Curse

Series · Dec 12, 2006, 12:48 AM // 00:48

Right now, the hero helmet gives you +1 attribute on the weapon you currently have on him. Unfortunately... not all attributes have corresponding weapons. This tears apart some builds. I think a good- and easy- fix would be to give heroes access to the PvP Equipment Panel for ALL players, PvE and PvP.

Advantages:

1. They could then add a hero helm for every attribute of that hero's profession. While looking identical, they give different +1 bonuses.

2. Go craft hero armor right now with the Equipment Panel. You will see something like this: (AL: 20-80 (Depends on Level)). This makes this idea even more feasible!

3. This would allow heroes to use your unlocked items and such... which is a great idea, because a lot of people have most of these things unlocked... Heroes can already use ALL unlocked skills from the get-go (which is even MORE unreasonable than this, as elite skills can NOT be known from start but all runes and stuff can easily be bought from even the first couple towns!)... why not unlocked items? This would give more flexibility to people as they would not be restricted to one build per hero.

4. Heroes steal their share of the drops. So the Equipment Panel easily represents the hero buying his own gear. After all, they gotta spend the money on something... Sure, they wouldn't be actually spending, it's just a metaphor.

5. Gives equipment templates a purpose for people with PvE characters.

Disadvantages:

1. Less things to spend gold on (in a way... the people using this will be the ones who would have just given their heroes a random drop anyway, people who need cool looking weapons and armor for their hero for whatever reason will still need to dish out cash).

2. People who already outfitted heroes with runes are kinda screwed... depending the extent.

3. Anet would have to make sure that Hero Weapons created through this would be immediately destroyed once moved off of the hero.

Circus Midget · Dec 12, 2006, 02:20 AM // 02:20

.....The helm gives +1 to the attribute of the rune you have in the helm.
Superior axe mastery = +3 and +1. Equip a rune to your heroes'helmet....

Series · Dec 12, 2006, 02:41 AM // 02:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Circus Midget

.....The helm gives +1 to the attribute of the rune you have in the helm.
Superior axe mastery = +3 and +1. Equip a rune to your heroes'helmet....

Oh wow... they should make that more clear IMO... I assumed Item referred to weapon.