Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32013442-20180301131625

Hello guys!

As well all know galvorn was once one of the most OP armor set in the game. It is now but a shadow of it's former self. It has been replaced by the new toy on the market. The Eolean modifier. I am a fairly seasoned player from the official server, and I can tell you from my experience that noone uses galvorn armor anymore, esspecially in a pvp setting. If you for some reason descide to show up to a battle in galvorn, people will look at you funny as if to say, "Did you fall on your head this morning?" I was discussing the uses of galvorn with one of the most active pvpers on the server, and as the outcome of this little chat, I have a few thoughts on how to buff galvorn and hopefully make it a bit more useful again. I beleive that some of this has been mentioned before by King Ithilien, but the rest is the result of discussion on the server or my own ideas. But first, for the uninitiated on the subject, I will list several reasons why galvorn is infuriour to faction armor when it's protective abilities have been upgraded to the max. For the purposes of this discusion, maxed faction gear (modified to full protection and having the eolean modifier gear), will be given the abbreviation of MFG. (Maxed Faction Gear.)

1. Spears and throwing axes are the worst enemy of anyone who would use galvorn as their armor of choice. It takes 3 legendary stone spears to kill a player in galvorn armor, and 2-3 legendary spears from the elvish, dwarvish, and uruk gear sets, depending on whether you score a critical hit or not. Legendary dwarven throwing axes will kill a galvorn clad player in 3-4 hits. MFG has a excellent advantage over galvorn in this area, protecting you from all things including spears, arrows, swords, boulders thrown by hill trolls, mystic blasts from marsh wraiths, warg bombers and more.

2. Protection from poison and knockback are perhaps the only saving graces of galvorn in combat, as darts, bolts and arrows simply bounce off you when you wear this armor. However, this is of little significance in a battle between players for the following reasons: 1. Your opponent does not want to knock you back. He wants to get as close to you as he can to kill you. Unless of course he is using his  brain and starts to chuck spears and axes at you, since this will force you to stop shooting and dodge, giving them time to get up close and personal. Or he can simply turn you into a porcupine of spears and axes. 2. Poison is useful in combat, but if your opponet has any sense at all, he will not waste time running up to you, giving your precious poison a chance to work it's magic,  but will instead pelt you with a variety of spears and throwing axes until you are well and truly dead. 3. Galvorn's ability to provide full belegostion protection from all forms of fierry attacks. An incindiary bow will do you little good against galvorn as the arrows do nothing, and any damage to the player from the fire is, at best, minimal. But considering one only needs +50 alignment with fangorn to drink their draughts of fire resistance, and there is no reason to be hated by fangorn save for fighing the mallorn ent a few times, this provides little to no advantage to the galvorn clad player, as fire and poison damage often overlap, resulting in perhaps a 1/2 a heart of damage extra in total. 2 cont. In this regard, MFG has no such weaknesses. While it lacks galvorn's impressive protection from poison, it gives the wearer such a significant defence against all other avenues of attack, that is really not work worrying about.

3."Time is money" as the saying goes, and time is most certainly a most valuable resource ingame when you are starting out and must descide which gear set to invest in. To make galvorn, one must first have alignment with a dwarven faction or steal one of their furnaces for your own use. Then you will need to have alignment with Lindon/Rivendell or lothlorien to craft the actual armor. Then you must seek edhelmir from either elvish faction's biomes, which has an uncommon spawn rate and will generate in veins of up to 4 blocks. Without a blessed pickaxe each ore will yield one shiny crystal when mined. Now compare this the creation process of MFG: You need alignment with the faction of your choice which has iron tier armor or higher, a crafting table, furnace/alloy forge depending on the faction, iron and coal. Simple. Let us turn our attention to the differences between edhelmir and coal (if needed) as the priniciple ingrediants for our varies metals. Edhelmir is uncommon-rare depending on spawn rates. Coal is everywhere, in every biome, and will often spawn in veins of 8 or more. No blessed pickaxe needed. You can also make charcol in a pinch if for some ridiculous reason you have no coal, and it works just as well. As for the differences in modifiers that can be added to galvorn and MFG, it is very simple: Galvorn benefits from enduring, belegostion, and light footed. Only enduring and lightfooted really worth investing in, as belegostion is only really useful if you want to pick a fight with a dragon or you just slipped and fell in lava. (I won't judge you if you did.) MFG's modifiers are a little more interesting: Tough, steadfast, enduring, and lightfooted. Out of these 4 modifiers, enduring is not really necessary as most MFG's lack galvorn's attrocious durability. In summary: While creating galvorn might be of more immediate benefit, and while it might take a little longer to create a set of MFG than a maxed set of galvorn, is it really worth it? The answer in my opinion, is a solid no.

As you can see from this information, galvorn need to receive a slight buff to make it worth creating, as it is surpassed in almost every area by the other armor sets in the game, making it only use asthetic or decorative in nature. But enough review of the facts. On to the suggestions!

1. I suggest that Galvorn's armor stats are buffed to dwarven level, as this will at least make the armor more useful in pve and pvp, as your opponets will find it a little harder to end you. For those who might have some lore objections, I have a solution I hope that you will find satisfactory. Galvorn was made in Gondolin, whoes smiths were taught the art by Maeglin, the son of the elf who invented the metal. Masters of their crafts, they created some of the best weapons and armor of all time, and any items of theirs that have survived until this day are a memory of the time when the elves had yet to diminish in knowledge and power, in the days when the forces of Morgoth himself could not withstand them. In the words of Gandalf, "You could not wish for a finer blade." In light of such knowledge, I propose that as these elves were some of the finest smiths to have ever lived, they could indeed create galvorn of quality akin to their own gear, but due to the nature of metal of which galvor is made, the armor was fairly brittle, and would therefore break much sooner than their regular gear.

2. If this is not satisfactory, my second suggestion is that galvorn is no longer craftable, and is relagated to relic status (This is from Ithilien), and is therefore a rare drop from the hill troll chieftain as a second armor set of gondolin, having an armor rating of dwarven/gondolinian gear.

3. I  would also suggest that if galvorn is no longer craftable, it will also be able to receive the tough modifier on all armor pieces, but will have iron level protection. This will mean that at most, galvorn will have 19 points of armor, or 18 if one opts out of putting it on your boots, and as this will make galvorn quite a powerful armor set, I suggest that in this condition it's drop rate will be half that of normal gondolinian gear. This means that not only will galvorn be a viable choice of gear, but it will be more valuable, as it is quite difficult to obtain.

4. And of course, we could just allow galvorn to be modified with tough without taking away it's crafting receipe, but this will make it very powerful. Perhaps too powerful.

These are my suggestions on how we can save galvorn. As there are several suggestions here, I will make a poll, and you guys can vote for which option you prefer.

How we save Galvorn Craftable and buffed to Gondolinian protection. Gondolinian protection, but not craftable. Not craftable, same protection, protection can be modified with tough. Craftable, same protection, can be modified with tough.

As always, kudos, comment, and critique. All feedback is sent to my secretary, so please be nice. xD Have fun! 