Robe of the Living Fungus

[stonebeard22]

True. Our GM staff is WAY better than Sonys.

[kylok]

Looking at the tunic vs the robe, I could only imagine a monk wearing the robe over the tunic unless you're wild about the green robe graphic. Tunic has twice the AC and -10 dex/agi doesn't mean much to most anyone except warriors, rogues, rangers, maybe monks... and we all know that we'll put up with it for the regen if we have to.

I'm very interested to see what decision the dev's make on this one.

[Loke]

I love Abashi's responses lol. Seriously? How could no one there be aware of a nerf, much less be completely oblivious the the fact the robe ever had a regen effect. Just, wow haha.

[nilbog]

select count(*) from items

62496

Some of that item total is post classic.. but the point remains. There are a LOT of items. I'd imagine at the time they were dealing with a fresh Kunark release and problems from the biggest, most(?) exploitable game in 2000.

I'd say someone could easily .. update items set (fungal regrowth) where name like %fungi%, and be completely oblivious to the consequences.

That's really dumb, but possible.

[kylok]

That makes me wanna cry, if that robe was never inteded to have regen. But then again - we can't verify that any more then the nerf date =D

[Pokeman]

The only reason not to nerf it is greed.

I'd love to be able to camp a manastone but thats just not how the game works.

[Attos]

I'd say nerf, but not retro and do it soon. I'm a fan of seeing the rare hard to find items going around - simply for nostalgia. Also, I don't think any of the players knew when it was gonna drop in classic, so if that's what we're trying to emulate here I don't think it makes sense to tweet the deets. Just my 2cp.

[Holey]

Originally Posted by Attos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd say nerf, but not retro and do it soon. I'm a fan of seeing the rare hard to find items going around - simply for nostalgia. Also, I don't think any of the players knew when it was gonna drop in classic, so if that's what we're trying to emulate here I don't think it makes sense to tweet the deets. Just my 2cp.

make it like manastone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[EkireiTheNecro]

The moral here!?!?

I WOULD SUGGEST YOU STOP PAYING 50-100K FOR FUNGI ROBES.

[EkireiTheNecro]

Originally Posted by baalzy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Regen was never removed from the Fungi tunic.

It was removed at some point from the robe (looks like pre-july 2000, ignore my other posts as they're inaccurate). Also, the effect on the tunic is a passive worn effect while the robe was a clicky-buff.

There was a change made at some point in the drop rates, where the robe become the common drop and the tunic became the rare drop (originally tunic was common w/ the robe being rare). Not sure what the drop rate is like on P99 as whatever guilds are locking down Seb aren't posting anything about it on these boards and I haven't been trolling their guild sites to find out.

I'm gonna guess the Tunic is the common right now, as the Robes are selling in EC for 50-100k.

So the 2 poopsock guilds will farm dozens of them so nobody else can have them, then move on when the drop rate gets nerfed. And it gets nerfed **HARD**

Expect 12+ hour camps to get a SINGLE tunic once it's nerfed.