I’m kinda sick of walking around Witcher 3’s world looking like Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. I’m supposed to be a gruff and grizzled monster hunter, living in a filthy world and at the bottom of the social hierarchy, dishing out menacing threats in a monotone voice, yet I’m dressed in pristine baby blue prince pyjamas because they happen to be the strongest clothes I’ve come across so far. Let me cut & paste the stats from these Pierrot cumrags into a butcher’s apron or something. And let me do it freely, with no in-game wank about having to visit a special magic tailor in the bumhole of nowhere, and with no restrictions on how often I can do it.

Fuckin’ 17th century unsuccessful baroque composer lookin’ ass. If someone came up to me dressed like my Witcher character, and challenged me to a fight to the death, I’d take the challenge because I know that no just universe or god would allow any harm to come to me from a person wearing that outfit. They could thrust an obsidian-tipped spear directly into my belly, and it’d harmlessly curve around me like a snake climbing a banana tree. The sacred blood of Christ would not allow for even a mild abrasion to befall me by the lace-gloved hand of a ballet theatre’s chief bathroom attendant.

  • pishadoot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Any Asheron’s Call alumni up in this piece?

    AC had randomly generated cosmetics on randomly generated stat loot. Old game so models were limited but colors widely varied.

    Trading pieces that “looked good” or sets that matched and had great stats was a huge part of the game economy.

    Also was awesome to just have great stats and run around looking like a damn fool.

    Miss that game. Golden age of MMOs. We can never go back, and it’s a shame.

    Edit: eventually they added in dying as a trade skill, with materials for dyes tough to come by. Success? Good job, your armor is dyed the right color. Mid fail? Your shit is random outrageous colors, no stat change. Low fail?.. Sorry, stats are trash now AND it looks ridiculous. Very sought after trade skill because getting a good stat piece and not wrecking it with a botched dye job meant burning tons and tons of dyes on throwaway armor to level up your skill.