Let's not have "the best weapon" please

I honestly think is pretty boring when in MMOs every character ends up with the same armor/weapon at the endgame. So I think a (relatively) easy way to avoid that problem is with a bigger focus on damage types and resistances in the world I want the game to have simple elemental damage and resistances on everything, most enemies will be strong vs certain damage types but weak to others so if you are planning to raid that Ice cave you can prepare by bringing a fire weapon and equipping ice resistant armor.

we could have both basic elemental damage/resistances like fire, ice, lightning...etc and even have different types of physical damage like slash, pierce and thrust.

I think is cool when you don't simply have "the best weapon in the game" that works best in every case, but an arsenal of situational weapons that are "the best" in certain areas. Of course, you could craft a jack of all trades weapon that will be ok everywhere, but if you want "the best weapon" you will have to specialise depending on the enemy you expect to fight. Same with armor, if you are going to raid a thieves guild hideout you better bring your poison and pierce resistant set to be the most effective.

I think this would be a win win for everybody.

1.-Artisans will be happy to be able to create tons of different weapons for every situation.
2.-Meta chasing will be a lot harder when every zone will have different types of enemies with different resistances and damage types so the meta in one place will be totally different to the meta in other nodes.
3.-It will make the preparations pre raid a lot more interesting.
4.-It will encourage spying and intelligence missions during guild wars, since knowing what kind of weapons/armor will bring your enemy guild to battle will help you prepare to counter their builds. Same with node wars, if you know this node is filled with armored bears that are vulnerable to pierce damage you can imagine most citizens will have pierce damage sets so you prepare your citizens to bring armor with high pierce resistance.

What you guys think?

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insomnia

I startet to think about how the weapons were different in APoC. It made me a little concerned that some weapons will just be better for certain things and that you can feel required to have to use a specific weapon for certain things. F.x. the halbard had lifesteal, which could be essential if you are running around on your own. This will of course be dependend on what the various weapons brings etc

xlangatangx

Damokles wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

Damokles wrote: »

Every one knows that polearms are superior to any other weapon. ;D

Bonecrusher disagrees

Everyone knows that Lifebringer and Spiritpiercer were the best weapons in APOC.

You think sucking people juices out of your enemies was the superior strat? The force of 10,000 suns has something to say to you

daveywavey

xlangatangx wrote: »

You think sucking people juices out of your enemies was the superior strat?

There's a name for people that do that...

Damokles

daveywavey wrote: »

xlangatangx wrote: »

You think sucking people juices out of your enemies was the superior strat?

There's a name for people that do that...

Vampire? Yes, I like the vampire strat.

Nagash

daveywavey wrote: »

xlangatangx wrote: »

You think sucking people juices out of your enemies was the superior strat?

There's a name for people that do that...

bloodsucking scum? you mean lawyer

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