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  • Underfoot Cultural Armor

    A new series of armors is coming. Read the thread on Sony Everquest forums here.

    Here are some excerpts of what Ngreth has said on the subject:

    beryon wrote:

    Will it be following the old cultural armor paradigm of matching the player's race & deity, or the new cultural weapon paradigm of choosing any deity for a specific effect?

    At any rate, kudos on getting cultural armor reinstated. So far, sounds like the changes should make most people happy.

    Ngreth replied:

    Still original method. Must match race and deity.
    Werferth wrote:

    Ok, so, new cultural will have a new set of both group augs and raid seals. How far in raid progression would those seals be? Also, would it be worth having the cultural gear with just the group augs if I were in the T5 group gear?

    Are the mods/AC gonna be the only nice thing about the new cultural and then with a raid seal the HP/Mana/End will be good?

    Will the cultural if highest group aug (made) and highest raid aug be in between both group and raid gear? Being better than top group gear, but being below highest raid gear? That would drive me to work on cultural again.

    Also, for the raid seals, is there anyway to make special 24 man raid events that could drop the seal or drop parts to make the actual seal? Perhaps a long quest or quest series that the reward is one single raid seal?

    Ngreth replied:

    Not going to answer this in detail. I want some surprises for the expansion.

    armor + group symbol + (something) will be better than current SoD gear

    armor + group symbol + raid seal will be better then current raid SoD gear.

    raid parts will be rare to start and get more common as you go deeper.

  • #2
    better than t5

    So the group culture is gonna be better than t5 sod now? if that would be the case maybe i could stop farming essences and just wait for the expansion. ess's are just a pain but the armor is pretty nice.

    Andarriel

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    • #3
      While the statement has been made that a fully decked out piece of group cultural will exceed it's SoD group counterpart, nothing has been said of it's relation to the new group armor in Underfoot. Additionally, the foci are generally lagging in the cultural, and for a class that relies heavily on foci, the cultural may not even be an upgrade.

      While I certainly don't expect history to repeat itself with a wise plan like was used to convert Prismatic group SoF armor into T3 SoD group armor, it certainly is possible.

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      • #4
        Any word if the skill cap is increasing?

        MulleteerCombover

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        • #5
          culture

          Yea i play a wiz and focus would be nice especially fire/magic/cold. I actually had the old elegant culture for a good while minus the spots that had the fire focus and someother one. Hopefully they come out with something so you can make a certain focus but have to wait and see. And from what i read tradeskills cap will remain the same. If they raised it i heard they would have to do alot of recoding or such.

          Andarriel

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          • #6
            Originally posted by mulleteer View Post
            Any word if the skill cap is increasing?

            No word. It's not expected though, because they have to redo the skill up forumla and then add in a skill up path for every skill to the next cap.




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            • #7
              Just to clarify if I am reading things properly from Underfoot Cultural:

              There will be new group armor made in the same fashion as current armor. By race, for race only and use the template book as all others and may or may not require a new loam/marrow/fluid.

              There will be new symbols that go into the armor that will still be deity restricted but anyone can make for any deity. These may or may not require new loam/marrow/fluid.

              There will be new group seals that will complete the armor to make it comparable to group gear in Underfoot. This gear will be better than T5 SoD group gear but no clue yet how it will rate compared to Underfoot gear as stats have not been made for anything yet.

              There will be new raid seals that will complete the armor to make it comparable to raid gear from Underfoot. This gear will be better than T5 (or 4.5 depending on what guide you read) of SoD raid gear and comparable to Underfoot raid gear. Focus effects on these seals may or may not be 1 level down from Underfoot raid gear, still being decided.

              The new symbols and seals, both group and raid, will NOT work in existing (level 80 and under) armor. Elegant base will not accept the new parts.

              The old raid augs, Last Blood, Serpent, Sunshard, Faycite will NOT work in the new armor base. This is the issue that was caused the cultural to be discontinued in the first place with SoD.

              Question:
              Will the group seals have focus effects? Will these focus effects be comparable to Underfoot group focus effects? I may have missed it when reading that thread so wanted to see if anyone here saw it.

              As always, this is subject to change.
              Shawlweaver Sphynx on Cazic Thule
              Master Artisan Aldier on Cazic Thule

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              • #8
                I've seen 4-5 Ngreth posts where he has essentially said he isn't saying anything about group seals. He's keeping that one close to the vest purposefully.

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                • #9
                  That may be what I read as to why there is no definitive answers yet. Also, considering that it is now the end of September and the expansion is still 2.5 months away things are still fluctuating. I wanted to try and get the summary down as best I can so I can make sure when my guild members who all seem to come to me with tradeskill questions I can be giving them as accurate information as possible. Thanks.
                  Shawlweaver Sphynx on Cazic Thule
                  Master Artisan Aldier on Cazic Thule

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                  • #10
                    Im afraid to see what is coming. I think it gonna be an outrage and everyone will quit things will be that bad for crafting!



                    Ngreth tells you, "hrm. oops." !!!!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Zatz-Combine View Post
                      Im afraid to see what is coming. I think it gonna be an outrage and everyone will quit things will be that bad for crafting!
                      I seriously doubt it. The sky is always falling yet it never does.

                      Here is what I've gathered from Ngreth's posts on the SOE forums va the Dev tracker on Monkly Business.

                      #1 - Stalwart Cultural is coming for armor
                      #2 - Group Armor + Group Aug + Group Seal = as good as or better than the best Underfoot quested/dropped group armor
                      #3 - Group Armor + Group Aug + Raid Seal = as good as or better than the best Underfoot quested/dropped raid armor
                      #4 - No word on Group Seals
                      #5 - Old RAID SEALS will not work in the new armor, so all those Last Bloods and Faycites will be worthless to the new armor
                      #6 - Shawl 2.0 is coming and will be akin to Eron's, a raid version will be created by finising the group version and looting a raid item from the final raid of the expansion.

                      There's more but that's the skinny of what I've read.

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