Slot Cost

[Sorel]

I do not understand the purpose of slot cost. It reminds me of weight encumbrance from D&D. It seems like a system designed to restrict how much stuff you can equip. I just don't understand why the restriction is necessary. Is wearing wristlets, rings, a headband and a necklace so overpowering that it unbalances the game??

[Artius]

I do not understand the purpose of slot cost. It reminds me of weight encumbrance from D&D. It seems like a system designed to restrict how much stuff you can equip. I just don't understand why the restriction is necessary. Is wearing wristlets, rings, a headband and a necklace so overpowering that it unbalances the game??

Currently, I cannot see how the limited selection of items for the ring/neck/wrist slot could unbalance the game. You get more bumps to stats from your main armor pieces.

However, to continue the D&D analogy that you brought up, the slots could be unbalancing if they wanted to include jewelery with special bonuses or abilities (say a Ring of Haste, or bracelets that give a strong elemental resistance, or a necklace that give the user a low-power regeneration). Boosting jewelery like this would allow people to customize their characters a bit more for specific situations without requiring the player to give up their character's wardrobe appearance.

[Abriael]

I do not understand the purpose of slot cost. It reminds me of weight encumbrance from D&D. It seems like a system designed to restrict how much stuff you can equip. I just don't understand why the restriction is necessary. Is wearing wristlets, rings, a headband and a necklace so overpowering that it unbalances the game??

I think it's because the more equipment slots you can fill, the harder it is to balance equipment.

Personally, I'd just do away with it. It seems redundant, and a couple more pieces don't seem that much of a disaster, balance wise.

Most mobs need a RADICAL rebalancing of their level of challenge anyway, so since they basically need to rebalance everything, they can just do away with obsolete limits.