Shattered Kingdoms

I'm looking for numbers here. How much time?

I do it whenever I have nothing else to do in the game. I don't go sit and say OMFG I HAVE TO ENCHANT A WHOLE SUIT RIGHT NOWWWWW!!!!!!

You do a piece or two at a time. And try to avoid getting yourself rocked while you're NOT READY TO PK.

My character has been carrying a feet piece of eq around for almost week, that I just haven't gotten around to enchanting to my liking yet. If I get bored, I'll go sit in the area for a repop or two and try my luck.

I'm going to have to agree with Syn on this one. Enchanting is time consuming, but it's not hard to accomplish a very nice kit with relative ease. Syn has seen most of my eq and can testify to the fact that by any standard it would be considered "sick" in terms of enchants. All you need to do is find a piece that has a +greater enhancement to a desireable property and spend some time enchanting it.

All in all, it's taken me on average about 30 minutes per piece to get a +8 piece w/ no MR. Has there been some pieces that took MUCH longer than others? Yes, but how can anyone consider it "fair" that someone can spend 10 to 20 minutes enchanting and get a good kit? If you want the sick enchants you should have to spend time on it.

Now if you want to talk about time consuming, ask DA how long it takes HIM to enchant his kits. I'd be willing to bet he has 10 to 12 enchants per piece on his gnomes gear, and it took him 2 or 3 hours per piece.

Still no numbers here. How many hours, seriously, for an enchanted suit?

When did you become a colossal idiot? Forgive me for not sitting around with a stopwatch while I enchant.

When did you start thinking it enjoyable to sit around with your thumb up your butt playing poker with yourself, then wondering why no one else enjoys it?

It might have something to do with the fact that I'm NOT a colossal idiot, and I usually enchant AROUND other people, or I'm chatting with someone via tells/cb while I do it.


Sitting in an area by yourself exploding/waiting for repops is boring beyond belief. I don't do that.

Want to have some semblance of fun while enchanting? Go buy bracelets from Nerina. Use eq that isn't ZOMFG ELITE so you can get 4-5(like...Encampment mithril) of the same piece and try your luck while sitting in an inn with other people.

This is the main point I'm driving at, which is why PvP is completely dead since the onset of charm person scrolls being overused lately. 30 minutes on average per piece for 13 pieces equates to SIX AND A HALF HOURS FOR A SUIT.

Let's lower that, though, to say... 15 minutes on average per piece. That's still over three freaking hours just to enchant a suit with "mediocre" stats, something that can be lost in a fight which lasts less than a minute, or a charm scroll that is recited at you instantly.

Sitting and going ZOMG MUST GET SUIT DONE IMMEDIATELY!!!! is probably what spawned this thread. How is this any different from leveling? You don't have to INSTANTLY go from naked to INVINCIBLE WARRIOR!!!!!! God damn. Enchant a couple pieces, then do something else.

Hell, my suit could have 500 enchants, and I could still lose it to a single backstab, a round of combat, a cleave.

I guess I just don't think that it should be that easy. It should be time consuming to get proper enchants, otherwise where is the vested interest in it?