Shattered Kingdoms

Thren, I can think of a few griffon / sprite scouts who would happily disembowel you for even thinking that.

Actually, I don't. My scout has innate fly, but still takes less PE drain when walking or flying. I do not know why this is- it may have something to with pathfinding- but it's very aggravating and difficult to understand.

If I wanted to see a new herb somewhere creative, I'd want to see it in reefs. If I wanted to see a new herb somewhere not so creative, I'd want to see it in heavy forests. It would sort of make sense, as we are.. foresty.. but at the moment, the only things I really care about from there are my beloved change sex berries. (Delicious!)

I don't mind not having cure blindness, but I have to complain that gathering herbs has begun to lack creativity. It's just spamming move around 5 different sorts of wilderness, and then I'm done. It might add a bit of oomph to an otherwise narrow, one-minded process if our dear imms (Hi, Ain!) could add herbs that have interesting but not universally coveted effects, or do the same thing as other herbs, but do it a bit better, despite being in a harder-to-access location.

On the several characters I have played, I never managed to get the cure poison and disease herbs to work for me on high level characters. I am not talking about a failure rate of 20-30%, I am talking about it being up to 100%. That makes those herbs quite useless. If you want to add herbs to cure deafness, you might also want to consider adding herbs of resizing. Yes, there are some store bought ones. No, they're never there.

I agree that there should be a way to disable herbalism, or make it possible to target a particular herb to look for. This might take longer, but it'd make things significantly less annoying. In fact, I'd argue that if this is implemented, the chance of finding herbs should be lowered a little bit. It's not even a buff (or nerf), just a question of making the game much smoother to play.

Someone suggested the 'feed' command in another thread. I think this is a quite brilliant idea. Unless you've a scout in a tribunal or are permanently walking around with a healer, there is no way for a scout to have his/her pet cured of ailments. Give NPCs with the 'charmed' flag the ability to be fed but make sure to only restrict it to herbs.

I can usually cure a decent poison after feeding a fistful of herbs. It's mildly inconvenient, sure, but it's never really been a problem for me. I get enough cure herbs for all my poisonous and diseased needs as a mere byproduct of more important herb gathering.

On my last two scouts, I never had a problem with curing poison. Not once. You really just have to be smart about things, I think. Also, I'd say no on making the chance of finding herbs lower. With the recent hit to skin, the last thing scouts need is MORE down time while procuring crap that they need.

I think they(whoever said it) meant just reduce the chance of finding worthless herbs. Honestly, I'd say just add some sort of like massive auto toggle for only scouts. Once you find an herb for the first time you can toggle on and off whether you want to pick it up or not.

If you're referring to it taking more PE to fly with the fly command, rather than flying via the fly spell, it's always been like this AFAIK, and it makes sense, it should take a griffon/sprite more energy to fly with his wings, than to just float along with some spell.

Both interesting suggestions, IMO.



And this is one of many other possible ways the latter idea might be structured.

Add a mortar and pestel tool in the game, and maybe make it a skill special to scouts and perhaps shamans as well. The tool would be used to blend certain herbs together to create an herb paste/mix which, when consumed, will have a different effect.

For instance, a protection herb and a bless herb might offer that one NPC spell 'prayer' or something.

Limitations could be that the paste has a limited time to be consumed before it goes rotten and decays.

Perhaps it's a little far-fetched or just too complicated for our system, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

Sorry Syn, I can't string a lexic sentence together. What I meant to say, in so many jumbled thoughts, is that it costs me less PE to move around the wilderness on my feet, than it costs me PE to move around the wilderness with innate fly.