Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-35882411-20190122020930/@comment-30561367-20190125120542

Samoja1 wrote: Notverygoodusername wrote: Samoja1 Wrote: I would guess that's vocal minority, and TBH Mithril gear is not that incredibly better then Dwarven gear, you get 1.5 armor points more, which won't really make that much difference especially when facing multiple foes, ok you may go down in 10 hits instead of nine, but does that really matter that much? In light of this i say if you took time to sail to the remotest part of the map and locate one tiny island in  the massive sea, and then mine for several hours, i think you deserve those 1.5 extra armor points, had you spent all that time grinding money you could have hired a force of NPCs large enough to seriously turn the tide of any fight, much more then those 1.5 points ever could. As for exploration as i already said, there is nothing, literally nothing to se on Meneltarma, it's just plains biome in the middle of the ocean, there are no ruins, no lore, no nothing, not even a unique type of block to use in builds, only reason i could ever see why anyone would want to go there is if they already did all the other achivements and want another fast travelling point, but who needs that many fast travelling points? Armor can be modified, you know? Mithril is the only set that can get the True-Silver modifier, which defends agianst polearms and is a big advantage in pvp. Dwarven armour could be buffed to diamond level, but it can never obtain true-silver nor the durability of mithril. The durability makes mithril equipment way more reliable than faction equipment. Also, mithril weapons have a higher damage output. Marginally is the keyword here, again, if you just turned all that Mithril to chunks and sold them you could hire something like 9 ghaladrim warriors for each piece of Mithril, which is about 216 Ghaladrim warriors for a full set of armor, now which one of us do you think will win? You in your Mithril suit or me with my 216 friends?

Most servers have an unit limit that is WAAAY below 216. Also, if I'd know you'd bring an army, I'd bring one too. I once fought a dude who tried to cover himself up in hired units, but guess what? He lost because I had way better gear than him. His crossbow barely damaged me, while I killed him in 2 hits with my bow. As someone once said, "If you want to get a kill, you can't rely on hired units, you're most likely gonna have to do it yourself." 9 galadhrim warriors for 1 piece of mithril sounds like a ridiculous deal. I usually see mithril ingots sold by players for around 500 - 1000 coins.