Okay, since the servers are down and I can't play that game, I thought I'd finally take the time to put to paper (figuratively speaking) an idea I had of how to get certain weapon requests into the game without adding even more complexity to the current crafting lines.

Now, as a disclaimer, I know that there is very little chance of this being put into the game. Still, I wanted to put it out there.

TL:DR option

A new crafting line that would allow you to create chain mail, studded leather, spears, flails, etc.



What Is It?

Light Metal Armor/Weapon Crafting.


No Really. What Are You Talking About?

So we have probably all seen the posts asking for new weapons and armor types in the game. I think that some of the most prominent are for spears and chain mail. However, I have also seen calls for other weapon types as well, and I think that we are missing that kind of in-between look that exists between leather armors and full plate mail. Also, it is tough to figure out where exactly you would craft items like spears, since they are both woodworking and blacksmithing. This new crafting line would fill the armor gap, while also giving us some new weapon options in a fairly logical place.


How It Would Work

Just like the other crafting lines, this line would have both weapons and armor that could be created and deconstructed, will all of the same traits and crafting styles open to it. However, unlike the current lines, the armors and weapons would require a mix of materials to craft the items. For example,say that a current piece of heavy armor needed 8 metal to create, and a current medium armor piece needed 8 leather. The new 'light metal' piece of armor might need 4 metal and 4 leather pieces. Similarly, a spear might need 4 metal and 4 wood.

The new armor line would need new passives and an active built for it, along with new sets. Weapons could fit into the current lines with new bonuses for the different weapon types (maybe spears add defense, flails a chance to stun or something) or be granted new skill lines (though I don't know why they'd need this)


Weapon Types

This new crafting line would have spears, of course, both one- and two-handed varieties. But it would obviously need more than that to fill out the weapon types and to give it more 'bulk' as a crafting line. I believe that flails would fit the bludgeoning part pretty well, and would require both wood and metal as well. Instead of axes, picks could work for that type of weapon. Two-handed flails and picks would be fairly stupid-looking, so this is where we could get some of the more traditional polearms in their place. Pikes or glaives would be the two-handed spears, and then we could get some halberds and other polearm types to round out the weapon list.


Armor Types

There is a wide variety of armor types not currently seen in the game that fall in between the current leather styles and the plate that most heavy armor styles are. Chain and ring mail, studded leather, splint mail, scale mail, etc. All of these could be represented in this line in the various racial styles. Basically, any armor type that involves using both metal and leather/padding together could be put into this line.


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