Earrings of Sinope

Rangor

All my earrings are now with tha ladies. I love each one of them almost equally. @ravien a tad more than the rest of course, otherwise she'd kill Rangor.

Sothantos

All of my earrings are with men, if you exclude Silas's.

Kyrra

@Rangor, didn't know Meph was a girl.

Rangor

Kyrra said:

@Rangor, didn't know Meph was a girl.

I don't have earrings with Meph

Jarrod

Yeah @Kyrra, those looks of true love are something else entirely.

Kaevan

Nellaundra said:

I can already tell that this is going to be flamed the hell away, but worth a shot.  As it is, earrings are the most abused artefact in the game aside from -maybe- veils.  Just make it so someone can only have -one- EoS instead of the half dozen that they do now.  Honestly.

<Insert Dunn's earring list here>

Honestly.  This is just bloody ridiculous and excessive.  It essentially guarantees that they can't be fought unless they want to, and they can attack with impunity so long as they're smart and have a single other person online.

I am of the opinion that earrings are operating more or less exactly as they are supposed to - they go on your ears. That said, there are several other classes that more or less cannot be fought unless they want to stand their ground.  - Serpents can and will run and slip out of most things until they find a wormhole. 
- Plenty of individuals have wings where the only restriction to escape is being outdoors. 
- Runelorists have a renewable "Get out of troublesome situations quick" card that functions unless there is a monolith sigil at either location. 
- Necromancers can use blackwind to get away. 
- Devotionists have/had deliverance, but I admit I don't know how quickly that works any longer or its restrictions. 
- Jesters can use tarot cards (Hermit) to get away or a puppet, both of which have light restrictions. 
- Occultists can use tarot cards, astralform, pathfinder (unless how that works was changed), etc. 

Everyone else has legs.  If they don't want to fight at a disadvantage and are capable of curing themselves enough to keep on moving they'll probably get away.  Earrings generally don't allow someone to attack with impunity, either.  Most classes, simply by attacking, open themselves up to retribution.  The ones that don't immediately open themselves up to injury are the ones with abilities that can be used throughout the area - so they didn't really need earrings to engage you that way to begin with. 

Earrings are sort of balanced by the fact that they don't work at all and only serve to make your character look prettier if the other half of the earring pair isn't online (or happens to be incapacitated, dead, or they took the earring off).  Can you negate this?  Sure, purchase multiple pairs of earrings like people have been doing.  It'll cost you, but you're paying for the privilege.  That's more or less what artefacts do, right? 

Katzchen

Okay, having finally gotten a pair of earrings myself (with someone it makes RP sense for) and seeing the first person message, I have to laugh at the combatants who get them just for combat. That's worse than the third person one.

Sylvance

Katzchen said:

Okay, having finally gotten a pair of earrings myself (with someone it makes RP sense for) and seeing the first person message, I have to laugh at the combatants who get them just for combat. That's worse than the third person one.

What is it?

Katzchen

Sylvance said:

Katzchen said:

Okay, having finally gotten a pair of earrings myself (with someone it makes RP sense for) and seeing the first person message, I have to laugh at the combatants who get them just for combat. That's worse than the third person one.

What is it?

You think of your true love, <Name>, and travel to him.

Xenomorph

Anyway earrings are a replica of a puppet/doll skill that can be used by classes that are able to do more in a hit-and-run burst than those classes are actually able to do.

As a jester, I find it very convenient to be able to travel to friends via puppet travel, and with my class change on the horizon, I felt tempted to get earrings to reach my significant other just the same, but they're beyond being worth my investment for that, when a sonicportal or use of my vibrating stick will work.

It is bothersome to see people with 3, 6, 8, or more earring pairs just for raid use. Not that I can justify why it bugs me, but maybe as it's a 2-person artefact (cost probably split between 2 people), maybe the cost should actually be bumped up to 1600? Or remove the artefact, or require the users to be married or have a married discount, I don't know.

Profitable as Earrings are, they have their irksome qualities for the player base.

So long as people are paying cash money to keep the time honored Achaean tradition of polygamist homosexuality, anyone's complaints get shoved in the trash can, right next to last week's dignity. The real question is, if Dunn gets pissed off at these people, how do they all fit on the couch

Dunn

Wrap around couches in my crib, Xeno.

Sylvance

Dunn said:

Wrap around cooches in my crib, Xeno.

>_>