Spunky 16 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I wonder how weird the Shadow Warrior will look when all unique pieces are equipped, currently missing helm & breast plate. Link to comment
colif 36 Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Since there appear to be two helms but only 1 chest, appearances would depend on which helm you get. Either way, the chest seems to have an odd color scheme (looking at wiki) and none of the items seem to match anyway. Baeltow's Strength looks like a spelling error considering how its spelled on the other two uniques - Baelthow's Pride & Baelthow's Promise - but error is on end of developers, not wiki staff. Curious if these 3 look any good combined. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,068 Posted October 16, 2014 Author Share Posted October 16, 2014 Halloween bump ... no escape from this thread... evah!gogo Link to comment
wolfie2kX 528 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Well gogo... I for one don't care what the armour looks like. Yeah right, lol...you don't have to be held captive looking at his gilded, golden bee-hind as he saunters over to kill stuff with his two-hander which for some reason seems to really give his hips some really strange moves! gogo I dunno.. Those golden undies remind me of an overfull diaper.. Link to comment
Knuckles 904 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 On the chance I'm being a party pooper....I prefer to remember it this way Link to comment
gogoblender 3,068 Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 The finish on the set is executed well It's just when the pieces are taken apart and worn separately that the aghast expression arises gogo Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I blame the leg pieces that leave his thighs bare. Any other leg pieces, and that waist wouldn't look so silly like in the pic. 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,068 Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 ahhh, those evil nefarious devs of olden age.... gogo Link to comment
Hooyaah 2,817 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 This set is the most wicked set of all. The trouble is that the set pieces drop too rarely. I'm not sure if there are any variables in the drop file that would change that. Still, If I have to wear a golden diaper I'll certainly be using Shadow Veil. Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 The trouble is that the set pieces drop too rarely. I'm not sure if there are any variables in the drop file that would change that. It is very hard to complete. I think I tweaked the drop probabilities to be higher in the Item Mod, but that may have just been an abandoned experiment. Link to comment
SX255 630 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) The trouble is that the set pieces drop too rarely. I'm not sure if there are any variables in the drop file that would change that. It is very hard to complete. I think I tweaked the drop probabilities to be higher in the Item Mod, but that may have just been an abandoned experiment. Wouldn't it be easier to just make the set a SW quest reward? The Christmas island has a Christmas set, so it is doable in theory. Also, for all the new Comunity Patch quests developed for the game, there are no new class specific quests. Why is that? Edited November 30, 2014 by SX255 1 Link to comment
Popular Post wolfie2kX 528 Posted November 30, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2014 Wouldn't it be easier to just make the set a SW quest reward? The Christmas island has a Christmas set, so it is doable in theory. Also, for all the new Comunity Patch quests developed for the game, there are no new class specific quests. Why is that? Yeh.. It could be doable - as you say - in theory. But in order for that to happen, there would need to be 6 other equally epic looking sets that would need to be created, not to mention an epic long series of quests that would give the class related gear as a reward. Then again, IIRC, the Christmas sets all looked great as a seasonal thing, but without exception, the gear all sucked rotten eggs when it came to stats and such. Maybe something you could wear to take a pic you could share... But not something you'd go out of your way to wear going into battle.. Well.. not unless you had a death wish or something. As for class specific quests... Not entirely sure there really needed to be more added to those. The quest chains were pretty much complete I think, not much more that could be added to them. Not to mention, there's a finite amount of game space. While it may seem like you can endlessly add new content, there are limits to what and how much can be added. 2 Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) Wouldn't it be easier to just make the set a SW quest reward? No. That would be about 100 times the work. Unless you just tacked it onto an existing quest as a reward, which would be lazy and severely unbalanced. In fact I can't imagine a quest complex enough to justify giving out an entire armor set as powerful as the lich king set. Even the class chain quests, which span the entire campaign, only give out a single weapon as a reward. But in order for that to happen, there would need to be 6 other equally epic looking sets that would need to be created, not to mention an epic long series of quests that would give the class related gear as a reward. We added a ton of epic looking sets for characters in the Item Mod, and some were intended to have corresponding quests. Quests were always just lower priority for me though, primarily due to the huge amount of work for relatively low payoff. Edited November 30, 2014 by Flix 1 Link to comment
Popular Post Silver_fox 397 Posted November 30, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2014 It is very hard to complete. I think I tweaked the drop probabilities to be higher in the Item Mod, but that may have just been an abandoned experiment.I'll check it. If with the current version of drop.txt the set pieces are still included into lesser amount of droplists or have small drop probablity listed, I can change it for the upcoming mods. I don't want to make it unbalanced, but making the set pieces drop with frequency comparable to the aspect sets is possible. Also, for all the new Comunity Patch quests developed for the game, there are no new class specific quests. Why is that?All quests that were added with CM so far, were either contributed by people here on DarkMatters or on Mantis and executed the way the contributor wanted, or completed from bugged leftovers that Ascaron devs started to make but never finished. It might be just a coincidence that all those quests were meant to be available to all characters - the game has much smaller amount of class-specific quests than common ones after all. And then there might be a matter of difficulty and reward for developing such quests. Quest scripting is not an easy task, and going through all the motions to make new content that would only be seen by fraction of players feels a bit sub-optimal. That's not to mention the balance: if you make something new for one character, than you probably should give something to the others... and seven new quests sounds like a lot of work. 2 Link to comment
