Inscriptions: Discussion Thread

[Kais Unduli]

Well, each continent has in time received the updates that other continents had first, such as material storage exclusive to Cantha now available in Tyria as well. Eventually, weapons with inscriptions might start dropping in Tyria and Cantha.

[Phoebe]

Originally Posted by Rhia Aislinn

Wait a second. Where did you get that information? I have not read that anywhere.

From the patch notes:

Weapon Inscriptions

* New weapons found in Elona or created through the PvP Equipment panel can contain swappable inscriptions, which provide a variety of weapon bonuses and enhancements.
* Like armor insignias, weapon inscriptions allow you to swap bonuses between different items you acquire by playing through the roleplaying content, and they simplify the process of creating items with the PvP Equipment panel by enabling you to choose the base weapon and the weapon bonuses separately.
* You can only place an inscription in a weapon if that weapon has a blank inscription slot. Inscriptions and inscription slots are sometimes found on rare weapons dropped by monsters in Elona.
* Inscriptions must be unlocked on your account before you can use them in the PvP Equipment panel. Inscriptions that provide bonuses that were previously inherent bonuses of PvP weapons are already unlocked on your account.

[Zehnchu]

If you haven’t already checked out the Priest of Balthazar then I would suggest that you make a quick stop and check out what you have unlocked so far for inscriptions to see what they have so far, they also have wands, offhand, shields and shied handles. It will also show you what it looks like.

New weapons found in Elona

You can only place an inscription in a weapon if that weapon has a blank inscription slot. Inscriptions and inscription slots are sometimes found on rare weapons dropped by monsters in Elona.

Pretty much sums it up, only Elona based weapons. But that’s not to say that it could change by adding a customize inscription slot to the weapon smith of course that would customized for the player so it can’t be sold.

[Rhia Aislinn]

So in other words you would have to first remove the inscription that you do not want and replace it with the one you do want? Ok that is fine. You could then just sell the replaced inscription or trash it. I really would like to hear ANet's justification for why it is Elona only. This is one of those big changes and an explanation is in order if you ask me. The only reason I can imagine is cause they bent to the will of the rich who threatened to quit and not buy Nightfall. If it was some other reason I would love to hear it cause I know everyone would like to know. If that is infact the reason I am VERY disappointed in them. It is almost as if ANet is rewarding those rich players even though they exploited the game to get so rich in the first place.

Edit: And further more if ANet did make this change in favor of those rich players then those who exploited to get rich has yet again exploited the game and they got away with it.

[Sid Soggybottom]

I agree that there really is no reason to limit it to Elonian weapons other than to appease the people who were crying about their weapon prices dropping.

The new inscription system is great but still has some annoying limits. Instead of waiting for a weapon with the skin and perfect inherant mod to drop, now we wait for a weapon with the skin and inscription slot to drop. Hopefully that's an improvement depending on how common inscription slots are.

Hopefully they'll change their mind and let old skins be fitted with slots and inscribed. Otherwise, I see a great system being limited needlessly.

[Rhia Aislinn]

Originally Posted by Sid Soggybottom

I agree that there really is no reason to limit it to Elonian weapons other than to appease the people who were crying about their weapon prices dropping.

The new inscription system is great but still has some annoying limits. Instead of waiting for a weapon with the skin and perfect inherant mod to drop, now we wait for a weapon with the skin and inscription slot to drop. Hopefully that's an improvement depending on how common inscription slots are.

Hopefully they'll change their mind and let old skins be fitted with slots and inscribed. Otherwise, I see a great system being limited needlessly.

I am thinking that you can salvage the inscriptions to make a free upgrade slot. I do not believe that ANet would go as far as to make you wait for a drop with no inherent modifier at all.

[Sid Soggybottom]

Originally Posted by Rhia Aislinn

I am thinking that you can salvage the inscriptions to make a free upgrade slot. I do not believe that ANet would go as far as to make you wait for a drop with no inherent modifier at all.

Ah, I didnt think of that. But there's still a 50% chance of destroying the weapon while salvaging it, but it's still far better than waiting for a skin with the perfect mod on it.

Still see no reason to exclude Tyrian and Canthan weapons though.

[Velath]

Originally Posted by Sid Soggybottom

Still see no reason to exclude Tyrian and Canthan weapons though.

Still hard to say, but I'd have to agree with all the above posters that said it would likely take a ton of time to change all the prophecy and factions weapons. Throw in a weapon customization/inscription blanking thing at the weaponsmith and you could change up your old weapons is a good idea. Doubt it'll be implemented anytime soon tho...

I wonder if there'll be any greens with blank inscription slots?

[The Great Al]

I think this is the problem of having 'stand alone chapters' If we have NF, and we also have one or both of the other chapters, i think that these inscribable weapons should drop in tyria and cantha as well, ONLY for those people who also have NF

[Scutilla]

Originally Posted by Exile84

So I guess this means canthan and tyrian weapons (most of all the really rare ones) keep their value depending on the damage mods they have, because there is no way to mod them with other damage mods (so my req 8 skeleton 30 -5(20%) still rocks)

This is the part I'm mainly disappointed about. I have several weapons, including a Mursaat Bow and a Celestial Bow, which I was hoping to change the mods on, and I wanted to play with the mods on some of my 15k armors as well. Now it looks like I'll have to either use Elonian item skins or deal with having inferior equipment.

