I agree with Red, if we can not have 1 bless slot for all, then I think no-blessing would be great for Siege.
Imagine someone having an unblessed [insert arti weapon here] he and his friends(oh look community) go out to pvm and somewhere along the way they get attacked by murderers. Well the battle for the hunters goes badly and the [arti weapon] is lost to the murderers. Now this artifact has changed hands, and A) either the new owner makes it a mantle piece, or B) he also uses it till he gets killed. There would be stories of the artis changing hands over and over, GM armour would be be needed again (yay) and the crafing communtiy would have something to do besides logging in every six hours.
yes i dont have an arti, well i sorta do i have the titan leg bone, and would use it unblessed for as long as i could. I just think the "need" we have now on siege for red legs and the sami helmet is not good. Granted it has leveled the playing field somewhat, for the players on siege already, but for new people, which is what we need to bring to Siege, they dont have those things.
I think with no blessings or even the 1 slot, I believe you would see that the level of pvp skill would increase in a few weeks/months back to where it was in the past, when Seige had/ or maybe has the best pvpers on it.
Wilki I hope that something is done soon, I have not gotten my level of excitement up for Siege help, since this issue has been going on for years, I lost my pbd a few weeks after i got it, not by bug, but by forgetting i even had a blessed item on me, and loaning it to my good friend, for his use, and he getting killed by spawn and thus loosing it.
Siege is the best shard on UO, mainly because of the people on it. Wilki, Many of us have been here for years, in UO.(myself since day 1 in 97) Im not threating to cancel my account or to storm off and play WoW, as i dont think many of the people here have posted think of doing this either. But we care about siege, we care about UO, we care that people have left siege, and UO. We see a place we came to, and said damnit i want something better out of UO, so we came to siege. Some of the people posting here dont play UO anymore, but they still care about Siege, because we are a family. Blue/reds alike we are family. I would care if VMP left, I would care if Waka/Lex decided heck with this and went back to prod shards. I would care if the numerous good guilds decided to go else where, I miss JD, and get a twitch when I see one on screen, as i remeber the past CWS has with them. I hate to see a house fall on siege, that means someone went elsewhere(most of the time) Hell in some ways i miss A|B, at least when you did a champ you knew it would be a challenge to finish it, and when you won the day it was a great feeling. Everyone on Siege that cares about pbd and blessing does so for many reasons, but IMO the one common reason is that we want people here, to come and to stay and to become part of our family. But we want them to make up their mind if they can hack it here based on their skill level not if they have the best loot to compete, with people or monsters.
sorry i rambled but something needs to be done soon on Siege with this issue, we have waited and waited, some have left over this, and they deserve as well as all the people that have stayed, action.