26-06-2019, 02:38 AM
While I do agree that sometimes Royal Guard is just a "Chore" to play on for some people. And for others it's just an "Easy AFK" I don't think buffing drop rates for them is at all going to create anything except just 16 Royal Guards in a server wanting to afk loot.
I do think adding simple and easy quests like "Block X damage with a shield" (While active at the keyboard, repairing shields filling gaps if a cade breaks etc.) that gives say 5,000 gold and a "Shield Fragment" which if you get say 50 of these (untradeable) you can make a craftable shield that is on par or better than say an Aegis shield. Or perhaps even better than an Aegis. The shield itself would be tradeable but not the fragments so as to prevent just a huge amount of people buying fragments and flooding the market with these shields. This would also mean the "Unlucky" players (like me) who haven't looted or aren't well off in items and gold etc have a chance to get a "End game" item while it would obviously not compare to Shield of Kings/Bulwark etc it would still be strong enough it could hold its own in ragnorak and hard.
And other quests like "Repair shield 10 times" (Must have atleast 80% damage to the shield) would give say 10,000 Gold and 2 Shield fragments. I haven't done quests for ages so the gold amounts may be way too high just very early suggestions. Obviously could be decreased or even increased if the Dev team liked these ideas and went ahead with the suggestion.
Overall if the current mechanics were to stay the same I would be against any kind of changes catering only to royal guards. As Kaas said, playing royal guard is a choice and the royal guard players are well aware they are in reality just gonna be "holding RMB" or the old RMB+t trick and AFKING. While some may be asked to fill in as RG for that run most times it's their own choice to play that character.
(All of the above is MY opinion and does not have any promises that anything mentioned will be implemented or changed.)
I do think adding simple and easy quests like "Block X damage with a shield" (While active at the keyboard, repairing shields filling gaps if a cade breaks etc.) that gives say 5,000 gold and a "Shield Fragment" which if you get say 50 of these (untradeable) you can make a craftable shield that is on par or better than say an Aegis shield. Or perhaps even better than an Aegis. The shield itself would be tradeable but not the fragments so as to prevent just a huge amount of people buying fragments and flooding the market with these shields. This would also mean the "Unlucky" players (like me) who haven't looted or aren't well off in items and gold etc have a chance to get a "End game" item while it would obviously not compare to Shield of Kings/Bulwark etc it would still be strong enough it could hold its own in ragnorak and hard.
And other quests like "Repair shield 10 times" (Must have atleast 80% damage to the shield) would give say 10,000 Gold and 2 Shield fragments. I haven't done quests for ages so the gold amounts may be way too high just very early suggestions. Obviously could be decreased or even increased if the Dev team liked these ideas and went ahead with the suggestion.
Overall if the current mechanics were to stay the same I would be against any kind of changes catering only to royal guards. As Kaas said, playing royal guard is a choice and the royal guard players are well aware they are in reality just gonna be "holding RMB" or the old RMB+t trick and AFKING. While some may be asked to fill in as RG for that run most times it's their own choice to play that character.
(All of the above is MY opinion and does not have any promises that anything mentioned will be implemented or changed.)