Complete Overhaul of the pure zone suggestion
Hello everyone and thanks for checking out this post. Today I wanted to talk about the pure zone, one of the most dead pieces of content on spawnpk. The reason I want to bring it up now once again, is due to the winter event being over. When we were discussing in yell to skip for the hotspots, I realized I didn't even want to see pure hotspots now because without the winter shards for kills, it's just not worth it what so ever. What I'd like to suggest instead, is to have a look at this zone once again, and make positive changes in terms of:
- What you can do there.
- Possible rewards - and thus money making.
- Adding more fun to the whole expierence overall.
Let's start off with the "what you can do there".
Currently your only option is to be a 1 defense pure here. Anything above 1 def and you won't be able to even enter the wilderness here. What I want to oppose, is an extension to pures. A lot of players really enjoy different kinds of pures, as seen as peak 2012 pking days when pures were probally at their highest in hype. I'm talking about regular pures, special pures based on magic damage (TSOTD pures on osrs for example), initiate pures (20 def), turmoil pures (30 def), Rune pures (40 def) and of course the almighty zerkers (45 def). On top of that we also have ranged pures, tanks and other special kind of account setups that can be widely enjoyed by all different kinds of players. So how would we handle all these kind of pures?
Well since the main pking spot for pures is this PvP area around the grand exchange, I thought we could take it up a notch and divide the area in 4 different places. NE, SE, SW and NW.
Dividing the GE into 4 different areas where different types of account builds could gain access, with different limitations. If this area ends up being too small for the amount of pkers, perhaps it could be switched to varrock square (this would overall be far more interesting imo, as more brids could show up with TB, getting tank tests to the banks and such. Or perhaps the tele could be to the varrock big bank, and you'd have a locked down varrock area that is completely accessible. Now let's cover the rules for each side to create different oppurtunities for different pkers.
NE: the low level pures (TSOTD pures, obsidian maulers, dark bow pures etc).
You must be under a combat level of 60 in order to access this area.
In this area more lower level pures can try and find their unique account builds in order to try and top the other players in said area. The wilderness level would however be reduced to 5. That way a level 60 cannot attack a level 50. That way more of the same type of builds can fight each other, or you'll have to see more adjustments in order to match each other's combat level.
SE: "mid tier pures". Restrictions: Have to be under a combat level of 84. This area will also have a max of 5 combat level difference in terms of attacking. This tier will give more wiggle room for unique builds, but are still in a domain where pures can stand a top of all without having huge downside effects (f,e having to fight ranged tanks).
SW: High end pures. Restrictions: Have to under a combat level of 96, with a maximum defense level of 45. At this point you're getting near max pure level, with moderate prayer, without having all the options unlocked. However, you can create a VERY wide variety of accounts based on that combat level. Wilderness level would also be reduced to 5.
NW: All kinds of account builds. Restrictions: Must be under a combat level of 102. A 102 combat is the absolute max a pure can reach with 1 defense. Any account variantions, including tanks, could fight in this area, as long as they are below a combat level of 102. Wilderness level would also be reduced to 2.
Now that we have covered different kinds of areas for different kind of builds, let's go over a few more overall area restrictions. In order for this to work out properly and not giving some players ridiculous advantages over others, some chances need to be made. First off a limitation of pets:
- Any and all Holy pets that buff smiting effects. This one needs to be ATLEAST restricted in all areas except for NW, due to the fact that a lot of account builds here would be 52 prayer or below. Smiting is already an easy enough thing of pures - let's try to keep it a skill based thing here, rather than an overpowered weaponry/pet system.
- Death pets and all fusion variants will not be allowed in the north east and south east areas of the pure zones, in order to make the overall required risk of low level pures higher. (more about this when we get to the rewards).
- God spell boosting hawk's and/or variants. Atleast in the tiers below level 84 I believe this would be too brokenly overpowered.
Item restrictions:
- Divine & elysian spirit shield. Too broken for tanks.
- Elemental mace. Same reason as the smiting pets.
- Barrelchest waraxe/malevolant waraxe. All area's except for NW (maxed pures).
- Dragon upgrade scroll buffs will be turned off when in all areas except for NW (maxed pures).
- Blood slayer weaponry will be completely restricted, unless they get a god damn repair cost thats billions. Too broken what so ever.
- Wicked Blade in all area's except for the NW maxed pures.
- Swift/enchanted gloves, ridiculous advantage for tanks (it's just way too strong on spawnpk) *NOTE: more may be added with your help, let me know what you believe would need to be restricted in certain area's for them being too overpowering in their class.
