Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Crafting crossover
So I had this idea while looking at the subclass system, and thinking "Why can't they do something similar for crafting"
Allow players to focus on one or two crafting classes, which can impart a bonus on one another. e.g. alchemist and weaponsmith may let you make alchemical weapons imbued with elemental damage or something.
Also had a though on recipes, or more to the point simplifying them and complicating them at the same time.
So many recipes in other games call for different materials in different quantities to make special parts only used for a single weapon. Y'know you want to make a steel sword you need to make a special steel blade, steel crossbar, steel handle etc, often times to get your crafting up you wind up crafting 100 handles because they're cheap, making maybe one or two swords, and selling the rest for a loss at the shops.
What I'm instead suggesting is we simplify recipes, rather than taking 8 steel to make a blade for example, it would take 8 metal, and you could use any metal you have at hand to craft it. When you have components you can combine those in any combination to impart different stats on your weapon.
Also had the idea that this could work well with special enemy drops. You have some kind of accessory crafting and a low level recipe for a bone necklace. All it takes is string and bone. Later on you kill a powerful enemy and get a dragon tooth and a different enemy drops a special vine or something. You could then use those in place of your normal recipe parts to make a special bone necklace with bonuses from the dragontooth and vine imparted on it.
I figure that would be a good way to make enemy drops more useful. (and could open up another gatherer profession for gathering monster parts)
Allow players to focus on one or two crafting classes, which can impart a bonus on one another. e.g. alchemist and weaponsmith may let you make alchemical weapons imbued with elemental damage or something.
Also had a though on recipes, or more to the point simplifying them and complicating them at the same time.
So many recipes in other games call for different materials in different quantities to make special parts only used for a single weapon. Y'know you want to make a steel sword you need to make a special steel blade, steel crossbar, steel handle etc, often times to get your crafting up you wind up crafting 100 handles because they're cheap, making maybe one or two swords, and selling the rest for a loss at the shops.
What I'm instead suggesting is we simplify recipes, rather than taking 8 steel to make a blade for example, it would take 8 metal, and you could use any metal you have at hand to craft it. When you have components you can combine those in any combination to impart different stats on your weapon.
Also had the idea that this could work well with special enemy drops. You have some kind of accessory crafting and a low level recipe for a bone necklace. All it takes is string and bone. Later on you kill a powerful enemy and get a dragon tooth and a different enemy drops a special vine or something. You could then use those in place of your normal recipe parts to make a special bone necklace with bonuses from the dragontooth and vine imparted on it.
I figure that would be a good way to make enemy drops more useful. (and could open up another gatherer profession for gathering monster parts)
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