Game Mechanics Mini Pandemonium + Prequel quest for ???

ThePurpleEmerald · Dec 21, 2023

rednax100 said: ↑

Ok so. Pandemonium as we all know is a legendary bracelet with the unique Major ID: Madness. Cast a random spell (from your class) every 3 seconds.

I've seen it used in a at least one build (Arcanist/Light bender hybrid), but otherwise its mostly just a funny joke item. Problem with the funny joke item is its locked behind "???", which 1: is extremely long jesus christ, and 2: not single-player compatible (POV: lonely).

So.
As compensation, I propose a new item:
"Commotion". Its Just... just a less intense pandemonium.
It too has a unique Major ID "Craziness".

Rather than cast a random spell every 3 seconds, Craziness casts a random spell every 12 seconds (slightly worse than the original Madness, which was every 10 seconds)
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I've removed all of the IDs for 2 reasons: 1, I'm lazy. 2: Just having no ID's is already less than Pandemonium anyway.

You may have noticed that it has a quest requirement. "...?"
Unlike "???", this is a proper quest, with proper NPCs, and the guidebook actually tells you what to do.
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Note that Commotion is not actually a quest reward (Though I do kind of wish it was). Its just a required quest.

"...?" is a prequel to "???". Without giving too much away, it gives a small hint about the beginning of "???".
The summary of the quest is just "I've noticed something odd about this meteor... I feel like there's something hidden within..."
-> Don't mention the other 2 meteors, (I'm assuming that the other two meteors look similar to the Red one, otherwise this part kind of doesn't work. If they do not look similar, consider just mentioning the Gerts somehow, Relating to the "Mark of the Meteors", discovery. Something like "Just the other day, I found a Gert near this meteor... That's quite peculiar, Gerts normally don't come out this far." Gerts+Meteor -> Mark of the Meteors -> Wait there's more than just this one meteor, I should go check out the others.)

I'm just now realizing that the "someone lurking" can't be a villager. Though an Elf does make sense since this quest starts near Aldorei.
You could even have some fun with it, have them say "This is all quite Puzzling" hinting to the insane amount of puzzles in "???"

I'm noticing that the Black Spoon, and the Tiny Mushroom are hinted at within "???" itself, but the Odd painting isn't. I have no clue how you'd be able to sneak that in, but I'm sure its possible.
"You know, everything about this is quite odd. I feel like I'm lacking the proper information to paint a larger picture of everything. I'm going to continue studying this Meteor, Thanks for all the assistance you've given me"
"Take these out of consideration. If you discover anything more about this, please let me know."
could be his last lines. idk.

Btw, this is a fetch quest ;p. Medium difficulty because maybe you need to kill some random mob to get an item this stranger requests. Easy difficulty doesn't feel right for a prequel to "???" so Medium it is.

So yeah.
My alternate balancing for Commotion is -600 HP, -450 of every elemental defense, but Craziness casts every 7 seconds instead of every 12.
Do note that because I didn't include the -1200 someodd HP ID for Commotion, it takes away less HP than Pandemonium itself. I guess it's a trade off.

TL:DR
I'm too lazy to do ???, but I still want Pandemonium, so I've come to bargain.
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Just so you know, a "prequel quest to ???" in this case would be a quest that chronologically comes after ??? in level and/ or progression but contains events that happen before ???. And given that the player probably won't be in a flashback for most of the ...? quest you should probably change that term.

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Game Mechanics Mini Pandemonium + Prequel quest for ???

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