Curse

Praetor · Aug 28, 2005, 10:44 PM // 22:44

Don't you hate it when you get a major rune of uselessness out of a gold armor? Don't you hate it when that happens 7 out of 10 times you find a gold armor?
Set rune rating as follows:
White Armor = No Rune, obviously
Blue Armor = Minor Rune
Purple Armor = Major Rune
Gold Armor = Superior Rune
No exceptions.
Also, it would help alot if colored armor actually drops when you play. Because I feel within 1-2 playthroughs of the game should let you unlock a large majority of runes and whatnot. However, I've clocked some 500 hours, and only now I've unlocked all MINOR runes. I have maybe 10 major runes unlocked, and like 3 superior runes unlocked (minus a few faction runes). Maybe some kind of armor distribution rate of 20-35-25-20 (white-blue-purple-gold) for armor drops.
This would also eliminate the need to go farm runes, as enough runes would simply drop from playing normally.

Aniewiel · Aug 28, 2005, 11:08 PM // 23:08

First off there's no guarantee you'll even be able to successfully salvage the rune. Also, and maybe this is just me, but that seems to make things way too predictable. If they regulated runes this way, then next people would be wanting to regulate weaponry the same way:

White: least damage
Blue: +x to base damage
Purple: +xx to base damage
Gold: perfect damage

I like the unpredictability.

Praetor · Aug 28, 2005, 11:16 PM // 23:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aniewiel

First off there's no guarantee you'll even be able to successfully salvage the rune.

Actually, you have 100% chance to salvage the rune. It was in an update.
Perfect gold weapons? Fine, let them have their way. A PvP item will still kick any gold weapon you can find. There's little to argue about that since you forget this game is meant for PvP, not obtain max items for PvE. Plus, gold weapons are rare enough, so getting a perfect mod off it should be exciting as is. However, currently, people get the feeling of wanting to rant and whine to a.net for crappy drops.

Aniewiel · Aug 28, 2005, 11:20 PM // 23:20

Ack...I stand corrected on the salvage thing then. I haven't found a rune in the last...long time. *sighs* Sorry about that then.

I still like the unpredictability. Add to that the fact that I'm beginning to see the need to separate PvP and PvE completely, makes me more inclined to say that UAS must be implemented. Perhaps requiring players to play one character in PvE start to finish then...BAM! UAS!