Game systems porn of the week (Legendaries)

[Tarami]

It's ten pages long, I'm not going to post it all. 

Legendary items dev diary

[Mrbloodworth]

Looks sweet!

Terminology

    * Legendary Item – The obvious one: these are the items that are the backbone of the system.
    * Item Experience (IXP) – Legendary Items earn IXP through monster kills, much like an avatar would. Quest rewards and other mechanisms may sometimes reward IXP as well
    * Legacies – These are class-specific modifiers on Legendary Items that can have their bonuses advanced
    * Legend Points – These are earned by leveling up Legendary Items, and can be used to advance Legacies.
    * Titles – Titles can be earned through performing certain quests, and are applied to Legendary Items. These change the weapon’s damage types, provide slayer bonuses, and other modifiers.
    * Forge-master – An NPC that can help you Identify and Re-forge your Legendary Items.
    * Identification – At Forge-master NPCs, you can have your Legendary Items identified. This will reveal the legacies on the item.
    * Re-forging – At Forge-master NPCs, you can re-forge a Legendary Item every 10 levels. The re-forging process provides multiple benefits.
    * Relic-master – At Relic-master NPCs, you can deconstruct Legendary Items or Combine simple Relics into more advanced Relics.
    * Deconstruction – At Relic-master NPCs, you can deconstruct Legendary Items. The deconstruction process generates Relics, Heritage-runes, and Legendary Shards.
    * Relics – These are items with set bonuses that can be slotted into Legendary Items. There are three types: Settings, Gems, and Runes.
    * Heritage Runes – When you deconstruct a Legendary Item that has been leveled it can produce Heritage Runes which allow you to transfer some of the Item’s IXP to another Legendary Item.
    * Legendary Shards – Legendary Shards can be used by crafters to create new Legendary Items. Like normal Legendary Items, they must be identified at a Forge-master to reveal their Legacies.

[Modern Angel]

If I had a 50 I would be all over this.

[Tarami]

Looks sweet!

Lulz on the legacy, "ultra-crit", maybe you're referring to Devastating hit?

Fake edit: It even says "ulta", hihihihihi.  (Hell, it became a real edit.)

[Nebu]

Item experience?  It's ToA version 2.0.

Damn, I wanted to try this game... I'll be damned if I'm going to add more grind by leveling items.  Been there, done that.

[Mrbloodworth]

Item experience?  It's ToA version 2.0.

Damn, I wanted to try this game... I'll be damned if I'm going to add more grind by leveling items.  Been there, done that.

Its not just leveling items, is leveling and basically creating items with the stats you want. I would recommend reading the two articles, before writing it off.

[Nebu]

Its not just leveling items, is leveling and basically creating items with the stats you want. I would recommend reading the two articles, before writing it off.

I also realized (after my knee jerk reaction) that the whole point fo the game is pve.  Another grind isn't such a big deal.  I'll read the articles before I react again.  You're right. 

[Mrbloodworth]

No worries. Ther is, also PvP in this game, but its a unique form. I dig it. Playing a monster is cool. lol.

[Tarami]

Its not just leveling items, is leveling and basically creating items with the stats you want. I would recommend reading the two articles, before writing it off.

I also realized (after my knee jerk reaction) that the whole point fo the game is pve.  Another grind isn't such a big deal.  I'll read the articles before I react again.  You're right. 

In other grindtastic news, they're sorta reducing the deed grind a bit since virtues remain capped at 10 in MoM. They'll keep adding deeds for them however, which means you get to choose which deeds you want to do to raise them and can pick the easiest ones (rather than the cockgrinds that are 360 elite Giants.)