I love almost all of it now! You definitely worked out a lot of the kinks, but I still have a problem with the clothing. First of all, since the Artisan level required to make and wear the clothing are different, that means it is tradable, or a throwback to Dungeoneering's poorly designed reward requirements to buy/wield that were significantly lower than the level needed to get the tokens for it. Maybe I missed it, but you should specify if the materials(cotton, sheets of wool, and flax fibers) are tradable and if the clothes themselves are tradable as well.
Ignoring the oversight of tradability, the Esoteric gear is extremely overpowered. I know they're only for multiple runes, but the only multiple runes that people care about are natures. Since they are different pieces I would guess that means the boosts stack, which means with all 3 pieces(75 Runecrafting requirement and buyable) that's a +6 boost. Buy all 3 pieces and you can craft double nature runes at 85 Runecrafting instead of 91. That's cutting the experience requirement down from 5902k to 3258k, almost 50%! Putting that in perspective, 550 people have 91+ Runecrafting at the moment, and 832 people have 85+, that's a lot more people crafting double nature runes and it will be even more people when/if Artisan is released. I would suggest making higher leveled versions of one slot. Instead of a hat, top, and legs, make three versions of a hat, or three versions of gloves. A low level pair that would boost 1, medium level that would boost 2, and a high level that would boost 3. That way the bonuses couldn't stack and instead of 85 Runecrafting, you'd need 88 Runecrafting. Or entirely get rid of the gear as this would be the 3rd remake of it and is still too overpowered.
Sorry for the super long post, but I hope someone reads it. That said, awesome revision of Artisan, I really hope it gets into game!
TL;DR: RC gear iz 2 gud, nerf agein pl0x!
Ignoring the oversight of tradability, the Esoteric gear is extremely overpowered. I know they're only for multiple runes, but the only multiple runes that people care about are natures. Since they are different pieces I would guess that means the boosts stack, which means with all 3 pieces(75 Runecrafting requirement and buyable) that's a +6 boost. Buy all 3 pieces and you can craft double nature runes at 85 Runecrafting instead of 91. That's cutting the experience requirement down from 5902k to 3258k, almost 50%! Putting that in perspective, 550 people have 91+ Runecrafting at the moment, and 832 people have 85+, that's a lot more people crafting double nature runes and it will be even more people when/if Artisan is released. I would suggest making higher leveled versions of one slot. Instead of a hat, top, and legs, make three versions of a hat, or three versions of gloves. A low level pair that would boost 1, medium level that would boost 2, and a high level that would boost 3. That way the bonuses couldn't stack and instead of 85 Runecrafting, you'd need 88 Runecrafting. Or entirely get rid of the gear as this would be the 3rd remake of it and is still too overpowered.
Sorry for the super long post, but I hope someone reads it. That said, awesome revision of Artisan, I really hope it gets into game!
TL;DR: RC gear iz 2 gud, nerf agein pl0x!
11-Jul-2014 00:12:38
