NordInvasion Forum - Feature Requests

Shield Weight Rebalance

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:15:17 +0000

Not a lot of players know this, but in warband theres a secret stun mechanism. in short, if the opponent is hitting your block with a heavier weapon than youre using to defend yourself, then theres a high chance of getting stunnend. (pretty much 100% chance to stun if opponent is holding attack) now if youre stunned, it doesnt show any animation, but youre basically unable to defend or attack for a while, roughly 1-2 seconds. during this time, eventhouh youre holding your shield down, ure vulnerable to any attack, doesnt matter if ranged or melee. since shield of kings only has 0.5 weight which is lighter than pretty much most of the 2h swords the nords are using, youre almost guaranteed to get stunned by most 2handers.

theres also a video that explains it:

why the shield of kigns only has 0.5 weight (my theory)
theres also a "shield on back" debuff, basically if youre carrying mutliple heavy shields, it makes you really slow. so i think the devs bypassed this by making sok really light so u can have multiple equipped.

what i am suggesting is adjusting the weight of sok to 3-4. this is roughly the sweet spot to resist most of the stuns.
now since the shield will be heavier i also suggest giving a bit more hit points like 200, since you shouldnt carry more than one anymore.
ovbiously the other shields should also get a rebalance.

i have been playing rg for more than 10 years and i know exactly that this is the reason why you randomly get killed during waves that have 2handed weapon. so id really love to see this being changed.

More Player Slots per Server

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:11:17 +0000

now that ni is active again, i wanted to ask if we could get more player slots per server?

the servers can easily handle 20 slots as seen from events.

Some random Ideas

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:09:45 +0000

These suggestions are just ideas and are not fully balanced yet.

Legendary Support Items (lootable):
I would love to see more variety in support items. For example:
Healer Items

Freeze Tome: Freezes all enemies for 5 seconds.
Safe Tome: Guarantees no Wraith spawns.
Immunity Tome: All players become unkillable for 5 seconds.
Endless Healing Box: Works like the Field Medic Box (limit 8), but without a limit.
Attack Potion: Increases attack damage.
Speed Potion: Increases attack speed.

Engineer Items

Stink Barrel: Deals damage over time.
Very Explosive Barrel: Larger explosion radius and higher damage.
Spiked Barricades: Deal minor damage to NPCs that run into them.
The Tower: A larger platform with shooting holes.
Repair Hammer: Similar to the beer that heals players on hit, but repairs barricades instead.
Mithril Wall: Extremely high HP or even unbreakable; limited to 1 per game.

Loot:
How about adding large amounts of assist XP or gold as possible drops (for example, 10 million assist XP or 2 million gold)? It could also be used as levels for all modes (normal 500k xp, hard 2mil, 10mil).
Another idea would be a lottery ticket system: Players can buy a ticket for 50,000 gold (maybe -5k to reduce gold amounts in game) to enter a hidden prize pool. When a boss is defeated, one random participating player wins the entire pot. After that, players can invest again for the next round.

Quests:
I’m not a fan of the current grinding system, especially the part where unique units only have a 50/50 chance to spawn. I would prefer quests based on wave kills instead of specific enemy types.
More Quest Variety

Special Quests: Example: “Kill NPC bosses in a specific order (Odin → Loki → Thor).” If you kill them in the wrong order, the quest resets.

Kill Quests

Kill any Nord: 10,000 / 100,000 / 1,000,000

Time Quests

Win a normal run under 7 minutes
Win a Hard run under 15 minutes
Could also exist as weekly, monthly, and one time record quests:

Weekly: Normal under 10 minutes
Monthly: Normal under 8 minutes
One time: Normal under 6 minutes

Class Specific Quests

Two Hander: Get kills with two handed weapons
RG: Block attacks with the shield
etc.

Support Item Quests

Heal other players (100 weekly / 1000 monthly)
Build barricades (100 / 1000)
Kill enemies with barrels (100 / 1000)
Revive players (100 / 1000)

Donation Quests
A new button that lets you donate money to a random active player (active within the last 48 hours).
One time donation quests:

1 million → Title: Kind Player
10 million → Title: Community Supporter
100 million → Title: Community Hero

Nation System:
Idea: A Nation Depot.

