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The artefact isn't overpowered. It just isn't. It isn't a pay-to-win artefact either. Let me give you one and watch you "win" magically. Will it every once in a blue moon save a combatant from death during combat? Yeah, probably, but that is only if they spend 1,000+ credits on the artefact and it is by no means a reliable save from death. It is almost completely useless in group combat, if you're being targeted in a raid that little tiny boost of health is going to be taken in less than a second. In 1v1 "finishers" and Instakills bypass the arty. It will see most of its use during hunting... And how often do you see the people who will have level 20 lockets die while hunting?
Just stop. So they didn't come up with the perfect promotion that YOU were interested in. It is a PROMOTION. A gift, a boon to you and those who participate. They are under no obligation to give us a promotion, yet because they have been doing them regularly you've come to feel entitled to them, and more specifically you feel entitled to promotions where you agree with the promotion and it benefits you. I could care less about dolls and figurines and mini-pets, those promotions suck in my opinion because I'm uninterested in those things but you don't see combatants insulting IRE and accusing them of greed and ruining the game they love.
You plan an adventurer in Achaea, an adventurer that can slay monsters and use magic and rule cities. Don't expect the God's to create an assistance program for the "poor" in Achaea. You want shiny things? You want to be able to fight top tier combatants? Either pony up the cash for the toys you want or play the long game and save up your credits in game. It's time we all quit pointing fingers and crying because things don't go our way, grow up and enjoy the game and understand that just because you don't like something doesn't mean that someone else doesn't get enjoyment out of it.
Reactions a bit extreme here. To approach it from a different perspective:
Under level 20, it is heartstop. You are going to die, and to add insult to injury your killer is going to get credited anyway. They can literally walk away if they feel like it and call it a day. If they feel like killing you anyway (which, of course, any upstanding murderous Achaean does) they can just keep hitting you, as when it fires it returns you to very low health.
At level 20, it becomes a vastly inferior version of vitality. It isn't at all like soulcage, because you will retain all of your current afflictions, gain a slight amount of health, and have the clause that if you don't manage to max out your health again you are going to die. In fact, the only relation to soulcage that the ability has is that it disables it (and transmogrify) upon firing, and will always fire before them, basically removing them from the equation entirely.
It also does not stop instakills and only fires off of direct damage (like vitality, basically) and has a 24 hour cooldown (which before anyone asks, you cannot circumvent by making it fire directly before a day change or some such).
Put in perspective, vitality restores around 3 times as much health, has 0 drawbacks, and has a cooldown measured in minutes rather than hours. We have also sold vitality artefacts in the past (typically owned by some of the tankiest people in the game) and they have proved pretty much a nonissue in terms of combat balance. I'd wager most people don't even realise who own them, they are so small an issue.
If you can find a situation where this is actually a problem in terms of mechanics, I'd personally love to hear about it, and I mean that in all seriousness.
I just want mah damned token, people.
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I would love to simply stop doing monthly promotions altogether when they involve new content, because they're an enormous drain on resources every month, across five games, and spend that energy on just adding permanent content to the games instead. But it's simply not financially viable as far as we've seen.
I also don't understand your rants in combination with your request for it to be sold for two crowns; with the way it is now, you've been saying how obnoxious it will be if people are rolling around with level 20 lockets, but wouldn't it be a more common occurrence if they were selling them the way you claim would make you happy?
Globes are more fun (in my mind) than buying crowns, so I agree to disagree there. I'm sure there's others who like the concept of a somewhat cheap gamble for more credits, arties, pets, talismans and the whole slew of other stuff that comes with globes - or the ability to buy a couple globes and sell them for more credits than they would have got with that same amount of cash.
Unlimited cap purchase bonuses will probably never lose to a 2000cr cap bonus scheme.
Cascades of quicksilver light streak across the firmament as the celestial voice of Ourania intones, "Oh Jarrod..."
It's not broken.
The gift boxes from last December are more powerful than a level 20 locket.
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Don't you worry at all.
Telepathy ones are up next.
Thus, my concern with damage-based finishers. With those it is quite common to bypass vitality entirely, which would not be the case with the immortality effect.
With it, a disembowel that would otherwise kill the target through damage (even from full health, for some Runewardens) would fail to do so. Meanwhile, classes that rely on non-damage finishers would be completely unaffected. This is cause for concern, particularly since many of these damage-based finishers are just as difficult to execute as others unaffected by this new time.
Or, if you prefer, imagine a scenario with top fighters of different classes, say a Serpent and a Runewarden, both with this new item at level 20. If the Runewarden executes a perfect torso disembowel, the Serpent has a very good chance of escaping and resetting the fight. Conversely, the Serpent has at least two options to kill the Runewarden that would bypass Immortality entirely. Thus, class balance is most definitely affected by this new effect.
This is, of course, assuming damage-based finishers don't bypass Immortality.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'd be pretty happy if I were trying to get basic skills/arties right now. Globes seem to be worth quite a lot, in addition to the amounts you could earn from mining. Definitely more ways available to level the playing field lately.
Whereas... I'm kinda embarrassed on how much I've spent to try to get this locket working. Any of the people complaining about the locket being OP would probably be pissed off at how weak it is if they actually bought one.
Rare minerals were a much bigger thing than this!
PLEASE
WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN DONE
That's the thing about the locket, it's multi-function. I am not sure the "immortality" is all that great but some of that stuff has uses. It just probably doesn't have much use to you because you spend a lot of time fighting.