I hear a LOT of people complain about the lack of diversity in lockdown and how most of the good players always seem to be high UV’d skolver clones. And why not? Skolver has all of the essentials a player needs: excellent pierce defense, shivermist immunity, and sword damage increase very high! Couple that with some UV’s like ASI very high and shock or stun immunity and you have a one-man wrecking crew that out-guns everyone without equal UV’s and glides over mist bombs like they’re nothing but fog.
So, what I’d like to purpose today may essentially eliminate the absolute need for skolver and possibly UV’s for the most part – which is to allow players up to FOUR trinket slots instead of two.
Now, this may sound a bit crazy, but I’m going to address all the pros and cons I can determine and please feel free to throw in a couple of your own. Now, let’s get started…
Pros:
What would four trinkets allow you to do? Basically, this gives you the ability to go toe-to-toe with a skolver in pretty much anything you want. Let’s say you want to wear mercurial mail because it yields shock immunity and has really solid pierce defense. What are its weaknesses however? Well, you receive no damage bonus. If you are allowed two more trinkets however, you can overcome the damage bonus and now essentially have a shock immuned skolver. Pretty cool yes? This would also work for Royal jelly, Ice Queen, and well, pretty much anything. All by granting two more slots.
Now I know that this feature would also be available to skolvers and some would argue that they would STILL be OP because they could be granted a double immunity because they’re already immuned to ice, but let’s not forget that armors like the jelly line also have increased pierce defense and can thus tank more hits. Also, from what I’ve seen, double immunities don’t really make that much difference in most situations.
In addition, if you’re one of the Highly UV’d players, this doesn’t take your precious UV’s away. What it does do is split the group. On one side you have players that have the UV’d weapons but no extra defense; and on the other you have players with extra defense but no beefed up weapons. If you have both the UV’d weapons and gear, you are now free to sell half of your inventory and use the money to buy something else, or you can have a single, complete package that requires no loadout changing on your part (I would personally find this to be rather dull after a while though).
Cons:
From where I stand this would give the bombers a heck of a time trying to keep up (especially since the recent RSS nerf). That being said however, bombers really don’t have much of a chance to begin with since all a good gunner or swordsman needs to do is stop you from dropping your bombs only once to kill you and I’ve also grown rather tired of the run-of-the-mill bombers who think they need only a voltaic tempest or stagger storm to ward off an invasion force. I’d much rather see bombers swapping their bombs to cover multiple statuses instead of one like I used to do (at least this way you’d feel less like you were just simply spamming).
In contrast to this though, strike bombers would now be a more feasible combat option, since would be able to negate the striker charge time increase and still maintain double penta health. And if you had two of these guys on your team, you could realistically cover a point from most oncoming attackers.
For the developers:
At a glance, this could possibly result in lost revenue for OOO. But bare in mind that the price to keep step with highly UV’d players is having to continually purchase trinket slot upgrades (four of them!). That means that players will have continue to pay CE to keep up they’re strength which is good. This could also possibly mean that the clockworks would be even easier to conquer too; in which case I would suggest that players only be allowed to use two trinkets while navigating the clockworks.
I also don’t think it would be wise to allow players to utilize more than two of each type of trinket as well (i.e. four pentas, slash modules, etc.).
Conclusion:
So what do you all think? Have I missed anything? I feel this would be quite a reasonable solution and would make everyone happy. Please leave some comments.
I really like this idea. It would level the playing field soooo much, I'm tired of seeing skolver over and over again :/