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| - A: No, Retained items will still be droppable on death.
- Each effect -- Melee Defense, Missile Defense, or Magic Defense -- is a separate imbue.
- A: Unfortunately no, the new arcane lore difficulty will be set equal to the spellcraft. Any heritage or skill requirement will no longer provide a benefit. This is a technology limitation.
- Q: Will Resistance Rend on a wand work differently than on a melee weapon or missile weapon, similar to how Critical Strike and Crippling Blow work differently?
- Q: Will they be only wieldable by the tinkerer, like the Ivory tinker?
- A: Yes. This will primarily benefit mages by reducing the need to cast a vulnerability spell before attacking with war magic.
- Q: Will the new imbues have the 33% maximum chance of success?
- Q: If I have an item that has a rank requirement in addition to other requirements and I remove the rank requirement, will the new arcane lore requirement take into account the other requirements?
- A: Not at this time, although this is something that we will look at in the future, time allowing.
- A: At maximum effective skill, it is roughly equivalent to a level VI vulnerability spell.
- In July's event, "A Swelling Tide", we introduce a number of new tinkering effects. We discussed these in the July Letter to the Players but many of you had further questions and requests for clarification.
- A: No.
- A: No.
Armor Defense Imbues
- A: Yes.
- By Alex "Ibn" Beckers
- A: When creating new dynamics like this, we generally start cautiously to avoid potentially doing awful things to game balance. We will pay close attention to your feedback and look into adjusting the imbues in the future if necessary.
- General Imbue Questions
- Jewelry Cantrip Imbues
- Leather Tinkering
- Q: Can we imbue jewelry that is not currently magical?
- Q: What happens if we imbue a weapon with Resistance Rending for a damage type that it doesn't deal? Similarly, what happens if I use Fire Arrows with a bow that has been imbued with Cold Resistance Rending?
- Q: Are Retained items also Bonded ?
- Q: Can quest items be Retained?
- Q: Can we add heritage requirements?
- Q: Will Resistance Rending work with wands?
- Q: Will Retained items still be tinkerable?
- Requirement Tinkering
- Resistance Rending Imbues
- Q: Will you be making more minors available for imbuing?
- Q: Can hilted weapons be affected by the requirement tinkering effects?
- A: At this time, yes. We would like to change this in the future.
- Q: Will we ever allow an item to receive more than one imbue?
- So you can build a suit that, with all of its pieces, gives you +10 melee defense, or +5 melee defense and +5 magic defense, or what have you. These bonuses stack with any spells or weapon modifiers you have.
- Q: How much extra damage will a Resistance Rend do?
- A: We have no plans at this time to add this ability.
- A: No, they will only change the activation requirements.
- A: It's an imbue, so you can do it once and only once to any piece of armor. The maximum chance of success is 33%, like all imbues. And the bonus you get is +1 skill point, not +1%. You can imbue the piece with a bonus to melee defense, missile defense, or magic defense.
- A: Critical Strike and Crippling Blow work differently for wands because criticals work differently for wands. This difference doesn't apply to Resistance Rending.
- Q: Will Resistance Rending on a wand also affect any war spell that the wand itself can cast? For example if I have a wand with a built-in Acid Blast V, will Acid Resistance Rending improve the damage?
- Q: Could you provide more details about the Armor Defense imbues?
- Q: Will the jewelry imbues affect the maximum mana and mana burn rate of the item?
- A: We'd like to see how well the existing ones work before adding new ones, but it is certainly a possibility.
- Q: Can Retained items be destroyed by using a mana stone on them?
- Q: Will changing requirements on an item also affect any wield requirements?
- A: Not at this time, and we have no immediate plans to add this functionality.
- A: The imbue will take, but will have no effect. Likewise, the Resistance Rending on a missile weapon will only have an effect when you use the appropriate ammunition type.
- Q: Will Resistance Rending affect life spells such as drains and harms?
- A: At this time, no hilted weapons can be tinkered, nor can you hilt a tinkered weapon. We are considering removing this restriction for the requirement tinkers, but we haven't reached a decision yet.
- Q: The Armor Defense imbues appear to be underpowered, considering the 66% risk of failure even in a best case.
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