before I start, I have to say one thing. I understand it's nice to have easy access to the farties and it remove alot of the pain from putting together a suit.
When we first got the bunny ears and orange legs (7ae items), I did not believe it would be a problem, that they was blessed as all just could get them.
I was wrong, they turned out to be a pain and we had to stand together to get rid of the blessing.
Farties are a pain too as they hurt the shard. I understand we need al alternative that will work for all and not only for faction but it have to be for all.
Last part of your post but first thing I'm gonna say. My mage is red, and I'm not a pk, I'm a pvper. It's for that reason that I didn't kill you when I saw you last. Being a pk was only ever fun to me on my thief, and that was because I would fight with a character with one fighting skill. My opponent in that case had a rather large chance to win, thus a challenge to me.
Now I don't know the name of your mage, but if I was on Freja and you was alone, I would not had minded being attacked
I find it hard to split Pking and PvP'ing from each others, as long the attacker is out to share some fun and not to be an ass, I will call it PvP.
Now since that's finished with, addressing points. People look for whatever advantages they can get, why the hell do you think most of siege runs stealth? One thing most don't get is that faction arties are more of a counter to stealthers than ****ing detect hidden. Sure, some stealthers get some edge on everyone, those that have the balls to run them. However, factions mostly help mages, who out of you runs a damn mage outside of factions?
Sadly we do have to many win on any cost chars and because the Devs can't understand, they have to balance the item drop to the Siege rules, we will get to many win on any cost chars because it's to hard and take to long to replace lost stuff.
Besides, its not the faction arties that everyone complains about, its how good people do with them. Again, not realizing something; those who run them,(for the most part) are good players. Yes, there was crying and moaning about players running elite suits before as well, AND it was hard as hell to put together a suit. In all reality, as has been said, adding cursed arties, and hell even taking out factions, isn't going to change the way things are.
It may take more to changes stuff, I can see, imbuing do not like mages, it's damn expensive to make the jewelry you need to fight.
Again it's a matter of Devs balancing the drop vs Siege ruleset and maybe changes unraw on Siege so relic will have a better chance to be the resultat.
Better drop of Curced artifact and imbuing resources and some balancing of the resource need on Siege. FC and FCR should not need relic but only EE, same with DCI
Freja, you really should stop talking about whether or not faction arties are good or not if you don't even know about the cost when you tried to use it, opposing ways in the same post I might add, to justify taking out faction arties. You don't know jack about the faction cost vs non-faction cost. Like I said, you are just digging for excuses not realizing you are rapidly putting yourself into a hole. Stick to what you know, which would not be pvp and its effects on the shard.
You are wrong here, I know faction items did ruin alot from me and it stop me from get TDO to work as a red RP guild. It also stop new RP red guilds from growing up.
Ny goal with TDO is to challenge the one who are not upper PvP'ers and share some fun with them but the one not in Faction is stealthing around the shard because they do not want to fight vs factions items.
As only way to PvP is from being in faction, TDO won't get any members as I refuse to join faction. TDO always had young chars and crafters too, so we like town to be safe for our blue and we like being on one stone.
I had PvP'ed sinse I started playing UO 12 years ago so don't tell me what I know about.
Side note, I have just over 200k total between my 3 characters. I still run faction gear, just not full cause farming anything other than serps is a pancake IMO and I'm too lazy.
It's time Devs start reading this thread and sit down and do something to help us.
If I could imbue items that can complete with factions items and to a price regular poor PvP'ers could pay, I would make sure my vendor was stocked with ready to go suits, but there are some mods I just can't match
There are enough crafters who would do like me if just it was possible.
