ANet stole my armor(bonuses)!!!

I'm a poor struggling Warrior trying to work my way through Prophecies. I like using skills so I thought a nice set of Gladiator's armor would be good. I hacked and slashed my way through many a Charr to get the money and materials to make myself a good set. Not as good as those people say can be found at Droknar's Forge, but good enough for me, I'm stilll trying to get around in the Crystal Desert.

So the other morning I woke up and strode out to stretch my (very considerable) muscles putting down some monsters. They cut me down like a suckling babe. When I got back up and cleared my head, I realised the armor I had worked so hard for and paid so much for (to me at least, I'm not a big earner) was now no better than the armor I could have gotten by trading shells and bloody animal parts to those corner street peddlers! Where were all my bonuses? STOLEN!!! Ach, I am unmanned!!

A nice (rich) soul passing by kindly informed me that if I wished to have those bonuses back, I simply had to buy these Radiant rocks from that sketchy man in the trenchcoat. How much? 1.8k per piece!!! I nearly dropped my axe together with my machismo!

So now I hack my way along, dying a lot more, dreaming of my old glories. Perhaps one day I will save enough to be able to afford to restore my old virility. Perhaps the powers that be will even give them back to me, as spuriously and as nonchalently as they took them away.

Until then, I am just a sad sad Warrior.

just making the mods from non-max armor unsalvageable would have been a better choice imo .feel your pain.

Agreed with netniwk. Ah well, you're only missing out on 6 energy. It ain't all that bad. Try something cheaper. You're not going to be completely useless now, especially if you're not even wearing max armor or are anywhere near level 20. Trust me, that's a much bigger hindrance on your power than 6 energy.

Try using adrenaline skills.

...wait. So your pre-updated armor is the +energy set? Let me ask, how could you get so WEAK (as you said) without such mods?

....or you're exaggerating?

Thank you all for your suggestions and commiseration.

Alas, dear friend Cacheelma, I am that unfortunate kind of Warrior who has chosen to also be an Elementalist. Unmanned as I am, I am no longer able to top up my energy to cast a 25 energy spell or combo even while I fence with my favored Bonetti's Defense.

yea, how would having less armor make you magicly take more damage?

haveing less armor isnt much of a game breaker in the low level game areas. but really if you were having that much trouble I dont think the +7 energy would save you.

Edit: uh yea theres your problem, you shouldnt be using a 25 energy spell

Of course he is exaggerating!!!

I noticed the same thing on my Tattoo armor for my monk and necro...

I have to recraft most of the headgears for my 2 oldest character since i use collectors (It is much cheaper to get collectors in the early days of Prophecies). Not only did they lose their bonus, they are also not inscrible so i can't just add the missing insignia.

(1k gold + 1k mat + 2k radiant insignia) x 2 char x 5~6 headgear = 40~50k

Ouch!

This could be a bit off topic but I really had fun reading your thread. Innovative /agree.

Thank you dear friends IllusiveMind, evenfall, and Destinyy for your appreciation and commiseration of my manly exasperation. It is truly a sad reflection on the cynical times we live in that a manly man expressing his manly troubles is met with doubt and claims that he exaggerates. Of course, I forgive them because they are right.

Still, there is no denying that my performance, given my preferred techniques, has suffered following the recent changes in the stars. However there is naught to do but to forge on ahead, fighting back manly tears, and face death with the brave acceptance of a condemned man (who knows he will shortly be resurrected).

I shall wear my death penalty with pride! As should you, my brave brave friends!

I always do...

And for once, a thread that made me smile. Nicely done sadwarrior, and commiserations.

If you want to be an elementalist, be an elementalist.

You're saying that your previously bought armor lost its mods? Or that your newly crafted armor had no mods? Failed to check before buying or better yet read the update notes? And unless you're casting meteor left, right and center, bonetti's should be fine dunno what you're doing. Hell just stick to using adrenaline, leave casting to....casters.

fakepost spotted

If +6 energy is a dealbreaker and you are now dying left and right you are a terrible player.

The number of people on this board with no sense of humor and/or no
reading skills is astonishing.

Excellent post, sadwarrior!

Z

It was a good post actually.

Consider writing some GW stories or something.

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Get a +energy offhand or deal with it!!!


Roleplayers...

BTW, there's this little thing called warrior's endurance in the desert, cap it and use it.

Got the low-down..

They did it on all on max armor to stop people buying cheap armor and salvaging the insignias off it for a profit.. vlever IMO, but I think they should at least have left your chars armor in tact and only effected the armor still in the merchants hands...