Wand Customization

Started by Rotem, December 06, 2015, 06:27:19 AM

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Rotem

I began working on wands with memory stones allowing you to make a memory wand that tracks your kills, it allows you to brag about monster and player kills with a nice fancy map text.

Yesterday I added to TWC the ability to level up wands all the way to level 30, every wand begins at 0. For all who wanders, this is achieved via a special items from super secret winter event stuff and I'm not even sure how it'll be obtained when the super secret winter very temporary event stuff is gone. (Hint: Orbs of chaos and peace)

At the moment, a wand at level 30 gives the same stat bonuses as a fully enchanted gear, meaning it doubles the amount of stats you could gain from items.

There are however quite a few differences one of which being that a wand is a very personal item, if you so much as let your wand be held by a stranger then you're in danger of losing everything you've worked for, the level will reset and the progress will begin at 0 as if it's a normal wand, only you could level it up, you can not help others do it.

It should be obvious but wand exp is only gained via kills with wand equipped and not from books, if you thought exp lamps are useless, think again, not only do they help you gain experience rank but now also wand exp. There's of course the house cup exp bonus and several other ways to gain exp faster. I tried really hard to make wand exp even slower than experience rank but only time will tell if I have to adjust it. (Might even be too hard)

So this is all what's in but not the reason why this post is in suggestion board, I've been thinking about it for awhile and it came up in plenty other suggestions, people want to customize their moves, their spells, so we will be testing a graphic change to projectiles via wand customization however it might look horrible and we might scrap it if it does.

My idea at the moment is to farm for a certain item, the only name I can think of is a "wand core", as you apply it to your wand you can alter the text color of memory wands as well as add color to projectiles and I say 'add color' and not change or set color because it literally is going to add let's say, red to the already blue glacius resulting in a different color due to the fact I have no artist to dump the required tasks of creating proper projectiles for this.

If you're interested in making the required art, re-do or re-color every projectile with shades of white and black. The projectile would need to have proper shape and texture and color will be completely controlled by programming, I don't see the point of waddiwasi for example of being recolored as it's a crap shape anyway.

Now this is just one more addition but wands are already starting to look amazing.
Of course this suggestion subtracts the whole method of how to obtain said cores but hey, I'm sure I'll come up with an evil way to make you grind for it. The whole idea of being a wizard going around the wizard world crafting magical artifacts and gaining power that way is exciting to me. (The whole point behind the enchanter, magical rituals).




As a side note unrelated to this suggestion, TWC has been through a great deal of change and so did BYOND, suggestions that were previously not possible should be revisited. We re-did projectiles, BYOND finally allows me to use all the tools without harming overlays or name tags, that alone brings up 2 suggestions back on the table of revamping spells (mostly trans) and buyable potions (I didn't read it or find it but if you can get good potion effects it might be a thing).

TWC's just changed so much and as it changes we shorten the gap between your wild dreams to reality.

Skystone

Quote from: Rotem on December 06, 2015, 06:27:19 AM
I began working on wands with memory stones allowing you to make a memory wand that tracks your kills, it allows you to brag about monster and player kills with a nice fancy map text.

Didn't you already put this in the game?

Quote from: Rotem on December 06, 2015, 06:27:19 AM
At the moment, a wand at level 30 gives the same stat bonuses as a fully enchanted gear, meaning it doubles the amount of stats you could gain from items.

Niceee.

Quote from: Rotem on December 06, 2015, 06:27:19 AM
There are however quite a few differences one of which being that a wand is a very personal item, if you so much as let your wand be held by a stranger then you're in danger of losing everything you've worked for, the level will reset and the progress will begin at 0 as if it's a normal wand, only you could level it up, you can not help others do it.

There goes my idea of creating an elder wand-like weapon that could be shared between people.

Quote from: Rotem on December 06, 2015, 06:27:19 AM
My idea at the moment is to farm for a certain item, the only name I can think of is a "wand core", as you apply it to your wand you can alter the text color of memory wands as well as add color to projectiles and I say 'add color' and not change or set color because it literally is going to add let's say, red to the already blue glacius resulting in a different color due to the fact I have no artist to dump the required tasks of creating proper projectiles for this.

Wand core... just like the lightsaber crystals in Star Wars! :D

Quote from: Rotem on December 06, 2015, 06:27:19 AM
As a side note unrelated to this suggestion, TWC has been through a great deal of change and so did BYOND, suggestions that were previously not possible should be revisited. We re-did projectiles, BYOND finally allows me to use all the tools without harming overlays or name tags, that alone brings up 2 suggestions back on the table of revamping spells (mostly trans) and buyable potions (I didn't read it or find it but if you can get good potion effects it might be a thing).

TWC's just changed so much and as it changes we shorten the gap between your wild dreams to reality.

Sweet. Thanks Rotem.

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Quote from: Skystone on December 06, 2015, 09:25:29 AM
Quote from: Rotem on December 06, 2015, 06:27:19 AM
I began working on wands with memory stones allowing you to make a memory wand that tracks your kills, it allows you to brag about monster and player kills with a nice fancy map text.

Didn't you already put this in the game?
I meant I began working at wand customization topic by adding memory stones, it was done, in the past, as a first step to the whole topic.