New Armors

[RedGiant]

Are there stats anywhere for the new armors?

[Cortex]

I've sent them to Iceborn to update the wiki with, so it's a matter of time.

Edit: If you want to know about any in specific, I can shed some light for now.

[Astral]

What about all the rest of the new items? the crowns, etc

[Hunter548]

Crowns and staves are already on the wiki.

[Cortex]

A hotfix is pending on Armor of Immolation and Displacer Beast Hide Armor, when both have unlimited/day spell effects on them, they'll be good to be crafted without error. Both will have a cooldown on their uses.

[Astral]

Thanks Hunter, I must have missed that. They look juicy.

[RedGiant]

I forget, when something is only useable by: x, y, and z.
Does one have to be all of those things? Or just one?

[Hunter548]

Just one. Item requirements aren't cumulative.

[Prestige]

Is there any way that the UMD requirements could be included in the list of information for the Wiki? I understand if there's a desire to keep that FOIG, but it could be useful to people trying to discern what they can and cannot use before sinking a bunch of time and materials into an item.

[Cortex]

Draconic Armor can't be wore by anything but kobolds without meeting an UMD check of 40 (even if you're a halfling). I can't tell you the UMD reqs for the other items because they weren't set by me these two rounds, the next ones will be set clear by me.

edit: Though based on Irongron's reply before, safe to say they've a minimum of 35 DC for the most part.

[Iceborn]

Draconic Armor can't be wore by anything but kobolds without meeting an UMD check of 40 (even if you're a halfling). I can't tell you the UMD reqs for the other items because they weren't set by me these two rounds, the next ones will be set clear by me.

edit: Though based on Irongron's reply before, safe to say they've a minimum of 35 DC for the most part.

Can we have this system applied universally? Right now, all these UMD checks are very counter intuitive. Some items don't care if you are a goblin or a kobold using a Halfing Only weapon, some do.

That aside, JT went berserk and updated everything. We'll probably have to confirm the recipes once they are actually implemented, but that can be verified in due time. My biggest concern is clarifying the UMD checks to make them easy to figure.

[Cortex]

They're not my items, but maybe. I still wanna bother Peppermint to add a text to these items explicility saying that you need to be a kobold/halfling/unicorn or have X UMD to use them.

[Iceborn]

This shouldn't be about whose items they are. The UMD checks are a mechanic that should work for every 'racial' item, just for the very sake of consistency. I don't enjoy playing the very random and arbitrary roulette of "guess if this items works, and if it works, how much UMD does it need!"

In fact, I would go as far as suggesting as making tiers to round up every racial item.
All tier 1 items need 15 UMD.
All tier 2 items need 25 UMD.
All tier 3...

At least that way we know whether we want to take 5 or 65 points in UMD, for something that we may not end up using at all. We can gauge how far do we want to go, how far is it worth to us investing into the skill.

[liver and bones]

This shouldn't be about whose items they are. The UMD checks are a mechanic that should work for every 'racial' item, just for the very sake of consistency. I don't enjoy playing the very random and arbitrary roulette of "guess if this items works, and if it works, how much UMD does it need!"

In fact, I would go as far as suggesting as making tiers to round up every racial item.
All tier 1 items need 15 UMD.
All tier 2 items need 25 UMD.
All tier 3...

At least that way we know whether we want to take 5 or 65 points in UMD, for something that we may not end up using at all. We can gauge how far do we want to go, how far is it worth to us investing into the skill.

Though I'm new and generally build for RP, I have to agree, especially when the server somewhat encourages powerbuilding. It's a killer to realize you don't have enough UMD and you can't really do a relevel/remake.

[Cortex]

How does the server encourages powerbuilding? The dungeons are all do-able by sub-opt builds.

[Peppermint]

Speaking from experience, all the PvP is doable by suboptimal builds as well.

[Invader_Nym]

I don't think that he's saying that sub-optimal builds aren't do-able, so observing that they're do-able doesn't really address his point.

[Cortex]

Can't really address it without elaboration first!

[Invader_Nym]

He's saying he didn't powerbuild in maxed out UMD and he's being punished for it since all the newly introduced items have inflated UMD requirements.

[Cortex]

If such is the case, there is no real "punishment" intended. This is a shift to how certain items function, some things change, old things may become weaker, or sometimes, stronger. None of the new items will leave existing builds obsolete.

[Sab1]

Love the new armor as now there is reason to take more points in tailoring, just sad no monk class armor. Thank you to the people who put the hard work into these.

[Cerk Evermoore]

Yeah a lot of the new armor I can see myself crafting and trying for a 5% roll on.