Hi everyone!
I wanted to show you a small preview of whats coming along side other stuff in the next beta build update.
First of, lets tell how the system for legendary item drops works so far. Legendary items drops are random but weighted somewhat toward the class you are playing. This has a few consequences I personally don't like:
- The weighting feels "gamey" (is that a word?:P) to some extend.
- If for some reason you want an item not tailored for your class you will have a hard time acquiring it. Maybe you want to play some kind of battle mage for example.
- It forces me to balance between awesome feeling of getting a legendary and its rareness. If they are to common they loose appeal, if they are too rare when you get one it might be very off the one you really wanted.
So after thinking for some time I came up with an interesting system/concept: Ancient runes & Altars.
Now when you adventure you will be able to get Legendaries the regular way but totally random and with a little smaller drop chance. At the same time you will be able to get Ancient Runes at a higher drop rate:
Then, when you collect 3 Ancient Runes you need to find an Ancient Altar of Power! These altars can spawn randomly in any dungeon and come in three flavors:
AncientAltarOfTheArcane(Color will change to blue):
AncientAltarOfTheWarrior:
AncientAltarOfTheNimble(Color will change to yellow):
As you might have guessed each type of altar will correspond to a set of Legendaries.
Once in the altar you can offer 3 runes in exchange for a legendary of the Altar's type:
Once you have the 3 runes and do the offer, you will be able to obtain 1 legendary out of 3 choices:
As a bonus at any altar you can sacrifice 1 legendary for 1 rune. This enables you to at least get something back if you had a legendary you didn't like drop the usual way.
This will be released in the beta build during the week (the UI for it is taking more time than what I anticipated).
I hope you like what you see, and please let me know your thoughts!
Cheers and happy crawling!
GW