Artemiz@The Bazaar wrote:
DominoDev wrote:As for the slot limitation on adornments, yes that's something that can be changed, you CAN have an adornment that can be applied to all slots, however they do not exist that way because in the case of several of them, it would be too overpowering for the adornment to be available on all slots. Imagine the +block chance, what tank wouldn't add that effect to every single slot on his body if s/he could? What mage is not going to add a Grizzfazzle style +damage proc on every single item if s/he could? And then you'd have an untouchable tank, and wizards proc'ing for even more damage than their spells do, and severe balance issues. Any effect that we allowed to be added to all slots would HAVE to be balanced on the assumption that somebody, somewhere, IS going to try to add it to ALL slots. Any nicer effect would have to be limited just like existing adornments on what slots it could be added to. And I think you'll probably find that the nicer effects found on the T8 quest rewards probably are not available on all slots, or if they are, players are unable to actually obtain all of them and instead have to choose. (Since I share an office with Fyreflyte I see and hear him pondering these types of balance questions all the time regarding the treasured dropped items, and it sometimes makes my head spin just to try and think out all the potential balance issues!)
Woudlnt making the adornments that could be placed in any slot LORE keep that from happening?
I don't recall offhand without going to look if adornments keep a lore flag once placed on an item, I suspect they might not. However even if we assume they do, that would only work if you only wanted them to be able to use only one of any effect type. What if you want them to use up to three though? Anyway, my reading of the post was that Meirril was saying the difference between his effect type imbues and adorments is that adornments are limited in slots while imbue effects would not be limited. My explanation was just to outline why slot limitations are used and needed.
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