The fact that augmented items cannot be traded could help people loosing weapon on scam.
"Hi quanza my alt, wanna see patk with your weapon"
"rest assured"
"trade your weapon to quanza my alt"
--> "hm sorry cannot :p "
Deadli, there is no one forcing you to augment your weapon, I don't see that you have a reason to complain. If you don't like the possibilities, sell any stones you get. If you want to agument and don't like what you get, do it again and again until you do.....sure its not free, but you are choosing to do it, right?
Deadli, there is no one forcing you to augment your weapon, I don't see that you have a reason to complain. If you don't like the possibilities, sell any stones you get. If you want to agument and don't like what you get, do it again and again until you do.....sure its not free, but you are choosing to do it, right?
what I'm saying is, the chances to get anything worth wild is low. and way to random.
I've gotten some interesting augments while testing it out on the PTS. But alot of the times, I get silly things like +hp regen, + cp regen, + max CP, or HP by 58.8 stuff like that.
And they have this weird decimal point system. So I'd get +7.8 P atk, ok why not make that +8, or +7; why + 7.8? Why +58.6 hp?
the other bad thing, is if you got say a +8 glowy top A, and you augment your weapon with a high life stone, it takes on the effect of your augment. and you get this weird looking white glow, VS the really nice looking ++ A/g glow.
its random, yes. but once you decided to keep a weapon, maybe a Bgrade wep for a buffer or nuker, or a A/Sgrade for any other toon, whatever you like, you can just try over and over again to get the effect you like. sure atm its expensive to buy the stones, but at least you could try with all the stones you gather yourself.
remember, this is only a feew days old. you aint supposed to get the best uber effect you want that fast...even if it takes a feew months i bet getting +WIT on that SOM will be worth it.
Once again, powerplayers made their appearence... NO, there will NEVER be a weapon that will make you superman or one-shot everything!!! Augments are what other games have what they call "binding". Bind a weapon to your character and with a bonus too. I mean, there aren't any negative augments! Whatever you may get will still be better that your standard S/A'd, OE'd weapon...
I love the binding idea.. Noone can get his hands on my Homu from now on!! (and I got a .1 MP regen augmet too! :P)
I get silly things like +hp regen, + cp regen, + max CP, or HP
yeah i mean who wants boosted HP or CP ...or even HP or CP regen speeds lol
im using every and all lifestones i get, even if i get +3 HP, thats 3 more HP than i had before
but seriously just sell ur stones if you dont want to get the enchants
personally i think a 3rd way to enchant weapons is kinda not needed and well stupid
but since its here, i agree that it should be 100% random like it is
you want a new ability, go with an SA or + on ur weapon
The effects of augmentation may be minor, but consider the cost of them. If you've got a lifestone the cost of adding the augmentation is almost nothing, if you get a small boost to p.atk it may be better than using an Enchant scroll, especially for the price.
As for the original topic, yep it's a nice protection from the silly weapon scams that happen :).
Since I haven't had the chance of getting a stone yet,I'd like to ask...
When it says "no drop",it means the weapon cannot be dropped (like newbie gear)?
If that's the case,it's the perfect add-on for perma reds... :)
Imagine having a perma red with an over enchanted "anything" at hand and absolutely no other gear...
The weapon just WOULDN'T drop even on 10000 PKs...
I got a lvl 64 life stone drop in VoS and used it to augment my SoV.. the 30 D-gemstones cost me what, 35k or so and I got: p.def +9.4, m.def +7.5, m.atk +8.5. Nothing stellar but I'm happy with it.
Freight - Yes.
Looks like stones drop everywhere.
And - looks like x4 mobs have the same chance drop, like x1 mobs. So, low HP mobs better for stone hunting.