Return Mangler and Blessed Penetrator

[Kaasovic]

Kassovic, what are you talking about? Show my tears of my comrades? You will be glad if you lost all of your progress in this mod? Ok give all what you have & we close this talking) My friends want just one - justice!

Fully understandable that you want justice, but not all progression was lost. The RW house shop still has access to a lot of upgraded items. The mangler was a loot so you did not lose any value because of the nerf. If the penetrator was upgraded because of looking at the item files, then that is pretty silly. We developers don't have the manpower to do extensive item testing before it is added to the game.

Just remember that if we would still be walking around with stats from 3 years ago, Ragnarok would be way more difficult.

Items get nerfed, items get buffed. Player leave, players come. Threatening to leave the mod over some minor stat changes to set an ultimatum will not help getting the items back at their original strength.

ps. my personal view doesn't necessarily reflect the view of the development team.

Polishing involves small changes, not by as much as 5 units of attack

If you take a loot at the test results winter posted in the 1.8.2 thread you would have seen that Mangler is still a powerful weapon. I can kill Odin faster then the Pike of Kings and the Jormungandr.

I am personally sorry that the RW shop took a massive hit with the coming of this update, but I would like to ask to just keep playing. Eventually there will be an upgrade for the Mangler, which will make it stronger then it currently is. Let this also be a lesson to never craft something based on stats in the item_kinds1.txt file.

So, I guess, see you on the battlefield or good luck in life if you guys decide to quit.