Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26863727-20150922203757

I find that there is very little reason to use faction gear instead of iron; it's the same protection and a BIT more durable. Especially considering how many sets require twice the resources because they use steel instead. Steel by its very nature is better than iron. That doesn't make sense, Mevans! And nobody wave that "it's for balancing" cr*p in my face! So, without further ado, let's get to my solutions!

1. Make LOTR gear the durability mithril is now; mithril will be 6500 instead of 3500. Special weapons like the Gondolin sword(and Andúril, Sting, etc, when they're "officially" added.), should be 4500.

2. Make anything with steel in it give protection about halfway between iron and mithril/diamond. The handful of sets already like that should be a touch closer to mithril.

3. The one that's a bit harder to code. If you have  a faction's armor on and have negative alignment with them, they have a chance not to attack you depending on the faction. Elves would be harder to trick than the huge buffoons we know as the Half-Trolls! The more pieces of the faction's armor you have on, the higher the success chance is. The helmet is especially helpful. And your chance of fooling those Gondorians is zero if you have a slobbering horde of Orcs behind you, of course.

Now a few miscellaneous things, including a possible boss..

1. Lots of Wargs can sometimes spawn with an extra large Warg Chieftain. It would drop a Warg fur rug, thus being the only surefire way to get one. The main challenge of the boss is its high HP and the sheer number of Wargs around it.

2. You can craft a bone pile by filling an entire Orc table with bones of any kind. So a bone block basically, but it looks like a collection of bones on the ground.

3. You can take nine bone piles in an Orc table, making a bone totem. This looks like a collection of bones that have been arranged to intimidate.

4. You can take nine bone totems and make bone bricks, which basically functions as a way of showing off how many enemies you've killed. They can stack on top of each other, meaning that you can, while it's not very strong, make an intimidating wall of bones.

5. You can make them stronger by putting them in your inventory crafting slot with cobblestone, resulting in one "reinforced bone brick". It is slightly stronger than iron ore. 