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The thrust of the design is indeed to make forged weapons/armor more or less the same in terms of performance. There is a TINY bit of room for forgers to add literally only 1-3 extra points to the weapon stats, but doing so requires significant specialization in particular adjectives for weapons/armor.
The way the adjectives work is that they are grouped in tiers, with more and more 'impressive' adjectives being available in the higher tiers. Getting to those higher tiers does, however, require a lot of repetitive forging and is more or less a gold sink/tax. Beyond that, you can specialize in particular adjectives (the game will keep track of how many times you've forged a weapon/armor with each available adjective) and then actually produce slightly better weapons/armor as mentioned above. Very very slightly.
Beyond that, the way tiers work is that an adjective in a higher tier will cost you more comms to forge than one in a lower tier, and what extra comms they cost are a function of that particular adjective (they're hand-set for each adjective). The curve isn't linear, so while the lower tiers are relatively inexpensive, the upper tiers are very expensive.
A simple, dull longsword will be no more expensive to forge than now, for instance, whereas a nightmarish, skull-festooned set of full plate will be very expensive. I forget the math right now, but something around 50-100k in terms of comm costs. There's a good chance I've made the curves too steep (meaning the higher tier adjectives are too expensive) but I'd rather flatten the curve later than the opposite.
So the result of this is that someone walking around with really expensive-looking armor and swords has actually spent a lot of money on them. It's largely cosmetic (completely so except for the 1-3 extra weapon stat points actually) but that's the idea. If you want to walk in wielding radiant, diamond-edged broadswords, it's gonna be pricey, because it'll cost the forger a lot of comms to make them.
There are a couple other bits and bobs to the system, but that's the main stuff.
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Regardless, unlike the current mechanics, it sounds like not having top-speed weapons won't be a dealbreaker in combat.
(This non sequitur brought to you by Terrana and her pet lycopod, so throw the blame where it belongs.)
If forging is going to be faster in general, can you give us an idea on how much faster? 25%, 50%? 103%?
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How will the forging/weapon rework affect blackjacks? They're already standardized. (And non-forgeable, so we don't get cool adjectives.
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Not directed at you: All the whining in this thread is ridiculous. At least wait until it goes live to bitch. They could completely change, and seem willing to. Offer suggestions or stfu.
Some proficiencies were learned a long, long time ago. Now people are enemied to the cities where these teachers reside. I'm thinking specifically of these two:
Might this change mean that, at long last, all the proficiency teachers will now not be located inside a main city, so people can learn/re-learn with ease if they choose to do so?
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So if a longsword at size 6 is forged with two adjectives that you're expert in, you might get it as if it was size 4 rather than size 6, which means that it cost you 2/3rds of what it would cost someone who has no expertise in adjective. It's only after you max out this 'cheaper' benefit that you start getting a chance for extra points for the weapon based on the adjective. Once you max out that, you're a 'Master' at that adjective, and have a 50% chance per adjective of getting an extra point (and if you get 2 points, you have a chance of a third).
Every adjective you are at 'Master' in is worth cumulative points (the higher the tier of adjective the more points) towards becoming a Grandmaster Blacksmith, and then a Legendary Blacksmith after that. Once you have enough points for Grandmaster Blacksmith your cumulative chance of getting status bonuses on a weapon/armor with adjectives you are at Master in increase by 33%. Once you read Legendary Blacksmith, you get that chance of extra stats on all adjectives, whether you are Master in them or not. (The reduced costs are still reserved for ones you have specifically mastered, however.)
Speaking as Hashani leadership, It'll be a pain in the ass to keep the hammer proficiency in Hashan. Should move it to Tasur'ke or Thera or something.
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Less than a minute. We are as yet undecided what we'll do with the Hammer. Phasing it out is the most likely thing to happen, but we may come up with a better solution. One idea that we've already rejected is letting it make forging cheaper. I don't want to do that though because it just gives a massive, insurmountable economic advantage to forgers with the Hammer.
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I think we'll try to make House ones work.
Orders I'm more leery on though. I don't really come up with a naming scheme that doesn't look terrible to me.
a bronzed Valnuranian longsword
a bronzed Dream longsword
a shabby Lorielani longsword
a saw-edged Prosperian battleaxe
Ugh, amiright?
In the "would be cool someday" category I also have regional adjectives that you'd have to quest to earn. Village factional system to be able to forge in the Istarian or Moghedian styles, etc.