Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-108.26.216.148-20160831151034

Anvils. They exist to combine items (and rename them), but most of the items they are used for are enchanted books, which this mod removes. So, what purpose do they have? Well, I have a suggestion:

In the LotR mod, each weapon has three main stats: swing speed, reach, and damage. I'm suggesting that you could craft new items- "Gondor Short Blade" or "Uruk Long Hilt", etc. Then you could combine these with an existing weapon of that type to create a custom weapon- "Gondor Shortsword", for example. There would be three main customization types: Blade Width (In Wide, Narrow, and Standard) which decides damage vs speed (So a narrow blade swings faster but does less damage). Blade Length decides reach vs speed, with longer blades having longer reach but longer swing speed, while the hilt increases swing speed or damage with no cost.

I think this could offer an alternative late-game resource sink to troops, allowing a "lone wolf" or "small group" experience that comes closer to being balanced against marshalling armies and whatnot.

Now, my suggestion for how to implement ring forging:

There would be three types of new anvils: An Elven one which is powered by Quendite and a Mordor and Dwarven anvil, both powered by lava. These would, obviously, be used to craft rings. However, a few more things come into play, special ingredients used to craft various kinds of Rings:

Lava from Mount Doom would boost ring power

Certain flowers from Lothlorien would have various propreties, mostly support- applying buffs to the player and allies.

Golduril would permit debuffs to be applied to enemies, and possibly life-sucking.

Mithril is used for defense, increasing armor and health

Naurite is used for offensive things: Sauron's mace, Grond, throwing fireballs, etc.

Quendite can also be used offensively, boosting weapons with blue fire and attacking with bolts of light.

Silver and Gold provide the base for the rings. Gold is better than silver, and Mithril can also be used, making the ring indistructable except in Ring Forges of great power.

Utumno Blocks can be used to make rings of exceptional power. Firey blocks excell at offense, while ice blocks permit charming and domination.

Ok, so a lot of that is probably too difficult or time-consuming to be worthwhile but I figured I'd toss this out there. 