New item suggestion - Honing Oil of Disintegration

Design Motivation:

Honing Oil of Disintegration allows players to increase the power of a weapon, but will greatly shorten the weapon's lifespan.

This item would create a large amount of demand for mid tier crafted items. It also supports two play styles, one for players who want to collect and create the perfect set of items over time, and another for those who want to increase the power of their character to the highest possible level, even at the cost of wearing down their equipment.

Normal items would still be fully repairable with COTOs, so players could choose to have a set of gear that lasts forever they try to improve to the highest possible level, but at a slight cost in power compared to gear that wears down.

Analogous Oils could be made for armor.

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Honing Oil of Disintegration
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-Created by Alchemy
-Recipe:
1x Flask
10x Mandrake
10x Nightshade
100x Onyx fragment
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When applied to a weapon, grants the following bonuses:

-Permanently increase weapon damage by 25%
-Permanently increase weapon attunement bonus by 25%
-Permanently increase weapon enchantment bonuses by 25%
-All durability loss to this weapon is now permanent and cannot be repaired even with COTO
-Item loses durability at 3x normal rate
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I think that would be incredibly overpowered for PVE healers and probably range dps as well. I don't generally take much durability damage if any at all and would receive a massive bonus to heal with that.

 

Oh good point! It would need to be balanced somehow so that the item actually did wear out regardless of whether one was healing or shooting arrows.

25% is a lot, but the items that this would be used on would most likely have fewer/worse enchantments than the best possible items, so hopefully burning down a mid-tier weapon with mid-tier enchants would maybe give you a 5% benefit over a top tier crafted weapon - for a time.

Just a fun idea to think about