No real difference than their attempted 'PvP' server. Just a limited time event to try something different.
Just because it is an event does not mean they can switch their brains off. They are not even making a token attempt at following lore just going by "brands" and "iconic":
Clueless Game Designer: "What we going to call the items then?" His More Clueless Designer Mate: "Rings of Power, that ticks iconic".
I genuinely believe that's about as much thought as went into it, after all I did not have to do a days work to come up with something better. But my more lore friendly idea was not "iconic".
I’ll tell you right now that I’m more “for lore “ than not.
I don’t think there should be loremasters or Rune throwers, keepers or whatever they are called.
I don’t like how they did Moria nor do I like how they made the old forest so easy.
Still, I get the idea of an event that isn’t part of the world presentation.
Just like any holiday event. They could have made an event that didn’t break lore but I suspect they just wanted to make something fun and a bit dangerous in this case.
I do accept that as an event is does not have to be as lore based as normal. But what we are talking about here is something lore breaking they did not need to do. There was no reason apart from iconic to make it rings of power.
I had no issues with Loremasters but the Rune Keepers went too far. I liked Moria (unless it's changed and the guild has not mentioned it) but I do think the old forest is now too easy.
When it comes to lore we all draw a line somewhere and it is never always going to be in the same place, but it is when the rational is purely marketing not game design that I have to say that's rubbish.
Don’t think of them as the actual rings. Think of them as tokens.
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I do accept that as an event is does not have to be as lore based as normal. But what we are talking about here is something lore breaking they did not need to do. There was no reason apart from iconic to make it rings of power.
I had no issues with Loremasters but the Rune Keepers went too far. I liked Moria (unless it's changed and the guild has not mentioned it) but I do think the old forest is now too easy.
When it comes to lore we all draw a line somewhere and it is never always going to be in the same place, but it is when the rational is purely marketing not game design that I have to say that's rubbish.
Don’t think of them as the actual rings. Think of them as tokens.
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