I think that repairing is fine the way it is, and /fix should never be implemented again unless it has a day long cooldown or something on it to reduce its usefulness to rich players.
Once you hit a certain regal amount, repairing your items with /fix was instant and negligible. Thus creating rich pvpers who could instantly repair their armor for as long as they had regals.
Considering some people have access to thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of regals, I don't think /fix should ever come back, unless its limited.
I also don't think this change was done to "increase purchasing of god armor", I feel it was certainly done to reduce the inflated amount of god items on the server though.
However, reinstating what you're saying doesn't fix the problem, and in my opinion only makes it worse. If we reinstate these changes, /fix or AF, then those same players who have TONS of god items will once again have more means to KEEP those items into pepetuity. Especially larger or more developed factions who also already possess tons of god items totalling from the individuals in the faction who possess items.
I know that since I have about a dub of god armor, as a single player, that some of these larger factions must have several chests full at minimum. Having used the current repair system myself many times, I find it completely adequate as is. This was a good change.
Arcane Forging, from my experience, really isn't all that different from the current way to repair things with anvils, other than it requires grinding MCmmo XP and has a chance of failing to retain enchantments. I don't like this idea because it creates a further divide between the established PvPers (who were using and have leveled their repair skill before AF was changed, and I'm sure would love for it to come back because it personally benefits them, funny how there's always suggestions from pvpers that personally benefit the suggester) and newer players who will have to manually repair their god gear the vanilla way.
To be honest, I see little reason to bring this back other than perhaps pure laziness on your part/the part of the repairing party. I think that the system we have now is what we need to have. It's virtually fair, it makes repairing more involved and tedious, and its helping with our problem of item inflation.
I can fight one person who's using an axe, and if they are a good pvper, I will have to switch out my set or repair it mid battle. I would argue that's a bit much. Not to mention the compounding effect of being hit by multiple people with axes.
So I would argue we should change axe armor damage values instead of reinstating AF.
I like having to repair the current way tbh, it makes the whole process more involved on the players end, and it's really not as hard as you let on to keep suits up.
It's just now you have to actually work and do tedious tasks to repair items and sets that you may not have had to before (aside from grinding repair). Which I think is an awesome thing.
Because now, say I'm fighting two people who are both richer than me, say I die or escape but manage to break their armor decently.
Well, if I was to come attack again, if your changes were implemented, they could both do /fix while I have to gain XP and go to an anvil if I want my armor to be in good shape. You could argue I could do /fix as well, but there's a difference between someone with few regals doing /fix and someone who's amassed a fortune doing /fix. One can do it into perpetuity and virtually not care, the other has to be very careful because its quite expensive.
So that's essentially unlimited durability if you can afford it. Bad.
Also, if you're darkrooming in god gear... you're uh, you're... doing it wrong..
This screams of assumptions and misinformation.
Arcane Forging, from my experience, really isn't all that different from the current way to repair things with anvils, other than it requires grinding MCmmo XP and has a chance of failing to retain enchantments
That's a huge difference, lol. It's the difference between doing a couple of hours grinding once to get 1k repair and grinding for 20 minutes to fix a set. Plus, if you really think that there's no difference between the two why are you so against AF?
I can fight one person who's using an axe, and if they are a good pvper, I will have to switch out my set or repair it mid battle.
What? No. Massive hasn't been this way in ages. I have nearly 3.8ish thousand axes, and I honestly can't remember the last time I broke someone's armor. Repairing/switching armor isn't a thing, nor has it been in years.
So I would argue we should change axe armor damage values instead of reinstating AF.
Which would help, but would not solve the problem of darkrooming being unprofitable. Because despite your claim that
Also, if you're darkrooming in god gear... you're uh, you're... doing it wrong..
That is absolutely how you darkroom, and is how massive has historically darkroomed since I joined the server. I've spent dozens, maybe hundreds, of hours in darkrooms, and haven't darkroomed in non god armor since I got more than a few sets in like early 2014. Mob damage is really just way too high to darkroom effectively without god armor; I'd argue it's frankly a bit difficult to do even with god armor with the way damage currently is.
and it's really not as hard as you let on to keep suits up.
I recently mostly quit massive/sold the majority of my items and started over. It absolutely is extremely difficult to profit experience-wise while darkrooming, to the point where it's affected my motivation to get on massive because I know I'll have to spend an unholy amount of time darkrooming, something which I feel I shouldn't really have to do considering the unholy amount of time I've put into darkrooming during the earlier part of my time on Massive.
It's just now you have to actually work and do tedious tasks to repair items and sets that you may not have had to before (aside from grinding repair). Which I think is an awesome thing.
There is more than enough grinding on massive. If you want to grind, go grind your axes, grind enchants to sell, whatever. Established pvpers have put enough time into it that they should not have to continuously do hours of grinding to keep up their supplies to pvp on Massive, especially when it at the same time it hurts new players, since they have a much more difficult time getting established on massive without any form of reasonable repair that they can get from allies/pay relatively cheaply for.
Well, if I was to come attack again, if your changes were implemented, they could both do /fix while I have to gain XP and go to an anvil if I want my armor to be in good shape. You could argue I could do /fix as well, but there's a difference between someone with few regals doing /fix and someone who's amassed a fortune doing /fix. One can do it into perpetuity and virtually not care, the other has to be very careful because its quite expensive.
Okay except that people just won't fight if their armor can't afford it... They're not going to fight if they have little enough god armor that they can't just switch a set out. So instead they'll either grind vanilla xp, meaning that they won't pvp, they'll do something unrelated, or they'll log off, none of which are beneficial for the pvp community. And frankly, why shouldn't the rich be able to just /fix their items? All being rich means is you've already done the grinding and are just cashing in that past grinding in the present for repair.
I know that since I have about a dub of god armor, as a single player, that some of these larger factions must have several chests full at minimum. Having used the current repair system myself many times, I find it completely adequate as is. This was a good change.
I had ~70 sets of god armor until I sold most of it a bit ago. And I was struggling. It depends heavily upon the amount you pvp, and I think the last time I saw you pvp was in like 2015? Granted, I haven't really been pvping either in the past couple months, but the point still stands.
funny how there's always suggestions from pvpers that personally benefit the suggester
That irks me. Like, a lot. I do not give a damn about how a suggestion personally affects me, as long as it benefits the community, because ultimately that's what will benefit me the most in terms of play quality. Hence why, as I stated in the OP, I was a major proponent of nerfing repair. Just not this much. Nobody wanted it nerfed this much, and it's a mystery to me as to why it was nerfed so heavily. Like look through my thread history dude. I've literally proposed to remove all god armor on the server when gift4all was still going on, and around that time I had literally >100 sets of god armor. I asked for the sharp 6/prot 5 tier to be unlocked, which again would cause me to have to do a ton of grinding, especially now that I don't have base prot 4/sharp 5 sets to use, something which I still support.
You can disagree with me all you want, but you cannot accuse me of suggesting these things because I think I'm going to benefit.
