Right now the ingredient drops of animal mobs are quite random, and oddly so (how come most rabbits I kill don't have feet?)

I'd love to see the following system:

• You kill an animal
• You skin/butcher an animal, if you have the right tool
• Your loot results are determined by your knowledge of the animal (and perhaps the quality/type of tool)
• RNG has no part!

The animal knowledge trees would thus have ingredient unlocks as well as abilities, which would make it even more interesting to get knowledge for creatures without abilities (like rabbits!).

So, at rabbit knowledge level x%, you unlock the ability to always loot a rabbit foot.

As to humanoid mobs like goblins, this system could still work, but only for ingredients that are innate to their bodies, like tongues (and not simply something they might be carrying).

@Whisper said in Enchanting table Guide - Basic Mechanics - How to:

I would say it does. If there are 5 items that can light up half the stats those are the 5 items everyone will farm for those half of the stats if they can pick from the list. The rest of the world besides those two biomes would be empty. Why go anywhere else? And even worse. The world will be over flowed with perfect gear because it would be easy to obtain/made by anyone and everyone.

That's not a problem for RNG to solve. Rather, that's a question of balancing the reagents themselves, both composition and distribution, as well as balancing what "perfect gear" actually is, such that players desire a wide variety of gear enchanted for different tasks.

RNG is a crutch that poisons games.

@Whisper said in Enchanting table Guide - Basic Mechanics - How to:

@Gothix said in Enchanting table Guide - Basic Mechanics - How to:

Excelent post!

I also hate RNG. I prefer no RNG completely if that would be possible, but if not then i at least hope RNG will be minimal.

I'm not playing gambling games. I tried ArcheAge armor upgrading. That's not for me.

I would say it is minimal. There are items that have high numbers on certain categories and super small numbers on the others. As more monsters/creatures/items enter the game we will have even more options.

I feel like the game needs the RNG a little bit. Once you got the skills and knowledge for killing a certain creature there is little to no other reason to ever touch it again. If we are allowed to choose among the choices we get then no one would ever touch the majority of creatures in the game. They would get their skills/knowledge and then farm only the very best area and pick the perfect enchant every time.

The way the system works now it would be wise to get a wide assortment of items so you can mix and match as needed. People from certain areas might even trade with people across the map for regents, and trade with people from other planets and so on. It promotes exploring the world, and trading I count that as a huge win in my book.

We'll still figure out the best recipes that remove the most RNG, and farm only those ingredients. All the RNG does is increase repetition and frustration, and waste players' time.

For me, that's a huge loss.

The enchanting system looks so good I don't think it needs to rely on RNG to provide an illusion of depth and complexity. It really is complex.

@Kralith said in Travelling is "complicated" to be mild:

It would be quite boring, if i could jump in no time a distance that would have been otherwise taken hours to travel.

I enjoy systems in which you travel once to major locations to unlock teleporters there, and then you can teleport around without having to repeat the trip. Repetition is boring!

On the other hand, I can see the appeal of feeling the "bigness" of the world through long travel.

This works better if you don't need to repeat travel too often, and it helps if there is good support for camping in the wild (Wurm Online did that well; you could set a tent as a respawn point, for instance).

@Kralith said in Enchanting table Guide - Basic Mechanics - How to:

I don't believe it will be a gamble, as it looks for me, it will be a clever combining of materials to get the best effect. And especially to get the requested effect quaranteed.

I'd much rather be able to select the enchantment I want, if multiple are highlighted.

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Login / character selection / character creation now work fine on 16:10 screens.

Hurrah!

@PedroBillyMattos said in Travelling is "complicated" to be mild:

@Roccandil what monster gives enrage?

I don't remember specifically, but it's one of the goblins in Goblin Hills (and not the shaman).

Ya, auto-run would be very nice.

At the moment, if you can unlock Enrage, it helps a lot.

I could not use some mage spells uphill, but magic missile worked very well. I also tried the converse, and found that when I was uphill, the same spells got blocked shooting downhill (so no advantage).

It seems that the PvE mobs have the advantage.

Noticed that having a shield equipped in the character screen prevented mage spells from being used, even if I switched to the mage staff and did not have the shield equipped.

Would be nice if the shield wasn't counted as equipped if you have a two-handed weapon equipped.

I didn't test this, but now I wonder if an enchanted shield provides bonuses even if you have a two-handed melee weapon equipped.