Every enemy killed by any player gives 1 depot coin.
Example: 300 kills per run × 300 runs per day = 90,000 coins.
The depot only sells materials.
Rare mats (like Lumps) could cost 90,000 coins to avoid breaking the economy.
To prevent abuse: Players who were inactive for 24 hours receive no coins.

More Character Freedom:
After reaching level 52 and unlocking a hero class, players can invest legendary essence into their character to gain up to 5 bonus points.

1 point = +1 attribute (e.g., Strength)
or +10 skill levels (e.g., Throwing)

Legendary Crafting:
A system to craft legendary items.
Requirements:

Same or higher amount of legendary essence as the item’s tier destill:

Orange low tier = 1 essence
Red mid tier = 6 essences

Plus normal crafting materials like Phoenix Feathers, Lumps, etc.

God Killer Crafting:
Ultra endgame items that require massive amounts of resources.
Example costs:

100 legendary essences
10,000 basic mats each
100 rare mats each

Challenge Mode:
On the Rag server, there is a 10% chance that bots spawn with double HP and double damage.

If you liked any of these ideas, feel free to let me know — or share a better way to implement them.

Rebalance Certain Crafting Recipes

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:12:27 +0000

I dunno how anyone else feels about this, but there seem to be some items which only serve the purpose of being a legendary upgrade material. I'm speaking specifically of the non-classed infantry and pikemen housecrafted armours, and (though more arguable) the non-classed, non-tracker archer housecrafted armours.

For the infantry and pikemen armours, I feel that there is just no purpose in crafting those armours when you can get an item with superior stats for the exact same crafting cost. In my opinion, this does a disservice to the items themselves as it makes their only real purpose to be upgrade material for when you loot a not-best-in-slot legendary armour. On the archer armours, I feel like the +2 or +4 increase to defense does not justify the increased weight or crafting cost of those items over the tracker set. I do concede that point could be up for debate.

Further to this, there are some weapons that have such a ludicrously high crafting cost relative to their stats that it would be outright foolish to waste resources on them. Things like fire blade, reinforced sks, headtaker, and steel hoplite shield to name a few can no longer serve a purpose in this mod because they are just far too expensive to justify crafting even just for the fun of it.

That's my slightly rambling thoughts anyway.

[Feature Request] Ragnarok Plus

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:13:07 +0000

Hello,
I know that many topics have already been opened about the More difficulty, and I am aware that this subject has been discussed multiple times. However, I believe the following approach could be one of the most practical solutions.
The reason is that enemy HP and other combat parameters can be adjusted without requiring a full Nord Invasion update, which makes balancing this difficulty mode much easier to implement compared to more complex system changes.
With that in mind, I would like to suggest a clearer structure for what Ragnarok+ difficulty could look like.

Proposed Difficulty Changes

Increased enemy HP
Increased enemy attack damage
Increased enemy spawn count
Maximum player limit increased by +4
Tome and Barrel usage reduced by 50%
Wave countdown timers reduced by 50%
After wave 9, no respawn except through Tome

Rewards for Playing Ragnarok+
To compensate for the increased difficulty, the mode could offer slightly improved rewards:

+1.5% increased loot drop rate
+3% increased rare material drop chance
Small increase in the amount of normal materials dropped

These changes would make Ragnarok+ feel like a true high-risk, high-reward mode, encouraging skilled and coordinated teams to attempt it while keeping the challenge meaningful.

I hope you will consider and support this suggestion.

Edit:

Some of these features might require a game update or deeper changes to Nord Invasion, and I may not be fully aware of the technical limitations. My intention is simply to suggest a possible direction for balancing Ragnarok+ difficulty.

Best regards,
King Harlaus,
King of Swadia

Permanent Ironman Mode

Thu, 22 May 2025 03:11:55 +0000

Background:
Ironman was a short lived (2ish months?) challenge. A small community of players made new characters and agreed to not access the auction hall, nor make trades with anyone outside the Ironman challenge. The goal was to recapture the challenge and nostalgia of being a brand new player to Nord Invasion. The challenge of having very little gold and resources was real, and it really required a community effort to complete crafting projects. Its was quite popular for its short run and attracted a number of old players back to the game.

