New Rare Equipment Set: Earthen Steel

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New Rare Equipment Set: Earthen Steel
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Basically, Treasure Charts should have Sunken equivalent equipment

This would be really cool, and give Charts some special sauce

Drop rates (debatable)

For a similar obtainment rate to Sunken from fishing, I would say a 1/2000 rate from Chart chests and 1/500 from Chart sealeds with the chance increasing moderately the further along a chart you are (potentially as low as 1/1000 and 1/250 respectively at the last spot of legendaries).

Equipment ideas

Armor & accessories

Mainstat: Power
Sunken exists to be the prime Defense gear, and as such Earthen should be its Power counterpart.

Stat Values (120)

According to the wiki (may be outdated) Sunken has ~25% more defense than Titanium, therefore Earthen Steel should have ~25% more power than the Sorcerer set.
26 (Chest) | 19 (Other)

Substat Option 1: Intensity
The funny option. Size and Speed are currently prevalent (and recent) on Carina and Calvus, and Agility (Elius? who’s that?) for a buried armor set does not make the most thematic sense. Thus, intensity.

Stat Values (120)

Standard substat scaling.
36 (Chest) | 26 (Other)

Substat Option 2: Warding
The funnier option, and perhaps the most meta-affecting. We currently have 1 warding set, so more would be nice.

Stat Values (120)

Virtuous gives 54 defense and 1 warding, so warding can be approximated to be equivalent to 54 defense or 1 normal enchant worth of stats. This makes accessory scaling a little difficult, because you can’t give 1.5 warding.
2 (Chest) | 1 (Other)

Weapons

Earthen weapons apply Sandy

Earthen Swords (Dual Swords)

Unique Skill: Crescent Storm

Replaces Twin Crescents
“Perform a flurry of flying slashes, creating a storm of energy blades.”
Longer cast time, creating a very large projectile of slashes. It would deal moderate damage on contact or break into multiple smaller slashes after a short travel time.

Earthen Greataxe (Greataxe)

Unique Skill: Swirling Gale

Replaces Striking Gale
“Launch a high-energy projectile, forming a small storm during collision.”
Very similar to Striking Gale until collision, when it would create a moderate sized area of pulsing AOE damage. Javelin-esque.

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yoo i remember seeing something about this in the comments on another suggestion

the chance increasing moderately the further along a chart you are

sounds fair to me, but i think the drop rate increase should be mostly for the last/two last steps on something like an exotic or legendary chart, so if you get one of those charts you really gotta dedicate yourself to doing it
the 1/500 from chart sealeds feels kinda common for a sunken counterpart, but i dont really know much about drop rates

Substat Option 1: Intensity

i’d be fine with intensity, not too sure how “holy” a buried item is to make sense for it give warding, but if it has something like how the deluxe iron set has a cross on it then sure lmao

Earthen weapons apply Sandy

feels kinda wierd but tbh i cant think of another status effect that would fit an earth weapon, so sure

Crescent Storm
It would deal moderate damage on contact or break into multiple smaller slashes after a short travel time.

lol it sounds like oathkeeper from WoM, very unique skill just like sunken sword has, so thats cool, though i wouldve kind of imagined an earth counterpart for sunken sword would’ve been a club or big hammer, something heavy yknow?

Swirling Gale
Very similar to Striking Gale until collision, when it would create a moderate sized area of pulsing AOE damage. Javelin-esque.

also very cool idea for unique skill, and with another sunken weapon being added it makes sense to have two weapons, maybe using this skill mid air, and not hitting anything for a while, it will eventually stop (like how the slash moves from claw and katana do) and it would instead explode in a large AOE

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My idea for the drop rate was trying to tie it to fishing, and I would say it’s a whole lot easier to fish 10+ times than finish a legendary chart. To be honest, I think the rates might be a little low for later chart locations, but who knows. Sunken isn’t exactly the rarest thing either

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i didnt read all that but ill vote

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defence + power is never a good combination on anything, by which I mean it’s extremely unhealthy for the metagame. Imagine vatrachos armour without drawback.

Anyways, would you mind making some models for this

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yeah, I agree with that greatly, which is why it should be power-focused
I’d also imagine it would share a model with Steel and have a very weathered texture, so not too difficult to make
Might do a mockup texture

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