. Doesn't help at low levels, but sure. Would it really be so bad to simply have a ship buff give me striding 30% not at all.

I see several replies where people are acting aggressively toward a very simple suggestion. What gives? Why so angry? It's not asking much, it's not game-breaking, it's not simply being lazy.

yes, it's bad to give out 30% striding from ship buff, ship buff was already a mistake to begin with. 30 pt resists at lvl 1 is already ******** enough, now you want to add other high lvl advantages to the ship buff listing so lvl 1s can abuse? what's the point of ml then? might as well make it so TRs ignore ml of items completely then
slotting 30% on epics doesn't help your case for low lvls
selling 30% striding in marketplace for 10k plat basically just shun out the new players since there's no way for them to pay for it

stop asking for easy buttons and make sacrifices for what you want

ps: the free feat for 30% is just ridiculously OP i'm not even going to bother, might as well add free feat for perma-haste, or perma alacrity.
heck, why stop there, let's add on permanent 30 pt resists, perma-displacement, perma-divine favor. oh hell, let's add free feats TRs so they can get the benefits of all the spells permanently!
/sarcasm >_>

[Vilhelm_der_Toller]

Do you want this implemented? Then suggest it as a Gold Seal only Amenity.

1) Identify a player need/want/desire.
2) Sell a solution to it for TP
3) Profit

[Jay203]

heh, better off selling potions of lasting expeditious retreat (30 min duration) at 50 TP per

[katz]

for me was easy. 1 level of barb = 10% faster. 1 level bard gets me expedious retreat = 25% faster. my first level was rogue. skill points and all that. so by 3rd level i was speedy gonzales with 35% speediness. plus a barb haste boost if i REALLY needed to get somewhere fast