Agreed.I have to disagree... imbuing is for weapons and armor... I spent a fortune GMing inscription... I do not want that obsolete. Whereas I can see your frustration with the scrolls... they did make them craftable now... so it's easier.
Good Luck in your slayer crafting!
1° Inscription is FREE. It's one of the very few skills in the game that yields a profit, unless you script it using a so-called fast method...
2° Imbuing is way better than runics because only a small minority of hardcore gamers and gold buyers will ever get something better from a runic than from imbuing, so, no, for the average Joe runics are completely obsolete, so we don't need any runic pen.
3° Having played a mage back in 1997 and now after a very long break, I can tell mages suck hard time if they don't have some hard to come by artifacts.
When coming back to UO in July, I first played a mage, which I ditched for a bard/tamer and later a paladin and an archer, because without slayers, high LMC, Mana regen and SDI items, mages' damage output makes a baby orc die from laughing.
4° I'm all for an inscription complete overhaul, it's not really the point. The point is everybody can get slayers easily, but mages.
5° Relics for warrior gear are not a problem, I get around 15 relics from enhancing the best loot I get (thanks to pgcd mod) after 2 hours Doom hunting. Anyway, relics could be needed too for spellbook imbuing.
how did you spend a fortune GMing inscription??I have to disagree... imbuing is for weapons and armor... I spent a fortune GMing inscription... I do not want that obsolete. Whereas I can see your frustration with the scrolls... they did make them craftable now... so it's easier.
Good Luck in your slayer crafting!
um yes?
The only thing about this as it stands, mage items and mods like lrc are fairly inexpensive as an overall set when compared to the mods for warriors.
The only offset has been that items that determine or augment damage types for mages have been excluded from the process. If this were to happen I'd think the whole cost factor for imbuing might need a looksee for more balance.
It's a matter of consistency.do we have to make everything so easily attainable?
Have you trained Imbuing lately?LMAO! A mil... yeah... to me that is a fortune. I'm not blessed with 25-50 mil in the bank!
Sounds fair to me too.The spell books will have to be insured like everything else. And have durability. And require a scribe (and only a scribe) to repair. That seems more than fair to me.
I must be an anomaly. I hate shopping in UO. I hate having to cobble together a suit. I get annoyed trying to find the few vendors that still sell basic stuff. I hate always getting the impression that many people running vendors think everyone else playing UO has millions in gold stashed away with nothing to spend it on. Some of us don't . And some of us didn't play in the so-called "good old days." We started playing long after UO went into a decline and self-sufficiency was forced upon us because we knew no one and had no clue what we were doing and had no gold to spend on trinkets and baubles. The only spammers we've ever seen in UO sell things for millions of gold. I've never once in my time playing UO ever seen someone spam a sales pitch for something they crafted or a service they could provide. You play UO with memories I'll never have.Sounds fair to me too.
It's just so damn easy (and fun!) to replace worn stuff that in some ways UO now feels like in the good old days: once your vanq was repaired several times, it would wear off so fast it was as good for the trash.
Good postI must be an anomaly. I hate shopping in UO. I hate having to cobble together a suit. I get annoyed trying to find the few vendors that still sell basic stuff. I hate always getting the impression that many people running vendors think everyone else playing UO has millions in gold stashed away with nothing to spend it on. Some of us don't . And some of us didn't play in the so-called "good old days." We started playing long after UO went into a decline and self-sufficiency was forced upon us because we knew no one and had no clue what we were doing and had no gold to spend on trinkets and baubles. The only spammers we've ever seen in UO sell things for millions of gold. I've never once in my time playing UO ever seen someone spam a sales pitch for something they crafted or a service they could provide. You play UO with memories I'll never have.
I challenge you and anyone else that thinks things are looking up to make characters on many of the smaller shards (don't forget the ones with servers in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea) and see how long it takes you to find and purchase all the pieces it would take to make a full set of meddable LRC with each piece made by an artificer.Keep it unique and imbuing is a fantastic job getting UO back to it's roots, IMHO.