Animated Items

[Tomaseth]

I would like to see items that are animated, I think I\'ve heard mention of the idea before, but can\'t find the post. But It\'d be cool to see a sword with a blue flame coming from it\'s blade or a dagger with sparks. These could be items dropped by those big boss creatures, ie. dragons that take like 20-30 people to take down, and should be very, very rare. It\'s not the most original idea because I\'ve seen it used in RPG\'s like EverQuest (like all the epic items), and Dungeon Seiege.

[Azora]

not that you\'d know this but ive just had to restart my computer, THANK MICROSOFT. - so ive lost my point (unnaturly this time), but basicly it was a joke about a swoard glowing blue around orc\'s. And now my real point: what type of animation can i expect for bows, im not expecting to see the flight of the arrow, but perhaps some sort of tail or trail can be seen as so i know were it went. Also will bows have long rates of fire and high damage to combat the flaw all games run into, of the creature say an orc, just simply running up to you a belting you to death while you try and get your charter to shoot his bow at a creature (with the same chance of hitting them at this range or any other becuase its an RPG).

Afew nice ideas: flaming arrows for the higher levels (you could use the same animation of the pull back of the bow and just  have the tip with some red \"nosie\" on
it. A boat  that floats in the air for transport. Add a cannon to the ranged weapons (huge strenght stats required incredbly slow to re-load).

[Aruneko]

I agree with you about the bows and such.

But I must point out that flaming arrows would most likely be a type of item.  Also flying transportation will be provided by certain creatures.  I\'m not sure about the cannon.  Considering the logic, that would blast almost any creature to smithereens, thus proving itself to be overpowered.

Just my thoughts on this.

[Vengeance]

As far as I\'m concerned, we can make swords that morph into swords with demon heads and bite people if we want.

Flames and sparks are fine too, but let\'s try to come up with something more challenging for the artists here ok?  :-)

- Venge

p.s.  Our Rules Leader, Paxx, is a big fan of bows and arrows, so I\'m sure all you archery lovers will be well taken care of...don\'t worry.

[Silverblade]

A great feature of dungeon seige was how you actually see the arrows sticking out of a creature.

It looks really cool when a tough monster is running at you with 3 arrows sticking out of his chest, and a couple from his arm, and you continue to sink them into him. Even after the monster has collapsed, you can still see exactly where you hit the monster, from the arrows sticking out of him.

Do you think you could somehow incorparate this into Planeshift?

[Tomaseth]

They want a challenge? Heh, its hard to think of items thatd be a real challenge without getting really crazy. Oh yeah another item I liked from EQ was the illumanting blade of blue and red (strategy and skill, i think, maybe tactics?, the warrior epics.) itd be cool to have a blade illumated in green or something. But challenging, how about... now that I think of it I can\'t really think of anything right now, I\'ll think about it and come back to this.

[Aruneko]

A challenge, eh?

Hmmm....  How about a liquid-ish sword, sorta like mercury, sorta like the people on the Capri Sun commercials.  Or perhaps a weapon with vine-like tentacles hanging off of it which wiggle around? (this could be a good idea for a whip or something) Maybe organic weapons, like a living spear which when you stuck it through someone it entangled the enemy.

Those are challenges.

P.S.- Thank goodness for the bows  

[Tearlach t'an Ailech fin Leros]

Bows are fast reloading, fast firing weapon that is great against unarmored people and leather armored people.
The crossbow is a slow firing weapon with excellent firepower, a good crossbow could rip off the arm of a knight in full armor.

[Fantasyfiend]

I like th idea of Flying Ships, it reminds me of Skies of Arcadia. But I think animated weapons sounds awesome. Imagine in deep, dark dungeons, somewhere ahead you hear screaming and flashes of colour. Talk about atmosphere. I would want an elven sword that glows green and makes vines wrap around the corpses of fallen foes.

[Barak]

If you had a boatload of money and magic to waste, could you get a liqid metal weapon? Like a blade that can change shape, for example it could go from straight edge, to se      , to hooked.
I had an idea of a weapon that takes the souls/ essence of any person it kills so you could use them to power golems, well maybe when the sword currently has souls you could see ghost-like whisps floating around on the surface. That would be awesome!
Or a sword that has to do with a dragon, and on the blade you could barely make out a blurry, dragon-like shape. You could also have runes shine on the blades when ever you hit something with them, and if they have magical powers, the runes change due to what power you\'re using. Or a sword with a water blade that ripples when ever you swing it around.

[Chubbs]

i want a sword that is a guitar, i drew it here

http://www.geocities.com/azureorder/concepts.html

[Fantasyfiend]

That looks like something out of a KISS concert. I guess it would be cool thoug. ZYou know that Shakram Xena throws? What if there was a tamborine with sharp edges that could do th same thing? Cool.

[AfricaX]

ya know what would be kinda cool? Their could be a tiny little dagger that turns into a huge 2-handed sword with a whole buncha particle effects and smoke n\' stuff
like the smoke forms the silhouette of the sword and then all of a sudden it turns into one! ya wanted a challenge didn\'t ya? hehe

yeah or maybe if someone is a caster and they only have a staff they couldc cast a spell to make it at first a daggar and then at the end a 2 handed sword at a high level to protect themselves from PKers. cause ya never klnow in this game ya could be a cloth wearing fighter that does uber damage

[Link]

Why would we need a dagger that turns into a 2h sword to protect ourselves from pking, if there is no PKers?

[Fantasyfiend]

Still the idea is awesome, watching a tiny wimpy looking dagger stretch out into a giant, big-like two handed sword. That\'s just too cool.