World A New Use For Blank Powders

The idea​

As everyone knows, blank powders were something added with Corkus that allowed you to exchange elemental powders for a blank powder that you could change into any other powder (With a small fee).

This did some players with storage and distribution of elemental powders, however apart from that they did not change a great deal.

In my opinion (and maybe yours too), I think that the blank powders should have another use.

My suggestion is that the blank powders are made to act in a similar way to elemental powder, in the way you can apply them to armor and weapons.

How it will potentially work?​

For weapons, the powders would decrease an equal amount of elemental damage from each element and turn it into neutral damage, in the same way the elemental powders remove neutral damage and changes it to the damage of that element. Powders also have a special attack that are charged by using the weapon in combat. An idea for the special attack of the neutral powder is the power to summon a 3 x 3 area of web on the mob or player you are fighting, in the same way that some spider mobs / bosses do in battle (e.g Qira). This would not freeze the mob completely in the way the Ice Snake spell does. The attack would instead just slow it down allowing the player to attack or retreat. Also unlike the Ice Snake spell, the attack will not blind the enemy and will not damage the enemy either, but instead would work more like a tactical attack.

Armor would work in a similar way, as instead of adding elemental defense to the armor, it can add neutral defense to the armor. In the similar way how elemental powders have opposite elements and reduce the defense of one element to increase the defense of another, (e.g Adding a fire powder to increase the fire defense however lowering the water defense), the "neutral" powder can remove a small fraction of defense from each element, creating an overall lower elemental defense to all elements, on the other hand it will increase the overall defense to neutral damage. This could balance out the strength of these powders on the armor depending on the amount of defense removed from each element.

What about lower levels?​

Of course, the blank powders are only introduced to the player at the higher levels when going to Corkus at around the level 80 mark.

A solution is to introduce the powder exchange area to Gavel and Wynn, this would allow lower leveled players to have access to the blank powders. The ideal places to introduce these would be in Detlas and in Llevigar in some of the buildings that aren't being used. This will allow player of lower levels have access to the powder exchange. The prices should not change for the blank powders as the player would probably not have the resources to turn higher tier powders into blank powder yet.

New blank powders would have to be introduced into the game for the lower level players. This would mean adding tier 1, 2, and 3 blank powders to the merchants. the prices should be cheap enough for the lower level players. The price for a tier 3 powder should be: Tier 3 + 20 emerald blocks. The price for a tier 2 powder would be: tier 2 + 1 misc item and the price for a tier 1 would be: tier 1 + 64 emeralds. The powders could potentially be a bit unbalanced, so it would be a better suggestion to only allow the player to obtain the powders through the exchange and trading instead of allowing them to be upgraded in the powder master.

Thank you for reading this suggestion

 

Nah blank powders are fine

 

interesting idea i defiantly think its good but lacks detail for it to be really used

 

Definitely interesting, but I have a few questions that are essential to have answered.

Right now, powders on armor gives additional elemental defense in the element the powder represent, but it also negates the defense in an element opposing the powder (thunder negates water, etc.). It does not touch neutral at all.
I am not sure how you will then make a balanced blank powder work.

As for weapons, I like it, but more detail is needed.
How much will the powders affect the weapon's elements? How much will it affect the weapon if no elemental damage is present on the weapon in the first place? How much will it it affect armor now we are at it? What about the ability to put on teir 3 powders or lower? What if someone under level 80 wants to add blank powders to their gear? What are the specials for weapons and armor, and what do they do?

There is still a lot to account for here, also because when you are done with these questions, I will probably have more you might as well have an answer for at that point.

 

Good concept

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I suck at balancing, but I like the concept
+1

 

So basically, a neutral powder?

 

why not give health on the armor as opposed to neutral def?

 

Defense protects you and reduces the damage dealt by enemies by percentage.
Elemental defense reduces enemy damage by a set amount.
Health only delays the enevitable death.
However health isn't neccesarily neutral either as it is reduced by all types of damage.

 

give slight amounts of hp, to stop the addition of a new mechanic to be added on old armours

 

An Idea for the blank powder special is that it can push or pull enemies just like in boss fights, also dealing slight damage.

 

Thanks for the tips guys, I will make sure to update the idea today and add some more detail to the post