Alkiser
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Without the ablity to recall directly into me when farming no pk has any chance of killing me. I mean zero, its impossible. I can recall faster than you can run on my screen. This isn't going to lead to more pvp or something epic at all. Its going to be stealth mages and mostly just cowardly pvp and unhealthy griefing. As new player under such an system I would feel bad for them.
I'm not sure how you think this is going to create cowardly pvp and unhealthy griefing, again and again poeple keep pointing to people using the entrances as choke points to kill people. This only works on the way in and you still have a fair chance of getting away.
Stealth mages should be a viable template, why would they not be?
Hybrid hides? Hybrid Mares? Runic Kits?..... You have a playerbase asking for less item based pvp and more skill based pvp.
Hybrid mare didn't just add something for tamers, I mean you could of just added rehued nightmares with no stat changes and got the same effect. a rare mount Nightmares should be reverted back to their old casting patterns. Unicorns and the red ridable casting mount should of been buffed to make them usable. I mean when is the last time you seen someone use a Unicorn in pvm or pvp?
PvP has always been item based, and will continue to be. People who tend to spout off with comments like this believe that playing a 5x mage is the only true pvp spec and everything else is just trash. Removing runic weapons doesn't stop vanq weapons from being used by players. (and yes I know the difference between an exceptional vanq and a regular)
Unicorns and Ki-Rin probably need a rework to make them competitive insted of glamorous, but you can say that about soooo many things in UO. We are trying to make changes slowly over time to bring the shard to a more balanced place.
The Hybrid Mare simply added something new for tamers, and is basically a rehued nightmare. Yes the stats are somewhat better but not glaringly so.
Hybrid hides just seems pretty scarey to me. Remember we want less item based pvp and no more. No one is asking for this anymore than we asked for Hybrid armor.
People are always asking for something to do in this game, when ever we add something new certain people point at it and try to say bad. Adding more and exciting things to do will be the only way to continue the longevity of the shard.
Runic Kits are problem in general. I honestly don't even like them at all. Allowing pvpers to get blessed weapons gives no reason to farm good weapons. Example even for unblessed weapons why would we go farm Vanq weapons when I can just make unlimited gold weapons. Runic bows didn't help archery the skill still sucks adding player made vanq bows didn't help it not suck. Runic kits should be allowed to fade away.
Pretty sure runic kits have charges, but I digress. Even if runic kits were so easy to get ahold of that you can making an infinate supply of weapons so be it, runic weapons are in the shard and will remain on the shard. Which leads me to bows. Who is to say that releasing runic bows isn't a first step into an overhaul of weapons as is?
Honestly I think most of the dungeons should be closed but for a few. No pk wants to run around to a bunch of empty dungeons. The no recall thing shouldn't be dungeon wide, there should just be recall spots. I shouldn't be forced to go 4 levels down to make 10k. and yes 10k is what a normal equiped player holds. I know you said 20k in testing but that isn't true realistically.
A point I can actually agree on and Ryan and I have gone back and forth on. I feel that the current player base does not support the number of dungeons that are available. Recalling and gating are obviously a problem if we want to create bigger rewards for people who do delve 4 levels down into a dungeon.
While you did not say it many have said before how hard it would be to get a dragon down to the lowest level of a dungeon I think the simple fact is that there needs to be a downside to bringing your 800 health, GM Mage, melee's for 50, and breaths fire friend down to kill mr lich for you.
[poppouch and all that stuff Idk why I don't understand why this stuff is important. Are you folks really going to type this out in pvp or what? I don't understand all our programs Razor, Sallos, Steam already do this. Why waste time and energy on it? Same with all the pot commands.
It amazes me that someone who is so out spoken thinks anyone would type [poppouch while playing this game. Total time and energy spent on those commands is miniscual.