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Question about Backer rewards and the looting system.

ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
edited August 2017 in Ashes of Creation Systems and Mechanics
I know I've probably overlooked it, but:

When someone goes "Red" in the game, thus opening the chance that equipped items can be dropped on death, will Backer rewards be safe from that? For example: The 1K backer tier has awards like Guild Cloaks and mount barding... will it be possible to lose those?

Thanks, in advance!

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  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited August 2017
    No, the game is not full loot. The only thing lootable is gathered/crafted materials that someone may be carrying and only a portion of those. Gear has decay and can be broken. Dying while corrupted (red) has an increased chance of breaking/destroying gear. So if you are looking for a PK gankfest while you strip others bare this is not going to be the game for you.


  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    The assumption implied in your post is incorrect. I'm not the "ganking" type.
    I was asking because, as a Backer, I'm thinking about upgrading to the $1K for the guild stuff, but it IS a concern handing out one of the cloaks (for example) to someone and watching it get ganked away from them.

    That being said, I didn't quite word the original post correctly. I meant for Reds. Steven had stated in one of the streams that being Red could cause equipped stuff to drop (and thus be lootable), so I was trying to ask if the Backer rewards fell into that category. I'll reword the original post to make that clear.
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    Sorry for the confusion. There has been an influx lately of the pvp bros coming in to "no full loot? deez gam gonna suxxor!!" posts. I thought it was a little weird since I have seen you on the forums before. No official stance on the guild items being destroyed that I have seen, probably an issue that needs to be addressed.
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    UnknownSystemError said:
    No, the game is not full loot. The only thing lootable is gathered/crafted materials that someone may be carrying and only a portion of those. Gear has decay and can be broken. Dying while corrupted (red) has an increased chance of breaking/destroying gear. So if you are looking for a PK gankfest while you strip others bare this is not going to be the game for you.
    He never gave any indication that he was looking for a pvp gank fest where he stripped his enemies of their gear.  Perhaps he was a $1k backer and was worried that someone would be running off with his cloak.  

    Just because he's a leader of a guild called Wolfpack and the studio that produced Shadowbane was called Wolfpack doesn't necessarily mean he's a pvp fiend.  Seriously you could have answered the question simply without making any unnecessary inferences about the original poster.
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