Since the beggining, we have had 5 item types:
-Common
-Uncommon
-Rare
-Legendary
-Exotic
After a lot of grinding, most of us have gone through all these stages. Some of us even have Exotic collections, which are simply incredible!
Well then, I propose a new type of equipment:
[b][i]Cursed Gear[/i][/b]
We Guardians live in a Darkness infested World. Some of us have been corrupted by it. Some of us seduced by it. Some of us intrigued by it.
All that is left... is for one of us to try to embrace it... and tame it.
Clearly, Lord Shaxx would not allow such a horrifying and heretical thing in the Crucible, and therefore, you can only use Cursed Gear in PvE. Also, you need access to the Darkness to use it, and in the Crucible, there is too much Light from too many Guardians, interfering with your Gear.
Cursed Gear would not work as normal gear. You are only allowed to wear one piece at a time, and you cannot equip Exotic Gear alongside it. Usually, you get passive, constant effects from gear. Examples here being things such as faster reload speed and more ammo for specific weapon types.
Cursed Gear gives you nothing. [i]Absolutely nothing.[/i] That is... until you activate it.
Cursed Gear would have a Black "Cursed Bar" displayed directly above your Super Bar, and once full, you would be able to unleash its powers.
However, great powers do not come with great responsibilities. They come with even greater [b]Risks[/b]. Cursed Gear would give you enormous strenght in exchange for equally great weaknesses.
How do you activate it though? Well, in a very interesting way!
[b]Runes.[/b]
The touchpad for the PS4 has not been used a lot in Destiny. For the XBOX, a button could be assigned, and then the Rune would be drawn using the joystick.
Once you activate the Gear by [u]Holding Down[/u] your Super activation buttons, you become immovable and vulnerable for a few seconds, while the Darkness is unleashed and you attempt to tame it. Your character is enveloped in a Dark Aura, suffering and gasping not for air...... but for Light, and you are prompted to draw your Gear's Rune. Every time you activate your Curse, you are prompted with a different shape, size and drawing speed. However be warned! Failing to activate the Rune will Curse you with Weakness and not give you the Strenght you desire!
Successfully drawing the Rune though, will give you temporary access to the Cursed power of the Darkness you so desperately try to fight.
Examples being:
Endless ammo with Damage boosts for your weapons! Give your enemies a taste of lead!
Your Melee attacks completely devastate your enemies, recharge almost instantly and reach from a distance! Let them know your Knife, your Palm and your Fist like never before!
You can run... And no one can keep up. Your speed is increased to dangerous levels! Your jumps make you feel like you're flying! Fall damage is non-existing! Landing on your enemies deals devastating damage!
Your on-air precision is greatly heightened!
Your grenades can now be compared to weapons of [b]ultra-concentrated[/b] mass destruction. You recharge Grenade Energy for every kill!
Blow your enemies to endless bits!
After activation and after the Curse ends though... you are exausted. You cannot use it for some time (Every Curse has a different amount of time before it fully charges again. The more powerful the Curse, the longer the recharge. About 7~12 Minutes of recharge if you just stand still.), and your Light has been hindered by it. Your Super Attack is temporarily locked away (3 Minutes and a half) and should Warlocks die with their Light still affected, Fireborn will not be of use!
Note that if you use your Regular Super when your Gear is fully charged, the Cursed Super will be locked out for 2 minutes because of the sudden surge of Light that you generated.
Also, as I have said, great [b]Risks[/b] come with great power...
Should you miss too many of your endless supply of bullets, you will take damage from the Darkness, who will laugh at your aim.
Your Melee becomes powerfull, but your bloodlust is too great... Should you not kill something within 6 seconds, the Darkness will start consuming you and you will take damage until you take another life... or until the Darkness takes yours.
After running so much you become tired. You cannot sprint nor jump, and become slower. Your enemies will take this opportunity to lunge at you with their Claws.
Your grenades have drained too much of your power. You can no longer use them for a while, and forgetting about this and attempting to use them will drain you of your Life.
In Single Player, you would be able to use Cursed Gear as many times as you wanted.
In Strikes, you would be allowes to use your Gear once.
In Raids, once per Checkpoint/Wipe.
This is to prevent the Gear usage of your teammates from potentially becoming a negative thing to the entire Fireteam due to the Risk.
The Cursed Bar charges slower than your Super Bar. Killing enemies with Precision shots charges your Cursed Bar slightly as the Darkness welling up inside you enjoys gruesome deaths. Also, when inside Darkness Zones (Respawning Restricted) the Cursed Bar would charge faster because of the higher presence of the Darkness. Dying resets your Bar, as your Ghost would remove the Darkness from you during Revival.
What do you think? Would you use Cursed Gear? What other effects do you suggest? What Risks would you be willing to take?
[b]Are you up for the Risks, Guardian?[/b]
[b]Before you leave:[/b]
[i]IronLegion[/i] had a fantastic idea for another concept of "[i]Cursed Gear[/i]".
Check it out! It [u]is[/u] worth reading!
[i]Link:[/i]
[spoiler]https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/109954725/0/0[/spoiler]
Also, here is a great idea thought up by [i]InfinitySerpent[/i].
It is a really creative one, and could prove to be a great implementation!
