Shattered Kingdoms

Slightly off subject...

but where weapons and armor come in, I would REALLY love to see weapons and armor not be able to be faded of their alignment restrictions. Well duh, there is a reason people of a certain alignment can't touch it and the zap should do actual damage to them.

Some weapons are just soooo holy (archangel) or unholy (I don't know here) that they should hurt the opposite aura a bit for touching them and a greybie to a minor degree.

Otherwise it ruins some of the atmosphere of the game. Not just that, but it would force people to find different weapons instead of just killing each other for the same things over and over and over again.

Uhh..Johnix, it technically already IS uploaded, I mean, since it's stored "online", so to speak. Anyone can view it here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key= ... sbCQ&hl=en

I updated it with rankings, and added some input in the comments.

Hey, I think with this..if it gets done..merks should be able to respec in things, being its going to make half of them [REDACTED] as hell.

Alot of people rated Katana over the "reasonable" mark thus nominating it for a nerf... Why? And as much as it might sound as it, I don't have a merc specced in katana or anything, nor does anyone else I think. Just wondering why you guys rated it as such...

I was thinking of the exact same thing. Perhaps its a matter of availability...

Katana sux ;o

As one of the first people to take a long look at the weapon types, and forge the specialize list with my good friend, I can say with full confidence that flamberge, and hunting spear are the two most imbalanced weapons and could use a nerf. That spread sheet is full of noobs finally started to figure out what I had figured out the same week the subtype change happened. I'm surprised flamberge didn't get a higher rating yb everyone though, considering its hands down the best weapon in the right hands. Its been tested, a hasted gm merc with enchanted flamberge will absolutely annihilate anyone. Also pitchforks got a higher rating than hunting spear, which just goes to show how little the pbase knows about weapons. So, ignore the rating people give on that spread sheet. Most people aren't even looking at the numbers when they make their rating, they just go down the list and say.... " yeah, I once saw a log of someone owning with this.... 8"

No one handed weapon should have got a rating over 5, even Khopesh, since 1 handed weapons are such trash.

The sheet is supposed to rank the weapon's usefulness. Having a high usefulness will not necessarily make me nerf the weapon. Certain weapon types are more limited than others, which allows them to be innately more useful. Also, some weapon types really should just be inferior to others.

Although the more I think about it, maybe we shouldn't be ranking it based on "usefulness". It should be about whether you think the weapon is as good as it "should" be according to your vision for that weapon type.