I like the over all idea. Having to work to change the alignment of shards isa great thing. There a re a couple of things added on in there that bother me a little; namely setting the alignment at creation and having aligned weapons.
You brought up having the weapons be alignment based. Would this mean that you would make more weapons in this likeness, or that you would take the existing weapons and change them. The best weapons in the game right now are pretty set, and for an example, the warlords blades are used by both myself and Secoiya, the difference being that Secoiya is +1000 alignment, and I am at -1000. We both use the same weapon. If this change comes to pass, will one of us not be able to use said weapon?
I like the idea of having our alignment effect the weapons we have, but not the other way around. I feel like if we have to choose our alignment at the get go, we would be restricted to one set of weapons, aside from the fact that some cannot be used by different races. I see this making the availabilityof weapons for players rather difficult and confusing. While most of us would get it, we are trying to attract more players, and adding that may be enough to throw them off.
That being said, if my soul is tainted, and I add my tainted shards to a weapon, it should taint it. I absolutely love that idea, it begs for some kind of spiritual 'sync' between player and weapon; having an increased chance to hit or damage, the like.
One last note on this. I think that the shards attached to the weapon should change the alignment of the weapon, not the other way around. As I stated above, it cuts players off from certain good weapons. It would also reduce the amount of new weapons that would need to be created to make the races/alignments equalized.
My other concern is that if we lower the embed cap, which I agree is a little rediculous right now, and raise the stats that it gives, it will adversely effect the want to use the full shikon for stat gains. I'm at that stage that I'm trying to get shards for stats through the no tama. If I could embed 50, and get 150 stats worth from it, sacrificing 150 for 90 stats would just seems like a waste of some perfectly good shards.
All in all, I love the idea. Just think a couple of adjustments would be nice. I'll hold off voting for now, becuase I really want to vote yes, but can only vote once. Don't wanna waste it on a needs improvement.
I think that's everything I had, if I remember anything else I will post again.
-Bobby
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