In Development: New Enhancements Explained (Part 1)



The upcoming changes to enhancements are now being explained by Samera, with more details to follow. I like it, but I wonder.... what enhancements will be going?

In Development: New Enhancement System (Part 1 of 2)

Enhancements Overview

aka: 5 things you need to know about the enhancement overhaul





1. Each action point is important.



As you level, you gain action points. As you spend your action points
to buy enhancements, your old enhancements don’t go away. You never
have to ‘unslot’ an enhancement in order to fit a new one in. Instead,
enhancements build on each other. While before you got new, more
powerful versions of old enhancements automatically as you leveled up,
with the old ones disappearing, now your old versions stick around. You
can then choose to spend more action points and buy the better version
or buy an entirely new enhancement instead.





2. Go for depth, or go for breadth.



The removal of slots means that you are no longer limited to only 4
different types of enhancements. You can choose to spread your points
out and dabble a little bit in everything, or you can choose instead to
specialize in fewer enhancement lines. Multi-class characters will find
that while they cannot specialize in an enhancement line as far as a
pure-class character can, they have many more enhancement lines
available for purchase, giving them greater versatility at the cost of
specialization.





3. Available enhancements will be familiar



Have a favorite enhancement that you want to keep? Chances are that
you’ll still be able to get it. The majority of existing enhancements
will remain in some form; some will be split into multiple
enhancements; most will have a rebalancing of the numbers. Players who
feel like they’ve built themselves around specific enhancements
shouldn’t feel like they have to reroll, while the difference between
the enhancement ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ will be reduced as the power of
enhancements goes down.





4. Automatic conversion.



Upon logging in, all players will automatically have their current
enhancements wiped, and an appropriate amount of total action points
applied to their character. From that point, all you have to do is go
to the same trainer you always do and buy whatever new enhancements you
want.





5. New enhancements to buy



In addition to the familiar enhancements, players will find many
entirely new enhancement lines available for purchase –enhancements
that improve a cleric’s turning ability, give extra uses per day of
action boosts, or allow spellcasters to use wands to greater effect for
example.



This is the first article of two about the new enhancements system -
the second article will provide more of the specifics.