Gamebreaking items.

[Moerne]

Originally Posted by Rygar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And yes, fungi should have been a no drop item in VP, no business being tradeable from seb camp.

Something I've always been curious about. Devs decided the Rubicite BP was too OP and took it out of the game. Then on the very next expansion, they turned around and put the in the fungi which has a much more powerful regen, and can be used by additional classes. It just makes zero sense.

[Neno]

Originally Posted by Moerne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Something I've always been curious about. Devs decided the Rubicite BP was too OP and took it out of the game. Then on the very next expansion, they turned around and put the in the fungi which has a much more powerful regen, and can be used by additional classes. It just makes zero sense.

Rubicite armor had several problems that led to its removal, the hp regen was AFAIK not one of them. Some of it had to deal with class balance issues at the time like a ranger in full rubi being a better tank than a warrior in full rubi because of the def caps that were around back then. The rubi camps were plagued with drama as multiple groups would sit on the spawns and often KS each other causing a nightmare for the GMs. The armor itself wasn't really all that great with the exception of it looking cool. The HP regen was really only highly regarded by low level alts and shamans. Most people would be better off in Brig Tunics/Enameled Black Chestplates.

The rubi BP was essentially reintroduced in RoK as the Ceremonial Iksar Chestplate which had very little hype surrounding it due to it not being cool looking red plate.

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Moerne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Something I've always been curious about. Devs decided the Rubicite BP was too OP and took it out of the game. Then on the very next expansion, they turned around and put the in the fungi which has a much more powerful regen, and can be used by additional classes. It just makes zero sense.

Rubicite wasn't taken out due to being 'too powerful', but due to being replaced by other items, with a little laziness mixed in. It was a placeholder set so melee types wouldn't have to level through the 20's and 30's in just bronze. Note that fine plate wasn't added until much later. Hence there was something of a gap in the original game's itemization between bronze and high-level dungeon drops. The patch that added the Temple of Solusek Ro replaced Rubicite with largely superior class-specific sets. The bit of laziness stems from how the developers added Ravenscale (and removed Rubicite) by placing it in Rubicite's former drop slots in Cazic Thule.

Danth

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Rubicite wasn't taken out due to being 'too powerful', but due to being replaced by other items, with a little laziness mixed in. It was a placeholder set so melee types wouldn't have to level through the 20's and 30's in just bronze. Note that fine plate wasn't added until much later. Hence there was something of a gap in the original game's itemization between bronze and high-level dungeon drops. The patch that added the Temple of Solusek Ro replaced Rubicite with largely superior class-specific sets. The bit of laziness stems from how the developers added Ravenscale (and removed Rubicite) by placing it in Rubicite's former drop slots in Cazic Thule.

Danth

disagree, the rubricate armor gave rangers and (rogues?) the same armor class as a warrior, and was not the way the game was intended so it was nerfed. Also considering you didn't see another melee item with regen on it until the next expansion when they nerfed it, thats a clue that the regen was also considered too powerful.

The level range rubi armor affected was the games most populated level range.

[Ezrick]

Originally Posted by Moerne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Something I've always been curious about. Devs decided the Rubicite BP was too OP and took it out of the game. Then on the very next expansion, they turned around and put the in the fungi which has a much more powerful regen, and can be used by additional classes. It just makes zero sense.

Not really. The problem with Rubicite was that it was the only intermediate type armor for those classes. It caused Cazic-Thule to look like the I-5 during rush hour back in the day. Imagine 200-250 in the zone, all trying to get Rubicite.

It was replaced with the intermediate armor quests (Lambent, Crafted, etc) to ease the pressure on CT.

Yes, people actually used to use CT for something other than a wizard portal. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[clevergirl]

Originally Posted by Ezrick [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not really. The problem with Rubicite was that it was the only intermediate type armor for those classes. It caused Cazic-Thule to look like the I-5 during rush hour back in the day. Imagine 200-250 in the zone, all trying to get Rubicite.

It was replaced with the intermediate armor quests (Lambent, Crafted, etc) to ease the pressure on CT.

Yes, people actually used to use CT for something other than a wizard portal. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It should go back in IMO.