Jul 01, 2022 - New System . . Battle Wands

[Amairgen]

Today Mages just got some 'love' with a new system known as 'Battle Wands'.

This system comes to us on a suggestion from Alazar who also provided the base scripts involved. We had fun working on this package to make it fit into our environment but tried hard not to distort the original concept. Hopefully it will be enjoyed and not be overly uber. *playing with it will tell*

So . . . :

1) The realm now has a new NPC vendor by the name of 'Warothar the wand wizard'. You can find him in the Britain King's castle on Trammel. He will sell the items you need to make the Battle Wands but his prices are a bit high. If you want to save a bunch of your gold . . the main resource (a 'Rare Crystal') has a chance to drop on some of the creatures in the 'Prism of Light' dungeon as well as on some in the 'Crystal Palace' dungeon.

2) You will need a 'Wand Crafting Book' to get the wand crafting menu as well as a 'Wand Broaching Machine' for your home which is the craft control item for the system. Both of these are sold by the vendor 'Warothar'.

3) There are many wands in the menu list and for the most part you will need ingots and gems as well as the Magery skill to craft them. The better wands will require you to obtain Champion Skulls which drop on our Champs as well as on several quest bosses. The very best wands will require you to combine a good wand with a 'Rare Crystal'.

4) These Battle Wands make a solid weapon for mages (perhaps others) to use in a fight and can be Spellcrafted (or Disenchanted) to tailor them even more to your purpose.

*Many thanks to Alazar for this major contribution to our community*

We hope you have fun with this system and find it a fit with your play style. Oh and . . Happy Canada Day!

Cheers

[Tauriel]

This sounds interesting. Thanks for all the work involved to bring this to us!


Btw, where is the Crystal Palace dungeon?

[Amairgen]

The Crystal Palace holds the endo of a Quest that everyone can get by talking to the Quest giver in The Night's Watch guild area. You can get there through a sinkhole inside the little Igloo on the North end of Ice Island Trammel.

[drusilla]

Jul 1, 2022 23:17:06 GMT -8 Amairgen said:

The Crystal Palace holds the endo of a Quest that everyone can get by talking to the Quest giver in The Night's Watch guild area. You can get there through a sinkhole inside the little Igloo on the North end of Ice Island Trammel.

Serena and I did what was necessary to run up and briefly test some of these wands last night.  My impressions:

1.  Given that visually, they are swords rather than wands, "Magic Sword" might be a more appropriate title for them.

2.  They burn durability very fast.  How do you repair them?  Who does repairs???  

3.  Attempting to put a champ skull (the "Skull of Greed") in a Greater wand didn't work.  It told me that the champ skull wasn't, basically.

4.  Firing a top level wand (Mondain with a Rare Crystal installed) produced what appears to be a stream of "UNDEFINED"    Something from the 7.31.0 client animations?

5.  Good weapons, otherwise.  Produce peak damage levels equal to my fully revved up Dryad Bow, but one-handed weapon with a faster firing rate. Thanks much!!

[Amairgen]

Jul 2, 2022 4:28:39 GMT -8 drusilla said:

Serena and I did what was necessary to run up and briefly test some of these wands last night.  My impressions:

1.  Given that visually, they are swords rather than wands, "Magic Sword" might be a more appropriate title for them.

2.  They burn durability very fast.  How do you repair them?  Who does repairs???  

3.  Attempting to put a champ skull (the "Skull of Greed") in a Greater wand didn't work.  It told me that the champ skull wasn't, basically.

4.  Firing a top level wand (Mondain with a Rare Crystal installed) produced what appears to be a stream of "UNDEFINED"    Something from the 7.31.0 client animations?

5.  Good weapons, otherwise.  Produce peak damage levels equal to my fully revved up Dryad Bow, but one-handed weapon with a faster firing rate. Thanks much!!

Okay:

1) I agree and will be changing the ItemID to a wooden Wand and will be changing some of the materials needed from Ingots to Boards.
2) You can Spellcraft 'Self Repair' onto the Wands so Durability should not be a problem.
3) When crafting the Wands you need to use the Champ Skull 'specific' to that wand . . not just 'any' skull.
4) Thank you . . the weird effect is a bug created because the scripts came in from a shard using diffenent .MUL files than we use. I will fix that.
5) Play with it some more and get it Spellcrafted . . they can become 'so much' more when tweaked with Spellcrafting.

Thank you for the testing and feed back.

Cheers

[Amairgen]

Okay . .

The Battle Wand scripts have been edited and are 'live' on the server:
1) The Wands now have the appearance of a small wooden wand rather than looking like swords
2) The crafting menu now requires boards instead of ingots to craft the wands.
3) The wand 'Effects' when fighting with them has been completely redone and should match the type of wand (no more odd effects)

Let us know if you find any other oddities and also (please) let us know if they are too powerful.

Cheers

[Bran]

This sounds real interesting. look forward to check it out.

[drusilla]

Jul 2, 2022 23:40:05 GMT -8 Amairgen said:

Okay . .

The Battle Wand scripts have been edited and are 'live' on the server:
1) The Wands now have the appearance of a small wooden wand rather than looking like swords
2) The crafting menu now requires boards instead of ingots to craft the wands.
3) The wand 'Effects' when fighting with them has been completely redone and should match the type of wand (no more odd effects)

Let us know if you find any other oddities and also (please) let us know if they are too powerful.

Cheers

They aren't.  I have two of the most powerful, and using them instead of my bow got me killed twice while hunting for crystals.  I'm back to my bow in those environments. These weapons are nice for rapid-fire clearing of mid-level critters, but they are not a world-beater against serious monsters.  People trying them out, take that as a warning.

[Bran]

Have to agree with drusilla. So far havn't found my new wand overpowered but then i'm a mage tamer not a toe-toe guy. Will say they seem nice to hold after some spellcrafting and pitch in helping my pet do battle. Maybe some tank mages out there who actually go toe-toe will have a better opinion.

[Amairgen]

The 'mass storage' box for Special Resources will now accept the 'Rare Crystal' needed to awaken the new Battle Wands.