All with all I think this would be an amazing expierence overall. To truly spice things up and make this area booming, it would have to be rewarding. What I hope to bring with this are overall more fun and balanced fights between different builds, while also allowing players to increase their risk for stronger setups. This will be implemented into the new reward shop as well. Keep in mind the majority of these will still fall under "pure points" as a currency, which you gain from fighting in any of the zones.
New items:
- Corrupt Obsidian. This will be a slight rework on regular obsidian armor. This armor will boost your obsidian weaponry significantly just like the other sets would, however they will see a heavy nerf overall.
* the pieces now require a defense level of 40 to wear.
* defensive stats will be HEAVILY reduced from where they are now. About -70%
* it loses their smiting ability
Can be bought in the store at the following prices;
Helm: 45 points
Platebody: 55 points
Platelegs: 60 points.
- Spiked manacles/(E)
These will be the new BIS boots for pures, with a significant raise on stats from climbing boots, giving a +4 strength bonus.
These can be bought for 25 points. The spiked manacles (or) will be a new enchantment chest item in the Tier I catagory. They require 5 of these boots for a 20% rate. The item is tradable.
The spiked manacles (or) could be considered the best in slot boots OF ALL, so because of that I wanted to propose a special limitation. In order to use these boots you must be UNDER a defense level of 45. From 46 and higher you'll be restricted in wearing these boots. Leveling up your defense stat while wearing the boots will force them into your bank, or on the floor if your bank is full.
These boots will give decent accuraccy stats as well as a whopping +8 strength bonus! Since they are tradable however, they are lost on death if they aren't your most valuable item. It'll also increase your max hit potential by +1 over the cap. (keeping in mind pures cant use ferocious gloves or blood serp/faceguard for other +1's!)
- The SoulBound Pendant/(or)
This will be a very special and unique kind of amulet. The stats overall will be that combined of a regular anguish, torture and occult necklace, HOWEVER with a -50% stat decrease.
Now this doesn't sound very good overall until we have a look at it's special ability.
This pendant will actually buff it's own stats based on your defense level! At level 99 it'll have a 0% bonus meaning it won't do anything. At level 1 defense however, the total buff would be 1.5X that of the original amulets, making it by far the strongest amulet in the game (at 1 def). I'm not 100% sure on the maths inbetween but what I'm trying to go for here is that it slowly gets stronger as your defense goes down. At a zerker level the amulet should be at about 1.15x stronger than the regular amulets stats, and it maxes out at 1 def. Similiar to how dharok's gets stronger on lower hitpoints.
This item can be bought for a whopping 1.000 pure points (expensive due to the strength of the item). This item will have an ornament kit available in order to make it untradable as I figure a lot of people would rather risk some money than this ammy itself. In order to balance an untradable like this out in it's environment the repair cost of this item will be a whopping 5B, dropping 2.5B for the killer.
The ornament kit will be gained from Pure Crates (a new item). - Pure Crates
Similiar to BH crates, it'll be the pure zones variant. Bought for 25 pure points, the box can be opened for a wide variety of items. From more basic items such as a treasure casket, up to all the new pure items. Of course, the more expensive/special an item is, the rarer it becomes. It can also give any of the items from the other pure zone shop, with a very rare chance of getting the untradable hood or book. In return, players will now be able to sell back those hoods/books to gain 75% of the points back as well as any items sacrificed to make it. Could also include some new cosmetic pure gears that are fashionscape as heckity. These crates also have a rare chance of giving 50, 100 or 250 pure points (scaling up in rarity).
These boxes will also include a few uniques such as the ornament kit for the soulbound pendant, perhaps more later on. *When the pure hotspot is active, ANYONE will have a random 1/25 chance of pking these boxes during the pure hotspot regardless of what their stats, gear or risk are. The drop rate on this can NOT be increased by any means (grand falcon, wyrm, boneguard, risk etc).* - Angelic Halo (tradable). *A bright white halo with a small particle effect*
This will be another unique pure item restricted to a max of 45 defense. The angelic halo will give not BIS stats, but good overall tribrid stats for the helmet slot. It can also increase your max hit by +1 over the cap. Cost: 500 pure points. Does not have an untradable variant so it's a high risk item.
- Frosted d'hide armour set.
Consists of a body, chaps and vambraces. The body will require 40 defense to wear and all other items require atleast 85 ranged. Has increased ranged stats and magic defense, but doesn't give range damage. Would be a new mid tier range set overall - but extremely useful for pures (especially NHers). Chaps would be the main go to for pures.
