This belt is literally just a commander's belt, and that isn't intrinsically good or evil, it's a good belt, but only in it's bang for buck. Nothing even in the description or it's set of classes deigned instinctively predisposes it to being good. Can we remove that?

http://i.imgur.com/QGV7mYV.png

//It has paladin at the bottom, but that's a real outlier.

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bad man

There's a lot of random needless alignment restrictions on items, yep. Like the set of three shortswords, +1, 1d6ish of elements, all good or neutral only, for no reason.

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Davion Telemos - Monk of the Four Winds
Korthan Isharnos - Dragon Shaman of Thunder Spirit Zamasham

I always figured most alignment restrictions reflected the origin of the item, rather than purposefully restricting them from from a certain alignment on an OoC level. Alignment is a much fuzzier way of restricting items for balance purposes than class, so it really is only there for flavor.

That being said, if possible, those items with alignment restriction should give a little more flavor and description so one has an idea why they're restricted to other alignments. If there isn't an interesting story or lore reason for the restriction(possibly like the belt) it should be removed, or at least a counterpart made with its own slight variation for flavor. That latter inflates the lootbins and requires more work, so we're probably looking at the former rather than the latter.

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And over 3/4 of the server dumps UMD, making said restrictions pointless. So. Meh.

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Jace Fenneril: Cleric of Sharess.

Michael Harcourte: Painter, Scribe.

Sebastian Mayartte: Gambler, MercenaryDeceased

That's still 1/4 of the server losing access to items for no real reason whatsoever.

not a fan of the system in general.

but you can just get anything you would need UMD for w/o UMD. ether make it yourself or djinn it.

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ANT ALARM

ANT ALARM

when your alignment marginalizes you and costs skill points that's a problem

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bad man

i agree. at least some classes can do workarounds.

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ANT ALARM

ANT ALARM

Oh there's a reason. The reason is to justify buying UMD past a score of 15 to those who did it. Honestly though? That reason isn't enough IMO since endgame there isn't really any must-have restricted items in the game. Ain't nobuddy got time for "Commander's Belts" at level 30, foo!

I've always wanted a capstone item for each race/class that epitomized the flavor or idiom of it. An item so good you couldn't UMD it even if you tried - but here, there's really little reason to go past UMD 15. There's no epic boss drops that demand you feed the UMD gods and the last build-specific piece of gear with a restriction on it mysteriously vanished in a shop purge ages ago (spellplates).

What we're left with is a bunch of middling gear with various restrictions that were put into the module with lazy descriptions.

I'm fine with the restrictions (they just need a better description to explain why they exist) and would argue that such items should be notably better than they are to justify having restrictions at all.

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Rashad the Azure, Zakharan Merchant-lord Most Fair and Master of the Desert Wind
Loremaster Tukson Devers, Oghmanyte Wrestler of Knowledge and Child of the Passive Voice

(No tells for Rashad while I'm playing other characters please.)