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What if essence could be used as a real form of currency?
You could bribe dreamers, trade for items, pay tributes, hire guards or hitmen, etc.
I know that this is done to a small extent with some of the houses at times but I think it would be cool if this was encouraged to be more common.
I've always wanted to see more things done with essence.
Also, stackable essence? I'd love to see that, maybe not unlimited stacks but maybe in stacks of 20 or 50 depending on the type of essence and its strength.
Also, the essence's strength could depend on how well you fought (ie- how long it took you to defeat the mare). A 1 hit kill would do less damage to the essence as opposed to hacking it up over 5 or 6 blows.
Of course it wouldn't be as good as trap mare but I think it would be cool to reward players for skillfully dispatching mares. Maybe they could drop items of better quality too, or maybe increase the chance that the item will be useful to the dreamer killing the mare. Not getting hit or taking it out in a few hits would make it more likely to drop something like a dreamsoul elemen or a nice shield depending on the contents of your pack or a chakram of your focus.... or an alteror of an art you don't have.
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I think it would be cool if dreamers could drain dreamer essence like the Pmares, and DMs, but instead of being able to choose which focus element it replenishes, you could have it replenish one of them at random.
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If you give extra strength on essences for less attacks then it'd make GK's real nasty essence collectors.
Let's put it this way, at sphere 3, Striker was routinely dropping emphants in one blow. At sphere 4 he can eviscerate bog's real fast with his blade, 4-5 blows is usually all it takes. He's got +4 damage on all strokes, it may not seem like much but it adds up real fast on repeated hits.
I prefer them staying at one power each. Though you can always try to trade essences for favors. Did you know, back when KoES was trying to take the KoES (they hadn't officially taken the house yet) they thought they would need the corruptor of souls. The Corrupter was kept in DoL, there was a whole RP about it where if you touched the thing you'd invariably go insane. DoL felt this was a horrible horrible artifact that must be stored away safely lest it's evil be allowed to spread. Hell, for the longest time, DoL members would NOT refer to it by it's name. It was simply known as "IT". KoES knew DoL had it, and they began to try to "buy" it off dol. I do not remember how many essences collectively they handed in, but it was a whole lot, they got essence reciepts from the house guardians to prove they handed it all in. In the end, a ruler had pretty much told them no deal, they went and got those essences anyway, the ruler said "I appreciate the effort, but as I said before it is not for sale."
But, it isn't entirely impossible to do deals with houses. You just need to know who to talk to. Generally, you want to get ahold of a house quartermaster, you are better off dealing with houses that feel that gathering essences is a divine task. All DoL members swore to save souls at any cost. If a freespirit asked a quartermaster of a house like that if they'd be willing to work out a deal to exchange chakrams for a lot of essences then you might be in business. In fact, while I was around, you could generally hand in essences to a DoL guardian at any time and request a reciept, they'd then give you a dated signed reciept indicating how many essences you had handed in. If you handed them an existing reciept they'd just total up the tallies.
Of course, getting someone to say yes to such an exchange depends on how good of a talker you are. Play the roll, haggle the prices a little. Essences are something all houses always need, depending on the supplies there may be some things some houses may not really need.
I am not kidding when I say that as a gaurdian I've written reciepts for people who had grand totals well into the 200's and 300's. Those people have had to collect essences for various reasons, be it for a quest or gaining admittence into the house. But even though there isn't an official way to stack essences, reciepts certainly can help in that manner.
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Oh yeah, I know people make essence deals but I'd like to see it a lot more streamlined. You know, give it a larger role.
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That's awesome! But what about people without a house? They should give everyone some storage via public/newbie mission board and then if you're in a house you get some more. That would make things a little nicer for everyone and maintain the advantages of joining a house.
Also, what about when the house gets taken over? Do you lose all your stuff?
It was cited as a specific benefit of being in a house. The house has its prime, which is this big old monolith in the celebration hall. You go up to the prime and you can dump essences in it, or access it to get at your storage space.
I can see three things happening if the prime is tainted and turned over to an apsirant guild, all the goodies stored inside get dumped out and on the ground, or all the items get destroyed, or they items are moved into a special locker that the new ruler can access and ONLY remove items from, allowing him to divy up the loot as he sees fit.
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