While I see making this item into a FACTION BOUND item is necessary, I dont really understand the sudden reduction in stats. There are alot of other desireable wrist items to obtain in further tiers and with the new stats that this bracer has (25 ac 15 str cha wis int, 75 hp mana, 30 cold 15 magic) I dont see any reason why anyone would want to spend the amount of time it takes to get ally faction and then do this long quest now. There are also many alternatives at the same or lower tiers which are now going to be more desireable simply because of the fact that you cant lose the item if you drop below a certain faction level.
For tanks there are two alternatives that can be obtained fairly easily at about the same tier. One is the bracer off of yziar and the other is the djinni battle bands. Not to mention the bracer that drops from tmaps. Note that when the yziar bracer is made faction bound it has more base hp then the sunbane bracer will now have and very similar stats.
Healers have several options as well which are about the same level of difficulty to get tier wise, but take severly less time. Forsaken bracer of revenge, Shimmering Pearl Beads, Exuberent Bracer of Life to name a few.
Int casters very seldomly do this quest and I havent seen it on many of them, however, they also have a few alternatives. The tmap quest bracer, a bracer which drops from tmaps, shimmering pearl beads, royal dragonbone bracelet, and forsaken bracer of revenge even as well.
Rogues might as well use the atk bracer from sunmines and the + crit strike bracer from HHK royals. This could also be applied to any pure melee dps class or even rangers.
Now, as a monk seeing the amount of hours I spent factioning and questing to get this item, and seeing it in its current state, I wouldnt bother doing the quest if I hadnt done it already. There is no incentive. Lets say the amount of time it takes for the average person to get to ally faction is about 10 hours. I would say that this is even being generous. Now lets say that the time it takes you to do the whole quest from start to finish is about 15 hours. In this 15 hours you also need to bring a raidforce for 2 of the needed fights (EW war and advisor). Now for 25 hours of factioning/questing (or thereabouts) I dont really understand why this item has been nerfed statwise. Making it FACTION BOUND is bad enough since it allows for the chance to completely throw away roughly 25 hours of time invested. Making it FACTION BOUND and nerfing the stats makes a once very fun and awesome quest into a completely useless quest as there are many alternatives even around the same tier that I have shown above.
What I propose is that when you initially turn in your bracer it is not faction bound and has the new stats (the nerfed stats). You will have the option to turn it in to make it FACTION BOUND and return it to its prior stats (27 ac, 15 str cha wis int 100 hp 75 mana 30 vs cold, 25 vs magic). This will get the effect that you want since people will almost have to turn in the bracer to make it worthwhile. Or you could just leave the stats as is and make it faction bound.
I also dont understand why this was suddenly changed out of nowhere. The only people that really use this bracer at the high end (meaning prison level and beyond) are usually monks due to the massive resists, hp and low weight. There are a few alternatives that I could obtain at my tier(mirror bracer, combine bracer, 1st keeper bracer from CoD, and 4th keeper bracer from CoD) that would be better than this now in its current state. I can maybe count a handfull of people that still use this bracer at this tier, and I don't see many lower tier guilds working towards equipping their members with this item. In closing, although the bracer will still be decent, it will definately not be worth the amount of time and effort it takes to obtain, especially while having the opportunity to poof if you drop enough giant faction.
Thanks.
For tanks there are two alternatives that can be obtained fairly easily at about the same tier. One is the bracer off of yziar and the other is the djinni battle bands. Not to mention the bracer that drops from tmaps. Note that when the yziar bracer is made faction bound it has more base hp then the sunbane bracer will now have and very similar stats.
Healers have several options as well which are about the same level of difficulty to get tier wise, but take severly less time. Forsaken bracer of revenge, Shimmering Pearl Beads, Exuberent Bracer of Life to name a few.
Int casters very seldomly do this quest and I havent seen it on many of them, however, they also have a few alternatives. The tmap quest bracer, a bracer which drops from tmaps, shimmering pearl beads, royal dragonbone bracelet, and forsaken bracer of revenge even as well.
Rogues might as well use the atk bracer from sunmines and the + crit strike bracer from HHK royals. This could also be applied to any pure melee dps class or even rangers.
Now, as a monk seeing the amount of hours I spent factioning and questing to get this item, and seeing it in its current state, I wouldnt bother doing the quest if I hadnt done it already. There is no incentive. Lets say the amount of time it takes for the average person to get to ally faction is about 10 hours. I would say that this is even being generous. Now lets say that the time it takes you to do the whole quest from start to finish is about 15 hours. In this 15 hours you also need to bring a raidforce for 2 of the needed fights (EW war and advisor). Now for 25 hours of factioning/questing (or thereabouts) I dont really understand why this item has been nerfed statwise. Making it FACTION BOUND is bad enough since it allows for the chance to completely throw away roughly 25 hours of time invested. Making it FACTION BOUND and nerfing the stats makes a once very fun and awesome quest into a completely useless quest as there are many alternatives even around the same tier that I have shown above.
What I propose is that when you initially turn in your bracer it is not faction bound and has the new stats (the nerfed stats). You will have the option to turn it in to make it FACTION BOUND and return it to its prior stats (27 ac, 15 str cha wis int 100 hp 75 mana 30 vs cold, 25 vs magic). This will get the effect that you want since people will almost have to turn in the bracer to make it worthwhile. Or you could just leave the stats as is and make it faction bound.
I also dont understand why this was suddenly changed out of nowhere. The only people that really use this bracer at the high end (meaning prison level and beyond) are usually monks due to the massive resists, hp and low weight. There are a few alternatives that I could obtain at my tier(mirror bracer, combine bracer, 1st keeper bracer from CoD, and 4th keeper bracer from CoD) that would be better than this now in its current state. I can maybe count a handfull of people that still use this bracer at this tier, and I don't see many lower tier guilds working towards equipping their members with this item. In closing, although the bracer will still be decent, it will definately not be worth the amount of time and effort it takes to obtain, especially while having the opportunity to poof if you drop enough giant faction.
Thanks.
