It is now possible for Resist Nature (620) to work on heavy armors (chain and plate), but it requires a new special potion. The herbalist who crafts the other potions will craft the new potion if you bring them a luminescent indigo mushroom, which can be found randomly on high luck rolls when foraging for other items. It is a rare and limited drop. The luminescent indigo mushroom potion must then be poured onto the armor before the other normal potion is applied. When Resist Nature is applied to heavy armors, it is done so at half of the normal effectiveness.

GameMaster Estild

Can any profession find these while foraging or only rangers?

How rare is rare? Are we looking at the fancy confluence cores for the Mage recharging potion rare? Or more like the essenences of greater xx rare?

Thanks Estild!

Per instance...not person. So 1 day prime 1 day plat.

I appreciate the work and effort it took to get this to work with the heavier armor. I would only ask if perhaps the drop rate of the mushroom could be revisited. Reducing the effectiveness by 50% seems like a reasonable trade off but the drop rate just seems bad to me. In the next year there will be 365 total mushroom drops with most likely (complete guess and ballpark number) 20% of those that are found either thrown away or for a lack of a better term "disappear" since it's dropped randomly due to a luck roll.

Really good update though and its very nice to know Ranger spells are still being looked at for updates. Just the drop rate would be nice if it was increased so it can have a broader appeal and stronger use cases.

Thanks Estild!

Its not the herbalist but little huts. If you are in the landing its on the way to darkstone. If you are in Mule its near the west gate.

I'm having the same issue:


>give herb
You offer indigo mushroom to the elderly herbalist.
The elderly herbalist furrows his brow and says, "Hmmm. That's not something I can use for a potion, sorry."

~ Nuadjha, the Briar Fox

You inhale deeply upon your pipe, puckering your lips as you send out three rings of smoke before you, then puff out a small vine of smoke that darts right through all three which causes them to disperse in a hazy shroud!

I found and fixed the issue. If you have an existing mushroom, just LOOK at it and it'll correct it. For any new mushrooms found after this moment, that won't be necessary.

GameMaster Estild

Take note: When using the luminescent indigo mushroom potion, there is only a 5-min duration to complete the cast. Make sure all of the potions are ready in advance -- and that none have gone stale ... Thanks, Estild, for replacing my mushroom when I ran afoul of that issue. Unlike with 620 itself, which will remain inactive on the armor for quite awhile (indefinitely?) until the sealing cast, you cannot wait for the herbalist to make you extra potions if you run out when you're using the mushroom potion.

On the upside, it works like a charm:

You gesture at some leather-backed mail traced with veniom vines.
A vibrant white aura surrounds the leather-backed mail, pulsing softly in time with each beat of your heart. The mail seems to grow more rigid in your hands, and you can sense a change in its metallic makeup. The mail begins to feel as solid as it did before you began the process, and soon the aura subsides.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>assess mai
You assess the mail for structural weaknesses and strengths.

Careful examination indicates the leather-backed mail has a base strength of 74 and a base durability of 525. You also determine the current integrity of the leather-backed mail to be at 100.0%.
You examine the leather-backed mail closely, lightly running your fingers over the material.
You sense that the mail is imbued with the magic of nature, and your fingertips detect the slightest presence of warmth along the surface of the mail. The imbued magic in the mail seems to offer a very good amount of resistance to its targeted element. The strength of the magic's aura suggests that the resistance could falter after a great number of strikes. You also sense that this mail was imbued with resistance by Nuadjha.

35% fire resistance on my hauberk!

Thanks again for the update, Estild.

~ Nuadjha, the Briar Fox

You inhale deeply upon your pipe, puckering your lips as you send out three rings of smoke before you, then puff out a small vine of smoke that darts right through all three which causes them to disperse in a hazy shroud!

ARCHSENEX

Is there a way to perform a freshness check on your potions?

I just added some messaging when you MEASURE one of the potions. It will only show up on expired potions.

GameMaster Estild

I know there are some rangers who appreciate this change, but I feel I would be doing the profession a grave injustice if I didn't offer some counter criticism on the matter. I am concerned that this was a desired change driven by a select few individuals who are not motivated by anything that realistically makes sense for what was already canon for rangers. Personally, it's practically an insult to me. You are making an already absurd armor class more absurd. The potential for 47.5% resistance to plate is insane, temp or not, rare mushroom or not. I don't want to get into how aggrevating the mushroom thing is either. There is nothing a sorcerer or mage has to do so ridiculously in order to add PERMANENT properties to an item. After ages of neglect, this is what was done? I CAN appreciate the work that must have gone into this, Estild. I simply think it could have been better spent. A 23.75% MAX permanent resistance (max enhanced) on perviously existing parameters would have shown some real love to the prof. Not with some 1 time per day drop either. There's already a system in place, just make the potion require something that takes time, not rarity - like an infused spirit pool (since rangers are all natural and spiritual) that works similar to a mage's mana pool or a sorcs necro pool. They don't have to do anything besides hunt (or for mages just get other exp), invest in lores, and be patient (the time factor). Why would a ranger need to find all the Dragon Balls to make 1 armor have temp!?

I don't believe I am the only player who feels this way, but I am one who will willingly suffer any potential backlash for voicing my disapproval. Wyrom nailed it at the previous Con in regards to WPS when he mentioned how so many players simply don't value the temp properties, no matter how long they last. It's a pursuit of perfection thing. A finally being done thing. Maybe even akin to impractically owning a vehicle when it makes more sense to lease one. I will spend more, wear out, and be stuck with what I own rather than continue leasing something I do not.

I would disagree with the sentiment that something is better than nothing, because to me, the larger picture suggests this change has done more harm than good to the principles of balance. Balance is the reason I identified with a ranger character in the first place. Nature is perhaps the best example we have of balance. Still, I also realize what's done is done. It's not going anywhere now. As I mentioned above, I really do appreciate the time spent on this, so thank you for that. I would still lobby for something permanent...for warrior fittings too, again, at a much reduced amount and with a lot more TIME involved work that's not, instead, some scavenger hunt for the golden fleece.

-Arshwikk

If the temporary benefits on found items existed as EITHER
- something that you could remove from that item and apply to what you actually use,
OR
- just the additive (so, "no armor" to go with that temp padding you just found... just the "temp padding" certificate to take to the NPC in town)...

...then a great many more of these temporary additives would be used by this Dwarf's character.

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I don't bother putting temporary things on my gear, because they're just going to wear out.

I don't bother keeping temporarily boosted gear, because they're just going to wear out.

But if I could take that "temp slash protection" and apply it to my existing armor, then when it wears out slap the "temp puncture protection" that I just found the other day onto it now instead... I'd be more likely to use them.

Turn each of the temp bonuses (Puncture/Krush/Slash protection, padding of either type, elemental flare resistances, TD boosts, whatever) into a trinket that can be done to relevant items (armor, shields, accessories) and I can keep & use them all, rather than selling them all.

Most of which relate back to the direct tie between "how much damage do you do" and "how bad is the crit", which is why sucky weapons ALL suck to the degree that they do (never do enough damage, to do a decent crit).

This is a substantial flaw in the deICEd combat rules, with no solution pending that I've ever heard of.