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>>Anyone (with some connections) care to ask about this?
I'd say it has more to do with the original clockwork watchman having only the visible pieces. Most likely due to only being able to get so many effects approved. And it kind of makes sense to have arms that swing faster, legs that run faster, gloves able to crush a cup, boots that can move fast, a tracking system in the helmet...but what does a collar do?
As to warriors, yes, warriors can get nice armor...if they can get it. Not every warrior has access to SS or Kael armor. Either they don't have the connections to get it, can't afford it, lack the levels, aren't willing to do what it takes to get it, or maybe they are twinks and the armor is going to mains. Some also have racial pride. They'll wear it because it's good enough and it's gnome and nifty.
But you are overrating the armor for other classes. It's nice for clerics. But main clerics? They wear SS and Kael, not to mention various bits of armor with FT or focus effects. SKs and Paladins? HP please. Wisdom and int are afterthoughts. Rogues? Cultural chain is the suck, always has been because comparible gear as been easily available since before the new cultural chain was added. Oh, and a warrior would be better off with a clockwork watchman BP or, better yet, an Incardine one over a Clockwork Observer...since a Vindi BP blows any of the cultural armor BPs away.
Make no mistake about it, cultural armor is temporary for most every class and race. Some of it, like the Tribunal and Rallos stuff they went a bit nutsoid on. But for people that don't have those religions, their cultural is no better than ours...and quite a bit worse. With ours, at least, some of the armor is worth keeping after you no longer wear it for stats.
>>Gnomes are regarded by those that look at stats, etc (read: most) as being unfit warriors.
Most people say "race doesn't matter"...and then there will be a back and forth about ogre no-stun bit. Start a thread somewhere and you'll see that. If people really looked at stats, there would be only 2 races of warriors. Ogres and Trolls. But there aren't. Those same people that laugh at gnomes think wood elves and inkies are fine...yet both have worse stats than gnomes. They don't really look at the stats. We just get no respect. Kind of funny though, because for anyone that's a bit educated, they'd realize that gnomes are in the top 5 and only for 1 reason...clockwork effects. We are the most independent warriors. Halflings are in a similiar boat...super rare as warriors and clerics, yet they have pretty good stats for both classes and take less xp. For non-int caster classes, gnomes get overlooked. For non-druid, non-rogue, same deal for halflings.
Mind you, I wouldn't mind seeing new gnome melee armor. Say something with hp between the Rallos stuff and what we have now, armor without the int/wis and with lots of agil, stam, and dex instead. But I doubt we'll get it, unless all races with cultural armor get it.
I'd say it has more to do with the original clockwork watchman having only the visible pieces. Most likely due to only being able to get so many effects approved. And it kind of makes sense to have arms that swing faster, legs that run faster, gloves able to crush a cup, boots that can move fast, a tracking system in the helmet...but what does a collar do?
As to warriors, yes, warriors can get nice armor...if they can get it. Not every warrior has access to SS or Kael armor. Either they don't have the connections to get it, can't afford it, lack the levels, aren't willing to do what it takes to get it, or maybe they are twinks and the armor is going to mains. Some also have racial pride. They'll wear it because it's good enough and it's gnome and nifty.
But you are overrating the armor for other classes. It's nice for clerics. But main clerics? They wear SS and Kael, not to mention various bits of armor with FT or focus effects. SKs and Paladins? HP please. Wisdom and int are afterthoughts. Rogues? Cultural chain is the suck, always has been because comparible gear as been easily available since before the new cultural chain was added. Oh, and a warrior would be better off with a clockwork watchman BP or, better yet, an Incardine one over a Clockwork Observer...since a Vindi BP blows any of the cultural armor BPs away.
Make no mistake about it, cultural armor is temporary for most every class and race. Some of it, like the Tribunal and Rallos stuff they went a bit nutsoid on. But for people that don't have those religions, their cultural is no better than ours...and quite a bit worse. With ours, at least, some of the armor is worth keeping after you no longer wear it for stats.
>>Gnomes are regarded by those that look at stats, etc (read: most) as being unfit warriors.
Most people say "race doesn't matter"...and then there will be a back and forth about ogre no-stun bit. Start a thread somewhere and you'll see that. If people really looked at stats, there would be only 2 races of warriors. Ogres and Trolls. But there aren't. Those same people that laugh at gnomes think wood elves and inkies are fine...yet both have worse stats than gnomes. They don't really look at the stats. We just get no respect. Kind of funny though, because for anyone that's a bit educated, they'd realize that gnomes are in the top 5 and only for 1 reason...clockwork effects. We are the most independent warriors. Halflings are in a similiar boat...super rare as warriors and clerics, yet they have pretty good stats for both classes and take less xp. For non-int caster classes, gnomes get overlooked. For non-druid, non-rogue, same deal for halflings.
Mind you, I wouldn't mind seeing new gnome melee armor. Say something with hp between the Rallos stuff and what we have now, armor without the int/wis and with lots of agil, stam, and dex instead. But I doubt we'll get it, unless all races with cultural armor get it.
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