Nightmares of the Third Age

Goddamnbatman said:
SGambits.
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Okay, thanks!

[QUOTE="Kaji-Oni]Does anyone have any requests for charms that I pick up so I can support people? I am taking Auspicious Recruitment Drive + the entire Sail and Survival tree to help out Jay Tee.

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I forgot to mention earlier - you should consider taking Red Haze as well. My character is going to be a military adviser of sorts and will have much of the War tree, so we can have stacking shenanigans with Red Haze, etc.
 
What do you think about this 5-dot artifact set.


Oracion and Requiem, artifact sword and shield.


Oracion: adamant and ivory shield. +4 dv close combat, +5 dv ranged. Pay 7m for a pd that refreshes every 7 days and nights. Attuned user speeds up healing by a factor equal to essence. Attune 4


Requiem, onyx adamant reaper daiklave


Speed 4, acc+6, Dmg+13/3L, def+1, rate 4, attune 6, P,O


Deals damage to material and immaterial foes, anything killed is killed permanently. Pay one mote to reclaim/banish elsewhere.
 
Just a little note, 2.5 states that shields no longer give DV bonuses, they have traits like a regular weapon, and their defense trait tends to be higher than normal (4-6).
 
[QUOTE="Seeker of the End]What do you think about this 5-dot artifact set.
Oracion and Requiem, artifact sword and shield.


Oracion: adamant and ivory shield. +4 dv close combat, +5 dv ranged. Pay 7m for a pd that refreshes every 7 days and nights. Attuned user speeds up healing by a factor equal to essence. Attune 4


Requiem, onyx adamant reaper daiklave


Speed 4, acc+6, Dmg+13/3L, def+1, rate 4, attune 6, P,O


Deals damage to material and immaterial foes, anything killed is killed permanently. Pay one mote to reclaim/banish elsewhere.

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What Lord-Leafar said.


Also, even paired items should have independent ratings. And yours are very, very powerful for a 3-dot and a 2-dot. The sword also very much seems like you didn't want to pay for the two charms to hit and kill spirits.
 
Also, the speed healing factor seems a bit too high, specially for a meager 4m commitment. And the sword's accuracy and damage bonus is insanely high. Check the errata'd stats of weapons in 2.5, they all got toned down, you basically want a grand daiklave (which is artifact 3 btw) you can wield with one hand, that is both piercing and has insane accuracy to use. Not balanced at all.
 
That's assuming you're thinking of these as artifact 5 together. If what you want is two artifact 5s, the balance is OK, but the commitment costs are way too low, and most of all, they're way too boring.
 
Yeah... To reiterate what others have said, those both seem like carbon-copy Charm effects. Now, to be fair - there's nothing wrong with utilizing preconstructed Charm mechanics for your Artifacts provided that they fit the theme of the artifacts in question and are balanced with the dot ratings.Unfortunately, as you've posted both seem kind of unorganized in their construction. You're very nondescript with what these things mean (eg: 'pay 7m for a PD....' what do you mean by PD?), and doesn't lend itself to a strong picture of what these artifacts should represent.


The most important thing to consider when making custom Artifacts is the theme behind them, as the mechanics should reflect the theme in some way. Have you developed histories/fluff for the two yet?
 
Cost is too low for both at 5. Sword stats are pretty high for an one handed weapon. As pointed before, shields now use defense rating. Probably attunement cost will need to be changed. If the intent is just to buff the damage on the sword, probably can achieve that with a custom charm(devil tiger or heretical charm) or two, from my understanding you are going devil tiger? Might want to just make a charm for that and just get a nice vitriol tainted weapon.
 
BTW, if anyone's interested in doing this in more real time, I'm on the rpdom chat which actually works decently nowadays.
 
I was going for sort of weapons that matched my DT theme, which was basically duality, light and dark, justice and mercy, Or in this case, offense and defense. The basic fluff was that those were his weapons as an Infernal (albeit at lower ratings) but after he became a DT, he rebaptized his arifacts in pure vitriol seeped in his OWN personal DT essence, thus changing them to suit Himself. Xentair is available in the Resources section if you want more info. Feel free to give me any feedback.
 
Hey guys, sorry to be a flake, but after chatting with some of you and the ST for awhile today, I don't think I'm going to be able to find a concept that works well with this group. It sounds like this game is going to be mostly combat, and I'm not a huge fan of Ex 2.5's combat system. Thanks for giving me a shot, but I'm going to drop my slot.
 
[QUOTE="Seeker of the End]I was going for sort of weapons that matched my DT theme, which was basically duality, light and dark, justice and mercy, Or in this case, offense and defense. The basic fluff was that those were his weapons as an Infernal (albeit at lower ratings) but after he became a DT, he rebaptized his arifacts in pure vitriol seeped in his OWN personal DT essence, thus changing them to suit Himself. Xentair is available in the Resources section if you want more info. Feel free to give me any feedback.

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Artifact 5s should be game changers, not just a lot of boni and cute powers that charms can do better.
 
First things first: don't set out to make a 5-dot artifact because you want a 5-dot artifact. Set out with an idea of the sword or whatever you want to make, barebones. Make a list. Then slowly grow that list and develop it. Trim constantly, and make sure you get a concept that's clean and relatively lean, but enough meat to support some cool mechanics.


Then start thinking about mechanics, but again, begin with the bare bones. If by the end, you've got something so world-shatteringly awesome that it deems it worth 5-dots, then it's 5-dots. But typically, that means you're dealing with something like a Daiklave of Conquest or a Soul Mirror, etc. Something that is just flat out ridiculous, impossible, and overwhelmingly powerful.
 
[QUOTE="MaHaSuchi's700]Bonuses is what you're looking for.

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Barbarous. Next you'll be telling me it's called maguses and pegasuses as well.
 
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