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I'm on board with Xenthos' interpretation of Jaspet's idea. I didn't read his suggestion that way, but if that's what he meant, it's a good idea.

Either way is preferable to the currently planned perk system. I doubt I'll ever get more than 3 or 4 perk points all together in the rest of my playing days.

With more granularity in the system, you'd be able to modify costs as much as you wanted. Maybe something new could be added that doesn't justify costing an entire five points, so you could list it at three? Right now in the current proposal there's no way to do 'partial points', it's just an integer 1 or 2.

On a bigger scope though, I do think there's a real risk that it's being balanced around how crazy people have been about hunting in the past few weeks. We're using gold lips, and tonics, and mince pies, and having big astral groups, and aetherbashing dragons, and I don't know how much we'll keep this pace up long term. I fully understand that this is a forever project, something that we're expected to work on for the next 10 YEARS of Lusternia, but maybe don't balance it around how motivated and excited people are in the now.

That said, if the super new bashing project area is going to be an experience fountain, we might all be looking back at a billion essence a point as trivial and meaningless this time next year. I am clearly not in a position to do more than speculate.

1 BILLION   That's almost impossible for me. I guess my essence will go to stick crystals, instead 

Ixion said:

- Crits and Weight seem out of place. After discussion with some others, the lack of progress/bonuses on each level is not fun. You have to wait 5 levels and then you can do a thing? We think making the crits/weight be passive/automatic gains on each newlevel is a better solution. Re-scale to whatever is fair.

I pretty much agree with everything Ixion has mentioned, but I wanted to underline this point. Having to get almost 2 billion essence to reach the first perks is not as fun as it would be if there were gains along the way.

The crit and power weight perks could easily be combined into a passive gain. Each level gets you +0.25 crits, and every 5 levels gives you +5 weight.

It would make each level have at least a little treat.

Orael said:

When looking at the average essence gains for players the last month, the median essence gain was ~8-10 million essence a day. The top gainer was getting ~45 million essence a day. 

You know, I used to think I kind of enjoyed grinding/bashing, but I guess the reality is I really don't.

This has been mentioned in various forms, but a manse artifact that would let you create custom exits between rooms.

It's been a little while since I dipped my toes in the forums, hope everyone is well!

Here are my 3 artifact ideas for shopkeepers, hunting and harvesting 

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Shopkeeping artifact idea:
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This is a little - close - to customization but here we go!

Create a - Make your own shop clerk NPC - artifact

This would be useable in org shops and manse shops:

-May be "anchored" to an org shop by the ministry in charge of shops (player places it, minister approves placement)
-May be placed in a room if in a manse
-Customisable greeting to guests whenever they enter the room
-Customisable "thank you for shopping" message left after a person buys something - Only occurs once per RL 24 hours
-Customisable appearance, race and description

This idea is aimed at all the shopkeepers like me that can't stand just having a bland shop and love to customise every little bit to fit their roleplay or shop theme.
If you flip out because a keg of healing is placed on the same shelf as an axe, if you lose it because your shelf doesn't feel " just right " and you take a moment to thank people that spend large amounts at your shop in person for good customer service. -- This is for you.

A little ♥ for every shopkeeper that flips out if their goods are out of order in their shelves....I can't be the only one.


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The bashing artifact idea is as follows:
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Bashing artifact idea:

I may be mistaken but I believe the top tier bashing items are as follows

Wonderwands provides easy, on the fly, weakness swapping
Aethersuits hit multiple times, killing off a target and continuing to hit on the next one
Whips have the highest multiplier + divinus damage best damage type

Every class has a "top" bashing attack, Shadowdancers start with nature curse...gain gaze and finally reach night kiss at transcendent. Unfortunately all of these attacks for every class (to the best of my knowledge) are severely outclass be the artifacts/wonder item above. Which is understandable, being bashing tools that are hard to find. However, if you are like me and you are attached to the story/roleplay of your class, you might want to stick to your roleplay and use your class's ability to hunt. As things stand at the moment doing so leads to a massive disadvantage in bashing at endgame. You will kill things....but you'll never be able to do so at a reasonable speed even at max enhancements.

My suggestion for hunting is to create an artifact that will enhance class bashing abilities for a price and reduce the damage dealth to players in exchange. There are already - plenty - of ways to kill people in PvP. I can't remember the last time someone was bashed to death unless they had extremely low health to begin with ( like me ). So why not create an artifact that will make these class abilities relevant in endgame bashing...without changing damage types....for a cost?

Do I want to suck the soul out of my targets?
Flay them with vines from my wyrdenwood trunk ?
Sing them to their doom with the dirge of the shadowbeat ?

Purchasing this artifact would allow a person to increase the base bashing damage modifier  - only for bashing - for class abilities that it is chosen for.

Orb of Night
Harp strings of the widow
Fertiliser of despair

...the customisation of such an artifact could be endless. Damage type would not be changed.

It would be a doorway for people that wish to have a more in depth roleplay experience instead of ....tossing fireballs, icicles and purple magic orbs with a wand in your hand.....while you devote yourself to Mother Night, serve the demon/angels or do a little dance in a windy breeze from your city in the sky.

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Harvester's dream
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The amount of herbs required to fully stock a shop in curatives, herbs, perfumes and beers is astronomical. Even with harvesting gloves, someone can 8 hours for 5 days a week just to meet their quotas unless they get help. Economy is something that should work wonderfully with many players around it, but sometimes, one or two people take care of logistics for a large group. Especially orgs with dwindling populations. Factor in tradebans between orgs & alliances for roleplay reasons and you have some - very - challenging situations.

Herbs are, thankfully plentiful, however extremely time consuming.

The artifact idea is as follows:

Allow herbalists to grow their own herbs, in pots, gardens or otherwise within their manse. The artifact would allow a person to have an instant harvest of a set amount and chosen type......so long as they tend it and help it grow regularly. Tend the herb pot for one year every in game month, harvest 500 herbs of the chosen type at the start of next year (like wondercorn) with a chance for a special item ....or curio maybe?

It's not much, but I can see having a passive source of herbs that gives a little bit every day would make a massive difference in helping people that have more challenging logistic situations.

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I do hope you all enjoyed these ideas and who knows, we might see one in lusternia soon .

Author's note: I do not know if these have been suggested before, please do let me know your feedback - in words preferably ♥
Edit: Glomdoring themed examples are because I resides in Glomdoring and do not know other orgs/classes. All orgs are intended to receive some love from these artifacts.

Xenthos said:

A bigger ally/enemy list rune.

Honestly, I don't see why this is even a thing that is limited.

Ghibli said:

Xenthos said:

A bigger ally/enemy list rune.

Bigger than the current runes of dominion?

Yes. Even at lv2 rune, those fighting already running into not having enough slots for all the fighters.