05-21-2011, 08:47 PM
Was just talking this over with another player yesterday about some ideas to make cooking more useful.
I do like the idea of a temporary skill gain to prevent fails at the cost of using rare resources to gain that advantage. We kind of already do this with fishing with bait, granted its not exactly the same but a consumable resource that gives you a temporary boost. The only thing I would want from this if added is that it would require GM in that skill before you could gain from it, ie. a smithy gaining food would not work if you weren't gm smith. This is simply so that people who didn't sink as much time in couldn't temporarily catch up to someone who worked their ass off.
As for mana being an issue, I was kind of thinking about changin up some of the tailor made armors so that they could give med bonuses. The problem with that is it would offset the value of smithy armors and would unbalance pvp a little bit. Having a food that increases mana regen could do the same to pvp as well. The only way I would stop being so hesitant about mana regen bonuses is if it came with a weakness of some sort.
I do like the idea of a temporary skill gain to prevent fails at the cost of using rare resources to gain that advantage. We kind of already do this with fishing with bait, granted its not exactly the same but a consumable resource that gives you a temporary boost. The only thing I would want from this if added is that it would require GM in that skill before you could gain from it, ie. a smithy gaining food would not work if you weren't gm smith. This is simply so that people who didn't sink as much time in couldn't temporarily catch up to someone who worked their ass off.
As for mana being an issue, I was kind of thinking about changin up some of the tailor made armors so that they could give med bonuses. The problem with that is it would offset the value of smithy armors and would unbalance pvp a little bit. Having a food that increases mana regen could do the same to pvp as well. The only way I would stop being so hesitant about mana regen bonuses is if it came with a weakness of some sort.