Would it not be nice

[Fafnir]

If you could run to your local enchanter and buy yourself a few buffs...

 

[hrodelbert]

would they last untill you died, or be on a timer?

 

[Fafnir]

As with normal buffs. Would be nice for lower lvl chars.
And i'm not talking about lvl 50 augment buffs, just that little extra that would help you lvl.

 

[old.Ayam Ganbatte]

That would be nice, good idea. If it hasn't been posed to Mythic, do it Fafnir, you could be the saviour of all low levellers through this one action. They'd all want to be with you, you'd be like the reincarnation of Jon.

 

[hrodelbert]

only problem being it may seem a bit unfair on enhance specced clerics

 

[Ragnarok1978]

I think it might be a little unfair towards the "buff" classes.

It would probably be a good idea for lower level chars to have an amount of free buffs pr. lvl they can get in the local newbie town, which would have an expirering rate of perhaps 10-20 mins.

But to go as far as to add buff vendors who add the regular type of buffs would be a bad idea imo.

 

[hrodelbert]

in realm hasteners would be fun, some of the horse routes are just inadequate, it might make people go and xp in places they traditionally wouldnt because of the time taken to get there

 

[Psy|:m00:]

If it would stop newbies running up to me and screaming "BUFFS PLZ!!!1" then I'm all for having npc buffers, saves a heck of a lot of hassle

 

[tris-]

i think i read in patch 1.53 that if you got a level 50 (or maybe just level 40+) then you get a chance of starting a new character at a higher level (20 for instance)

 

[hrodelbert]

not going to happen, and a good thing too imho

 

[Fafnir]

I hope it happens, thoose first 20 is awful when you just want a char for thid. And maybe, murd will come to life too....

If this dont happen perhaps they should lower the lvls for the bg
11-14, 15-19, 20-24

 

[hrodelbert]

I can see your point but I still feel you should have to play a character right from the beginning, if you intend on making an active realm member of it. Having said that, for those people who like to have a play around in This I guess it would be nice for them

 

[Glyph_mid]

Its only really on our server that BG 2 and BG3 i dead, in US they are quite active

 

[liste]

buffers would be bad. simply because it will give older players an edge, that new commers dont have. Cash.

Twinking is a problem enough as it is

 

[Uncle Sick(tm)]

*thinks about charging money for armsbuffs in the future*

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Nice idea Faf, I really like it.

Actually, since you've brought the subject up, it touches on the idea of potions and stuff which could be bought for this purpose.

You could have a max level that the item will affect (say about lvl10 or so) so that the char could spend a few copper then for that fight with those dratted Tomtes and stuff you've got more of a chance.

Benefit of this is that the timer can start once the character gets to the place where they will be fighting.

Can see there being issues on a PvP server but probably not any worse than any of the other issues.

 

[old.Krusha]

Originally posted by n3wbie
i think i read in patch 1.53 that if you got a level 50 (or maybe just level 40+) then you get a chance of starting a new character at a higher level (20 for instance)

not in a patch note, but in "State of the Game" post, where they talked about what they have planned for the game.

see point 11 here

 

[Brunore]

1st level Viking: Giv buuf

Me: I'm a Thane, I only have selfbuffs

1st level Viking: Giv buuf plz

Me: <casts self str buff>

1st level Viking: ta <runs off>

This happend out side Fort Atla last night.

 

[Graknak]

I say it's a bad idea to make enchanters or any other buff npc.
As it has been said, it would make buff classes less needed in groups and it would mean they are harder to lvl as they don't get advantages of the buff npc as they can buff themselves.
And the buffs would make killtasking waaay to easy if soloing.