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A revenant, by definition, is literally a living dead. I wanted it, at first, to be related to Dhar, but a name that literally translates to being undead seems a bit of a stretch no matter how I try to slice it. I could see Chirography take the place of Tracking, but I do agree with @Rijetta that it could be templar/zealot/lumi, too.
Wardens, in reading and looking at their skillset names, are so Duiran, unbelievably Duiran. Ancestry and Communion alone mark it as Duiran-y.
I don't know though. I can parse out so many different threads. I'm super excited.
I think.
Can we please make this Warding or Guardianship or something instead?
edit: Wardening, Protectoration
(Web): Abhorash says, "Nerds."
(Web): Abhorash has left your web.
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(Web): Abhorash says, "Nerds."
(Web): Abhorash has left your web.
Alela's Affirmations
You know, @Tiur ... we could help you come up with a better word if we knew what Wardenship entailed...
Maybe another juicy tidbit for us fiends?
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Since IRE is for profit, I would assume they would make brand new artifacts for each new class. Especially since the new classes aren't going to be anything like their mirror (besides mechanics).
I feel this would be fair since I purchased artifacts based on playing that type of class. Now that the same type of class will be available to both tethers, any crossover should be able to be finalized.
Honestly I'm more than happy to pay to buy artifacts on a brand new class. Like when wayfarer was launched etc. But copies of other classes. It's a bit different. I understand the business behind it, but... it's always great to take care of the early adopters, because that's good business too. Grandfather the current player base into being able to make a one time artifact transfer. The artifact has already been bought. It's different to pay for new content vs. copied/reworked content.
I understand that IRE is a business and exists to incentivize sales and make sales, but I don't think that has to come at the expense of making players feel victimized by the sunk cost fallacy (or that they have to choose between a rock and a hard place if their character RP pulls them in a specific new direction). Aetolia's main draw, at the end of the day, is character roleplay, and for many people this is going to involve things like redemption arcs, corruption arcs, etc, etc, etc. But no matter how much RP you see out of, like, @Haven, you're likely to never see him bite the bullet and go full villain because that would involve him having to literally flush monetary investments down the toilet.
This probably would require its own thread and several accompanying emails and stuff to hammer out, but I think, with Aet being so story-driven (in theory), it would behoove the game to have a bespoke answer to these sorts of problems, things that still potentially earn money (and maybe more money in the longrun) by making things like sidehopping easier. A few things that come immediately to mind:
- Class-Specific-Artifact-Conversion: this would allow you to basically, for some predetermined flat fee, convert something like a Praenomen bashing artifact into any of the opposite tether. 100 credits? Not sure, but this would take some of the sting off, especially for people with L3 Artifacts.
- Sidehop Tokens: this is a REALLY halfbaked idea I came up with this morning, so it might be incredibly dumb, but some sort of combo package that makes sidehopping easier for a flat credit fee.
- Restricted Lesson Discounts: I do think with milestones, the loss of lessons is less burdensome, but if you're saying goodbye to mutltiple tether classes, it can be rough to lose those lessons. Maybe some way to sell lessons at a discounted rate.
A lot of things that hurt player morale about these things are merely framing devices. Would a 100 credit conversion fee be roughly equivalent to the tradein value for several artifacts? Sure! Are sidehop tokens still a Price of Admission? Absolutely. But I think framing things like class changes and sidehops as an opportunity to sell new things versus making up for lost things is kind of an important framing for people, and it gives people multiple options when it comes to dealing with character roleplay. Loss Aversion is a real problem, I think, and worth considering, especially as mirror classes begin to relax tether mechanical exclusivity.That said, no one is forcing you to switch sides. Currently, if you tether hop, you can expect your class artifacts to not work on a new class. I do not see a reason that should change just because the class you are moving to is, code wise, a mirror of another. Save for cases we already allow artifacts to change over, like weapon runes, eq speed, mp regen, etc.