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An idea to reinstate choices in gear customization
beckylunatic
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One side effect of most of Neverwinter's dungeons being disabled is the nearly total unavailability of items popular for transmutes. Liked dressing your TR up as a Many-Arrows wannabe? TOO BAD! Thought the glowing trim on the Abolethic Cloak looked awesome? TOO BAD! If you didn't have these items and a plethora of others, you can't get them unless you find them on the AH and then you're probably going to pay through the nose.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the old unique pieces from the dungeons that *have* been reworked don't seem to exist anymore. You liked all those wolfish pieces from GWD to deck your fighter out in barbarian style? TOO BAD! Pirate hat? TOO BAD!
And as much as I could profit from gradually selling off hoarded unbound pieces I've decided not to use, I'd much rather these items remained widely accessible.
My proposed solution is to make this gear available again, for appropriate tier seals. This also has the effect of giving the Lion, Manticore, and Pegasus seal vendors relevance even to high-level players. Considering how much these seals continue to struggle to be useful at any level (add enchant slots to Lion gear already, jeez), putting the removed dungeon gear on them would be a great help. Make the stuff BoP if you have to. People can always buy bounty items to obtain a desired item in a hurry. Bring back the Shroudcloth Bindings and Club of Ogrekind, the Firegiant Coronet and Blighted Cloth Armor.
PS. Please enable weapon dyeing. The developer pains taken to make it impossible to dye weapons are staggeringly illogical considering how much it's a wanted feature and the past ability to do so demonstrates that there's nothing in the code preventing it but an arbitrary decision that we shouldn't. It makes so much more sense to just let us do it, and pay for dyes and dye removers for our weapons if we're inclined to do so. It's ridiculous.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the old unique pieces from the dungeons that *have* been reworked don't seem to exist anymore. You liked all those wolfish pieces from GWD to deck your fighter out in barbarian style? TOO BAD! Pirate hat? TOO BAD!
And as much as I could profit from gradually selling off hoarded unbound pieces I've decided not to use, I'd much rather these items remained widely accessible.
My proposed solution is to make this gear available again, for appropriate tier seals. This also has the effect of giving the Lion, Manticore, and Pegasus seal vendors relevance even to high-level players. Considering how much these seals continue to struggle to be useful at any level (add enchant slots to Lion gear already, jeez), putting the removed dungeon gear on them would be a great help. Make the stuff BoP if you have to. People can always buy bounty items to obtain a desired item in a hurry. Bring back the Shroudcloth Bindings and Club of Ogrekind, the Firegiant Coronet and Blighted Cloth Armor.
PS. Please enable weapon dyeing. The developer pains taken to make it impossible to dye weapons are staggeringly illogical considering how much it's a wanted feature and the past ability to do so demonstrates that there's nothing in the code preventing it but an arbitrary decision that we shouldn't. It makes so much more sense to just let us do it, and pay for dyes and dye removers for our weapons if we're inclined to do so. It's ridiculous.
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I would also love to see dungeon bosses possibly drop their costume pieces as rare, BOE free transmute loot options. I think some of the dungeon bosses have really awesome costumes, and it'd be a whole new market (and reason to keep running content).
If I really love something from a CTA, I buy multiples, in case of upgrade.
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Frankly, I think the various class packs' items, (Ranger, Warlock, Paladin), should be free to transmute as well.
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Nope. Was the Many Arrows set dropped from a gift.
I agree with this. We paid enough for them that I think it's fair to throw the buyer a bone.
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I've waiting for a repeat of the Orc Assault CTA too, though only for achievements in my case. It'll happen!
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More transmutation items as well!
And if they do not make it char. bound. that would be amazing as well!
I know new players would enjoy this.
And it would be a good profit for older players.
Really nice idea.
I think all the appearance we used in the past should be kept in a appearance library as free transmutes. If I payed for that pieces of gear (of farm it, or whatever), then I payed for it to use it as an appearance, then I should be bloody well able to use it for free afterwords.
I already payed for my (ugly) Black Ice gear to be transmuted to something that I liked looking at. Now my gear is worthless and I need to change it - ok, but the gear I used as appearance for my BI gear has been removed from the game as well. So now I must use my BI gear for transmutation (which is ridiculous) or find another image for my character (which I don't want). This doesn't just show how little though they put in when they made the transition from M5 to M6, but it also shows how shallow the customization/transmutation system is and that it needs to be expended upon.
There are too many restriction when it comes to customization (why in the nine hells?!), and it's way too expensive to be accessible for most people. I invest what others would consider a fortune in customizing my characters. This should be the fun part of the game, not a pain to use.
While we're on the subject - more customization all around! From character creation options, to transmutation and fashion, and everything in between.
Another well-known MMORPG has this. Once you unlock a skin, it's yours forever - get a new piece of gear, you can skin it using your favorite skin from your "locker". I would love to see that here. Barbarian spear anyone (scrimshaw vendor)?
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Also more already dyed items please.....searing magma... blea
How many bags are you using right now or banks slots to keep your wardrobe in ?
I got to 2 dragon bags just for the fashion items and one bag of holding for dyes.
I hope the devs are reading this thread. We've been talking about these things since forever.
Champions Online has this - certain items, when used/equipped, unlocks a new skin, which you can use in the costume editor...
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problem solved i guess...
One can only hope that they are.
And the only reason i actually extended my bank 2 or 3 times was the amount of fashion items.
Including weapon transmutations and armor, event stuff...free mounts..
I really hope they do see this.
I am sure they would agree with us, on this.
( I did. ) It is lighter color then the others. Golden like.
Nighmare pack is the best one so far. It combines red and black with gold details. I got it with bars...
On a different note. I loved last year's anniversary event rewards: gear transmutes, fashion, loads of cloak models, a new emote, the Throne of the Lions and Protector's Garden - all decent looking, all easy to obtain - good stuff. More-of-that-please!
Any news about this year's anniversary? Will there even be an anniversary, at all?
At least pre-Mod-6 you could pass the looks down the pipeline, and I suppose this should be still true.
Example: I use my Helmet of Kermit the Frog to transmute my Miss Piggy's Earmuffs. Later I find the epic Bandanna of Boo the Ball Biter, and decide to wear becoaus better stats. I hate the front teeth look, though. So When I use my Miss Piggy's Earmuffs (Transmuted to Helet of Kermit the Frog) on the Bandanna, the latter will go all green and wide-mouthed, not pink and snouty...
AFAIK this unfortunately sometimes doesn't always work totally correctly, but in >95% of the cases (and all I had tried so far) it works.
This!
While I like the idea that you are able to re-use these items over and over, the amount it costs to transmute and the likelihood that any transmuted gear may be replaced in a month or two makes me not want to transmute any of my gear. Learn from a company that did transmuting right and take a page from WoW's transmogrify system.
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