Talisman of Binding

Aelios

We still need to find a way to balance this.

https://ada-young.appspot.com/pastebin/d50fc699

Earrings make Achaean combat 100% avoidable if you buy enough of em.

Dunn

Halos didn't lay piety sooooo... Nemu could have just as easily winged/raido'd out too.

Someone's salty.

Look at dat dwinnu.

Grandue

ANNOUNCE NEWS #4200                                    (08/29/2014 at 05:59)  

From   : Tecton, the Terraformer

To     : Everyone

Subject: New Artefacts

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Merentesh has just received a shipment of fresh new artefacts! Head to Delos for your chance to pick up one or more of the following:

Talisman of Binding - 1000cr

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This talisman invests the power to lay a powerful room effect, preventing most forms of magical transport out of the room that is enacted in. This item's power is finite, with every 10 seconds of effect costing 5% of its charge. When it is depleted, you'll have to wait for it to recharge. You can check the item's charge level at any time by probing it.

Syntax for use: BECOME DOUCEBAG FOR <x> SECONDS|MINUTES

Fetish of Freedom - 1000cr

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Break through the binding power of the Talisman of Binding with this fetish.  This item's power is finite, with every 10 seconds of effect costing 5% of its charge. When it is depleted, you'll have to wait for it to recharge. You can check the item's charge level at any time by probing it.

Syntax for use: BALANCE ACHAEA FOR <x> SECONDS|MINUTES

Talisman of Re-Binding - 2500cr

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This upgraded version of the talisman supercharges the room effect preventing magical transport out of the room it is enacted in, preventing even those with a Fetish of Freedom from escaping.  This item's power is finite, with every 10 seconds of effect costing 5% of its charge. When it is depleted, you'll have to wait for it to recharge. You can check the item's charge level at any time by probing it.

Syntax for use: MORPH BONKO FOR <x> SECONDS|MINUTES

Fetish of Liberation - 2500cr

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No longer be bound by the binding effect of the Talisman of Re-Binding with this upgraded version of the fetish.   This item's power is finite, with every 10 seconds of effect costing 5% of its charge. When it is depleted, you'll have to wait for it to recharge. You can check the item's charge level at any time by probing it.

Syntax for use: FUND ADMIN VACATIONS FOR <x> SECONDS|MINUTES

Talisman of Ultimate Re-Binding - 4000cr

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Demand your foes to take out student loans to use the abilities and artefacts they've previously taken out loans to use. This Talisman cancels out the movement granted by the Fetish of Liberation.  This item's power is finite, with every 10 seconds of effect costing 5% of its charge. When it is depleted, you'll have to wait for it to recharge. You can check the item's charge level at any time by probing it.

Syntax for use: HATE SELF FOR <x> SECONDS|MINUTES

Fetish of Discharge - 4000cr

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Render the doucebaggery of your foes harmless as you earring in and out of the room, much to their rage tears. This artefact nullifies the effect that the Talisman of Ultimate Re-Binding would normally have on you.   This item's power is finite, with every 10 seconds of effect costing 5% of its charge. When it is depleted, you'll have to wait for it to recharge. You can check the item's charge level at any time by probing it.

Syntax for use: CRY SOFTLY FOR <x> SECONDS|MINUTES

Cooper

You had me going until talisman of re-binding. Ugh.

Xith

Strata said:

If i wasn't a pro-serpent extremist, I would have never bought a veil. Veil and gem of cloaking makes the whole "invisible serpent" concept complete. Plenty of non-veiled players are way more successful infiltrators than me anyway (probably because I rarely ever do infiltration/theft type things). I don't mind that people don't like veils - except for @Nim cuz she annoying about it.

And to make sure this doesn't get closed, the only thing I'm going to say in this thread is: The loudest anti-veil proponents are the same ones who will just find another object to whine about as soon as veils are gone - and those peasants' flames shall be snuffed out at all costs.

I've said a couple times on this subject that veils should be deleted and just given as a temporary active for serps, like cloak/ghost (but briefer). I think total invisibility makes more sense for serpents than anyone else.

But on the subject of this talisman, I'm not sure any specific class needs it (except maybe Alch, fits in theme with ether disrupt). I was super excited to buy one before I found out they were deleted, but then I remembered how important hermit/universe were when I was an irritating jester. If it's ever put back in, don't let it block Hermit, cause that's already a tricky skill to manage.

Ernam

@Grandue, that's one of the funniest posts I've ever seen.

I wish what you were doing was sarcasm, but here I am with my 99.8% useless mask of lifevision and talisman of obfuscation.

Kross

Ernam said:

@Grandue, that's one of the funniest posts I've ever seen.

I wish what you were doing was sarcasm, but here I am with my 99.8% useless mask of lifevision and talisman of obfuscation.

Considering I got a Mask of Lifevision to see hidden people, mine is 100% effective and useful. Not to mention, I was able to do this cool trick with coding stuff that lets me ignore illusions when they're caught because they're caught by the Mask of Lifevision (as intended) and allows me to react according to knowing the illusion is fake or not. As far as your worthless talisman of obfuscation, well that sucks for you.

Ernam

Was more commenting on the practice of releasing multi-hundred-dollar artefacts, then subsequently selling additional artefacts that make them useless, which quickly requires having both for combat to be "balanced".  See: lifevision/obfuscation, buckawns, earrings, etc.

The subsequent pointlessness of both artefacts thanks to server curing was just like, a bonus.

Kinilan

At the risk of laughing so hard I hurt myself please explain, in great detail, which artifact counters buckawns and why it makes things balanced.

Ernam

Ugh.  Evidently you missed the 8 year period where buckawns amulet was essentially required to not die to web/axk.

Kinilan

Ernam said:

 which quickly requires having both for combat to be "balanced".  See: lifevision/obfuscation, buckawns, earrings, etc.

Buckawns is one, what is the second artifact they relased that works with/against buckawns to make things "balanced" as per your above statement.

Unless your argument is not that

Ernam said:

the practice of releasing multi-hundred-dollar artefacts, then subsequently selling additional artefacts that make them useless, which quickly requires having both for combat to be "balanced".  See: lifevision/obfuscation, buckawns, earrings, etc.

The subsequent pointlessness of both artefacts thanks to server curing was just like, a bonus.

but rather that Achaea is a combination of pay for perks, pay to win with a combat system that  heavily pay gated.

Or maybe you were just spewing vitriol again and decided the sense and logic to your argument should takea  back seat to your tantrum.

Ernam

Nevermind, not feeding the trolls.