Rethinking Ship Buffs

[Silverwren]

Ignoring the who debate on joining a Guild for reasons besides the guild amenities that we have come to now find (IE, Guilds exist for you to join for the purpose of playing with like-minded players and Guild Amenities are Luxury's Debate), there are still reasons to join even without any of those shrines:

• You need to be in at least a level 1 Guild to use the equipment you find with Guild Augment Slots - else you can't use them until you do.
  You can use the airship for fast travel wherever there is an airship entrance.
  You are granted access to the Guild Vendors in House K at very low guild levels.

Additionally, I am not suggesting every single guild amenity require your player to be a certain minimum level. So if you are a low level character and you joining a guild just for its amenities, some of them would still be available to you like say the NPCs that give you buffs.

I'm still not in favor of low level toons being left out. They are members of a guild and are gathering renown for the guild. They deserve to get ALL the benefits of belonging to the guild, even if the benefits are somewhat diminished in strength.

If you propose that characters below level five only get to use half the airship amenities, then I propose that until level five characters only gather half the renown. It's only fair.

[Bogenbroom]

My personal beef isn't so much with individual buffs, but with the mass of them. My inclination would be to limit the concurrent number of buffs (at least ship buffs) a character could maintain.

Implementing this outside of the realm of ship buffs would, however, pre-suppose that the player were given some form of control over what buffs they had were active at any one time.

It would also open up a new line of enhancement possibilities (character and/or item based enhancements) to all for greater "buffability".

Not, I'm sure, a popular opinion.

[Falco_Easts]

This is grossly more OP at higher levels than what we have now IMO. You're basicly letting me slot best effect in slot on all gear slots. I don't need any stat enhancement gear at all. All toons will be running around with +8 to all stats at all time, loaded down with every possible guard/special effect.

Good call and not something I had thought of.