[i]Link:[/i]
[spoiler]https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/76717939/0/0[/spoiler]
[b]Edit:[/b] [i]We just reached 400 comments! Amazing! This is incredible guys! :D[/i]
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It's actually "common", not normal
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Editado por Qwo: 3/20/2015 9:22:10 AMHey bro,i like this idea,but it won't be Light gear anymore,more like the post that IronLegion said,but,instead by using more of his power will break the Balance,let's say,The Ghost make you up from the Light,however,you can become a Creature of the Darkness,so this is getting a bit interesting. Let's say,there exists a balance between the Light and the Darkness,we'll call it [b]The Balance[/b]. You can use Darkness gear the same as IronLegion said,but abusing his power will break [b]The Balance[/b],this happening might result in a different story that Destiny already has,so,you gotta be careful. [b]The Balance[/b]: Description:[i]The balance that holds everything on it's place.[/i] [b]The Balance[/b] will appear on top of the Light Levels,is a little bar,2 inches min,4 inches max. It has a white bar on the left,and a black one on the right.But we'll get to that later. Back on to the different story. No more Dinklebot,Speaker (Hope this happens),Vanguard,Tower,Reef. Welcome new galaxy to explore,called [b]The Home of The Darkness[/b] or THoTD,full of new planets to explore,and,enemies to defeat,As the story says,There are the Travelers,that's plural (Idk if i writed that correctly).That means there are other Travelers,so now,instead of helping them,you are destroying them (This is like a new Crucible),here you will rise your Darkness lvl. There will be a type of raids,let's say,someone's fireteam is doing VoG. If you're aligned to the Vex,you can interrupt the raid,and help the Vex (at this point the IA of the Vex will decrease to make the fight fair),You can stop them by defeating them,killing all their fireteam,once you have defeated them or lost,you'll be sent to Orbit,and try the raid again (Only if you're on the Light side),if you're from the Darkness side,you'll be sent back to the THoTD,with no rewards [b]IF[/b] you lost,if you won,then you'll receive gear. But the Guardians can interrupt your raids too,only if they are notified to,as well as you,the raids that the Darkness take are not the same,they can be done for once,[b]UNTIL[/b] the Guardians try to somehow fix the damage the Darkness did (That'll be for later),once the place is restored you can do the raid again,and there's something else that i call'd Exclusive Equipment,each side (Light and Darkness) has it own equipment,depending with who are aligned to,if the Vex then some futuristic equipment.each side will be competing in who is going to destroy the other,this might be a 4 month stat,depending on how many activities Destiny will have. Oh and raids and strikes will need a lot of cooperation and coordination,it won't be like [i]Hey,you,yes you! You'll shoot Crota and i'll smack him with the sword![/i].Nope,not that easy (We'll talk about that later). I can add more to this but before i want to know if any likes this idea and maybe make a post about it.if is not well received then i'll scrap it,simple as that. Guardians will have a special feat,which is called "Legendary Levels" (LL's),The LL's will start leveling up when you finish a raid,or kill a Legendary Creature of the Darkness (This means while you are on patrol,you can find Legendaries Creatures of the Darkness,these ones can be IA or a Player,this can happen because the players who sided the Darkness can go for recovery on their old planets,they can hide by putting their old Light gear or go without it,if you go without it,when a Guardian enter the area that you are in,i'll appear as a Darkness Zone,so you'll need either to kill the Guardian or pull up an Black Orb which is the Ghost of the Darkness and go to Orbit (We'll talk about that later). Back on the LL's,the level cap is 100,and is not really easy to get up there,once you hit the level cap,you can select 1 primary or 1 special or 1 heavy to become an Exotic [b]OF YOUR OWN[/b],you can have it,other players can get it by getting a request of yours,but it won't be only giving to them,you must set it like a bounty,certain specs for certain places,totally forgot,and 1 armor piece,and class item (Exotic CI's can only be held if you hit LL's cap),for the exotic's you'll put their description (We'll talk about later on that).By doing this,it will give the player a feeling of being unique. [spoiler]Sorry,im very stupid,didn't read all the post,but this can be taken as a idea if you want it,a different one but using the same concept.Just edited it by adding the LL's.[/spoiler]
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Although legendary, raid gear is another class.
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Its destiny not dungeons and dragons
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And I have a question if I haven't super and darkness bar up all the way and I use my super what happens to my darkness bar?
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Bump And yes this sounds awesome and bungie later on as a third sub class create a dark subclass one so dark that some enemies kneel at your feet
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Or how about [i]Mythic Gear[/i]: [i]Those who chase this gear become desperate... And sometimes this leads to betrayal, other times however, this leads to god hood.[/i]
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Cool idea!
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Damn son..
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Soooo... kinda like cocaine for guardians
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Umm...Darkness kills us dude
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You guys act like they owe you something. They are not just going to add content because you want them to.
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GTFO you PSN Exclusive bitch
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I would be down for that
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Sure, this game only really needs to get worse
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This would be an absolute amazing idea and I would enjoy the gear more but I feel that receiving the gear should be harder than any other exotic bounty
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Bump Hey man maybe if you can find some of the users who are into fan art in the forums, you could get them to put some designs on the drawing board
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Maybe the cursed gear could remove your super entirely? I don't know but either way this is an amazing idea!
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This is one of the coolest things I have ever read in my entire life.
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