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I like the idea, but a few of the ideas are flawed:

1. SOE would never put in someone like a samurai, because it wouldn't fit with the time period the game is trying to achieve
2. Being able to sample something from a creature as a fencer would take a lot of coding, it would be better to make it a loot drop from set creatures (that spawn from the missions)or something.
3. Making a DOT happen to any non-master that equips the weapon would make a lot of people angry, and I'm sure this forum would be overrun by people crying about it. It's simple, and a good idea really, but, people are people.

I like the idea of a master level weapon though, hopefully this can get taken a little further.

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o_rly wrote:

I like the idea, but a few of the ideas are flawed:

1. SOE would never put in someone like a samurai, because it wouldn't fit with the time period the game is trying to achieve
2. Being able to sample something from a creature as a fencer would take a lot of coding, it would be better to make it a loot drop from set creatures (that spawn from the missions)or something.
3. Making a DOT happen to any non-master that equips the weapon would make a lot of people angry, and I'm sure this forum would be overrun by people crying about it. It's simple, and a good idea really, but, people are people.

I like the idea of a master level weapon though, hopefully this can get taken a little further.

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1) Well, not a samurai per se, but a wizened character like that. I was not saying to break immersion. I want a samurai-like character, not an actual samurai.

2) Be it a sample or loot drop, either is fine by me. Even if its one more thing we need to go to a BE to get, that's fine too. Gives them more stuff to do.

3) People are indeed people, but they need to learn to shut up. It's simple, you don't want to get hurt, don't equip it. They can't use it anyway, so whenever someone tries to sell them the sword, they won't want it because of the damage it could do. So there would be some initial crying... no big deal. They will learn, and the blades will not be able to have certain people who aren't fencers monopolize them for their own selfish profit. Plus, it gives the fencer's ultimate blade a sort of reverence eventually.

Quests for each master would be nice. Personally, I think each combat profession should have multiple, repeatable quests. As a rewqard, you get a Permanent Powerup for your weapon. You are also given an option to decide which type of weapon you want the powerup to go on. Maybe limit these to 1 quest/month to prevent farming. These powerups would be No Trade, and the resulting weapons be notrade. (I don't want to abuse the crafters, but if these quests can be farmed, they will be. The crafters still provide the base weapon.)

You could improve damage on lower weapons by great amounts. Image a curved sword with the damage of a gaffi. You could get a DOT. You could get AP1. The point of each of these is to make each weapon in the profession attractive to a master of that profession. This should lead to diversity, where I choose the plain sword with the AP powerup, but you choose the vibroblade with the flame dot.

This all falls apart with extraordinary weapons. If the system can't identify them, then these weapons would be easily too powerful.

A master's weapon would be nice, too, but I don't see how to do those without causing farming problems or auctioning.

What do you folks mean, No samurai....look at the RIS armor...looks like a samurai set of armor to me. But really, I agree, fencers need a master level weapon. Pikeman have the NS lance, Pistoleers have the DE10, Swordsman have gotten 2 new weapons since release, rifleman got the beserker, and on and on....but make it something more "fencer-ish", how about a set of blades, a main and off hand weapon, each with a dot.

Be careful what you wish for. Look what they did to CH to discourage dabbling in that proffesion.

great idea, could also be applied to other professions to