Heck, I wouldn't even mind if they applied it only to new versions of Tyrian/Canthan equipment, while still leaving the stuff already in existence alone.

[Rhia Aislinn]

The other thing you have to watch out for now is scammers selling their tyrian/core weapons and saying they are inscribable elonian skins. This will open the flood gates to scamming people from all chapters. Mark my words: If ANet does not make the inscriptions available to everyone from all chapters there will be scammers taking advantage of people left and right. I like the idea of these inscribable items, but being Elonian only is just nuts.

[Hyper Cutter]

Originally Posted by Rhia Aislinn

Edit: I just hope that ANet didn't read that absurdly moronic thread on here with all the richest guru members complaining and get scared and change it to Elonian weapons only to save a handful of sales.

That's exactly what I think they did...

It seems needless to restrict both inscriptions and armor insignia like that.

And what about weapons that drop on more than one continent? I found Bramble Long and Short bows during the preview event, for example...

[manitoba1073]

ill say it again. i warned everyone here about how if it wasnt done right. look what happened. well no someones even beginning to see what i said about scammers on the inscriptions. but hey i was called a whiner in my thread and looky whos whinning now on them remebr i posted a week ago how bad this could be. now i have to say it.




I TOLD U SO


ofcourse the mods prolly delete this , but im asking them not to. cause it is relavent as i tried to warn everyone last week. but only a few listened.

[Sid Soggybottom]

Originally Posted by manitoba1073

ill say it again. i warned everyone here about how if it wasnt done right. look what happened. well no someones even beginning to see what i said about scammers on the inscriptions. but hey i was called a whiner in my thread and looky whos whinning now on them remebr i posted a week ago how bad this could be. now i have to say it.




I TOLD U SO


ofcourse the mods prolly delete this , but im asking them not to. cause it is relavent as i tried to warn everyone last week. but only a few listened.

Umm what are you ranting on about now? No one has scammed anyone yet. Dont get all riled up. Besides, the only reason that there's even a potential for scamming is because of the implementation of inscriptions being Elonian only to appease people like you who were opposed to the idea of inscriptions at all. So really, it's the anti-inscriptionists' fault for creating any potential scamming. But as I said before, NOTHING has happend yet. You're still ranting about something that hasnt even happend yet.

[manitoba1073]

Originally Posted by Sid Soggybottom

Umm what are you ranting on about now? No one has scammed anyone yet. Dont get all riled up. Besides, the only reason that there's even a potential for scamming is because of the implementation of inscriptions being Elonian only to appease people like you who were opposed to the idea of inscriptions at all. So really, it's the anti-inscriptionists' fault for creating any potential scamming. But as I said before, NOTHING has happend yet. You're still ranting about something that hasnt even happend yet.

actually ppl have alrdy begun to try to scam ppl. even reported in the scribe. i wasnt agaisnt the inscriptions idea i gave a great way for it to be implemented for everyone. yes im ranting cause its bad implementation on a good idea

[[DE]]

Originally Posted by manitoba1073

actually ppl have alrdy begun to try to scam ppl. even reported in the scribe. i wasnt agaisnt the inscriptions idea i gave a great way for it to be implemented for everyone. yes im ranting cause its bad implementation on a good idea

lol, right.... I'm sure your way would have been so much better... and it would have been so much easier to code too (which people rarely take into consideration... programming can be very very complex... especially with MMO's).

Oh, and it's hard to be taken seriously when you can't use proper grammar or elaborate on anything at all.


Anyways, it will be very interesting to see if they keep the inscriptions system exactly how it is or if they will decide to change a few things on it.

[Abnaxus]

Originally Posted by Zehnchu

If you haven’t already checked out the Priest of Balthazar then I would suggest that you make a quick stop and check out what you have unlocked so far for inscriptions to see what they have so far, they also have wands, offhand, shields and shied handles. It will also show you what it looks like.

Just one question: the description says that the inscription of 15>50 can be applied to a generic "inscribable weapon": nowadays a sword pommel for instance can be applied only to a sword.

Does this mean that it will be possible to find an axe, salvage the inscription, and apply it to a bow?
This would be something really new (I really didn't expect it) and a really high degree of flexibility.

[arcanemacabre]

Originally Posted by Abnaxus

Just one question: the description says that the inscription of 15>50 can be applied to a generic "inscribable weapon": nowadays a sword pommel for instance can be applied only to a sword.

Does this mean that it will be possible to find an axe, salvage the inscription, and apply it to a bow?
This would be something really new (I really didn't expect it) and a really high degree of flexibility.

That's exactly how it looks. If so, sweet!

[Kalidon]

What about upgrades for shields and focuses (like +30 hp or so)?

Will they be salvageable from gold drops in Elona and put onto existing items?

[Cassie McKnight]

I can just see it now stuff with the 'empty' slot and rare skin will be 100k+ectos