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Frosted Flake said:
Zen those changes seem great to me! It makes sense (to me) that any item that is considered automatic, and wraith swords are, needs nerfing. It happened with elemental armor (what else would you put a neifel in!)and should happen to the rest of their standard equipment ...flying booties,luck pendent, and wraith sword. People will still make wriath swords and the rest..but not for every tom,dick and harry.
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I don't know if I'd change the Luck Pendant, yes it's a very useful item, but it also chews up one of the all important misc slots.
I know very well the "Always a wraith sword" problem, because I'm a pretty good perpetuator (most who play games with me will tell you I always have Death in some form). While I don't always put a wraith sword on everything, I do always put it on something that is worth anything as a 'general' item. Meaning if I don't know for sure I'm fighting X I will keep a wraith sword/blood thorn on them. Most SC counters rely on undead or lifeless units because of this and it adds an air of predicitibility to whatever you are fighting. So, in essence it is not particularly overpowered, but useful to any/everything and, IMO detracts from alot of the flavor the game has to offer.
The only other option is to completely remove the Life Draining weapons, but that doesn't seem right either, though that may just be my overdependancy on variable strategy (with Turmoil or if you get hammered by bad luck, you are required to shift moementum and sometimes using wraith sword combatants is your only option because of the nature of the game).
That being said, I don't, in fact, the costs I have diagramed would shift the dependancy on the items but would shift it to only certain items. I'm still fairly certain every Air Queen, Ice Devil, Arch Devil, Demon Lord, Earth King, will be equipped with a life draining weapon, but it will stop people from equipping their Golems, Bane Lords, Firbolgs, Wraith Lords, Niefel Jarls, etc.