Submit your new item upgrade requests! Options

[Sikret]

To all players who are playing Improved Anvil:

Please feel free to submit your item upgrade requests and suggestions here in this thread.

Requests or suggestions of item upgrades can be of two different forms: (1) you may mention an existent item's name in the game which you want to be upgradable. (2) You can also suggest a complete upgrade recipe by mentioning a list of ingredients and the new item's description.

New item upgrades will be added to the next version of the mod with the names of people who suggested or requested them.

EDIT: Please check the document "Items.txt" (available in the "documents" folder) to make sure that the item upgrade you have in mind is not already there in the mod and that your suggested upgrade is really a *new* one. Thanks.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Aug 5 2006, 11:24 AM

[rbeverjr]

Note 1: I play a kensai protagonist and felt that getting the judgment day sword would be worth my effort for my first complete run through of Improved Anvil. It took several reloads and a lot of time, but I finally succeeded. I truly believe that this artifact weapon saved me time in the long run. I’d suggest keeping this weapon in the game. It has a nice background story and a brutal final battle to keep it. Thereafter, this sword is of tremendous value for people like me to make it through ToB.

Note 2: I would like to suggest a weapon that is useful for “weaning” off the judgment day sword. This weapon may be more powerful than other weapons, but is a lot less powerful than the judgment day sword. I’m sure a monstrous foe would guard it (or its ingredients). This weapon would be for fighters only and would provide them with their own defensive magic. I like flails for my dwarven kensai hero and would like to pair it with the flail of ages. So:

+5 Flail of Defense

Does 1D6+5 damage and +1 acid damage

Heals wielder for 5 points with each successful hit (something like vampiric regeneration)

Acts as a ring of regeneration. (As I understand, it regeneration rates typically don’t stack under the game engine, and this regeneration should not stack with other regeneration items or spells.)

10-25%??? chance on each hit of doing one of the following:
Protection from Magical Energy
Mirror Image
Stone Skin
Hardiness (Like the Wish spell, this Hardiness will stack with the HLA, but it will not stack with itself. Furthermore, the duration will only be 4 rounds. Alternatively, you could just use Protection from Magic Weapons, but I consider that spell to be more powerful.)

Restricted to use by straight fighters (any kit) of any alignment.

Thus, Absolute Immunity or Protection from Magic Weapons on the target renders this weapon almost useless. As you can see, it is far less powerful than the judgment day sword. It is also less powerful as an offensive weapon than the flail of defending and wounding. In fact, the flail of defending and wounding is probably more powerful, but I think Sikret is limiting that to straight rangers.

Note 3: I am using Keldorn who is dual wielding The Truth and Belm. I think that Sikret will make this impossible in the next version. I wish it wasn’t so because you often find paladins fighting demons and devils. The cavaliers, in particular, should love this weapon. So, I request that both paladins and fighters be allowed to use this weapon.

This post has been edited by rbeverjr: Jun 17 2007, 02:14 PM