Full set cost: 250 pure points. Tradable. - Proselyte (g)
New turmoil pure armor, requiring 30 defense and 95 prayer to equip. Gives exceptional prayer bonus as well as good melee stats. Strength bonusses;
Helmet: +3
platebody: +5
platelegs: +3
While the full set is equipped you'll have a 5% chance to drain an extra 5 prayer points when you deal damage to your opponent. This will always be a flat 5 prayer damage, uninfluenced by any possible things.
Full set cost: 750 pure points.
- Gilded HandCannon
A new weapon, comparable to the already existing hand cannon, easter cannon and barrelchest hand cannon, but with slight variant in stats/effects.
The stats will be overall lower than your regular cannon, but this will be compensated for by how the cannon is used.
* The regular shots of the cannon are faster in speed by 2 ticks.
* It shoots only Gilded Shots from the pure shop
* The max hit of a regular hit is only 35.
The uniqueness for this weapon will come in the form of it's special attack. This special attack will cost 50%. When used, the player will ready itself (delaying it's attack by a few ticks), to then shoot 2 shots, with about 3 ticks between the shots. A player can then chose to switch weaponry after this first shot is fired, to interrupt the special attack and combine the first hit with another weapon such as an AGS spec.
The maximum hit of the gilded cannon when using it's special is 45-45, this cap cannot be highered by anything.
Cost: 1.000 pure points. Cannon shots cost 1 points each, and can be saved on firing with an accumulator (t) or assembler.
- Shade Crystal (attachable)
These can be used on the Elder Chaos Robes to create Elder Shade Robes instead. This will be the new BIS mage gear for 1 defense accounts, giving exceptional magic bonusses. Cannot be equipped above a defense level of 30. In turn the crystals can also be used on the Daggon 'hai robes in order to create new BIS mage gear for zerkers+. This will be restricted to 70 defense in order to not intervere with items such as ancestral and sorcerer's robes. Personally I'd love it if anyone could use it, but if that's the case there have to be restrictions with how good the armor is, which is hard to do dealing with how powerful some items already are. If anyone has a good balanced out suggestion for this problem, let me know.
Price: 250 pure points (per crystal).
Other adjustments to the purezone;
- The base amount of pure points per kill will remain 1.
- When the hotspot is active on the purezone, all points gained will be doubled.
- Upon killing someone there is a 5% chance that you'll get +2 points instead (4 during hotspot).
- You can now gain killstreaks in the Pure Zone. This will be a seperate killstreak below your current killstreak in the quest tab.
When on a 10+ killstreak you'll gain 2 points per kill.
25+ killstreak you'll gain 3 points per kill.
50+ killstreak you'll gain 3 points per kill, by the 5% chance for gaining +2 points goes up to 25%.
100+ killstreak you'll gain 5 points per kill with previously mentioned effect.
- While pking at the purezone, there is a 1/5000 chance that a player kill will result in a brand new "pure pet" drop. It'll look like a very typical pure (d'hide chaps, shade robe top, pointy hat etc), mini-me size.
Unique ability:
* Gives 2.5% more damage and accuraccy in all combat styles.
* This effect will get added on by 0.1% for every level closer to 1 defense. (max +9.8% for a total of 12.3% damage and accuraccy as a 1 def pure)
Fun bonus addition: When the purehotspot is active, it could only double the points of a certain area, changing every 15 minutes. So it'll say: Pure Hotspot (SE) meaning SE would get all the benefits of the hotspot. Then it cycles the areas every 15 minutes, increasing far more activity as well on different types of builds.
New possible achievements:
*Gain 50 kills at level 30 defense.
*150 kills at level 45 defense or below.
* Get 250 pure kills in the new pure zone.
Listen guys I know everyone HATES reclaiming their comp capes once they have them. But at the same time I'd just LOVE to see some expansions on the achievement charts in order to keep me more often motivated to go for the grindier parts of the game and to try out new things. I'm sure a lot of long time comp capers would love to see some new variety in here as well, as it's not like we're getting new achievements that often anyway.
All with all I believe that even though this would take a decent portion of time to be implemented, it'd also feed us with literal hundreds of hours of new kinds of entertainment. Not only that, but it has tons of options for future additions as well. I really poured a lot of time in to this and I'd love it if you could leave your opinion on it down below. Thanks for reading,
- Metal Raimon.
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