Player customizable heirlooms

[Havoco]

So, you've heirloomed an item to the max but you use it so much that you still want to make it better. This is where my suggestion comes in. Why not add another heirloom to an item? And, make it player customizeable?I'll use an example.

I have a masterwork war bow. I get to level 31 again but instead of heirlooming another item you can choose to spend money ( and possibly experience) to add points to stats. Back to the war bow. I want to add points to say, arrow(shoot) speed, and thrust damage. So, to make this not incredibly OP, it would cost a lot of gold ( or xp). Maybe 10000 gold to start then doubled every point. And the catch; make it so after you create one of these items that generation you go into is your LAST generation. And lastly, the player would have his name on the weapon. So, in my case It would be Hospitaller_Havoc's masterwork war bow.

Criticize me please.

[Siiem]

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[Spawny]

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Pretty much sums it up. And as we all know, making something REALLY expensive is a very bad way to balance.

[Dravic]

Too hard to code name changing. Also, if you would like to make a lets say warbow heirloomable for 4th time, but with choosable stats, you need to make another amount of that weapons in item kinds. Lets say, you can upgrade warbow for 4th time for:

A) shot speed
B) dmg
C) Speed rtng

So it is: (A+B+C) *(2 stages of breaking + 1 normal weapon) = amount of items you have to create in module system.

And thats for warbow only, now multiply that amount by every weapon, and probably armors. A lot of work.

[Havoco]

Okay, could make it a little less complicated. Just add 4th heirloom to one item then lose access to more reitrements. And make this inaccessible to players over 20 gen or around that.

[Wulzzz]

Na, will be OP for the hardcore players.
120 speed rating flamberge ?

But the idea is nice.But i don't mean the further hierlooming.
Let's say if you got a 3 times hierloomed warbow.The war bow will get reset to the basic stats but you will have the chance to now choose 3 times(or 6 times with lower difference) which stats you want to have improved.So you can choose if you want to improve it balanced or only damage or only speed rating etc.
Will be a nice way to adjust it to your gameplay.

[Dravic]

Or, you could do something like:

You have masterwork Warbow, and you want to make it Greater (or something else) Masterwork Warbow.

To do that, you have to heirloom another Warbow 3 times. Now you have 2 Masterwork Warbows, and at another retire you choose option "connect heirlooms" to make Greater Masterwork Warbow from 2 Masterwork Warbows. Would slow down whole process for under-10-gen people, tho. :/

[Havoco]

Well, i heard you will be able to buy heirloomed items in a patch. Is that true or not?

[Felagunda]

Ya man I don't think you thought this one through b/c it's a really bad idea.

[Tears of Destiny]

It sounds interesting, and I do like the idea of custom things, but my problem is this favors Archers like me too much. I bought so many weapons to experiment with that it is insanity, yet after Gen 1 I still retired with a little over 100K in the bank. Every Gen I figure I should earn at least that amount considering I have nothing else to buy. I already bought almost every usable bow, ever armor I will ever wear, three bodkins, some useless lower arrows I never use any more, and about two dozen melee weapons I experiment with when I feel amused. I even bought siege shields and three of them to be an amusing support engineer when I am a peasant.

So once I hit the gen you suggest, I should have enough money to take my warbow and turn it into the most ... well... I would be TKed every round by angry people due to me sporting a semi-automatic nuclear missile launcher. I should have well over 1 million when I hit gen 10 or 11, and easy.

It would be nice though to come up with some way to customize a weapon, maybe put a cap on it? Say raise only one thing by two points or whatever?

I don't know, I want more fudge and snuggles... See yah! +1 rep for the interesting thought.

[jspook]

Interesting thought.  It would be absolutely horrible in the execution, however.

Think about all of those ninjas out there with 500k+ gold to spend.

Now imagine all of those katanas at +150 speed +50 cut.

NOT AWESOME

Or, as stated above, a 100+ speed flamby.  horrible horrible idea.

[Kaelaen]

Derp, read it wrong.  Anyway cost should be much higher and you've got yourself a deal.

Anyway I find the idea interesting Havoc, specifically adding your name to it.  But it sounds like effort which unfortunately makes it seem like it's doomed to fail.  Still, personalized items would be really cool.