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After reading through the public word doc that is conveniently found on twitter (and not here
), I’m actually MORE convinced that warding should be part of runecrafting, rather than a separate skill.
My logic:
It seems like you have to take in essence of a runecrafting altar and imbue it into new types of material. The only thing we’ve tried that with is rune essence, and it works 100% of the time because rune essence likes magical essence that much.
It sounds a lot like smithing to me, where you learn to forge metal into different shapes (weapons AND armour), but this time we’re reshaping magic essence. That makes warding part of an already existing skill, rune (magic) crafting.
Since we’re pretty keen on this being a sink and a type of magic essence harnessing ability that imbues magic essence into new material, it stands to reason that you can learn from your experiences of using a spongy material (that being rune essence) to help you imbue magical essence into other, harder to work with material. In this case, some of the sink can come from failing to successfully imbue and thus destroying your less spongy material. Or, alternatively, you have to grind your spongy material down and figure out how to incorporate it into other materials/fabrics (which is starting to sound like crafting...).
I think there are many easy ways to not “devalue” runecrafting by including magic armour making into its skill-set. Quite frankly, it could even be the same experience per hour (with armour making seemingly higher when discounting destroyed materials), only this time you’re not banging your head only creating a weapon for yourself, now you’re making armour for yourself. It’s still “runecrafting” or more “magic crafting” when creating the armour rather than crafting because you’re trying to keep the magic essence inside of your fabric while making armours (and thus keeping the armour effects).
I also think it should be locked behind a quest.
), I’m actually MORE convinced that warding should be part of runecrafting, rather than a separate skill.
My logic:
It seems like you have to take in essence of a runecrafting altar and imbue it into new types of material. The only thing we’ve tried that with is rune essence, and it works 100% of the time because rune essence likes magical essence that much.
It sounds a lot like smithing to me, where you learn to forge metal into different shapes (weapons AND armour), but this time we’re reshaping magic essence. That makes warding part of an already existing skill, rune (magic) crafting.
Since we’re pretty keen on this being a sink and a type of magic essence harnessing ability that imbues magic essence into new material, it stands to reason that you can learn from your experiences of using a spongy material (that being rune essence) to help you imbue magical essence into other, harder to work with material. In this case, some of the sink can come from failing to successfully imbue and thus destroying your less spongy material. Or, alternatively, you have to grind your spongy material down and figure out how to incorporate it into other materials/fabrics (which is starting to sound like crafting...).
I think there are many easy ways to not “devalue” runecrafting by including magic armour making into its skill-set. Quite frankly, it could even be the same experience per hour (with armour making seemingly higher when discounting destroyed materials), only this time you’re not banging your head only creating a weapon for yourself, now you’re making armour for yourself. It’s still “runecrafting” or more “magic crafting” when creating the armour rather than crafting because you’re trying to keep the magic essence inside of your fabric while making armours (and thus keeping the armour effects).
I also think it should be locked behind a quest.
26-Jun-2019 10:34:22
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