RE: god items discussion
I'd like to clarify something. To Kiaro first, when you asked to talk about god item and their impact on the server, we were talking about woe amongst players. That crossed a boundary, it's not that god item are taboo, it's that you were no longer talking to Huntress, it was no longer the same dynamic of conversation and so I brought the discussion back on topic.
Next up, keep the discussion clean, so far so good, I'm proud of you all, keep it up guys. Special kudos to Krimlin's post whom I was happily surprised about xD
We've been having an ongoing discussion in the GM section about god item already for some time, it's a sign that you're not the only one concerned. Bummer is that no matter which angle we look at it, there will be dissatisfied people. There is no perfect solution.
Now to go back in history. I honestly don't remember who set this policy, might have been me, or perhaps Ben. I'm pretty sure however that either way the person who set it did not ever expect a guild to make all the components, this was almost 3 years ago.
God item quest were disabled in the first SVN of the server, as I was not much involved in the tech part at that time I can't say if it was disabled by default or by the GM team. I seem to recall hearing the quest were glitchy, but it was so long ago I don't clearly remember. In future SVN we kept them disabled both for convenience and continuity, convenient because we use the maps of those quests for other stuff, such as ToH and Allegiance point npc. By keeping them removed we also kept control on the god item. Should a guild make one and get a bug while talking to the npc it would become a nightmare quite fast on whats true or not.
Now, in regards to possible solution we are discussing amongst gm, there are many. But none that involve trashing people's hard work, if we decide to remove god item, we'll make sure to give an alternative for something to do with their ingredients. And if we would decide to nerf them, the list would get nerfed as well. Also, if we decide to add the quest back, we've already agreed that the part where you get a level 4 weapon (ice pick) will be changed or toned down.
As for changing god items stats, which I'm not saying we will, but since you mentioned it I think it's worth talking about. There are differences with GTB or any other equipment. First of it's god item, it's not a card or any other regular equip that drop from monster, they are "special", but mostly it's different because there are already people with GTB, however there aren't any god item yet. So on that topic, *if* we make any change to god item, I don't feel the slightest obligation to modify any other existing equipment. Specially putting into consideration that we got the random castle drop, which means the way to obtain them differs too.
All in all, I juggled with a few ideas which I'll pitch to the other gm, if they find it worthy of discussing here I'll post them.
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