Proposal:
Make a permanent Ironman Mode. I may be mistaken, but I think this could be handled fully on the website side of things.
-Each player could have a single "Ironman" character that was locked out of accessing the auction hall
-Each player's "Ironman" character would be forced into the "Ironman" house that they could not leave (otherwise the character would be deleted or reset to zero or something)
-All players in the house could be treated as captains for the purpose of individual house crafting, though they could also form self-managed sub-houses on the forum or discord or somewhere for purposes of resource pooling
-There would be regular resets to the "Ironman" characters and house. Quarterly (or semi-annually, or whatever people want) all experience and quests on "Ironman" characters would be reset to zero and all items and resources deleted from the characters and house.

Unless I'm missing something, that should effectively make it a separate mode and economy with the exception of all characters still being able to access the same servers. So hypothetically ironman characters could be carried through rag by regular, rich in legendaries players. But they still wouldn't be able to trade for anything outside the ironman house, and they couldn't buy resources from the auction hall. And I feel like having regular resets would not only provide that new player excitement, but it would also really help keep the economy flowing. No point in sitting on an item that you can't use, either dissolve it or trade it because its getting deleted in 3 months.

Thoughts?

Rollback before the Legendary essence/dust

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:24:49 +0000

I would like to request an rollback on the legendary essence/dust since its only impacting nordinvasion in a negative way imo, and i feel more people feel this way its ruining more then anything else and also quite unnescary, especially the market is getting impacted ina negative way, like cheap crap being worth shitton just because it has for some reason many legendary essence like steel stinger for example, imo the legendary dust should just be converted to 2 phoenix feathers and the legendary dust could be converted to small lump of lead for example.

If people agree with me, i would kindly ask you to comment in this thread

thanks in advance :3

A barrel that slows down or paralyze

Sat, 03 May 2025 08:58:16 +0000

Right now we have barrel that does damage. At this moment we use it on special occasions only. I would suggest to have a barrel that could do one of the thing:
-Slow down the enemy
-Make them either to not be able to hit or do little damage

That would be useful in case of barricades getting destroyed. Normal barrels usually are not placed for either to be saved for boss or for the risk that they could blow away the bots that brings loot. And that leads to wipe in case of nords getting through, since then there is no time to place it.

I believe, these barrels could be placed straight away behind the cades and be used as a back up for barricades getting down. Of course, the effect would be temporary. Optionally, boss could have immunity for the effect just in case it won't be used as regular barrels.

Map Voting v2

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:12:33 +0000

I know that there was a discussion on this topic, and in the end, some form of map change was to be introduced.

https://forum.nordinvasion.com/showthrea...t=map+vote

Quote:"This will be discussed and tweaked in the near future, but some form should be released soon.

Thank you for your suggestion."

Winter, 11-05-2018, 19:00

I was away for a few years, and I'm aware of that, but can we please have some form of map changing?

I understand the argument about boredom—playing the same map over and over—but hey, we're here for fun. If the majority of the server wants to change the map, let it happen. Obviously, you can regulate it, like not allowing the same map twice in a row or setting other rules.

Apart from that, I know you guys (devs) have lives outside the game. If that's the case, can you give the admins the green light to change maps if the vast majority wants it? It’s a band-aid solution, but it’s better than playing Mountain Pass.

[Feature Request] Weapon Evolution

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:09:45 +0000

Hello everyone, its me your King hehe

Currently, we can upgrade certain weapons (e.g., Malice → Cursed Malice, Rebellion → Raging Rebellion), but what if we could continue upgrading even further? Instead of stopping at one upgrade, we could have multiple upgrade tiers to make weapons even more powerful while maintaining balance.
How Would It Work?

Each upgraded weapon could have additional levels, such as:
- Cursed Malice → Cursed Malice II → Cursed Malice III
- Raging Rebellion → Raging Rebellion II → Raging Rebellion III
Each upgrade would require additional rare materials, gold, and faction points. (yes faction point)
The stat increases would be small but meaningful, keeping balance in check.

