More weapons costume parts, in line with shields.
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Posted on: 2008-12-12 06:48 in Suggestions and Ideas
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I checked out the shields in the character creator today, and I noticed that there are several shields that are made to fit thematically with the various elemental melee types.
My suggestion is that the same is done for the weapon models costume parts. The fire and ice shields from the elemental sites could properly be transferred directly to the broadsword and dual blade sets. That way we could get weapons that fit the elemental armors, just like we have shields the fit the elemental melees.
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I assume the bolded part meant "fire and ice swords". The devs will probably not do a direct transfer as it could end up confusing people as to what the users' powers are. Generic frozen/burning/sparking/etc weapons would be nice though, I support that.
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or something along the lines of 'Weapon Auras'
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or something along the lines of 'Weapon Auras'
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That would be neato, but again, lots of work to do, as you'd need to do an aura per weapon model to make it fit the weapon.
Say you want 5 aura per weapon, and a weapon set have 10 diffrent models, thats 50 auras to do, then say we have 5 diffrent weapon sets, it's 250 auras 
(fictive numbers).
Just stick to one elemental weapon per set. So one Ice sword/mace/axe, one Fire sword/mace/axe one energy sword/mace/axe etc. Still a lot of stuff but more doable.
I thought the elemental shields were there for people using Icy/Firey/Electric/Stone Melee in combination with Shields, so the player had a thematic option.
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I assume the bolded part meant "fire and ice swords".
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Yes, I do not know how I missed that one.
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I thought the elemental shields were there for people using Icy/Firey/Electric/Stone Melee in combination with Shields, so the player had a thematic option.
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That is my point. What about someone with a fire armor, who wand to stick to a theme, are they any less worthy of dev love.
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I thought the elemental shields were there for people using Icy/Firey/Electric/Stone Melee in combination with Shields, so the player had a thematic option.
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Got a fireshield fire scrapper. But I am not happy with the get sword slash now smash with fist thing. And i have seen plenty of people with energy shields and normal weapons. So I am guessing that there are people who would love a fireshield with a fiery sword/mace/axe for example.
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I thought the elemental shields were there for people using Icy/Firey/Electric/Stone Melee in combination with Shields, so the player had a thematic option.
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Yes. The difference is that shields were added recently and had a lot of attention, so all these thematic options were created during powerset design.
Weapon customisation however was added long after the weapon powersets and was a feature in itself so there was less emphasis on filling the model lists with thematic options for each armor. Instead the devs reused some NPC weapon models, created models for modern/tech style and added a bunch of simple (no effects) models. And recent additions to custom weapons have been based on new/major factions.
I do not suffer from altitis, I enjoy every character of it.
I checked out the shields in the character creator today, and I noticed that there are several shields that are made to fit thematically with the various elemental melee types.
My suggestion is that the same is done for the weapon models costume parts. The fire and ice shields from the elemental sites could properly be transferred directly to the broadsword and dual blade sets. That way we could get weapons that fit the elemental armors, just like we have shields the fit the elemental melees.