Popular Post Hooyaah 2,817 Posted December 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) ^ *gives chocolate* I'm pleased to know that there is still a stable and viable community here at Dark Matters. One that loves the game and is respectful to noobs as well as they who have status here. Actually, I would like to contribute more to the Wiki and the game but my talents extend to writing, game concept, and improvement possibilities. It is a great testament to the game that there are still devotees who desire to share their passion for the game with others, almost tirelessly. Perhaps, the Christmas Island quest reward could be an existing special set for each character in lieu of the existing Santa costume. I have a plethora of ideas that really could have expanded Ancaria as it exists now in Ice & Blood. (for one, the cave of the Grunwald dragon has a rearward portal which has been closed, as if by magic, which, if breached by the defeat of the dragon could lead to a land beyond. edit I'm serious about wanting to contribute, send me a PM with details if you think I could be useful. Edited December 1, 2014 by Hooyaah 4 Link to comment
wolfie2kX 528 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 To add to what Silver Fox posted... I think most of the class quests were adequately done - the only class that I think got the sticky end of the proverbial lollipop was the Dragon Mage. His class quest is over when he visits Merkill... Kind of a letdown. Maybe the devs would have expounded on that a bit and made it more interesting - but they kinda went out of business before anything could be done. In addition to that.. If you look at how class quests are structured, one quests chains into the next. Quest A tells you to go kill so and so, get such and such. Quest B then tells you to go visit NPC B. NPC B tells you to do so on and so forth then go visit NPC C. And so on till the end of the chain. In order to add new quests, you would have to break one of the existing quests and have it point to another NPC or another target. Then have the new quest point to the previous quest - to get it back on track. More work than just setting up an NPC somewhere and have him give all classes a task to do. Link to comment
belgarathmth 21 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) I often wear sub-optimal gear just to avoid the effect in the OP. Being maxed out to fight evil as a superhero is great and all, but I want to look fabulous while doing it. I recently did Christmas Island with both a shadow warrior and a dragon mage in honor of the season (kind of a yearly tradition of mine), and the Merry Christmas set for the shadow warrior did indeed suck eggs. I took it off immediately. However, I'm finding that the set for my dragon mage is actually useable for an early level (56 on gold) dragon mage, and it has arguably better bonuses than my other, still incomplete sets. The set bonus is +9.6% to experience, and the individual pieces give significant reduction to regeneration times, as well as a few other good bonuses for a caster dragon mage, and each piece has two slots, enabling lots of nice mix-and-match jewelry and blacksmith arts possibilities. EDIT: I've been playing a bit this afternoon still wearing the Merry Christmas set, and that xp bonus has gone up to +10.5% after only a couple of level-ups. It appears to scale with character level. That makes it even more useful, imo. Do all sets scale their synergy bonuses with character level? I always thought that it was the aggregate equipment level of the pieces that determined the bottom line synergy bonuses. The main temptation for me to take it back off, is that if I combine three pieces of any two of the three common dragon mage sets, I get a total +8 to all skills, and as soon as I have two pieces of Mavv's, I can use those for the last two armor slots to get another +3 to all skills. Right now, I'm enjoying wearing the Merry Christmas set, and I'm roflstomping the gold level game, so I don't need the more optimal +all skills bonuses, and the experience bonus from the Christmas set is helping me level faster. I'll probably change into something more power-gamey whenever I start to feel the game getting harder, but for now, I'm having a blast running around looking like Santa Claus. (Or Father Christmas, if you're on the other side of the pond.) I've named my white steed Draconicon mount "Rudolph". It feels even more appropos because I've seen lots of images of Saint Nicholas wearing red, carrying a staff, and riding a white horse. Ah, good times. I think I'll always play Sacred 2 for at least a few months a year, for life. Edited January 1, 2015 by belgarathmth 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,068 Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 I'm not sure about a rate of synergy increasing... though if by "synergy" you mean benefits, perhaps this can be construed by flat values of the equipment, which can be calculated. And the land where the christmas sets comes from is great excitement. I remember when this land got released, and the quest, enemies, equipment were outstanding, probably one of the best moments of this game for me. Rudolph, eh? Sacred still stayin epic! gogo Link to comment
belgarathmth 21 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 @Gogoblender, thanks for the nice reply. About the equipment, what I was saying is that the synergy-based experience bonus, I.e. the number listed when I look at the set list, from wearing the complete Merry Christmas set is increasing with my character levels. I was asking whether this was normal behavior for a complete set. When I put it on after I got it on Christmas Island, the bonus was listed at 9.6%. Now it's showing up as 10.4% or thereabouts after only a couple of character level-ups. I have not changed out any pieces of it since I put it on, so the levels of the set pieces have not changed. I always thought that set synergy bonuses were based on equipment level, but it seems now to be based on character level. Or it could be a combination of equipment level and character level. Maybe it's a CP thing. I'm playing on 1.4hf. Since you can get a complete Merry Christmas set at will every time you play a game level, I'll take another look at it and test it when I get my gold level set. I'll keep watching it to see if it keeps going up. It always amazes me that the mathematics and formulae operating behind the scenes in Sacred 2 are so complicated. I don't think I'll ever figure it all out with any degree of expertise if I live to be 100. Link to comment
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