View Full Version : Idea to encourage runeword testing
LordPomposity
16-07-2004, 06:03
As it is, nobody except a 1337 h4x0r is going to waste their runes testing for new runewords. Testing would be a lot more likely if a cube recipe was added that destroyed the item while keeping what was socketed in it.
I think Hel+Scroll of Identify would be a good recipe. That keeps in line with the current unsocketing recipe, and the use of a medium-rare (bad pun completely unintentional) Hel rune would preveent runewords from being discovered immediately.
Any thoughts?
ShadowmageIX
16-07-2004, 06:09
you know... I always wondered why there was no recipe that did that...
Rofl... you could reroll certain items until you got the perfect version of it.
TalkingDonkey
16-07-2004, 07:02
Rofl... you could reroll certain items until you got the perfect version of it.
Yeah, you could except 6 socket superior 15% ed ethereal berserker axes aren't exactly a dime a dozen. I think that limits it right there.
theBlackKnight
16-07-2004, 08:34
Straight up.
Rofl... you could reroll certain items until you got the perfect version of it.
Yes you would reroll.. still..
If the item and not the rune were destroyed you'd still have to go at reget the item to retry.
regetting an Etheral Colossus blade 6 sockets, would be just as expensive.. so thugh some rune words are easier like HotO and so on.. 4 soc Flails are easy yo get.. the higher end weapons which really rquire a huge % to be goldy .. err more godly than they already are... well it would be not as off balance as people say.
I think there is an idea, I don't like it on standing ground but with some tweaking it would be interesting.. for example.
If the formula removed the item + 1 random rune...but left you with the reminaing runes to do with as you please.
See now that would be interesting.
I think there is definitely some potential in this. Great idea!
Tert
UndeadBehlial
16-07-2004, 17:41
lol how about 4xchipped gems plus the item will unsocket it and you get BOTH the item and the runes
lol how about 4xchipped gems plus the item will unsocket it and you get BOTH the item and the runes
Wouldn't work, runewords like BOTD, if you got the runes and the item, they can't fit in the cube, so it wouldn't work. Plus, this would be way to easy to get perfect BOTDs and stuff. .blizzard would never do this.
madcow517
17-07-2004, 03:27
Something like that would be good for testing, but would drop the price of runes into the floor. Because after your done with your enigma, you can recycle the runes. Blizzard never intended that. Plus, all the cube recipies usually have several items in and only one item out. A cube recipie like that would break that rule.
If I repeated something already said, i'm sorry. I haven't read the responses yet.
I like the Idea of fairly rare (let's arbitrairly pick the Ilv of the highest rune in the runeword, and the scarcity of the middle rune in the runeword) you could find scrolls. These scrolls would be 1 slot and have a runeword on them. To make the runeword, you would also need to (after making the unfinished runeword) combine your scroll with the unfinished runeword to make the actual runeword.
Okay, that comes out kinda twisted.
Okay, let's say you are making stealth. You have your two runes, and you find a "Scroll of Stealth". The Scroll of Stealth has an ILV of the higher of the two runes Tal, and a Scarcity of the middle rune...being no middle rune, it reverts to the next lower one (Eth). You stick your runes in the armor, making a Tal-Eth with only the stats of Tal and Eth. Then you take the Armor and your scroll of stealth, and put it in your horodric cube, combine them, and voila, your runeword is complete.
The idea is that you could find a scroll of whatever, giving you the combination for a new runeword (right click. It says "Pul>Ort>Ral in 3 socketed Body Armor, or whatever".), but not the stats and doesn't cost you runes to find out. Also, with the ILV and scarcity matching the runes, lower level runewords would be easier to make and find the scrolls of, and higher level runewords would be rarer and take longer to find and complete.
Or maybe I am just crazy.
yup, your crazy. u can take your underwear off your head now.
Garouken
18-07-2004, 05:21
I like the Idea of fairly rare (let's arbitrairly pick the Ilv of the highest rune in the runeword, and the scarcity of the middle rune in the runeword) you could find scrolls. These scrolls would be 1 slot and have a runeword on them. To make the runeword, you would also need to (after making the unfinished runeword) combine your scroll with the unfinished runeword to make the actual runeword.
Okay, that comes out kinda twisted.
Okay, let's say you are making stealth. You have your two runes, and you find a "Scroll of Stealth". The Scroll of Stealth has an ILV of the higher of the two runes Tal, and a Scarcity of the middle rune...being no middle rune, it reverts to the next lower one (Eth). You stick your runes in the armor, making a Tal-Eth with only the stats of Tal and Eth. Then you take the Armor and your scroll of stealth, and put it in your horodric cube, combine them, and voila, your runeword is complete.
The idea is that you could find a scroll of whatever, giving you the combination for a new runeword (right click. It says "Pul>Ort>Ral in 3 socketed Body Armor, or whatever".), but not the stats and doesn't cost you runes to find out. Also, with the ILV and scarcity matching the runes, lower level runewords would be easier to make and find the scrolls of, and higher level runewords would be rarer and take longer to find and complete.
Or maybe I am just crazy.
Why not just have the scrolls give the recipe for the runeword, like Blizzard originally intended? You know something like the key to the cairn stones, just a right clickable scroll that would tell you the rune order and maybe the item type.
I think that would be nice, might requpire a patch though.
Why not just have the scrolls give the recipe for the runeword, like Blizzard originally intended? You know something like the key to the cairn stones, just a right clickable scroll that would tell you the rune order and maybe the item type.
I think that would be nice, might requpire a patch though.
he said that if you read his post
ps i kind of like that idea, although it would be sort of annoying if, say, someone found the runes for something half decent like stone but then couldnt find the scroll
The scroll would be only as rare as the middle rune scarcity wise, so it would make more sense to find a scroll based on eth before you have both Dol and Eth. The problem with just having the scrolls tell people, and that is all, is that they would be fully documented and everyone who has the runes would have those rune words withen 3 hours. At least with the requirement of medium-rare runeword-scrolls it would take a little longer.
Garouken
19-07-2004, 05:32
he said that if you read his post
If you read his post, no he didn't.
I don't quite understand your objection to the scrolls idea(if English isn't your first language pardon me, I dont want to offend anybody). I'm suggesting that they simply tell somebody the runeword. And when the runewords are released by Blizzard, everybody with the runes will be able to make the words, like you said... that's how runewords work. So if they make people look for the scrolls to learn the words, that'll be a little more interactive than just logging onto battle.net.
theshadow
19-07-2004, 15:36
550 % better chance of getting runeword scroll, yay, i feel lucky tonight, andariel, get ready
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