Faction Points Limitation:

Certain weapons would require a minimum amount of faction points to be used, not just upgraded. For example:
- Cursed Malice II → Requires 15,000 Faction Points to equip
- Cursed Malice III → Requires 25,000 Faction Points to equip
- Raging Rebellion II → Requires 20,000 Faction Points to equip
- Raging Rebellion III → Requires 30,000 Faction Points to equip
This ensures that only dedicated faction members can wield the highest-tier weapons, maintaining game balance and progression.

Would you be interested in seeing this implemented? Let’s discuss how we can balance the upgrade system with faction points!

Improve RG 1h

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:40:23 +0000

While checking the stats from each infantry hero I noticed that the 1h stat of the Royal Guard (+10) is the same as the Zweihander (+10) which is something I never expected (and neither did others when I mentioned it in a public run). The Royal Guard is basically a 1h + shield hero so I would've expected it to have better 1h stats than a Zweihander who is meant for 2h slashing. I think the Royal Guard should be between the Zweihander (+10) and the Legionnaire (+50)? Maybe something like +30?

Buff tr4 Inf

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:10:44 +0000

Debated about making this thread, but while it's on mind I guess I should just say it

Relatively simple request that doesn't even affect me at this point. I made 6 or 7 heroes this year over all the classes I was able to get my hands on the best gear almost possible for tr4. I probably have a bit of a unique perspective given I did it all so fast vs over the years people normally do it

Inf is balanced around having the best armour and over the years has seen many buffs at a hero level that may of not all come down the line fairly? More so then that honestly is Orange legendaries being penetrator, hurricane, Db all work great with low armour. Its not like there is any orange armour huh I know that was a thing maybe planned at one point but we'll there isn't

Torch I found was the best for inf but.. ye low armour makes it extremely risky to use

In theory inf should be the quickest or at least the same time to level with the XP multiplier but that simply wasn't the case for me not even needed to put any xp into ranged for the other classes. Getting kills was that easy being on top of the score board as tr4 as sniper or pike or xbow on rag but I had no chance to do that as inf not even close

I'm not even sure what it needs but in my time playing think it wouldn't hurt to give tr3 and tr4 extra HP like the heroes have?

Not even going to suggest anything else honestly

Boots for ranger

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:16:35 +0000

Can rangers have legendary boots please? it seems to be the only spec to have a house crafted boots as a best in slot with the Swadian boots at 33 armor

Rework Support class

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:21:44 +0000

Hey,

As I was playing with my pavise (equipped with: Dragon Axe, Steel Tower Shield, Bolt Tosser, and Cursed Onyx) as always, I was informed that I am not allowed to do so because I am not supporting the team. Even if my shield is deployable and I corner bosses with it.

So, I would like to ask if the support classes can be reworked.

Maybe like this:
Add a 4th Weapon Slot in the Character window and make a menu, which is accessible by everyone for the support items.
For example, there is a menu for barricades. This could be reworked to add everything there --> Cades, Barrels, Tomes.
Barrels and tomes can be accessed this way. You click them in the menu and, if you have space left, you can pick them up as if they were on the ground.

Regards,
Kata

Move some personal crafting stuff to house crafting as well

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 05:58:46 +0000

Crafting is a pain an unnecessary time sink in it self moving stuff around IDs/houses/accounts let alone the other variables

Be a good quality life update and good for those that don't have enough house crafting Xp if some of the basic stuff from personal crafting was available on the equivalent house crafting

Its like anyone with house crafting level (Defender 22) will already have the personal crafting level (Armorsmith 22) that's almost a given? Like If you can find me someone that doesn't actually have that I would be very impressed and confused how they got there

They dont even need to be on the same level just make them available in some form. Even if it was 2x the level so not level 22 but level 44 house crafting at least it's there something to aim for as well

From Armorsmith --> Available on Defender

From Blacksmith --> Available on Attacker

From Alchemist --> Available on Support

Its stuff like this where me someone that clearly has the access to craft all of this just looks at this person goes.. What do I even get out of this other than doing it out of the kindness of my own heart

My crafting levels are this high because I have crafted so many things over the years for people the amount of time that I have wasted in crafting It's kind of ridiculous at this point If I could see a total

I've been on the receiving end of people that clearly had no idea on the math involved in crafting where it took me hours to craft a very basic thing for them because they were low on certain quantities and slow messages

At the very least could make it a bit easier it'll be much appreciated