Shifted Crapma Eq

[jezer]

Funny you mention making a new char, I'd probably make a bard next for fun, they are even worse off, heh.

[Weasel]

Thief primes have heaps of drachma eq available - lots of clasps too, and for double slots too (like ring claps)... gee I wonder why that is...
Not to mention they're arguably the best prime class in the game anyway.
Would love to see all the other classes have even close to an equivalent amount of options available.

[Ezekiel]

I agree with Strider. Suck it up and stop whining. Aww..you can't get -12 shifted easily..i feel so sorry for you, considering no other class other than warrior prime SHOULD be able to get -12 as intended, hence heavy armor proficiency. Awww...25/100 is something you wish was easier to achieve...even though it is not achievable by any other class. No other class can have so many attacks with so much damage with so little effort for eq and stats, which would be minimal effort for the eq and no effort for stats...easy ass forges like band of ether for regen...and those terrifying highlands mobs that pop twisted thorn necklace and clasp oh my...you really have to work hard toward ac. Ever thought that maybe you were limited BECAUSE YOU WERE POWERFUL ENOUGH ALREADY? Most shifters have a nightmare stopping mob regen to accompany their good number of 25/100 strength attacks... and some can even berserk to take a hit in ac and do ridiculous damage or let gods of war carry over for a good while before ending while in battle. You don't have to roll stats to affect your primary fight style and minimal eq is required. Suck it up and take regen eq or take eq for a secondary fight style...if there's nothing available for you, deal with it. Maybe the imms should reduce the shift ac and actually make you work for things like -11 through drachma in form...just the way mages with warrior in classo spend their drachma for -11 in max spellbonus. Maybe, since you're overpowered and still complaining, nerfs are the only way for them to give you the sufficient amount of drachma eq you'd like.

-Ezekiel

[Medios]

I agree with most of what Eze has to say. However Druids do not hit the hardest. They may be able to get 7 attacks with haste, but I will put Dogs or a good Warriors damage up against piasa all day.

[Ezekiel]

shrug...was awfully funny..i remember some of the wa types having to double and triple team rynquald shifted when they had that deathmatch on different port before...can't rember who it was...don't know if any were DoW.

[Rynquald]

At one point piasa would probably have outdone the damage of most warrior type chars. But these days I'd probably bet on the (well made) warrior, buying weapondam helps a lot, or handdam for the monk route.

Also, no offence to jezer, but getting 25/100 str without sacrificing anything is ridiculously easy. I already wear enough eq to have 26/100 (if it was possible), and off the top of my head I can think of how to get 28/100 without loosing -12.

To semi-paraphrase Zeke, and I think restate something I said earlier, can't be bothered looking though: It's almost impossible to give druids better shift eq without entering overpower territory, shift forms come with most of the things that you have to work hard for eq to get for a non-shifting char.

To be completely honest, I've been expecting to see shifting nerfed in some way for a long time. Probably not actually to make it weaker, but to make it harder to gain the full capability. And that's from the viewpoint of someone who has build a char around shifting.

[Yinao]

Shrug my Piasa, chopped down Sa without using any other attacks aside from Melee and sa's capped Weapondam beyond other warriors that I know of...

[Rynquald]

Well yeah, my piasa eats Sa too

[jezer]

Ah yes, more rants from people who wished they had avatar druids... whine whine whine... I'm crunchy rar rar rar. You got it good... wish I was like you... boo hoo hoo.

Your right! Now shut up!

Getting back to my point... which coincidently was NOT about the following...

BARD SHORTAGE OF DRACHMA EQ
AVATAR DRUID SHIFT FORMS BEING AWESOME
MAKING NEW CHARACTERS
DRUID OVER-POWEREDNESS

My point was we have 5 crap items in the elite eq shop, and why the heck should we bother doing quests for crap rewards. That's the only flaming point I made, and look at all you bitter and twisted people.

[Ezekiel]

Yes...we're all so jealous of you, we have nothing to complain about because we actually know how to maximize our chars with or without most drachma eq...there was a time the weaver store didn't exist and quest eq was only given from imm run quests and weeklies. Mobs were harder and often took many more people to kill and people were killing them fine with no drachma eq and no complaining. Wake up...you're a newb the more you complain because you obviously can't utilize your character correctly.

-Ezekiel

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[angel]

3attack +riposte vs 2k+ hps 6attack piasa... wait till i get my 2k hps! yinao, rynquald )

[strider]

I've been out of town so i'm sorry this is a little slow.

Really Weasel, really. Thieves have the best assortment of drachma eq?
There is one good item in shop for thieves, one average item and the rest are crap. Razors are the only thing that you can justify buying. And even those are scetchy for the price. 2200 drachma for an extra 18 dmg to your stabs. Pretty big price. the clasps you spoke of are a joke. as is the dagger which is at an outrageous price. i bet more non thieves have the cloak than thieves did that's how much it rocks. the gauntlets of mastery are pretty decent for the price but most will keep the +hit from other gaunts. and that's about it. Thieves don't get the longest shaft, but we are far from being the best equipped from the shop.

Back to druids. Jezer it's easy to sit there and dismiss everyone else and claim injustice. But you really haven't been around long enough to see the whole picture and only have your biased view as a druid. You don't even have a Tard druid yet, course you're still to newb to realize "Tard" means lvl 40 avatar. I'm sure you play your shifted druid well but there is a lot more to take into consideration when you start throwin out demands for new eq. Just sit back and let the powers that be do what they do. they've been doin a pretty damn good job at it for the past 15+ years. ya ask once to get your opinion out there, they see it, you keep pestering and pretty soon bad things happen man. bad things.

[Weasel]

There looked to be a pretty good assortment to me anyway Strider, which is why I now have a couple of Thief prime newbie characters. Those razors are pretty expensive though, as you said, but nice. What I like too is that there seems to be so many options to chose from for Thief drachma eq, even if, as you said, much of it is just average. Clasps are always going to be good imho no matter how minimal you might consider them, because you don't have to sacrifice existing eq to wear them. Major bonus imho.

[jezer]

I'm [b:1eif4hat]nearly[/b:1eif4hat] at the end of my drachma campaign. I've bought the shield of the rose, and I'm 30dr away from boots of the forest walker. I also have a few of the bigger quests near completed which will see me being able to get the final 3rd piece, cloak of the tainted rose.

So now that the journey is not to far from finished... I'd have to say doing the quests would have been some of the [b:1eif4hat]best fun[/b:1eif4hat] I've ever had on sloth. I still reckon drachma eq should be a little more elite than it is... for example even though my regen has increased... my max mana while in regen has actually dropped to wear these regen pieces. But anyways, I guess I'm stuck with wearing the same crap as everyone else. Any drachma I get in the future will probably be spent on max mana pieces.

I reckon it would be cool to see some sort of dynamic questing in the game that you could redo, even if it's only occasionally for drachma, I liked relocating everywhere and the thrill and the hunting aspects a lot. Maybe the weaver could give a random shopping list of in game items, or predefined lists for certain rewards.

Far more fun that boring low pop eq forges and mindless xp... which I start next I'll be interested in iolite/infernite/demon mage cp's if people have any to sell... but figure I'm dreaming, and I don't mind to much working to get them myself as with all my other gear.