Greetings.
Most of the ingame robes were created in S3 or earlier, some were created in S4, together with quest ones. In all these years, the max capacity for robes remained around 499 with a few exceptions and outliers.
Since then the immortals have not only added much more items to the game, but doubled the amount of classes we use.
With classes came stats we use (
except charisma), while some classes, such as clerics, require two stats: heal and sys shock or warriors, ac and weapon damage.
With eqset (an awesome addition and one of our main features), the number of items you can easily swap has also increased, so you can create a set of 1 item and benefit from it situationally.
In about S4 the immorts have recognized the amount of increased items we use, and have doubled the maximum amount of rent items from 75 to 150 and have increased/added (I'm fuzzy on this) to the 175 carried items.
Yet, they hadn't increased the robe capacity to carry all those items, even though they stopped adding 125 and 325 maxweight robes.
I suggest doubling all robe capacities to account for the increased classes and the number of sets.
Example:
I have these modes:
- ac (full set)
- mana regen (full set)
- max mana (all but a few items are interchangeable)
- weapon damage (a few wd items + several dam items)
- stab mode (dam items mostly)
- hand dam (full hd + a few dam items)
- raise set
- uc set (fullish)
- a coliseum set (stab, -saves)
A few sets with only a few items:
- the acid immune clasp
- the lightning resist sleeves
- 2 unique charisma items for hymn of an artisan/eye of the beholder
- saves vs para
- 4 +hit items for chop
With all this garderobe that I use daily (except those with the few items), I hardly have space for stuff I pop. Whenever I pop more, than a few items, I have to vault or ship them away.
If I pop a few heavy items and put them in my robe, then my main eqset container can't fit in my robe. Right now, I've hit the point, when I have no extra items and my ac robe already can't fit into the main eqset container with all the gear I have.
Another thing is, If I want to rent immediately after a day of cycling or leading groups, I'm out of my luck, because I have to spend at least a few minutes dropping/junking/vaulting/shipping stuff. This is getting exhausting and annoying. I have chosen to cut link instead of renting a few times and this is getting silly, even though I did learn to immediately junk/sell unnecessary items.
Back in S3, I had the exhilarating freedom of putting all my pops in my robe and forgetting about them, until the innkeeper reminded me through rent fees. Even though keeping the inv clean is a good habit, an obligation to clean your robe up b4 renting is a chore.
So, I suggest doubling the capacity of all robes, including quest/drachma and forge ones.
If someone wants to make my (or any avatar's) day, adding 25 items to max rent/carried would be greatly appreciated, because what use are big robes without an ability to carry more items. In fact, I could easily accept 50 more items to carry and rent, because carrying the 10-15+ choppers and some pops in the group often makes me laden and unable to loot, as the group leader.
Thank you.