Trade activated artifacts

[Vandar]

Why oh why did they design TOA so you can only activate an artifact once and can't trade an activated ones

Any whispers of this changing in future patches??

 

[Shrye]

Should be rather obvious, to prevent people from turning in their 5% dur artifact for a new 100% one?

 

[kirennia]

/em strokes his template with all jewelery slot artifacts

 

[Vandar]

Should be rather obvious, to prevent people from turning in their 5% dur artifact for a new 100% one?

hmm. Well that really put it to bed.... So why would they want to stop you to doing that??
What is it with arties that Mythic thought, "I know, lets make em work their ass off for a month or two to get decent templates together, then make it so after a few months the equipment is salvage and they have to change all their items and do it all over again, Cool!! That will keep the subscriptions Rolling in."

It no maka de sense

 

[kirennia]

Cool!! That will keep the subscriptions Rolling in."

I think you just answered your own question

 

[Bloodaxe_Springskalle]

so in the end it will become something like all low rr chars have artis and the high rr chars have regular items?
that makes no sense....
the second my artis are unusable and its hell on earth scrapping together a decent template i will quit.

 

[Zeelee]

con/dur on artis, quest items and other items u cant get a renewd when they are borke makes no sens ....

 

[illu]

I'm sure by the time you reach RR1010 - there will be more uber items out there to replace them in ToA3 "The Revenge of the PvE 20000 hours killing the same mob to get xp once you get the 10 scrolls off the 7 other mobs that you need 15 fg to get which drops once every blue moon" game.

As long as you don't use the item other than when in RvR - and when obviously you had to level it up in PvE - I imagine it will last the course of the RR1010 journey.....

Oli - Illu

 

[IainC]

Spellcrafting ruined the game! Its too easy to cap everything.

Mythic: "Well we can't make spellcrafting worse, but we can give you more things to cap so you'll have to spread your template out more and it will be really hard to cap everything.

WTF! I can't cap everything anymore and if I can now, then I won't be able to when the artifacts in my template wear out.

Mythic:

 

[Aussie]

Some artis are class restricted = no trade
but they do have to start fixing the dur problem.. active players are getting punished in the long term for playing too much.

 

[Meduza]

Somehow the balance between hard core players and casual players seems fair in this case...

Hard core players decays their priceless artis faster and at some time after getting 10 ga-zillion rps they need to re-do their template.

Honest, look at me and see how much I care...

!!!

(Artis shouldn't decay in PvE tho)

 

[Aybabtu]

If artifacts are so powerful as the stories make them, they shouldn't lose dur at all, imo

 

[old.Whoodoo]

the second my artis are unusable and its hell on earth scrapping together a decent template i will quit.

Introducing CATACOMBES!!!! Your new ticket to yet more enjoyable long hours camping and exping your brand new template!!!

Just when you thought you had enough of the good ol exp grind on your beloved ToA artifacts, we make them too obsolete, just like Spindlehalla drops, Tuscaren Glacier gems and many more.

Instead of camping that illusive mob for days, we'll let you wait for months for your item, its worse that second class post and costs even more, but think of the fun you will have in emain showing off your new glowy nipple hauberk, your twinkling cod-peice or that phalic shaped hammer!!

Watch as you salvage your precious template in favour of new improved Template 2!!!

Available in the shops soon, price $20.99 plus a pint of blood and your undivided devotion to the game!

Lost souls and relationtionships not refundable.

See it coming?

 

[Blitzing]

Should be rather obvious, to prevent people from turning in their 5% dur artifact for a new 100% one?

how is it trading activated artifacs would make that posible??

 

[old.Whoodoo]

I still like the idea of buying back your dur with cash or BPs...

 

[Ralgedi Smurf]

First most artifact last very long, atleast if only used in PvP... But ofc its annoying that it gets useless at some point...

