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So I transferred most of my mech into engineering since beads can now be made via shaping. My only problem with this is that while I could easily carry harder material blocks that weren't hard to find, make or buy for the old bead carving system and tote them around on a prayer bead chain i can't with the new products. The weight of the engineering products, unfortunately, makes them a bit harder to lug about. I would hate to spend my time and money shaping beads when they don't teach me anything and no longer have the ability to make beads via engineering the old way. So, I thought maybe there could be some exchange system put into play where some npc walks around (or even the old bead carving npc's) that would take our products and turn them into light weight tokens that could then be fed onto a prayer bead change or something similar that could also be used in a similar way via meditate and in rituals... so at the end of the day, we could spend our time being productive and still end up getting to use our products for devotional rituals in some way.
I dumped mech into eng. also when i found out about bead carving. I would not recommend it at least TILL BEADS from it become devotional. right now they are pretty worthless for the most common application <putting on a prayer chain and meditating>..... the wood weight is pretty bad, it is why i stopped trying to figure out the new bead carving system.... maybe they will get it worked out before they do away with the old system
On the plus side it's much easier and faster to lock engineering as a circling lore than it is mech. You can carve beads using mech with pretty low ranks for devotion using easier wood and when bead chains are converted over you'll be ready with engineering ranks.
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>I dumped mech into eng. also when i found out about bead carving. I would not recommend it at least TILL BEADS from it become devotional. right now they are pretty worthless for the most common application <putting on a prayer chain and meditating>..... the wood weight is pretty bad, it is why i stopped trying to figure out the new bead carving system.... maybe they will get it worked out before they do away with the old system<
So...just so I understand.....shaping beads with the new system does NOT give devotion via the chains? I have NOT transferred my mech lore yet, and since I use devotional beads all the time...that would be a huge factor for me.
~Gab
So...just so I understand.....shaping beads with the new system does NOT give devotion via the chains? I have NOT transferred my mech lore yet, and since I use devotional beads all the time...that would be a huge factor for me.
~Gab
>shaping beads with the new system does NOT give devotion via the chains?
No, prayer bead chains don't recognize shaped beads yet. You can use shaped beads for anything else that doesn't require a chain though afaik.
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No, prayer bead chains don't recognize shaped beads yet. You can use shaped beads for anything else that doesn't require a chain though afaik.
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| I would not recommend it at least TILL BEADS from it become devotional. right now they are pretty worthless for the most common application <putting on a prayer chain and meditating> |
Well, beads are functioning with truffenyi's commune. They are still heavier than the old ones, don't fit on the chains, and as such aren't usable for meditating. Overall, it's nice that we can find at least one use for them but they're not very user friendly yet. That's why I think some sort of exchange system would be great, I mean eventually I'll be able to carve out statues, it'd be nice to actually work my engineering by making them rather than spend the same amount of time (give or take) working on beads that don't offer the same benefits
Component and crafted fluff item weight in general is just plain on the way too heavy side a lot of the time. It does make doing stuff like this on the go difficult. I kind of hope this gets looked at especially since it is sort of the go-to for high end devotion.
Thayet
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Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com
"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
