Weaponsmith Archive

My Q..
19:26 *Stettin* There were some hints that crafters would get more "schematics" rather than competing with quest rewards during this expansion. Are there any plans to keep a balance, as opposed to 90% of all new weapons being quest rewards as in RoTW?

Response
19:27 *Stettin* Well about thrity percent of loot coming out of ToOW is schematic loot. But with this expansion a balance between crafting classes and combats classes is being met. Combat classes will be needed to gather the tools to make the schematics and items but the skill of the crafters is needed in order to make the powerful items that the combat classes are after.

30% sounds good, it seems that combat classes should be able to loot the schems and give/sell them to us, I hope.

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CorenLanra wrote:
My Q..
19:26 *Stettin* There were some hints that crafters would get more "schematics" rather than competing with quest rewards during this expansion. Are there any plans to keep a balance, as opposed to 90% of all new weapons being quest rewards as in RoTW?

Response
19:27 *Stettin* Well about thrity percent of loot coming out of ToOW is schematic loot. But with this expansion a balance between crafting classes and combats classes is being met. Combat classes will be needed to gather the tools to make the schematics and items but the skill of the crafters is needed in order to make the powerful items that the combat classes are after.

30% sounds good, it seems that combat classes should be able to loot the schems and give/sell them to us, I hope.

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I wouldn't hold my breath... only 1 weapon schematic was found, and it was through the Magic Cube.

I was in the HOC chat tonight and another dev said that all of the TOOW code is not even in live yet.It was said that a lot of it will be downloaded in the background if you have the bits option checked and that would make the final download around 60mb. If you don't, then you'd probably have a lot more to download. So that tells me, at the least, we will have about 60mb of data missing. So we shouldn't necessarily be able to find all of the schematics if they are even in yet.

Another dev also said there will be 20 schematics for crafters, though he didn't say if they would all be weapons...at least I don't recall that being said....but I was watching tv at that point..LOL

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HardwiredXMan wrote:

I was in the HOC chat tonight and another dev said that all of the TOOW code is not even in live yet.It was said that a lot of it will be downloaded in the background if you have the bits option checked and that would make the final download around 60mb. If you don't, then you'd probably have a lot more to download. So that tells me, at the least, we will have about 60mb of data missing. So we shouldn't necessarily be able to find all of the schematics if they are even in yet.

Another dev also said there will be 20 schematics for crafters, though he didn't say if they would all be weapons...at least I don't recall that being said....but I was watching tv at that point..LOL

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lol 20 schematics... 1 suit of armor could be upto 9 schematics

Combat classes will be needed to gather the tools to make the schematics and items but the skill of the crafters is needed in order to make the powerful items that the combat classes are after.

Note that it says combat classes will be need to gather tools to "make the schematics". STUPID CUBE!

I can see another DWB situation, y'know? The kinda situation that is not beneficial to crafters at all where they go into a high level NPC bunker hoping that thier group members protect them from any 1 hit kills which is all it would take if any shots got past the combatants to hit the crafter so that the crafter can goto some room on some level & craft a weapon or armor piece with a 1 use schematic that the combatants will demand the crafter give to them for either safekeeping/fear of being left behind to die/or outright take the item from the crafter. Now that the item is crafted & the combatantsare happy, there's some doubt as to whether the crafter will be able to keep up with the fast running group to get out alive.If the crafter does die it's because it was their fault, they either should of kept up or crafted quieter so as not to cause so much hightened aggro in the bunker. Good times all around!