But if you use Sc and lots of the nasty none arti drops in ToA you could still make pretty nice templates, and anyway there is no doubt that Catacombs will bring even better items/artifacts then toa

But tbh i dont care my template is gimp and have 2 artifacts, so when they wear out i still have lots of choices :]

 

[Chronictank]

Its to stop people camping every art 24/7 pling them to 10 then selling them for ridiculous prices.
If you could trade artis then no casual player would ever have a chance of getting them as they would be farmed.

Second is to stop you gathering then pling ur artis on ur main and passing them to your toons.

Artis werent spose to be easy, annoying as they are its working as intended in the sence that it has slowed the leveling process, higher util artis = longer to level

 

[Blitzing]

Its to stop people camping every art 24/7 pling them to 10 then selling them for ridiculous prices.
If you could trade artis then no casual player would ever have a chance of getting them as they would be farmed.

but w8, people do that all rdy dont they? besides the lvling them to lvl 10 and selling to ridiculous prices. now they just camp/farm and sell for ridiculous prices.

well i guess they work if they intend to take the joy out of the game i guess and yes i know the game isnt all RvR but, it sucks ass that you have to spend to eternety to lvl them before they are worth any thing, and then those stupid lvling rules, with what mobs they lvl on and what time of day. gonna be better when they fix it into just normal zones, SI and toa zones, makes it alot more easy, though still borring like hell

 

[erialor]

I don't mind it taking time to lvl the artifacts, they're meant to be somewhat unique at least.

What bothers me is the loss in dur, my Traldors is almost down to 75% dur now, granted I've been using it in PvE, too - not that much lately though after I realised that these 'indestructable' artifacts is indeed far from indestructable.....

So givf Catacombs with new good stuff, or let's have a way to fix the dur, please

 

[Blitzing]

hehe they prolly insert some kind of magic that makes an item indestructable, and make it more rare than emain with out zergs. so when ever it drops it vil be sold for like 50M

 

[Cinort]

Would be nice if a leg. crafter could repair dur, at a high cost ofc !

 

[Moggit]

Im sure i read somewhere that in a future patch you will be able to fix your artis. i think its in one of the patch notes from the american servers

 

[Huntingtons]

ye been told that you can kill some of the .10 encounters and get arti dur back, different bosses for different items :O

 

[Jox]

Im sure i read somewhere that in a future patch you will be able to fix your artis. i think its in one of the patch notes from the american servers

It was a false patch note, besides, when the powergamers artifacts start to reach 10-15% in durability catacombs will drop...

The fucked ones would be the morons who pve with their toa-outfit, like me for example. But I only play rvr once, maybe twice every week so my items should make it to catacombs/wow.

 

[Draylor]

Im sure i read

you didnt - not from an accurate source at least

ye been told

Whoever told you that was wrong

 

[Olgaline]

one day i will buy hundreds of totems..just so i can say my bp's were usefull for something.

 

[ilaya]

didnt mythic say they were commited to ensuring that player made items would be the most powerful in game? sod the artifacts.. when are the crafters gonna get the reward they deserve?

 

[Bishibosh]

The Artifact Scholar says: "Ah! The belt of Everlasting Eternity! This belt was routinely used to hold the pure existance of Atlantis together, before the destruction of the city, after which it was dropped into a volcano by a horned rabbit who stole it from a cyclops who once used it as a monocle! It then decended into the centre of the earth, where countless hell-spawned demons tried for centuries to break it, yet never achieved a scratch! Then it flowed out during an erruption whereupon it was buried in tons of ash, and then was dug up by a shark who proceeded to chew on it until this day! It's invunerable!"

[two days later]

The puny skeleton attacks you and misses!
:crack: [belt breaks, trousers fall down, everyone points and laughs].

 

[Dracus]

lol...excactly...arent artifacts by definition eternal? unless *cough* thrown into a firey mountain *cough* ?

Else they wudnt be artifacts?

/Dracus

 

[Deadnala]

There is a game (wich i cant remember the name atm) where artifacts are UNIQUE in the game. Thus 1 superartifact for the whole server. then if a player kill you, you may lose it and the player who kill you get it as a drop. So i think we cant complain tbh.