ancient scrolls?

[Kartoffeln]

anyoone know what they do?

[Aelanar Brightfield]

Just sell fodder, and not great at that since they take so much space
Better than empty inventory slots though

[wheatyman]

Originally posted by Kartoffeln:

anyoone know what they do?

Sell to collector

[Kartoffeln]

TY

[Oddball]

Think this is a miss. They could be map-only temporary spells to use by casters for that instance only, equip as an item to cast, not knowing what it will do lol.

[Rikuto01]

Originally posted by Oddball:

Think this is a miss. They could be map-only temporary spells to use by casters for that instance only, equip as an item to cast, not knowing what it will do lol.

Why you've bumped a year old thread is beyond me, but the original intention was to use them as one-shot spell scrolls for non-caster classes. This idea has been shelved for the moment, so its just treasure.

[Oddball]

Originally posted by Rikuto01:

Originally posted by Oddball:

Think this is a miss. They could be map-only temporary spells to use by casters for that instance only, equip as an item to cast, not knowing what it will do lol.

Why you've bumped a year old thread is beyond me, but the original intention was to use them as one-shot spell scrolls for non-caster classes. This idea has been shelved for the moment, so its just treasure.

Thanks for letting me know! Rather add to an old thread than start a new one (keeps the same subject on the same thread and not scattered over separate ones).

[NPC_LUKE]

Originally posted by Rikuto01:

Originally posted by Oddball:

Think this is a miss. They could be map-only temporary spells to use by casters for that instance only, equip as an item to cast, not knowing what it will do lol.

Why you've bumped a year old thread is beyond me, but the original intention was to use them as one-shot spell scrolls for non-caster classes. This idea has been shelved for the moment, so its just treasure.

Oh man, I hope this is reimplemented in some form! Wizard could permanently expand his repertoire of unique spells only able to be acquired from looted scrolls, get free casts of spells he's already got prepared/doesn't have prepared. I'd love to hoard a treasure trove of heal scrolls/Treant scrolls.

Some scrolls would have to have a knowledge requirement, and or a chance to fail (catastrophically) when casting high level scrolls with low knowledge.

[Oddball]

Originally posted by NPC_LUKE:

Originally posted by Rikuto01:

Why you've bumped a year old thread is beyond me, but the original intention was to use them as one-shot spell scrolls for non-caster classes. This idea has been shelved for the moment, so its just treasure.

Oh man, I hope this is reimplemented in some form! Wizard could permanently expand his repertoire of unique spells only able to be acquired from looted scrolls, get free casts of spells he's already got prepared/doesn't have prepared. I'd love to hoard a treasure trove of heal scrolls/Treant scrolls.

Some scrolls would have to have a knowledge requirement, and or a chance to fail (catastrophically) when casting high level scrolls with low knowledge.

Or something more exciting.... require something like the lock pick game to cast correctly least it backfires lol. The more rare the scroll is, the more powerful, but harder to cast (where the success sweet-spot widens with knowledge).

[NPC_LUKE]

Originally posted by Oddball:

Originally posted by NPC_LUKE:

Oh man, I hope this is reimplemented in some form! Wizard could permanently expand his repertoire of unique spells only able to be acquired from looted scrolls, get free casts of spells he's already got prepared/doesn't have prepared. I'd love to hoard a treasure trove of heal scrolls/Treant scrolls.

Some scrolls would have to have a knowledge requirement, and or a chance to fail (catastrophically) when casting high level scrolls with low knowledge.

Or something more exciting.... require something like the lock pick game to cast correctly least it backfires lol. The more rare the scroll is, the more powerful, but harder to cast (where the success sweet-spot widens with knowledge).

Ohhh, that reminds me of the spell Knock. You're able to unlock anything that isn't magically locked instantly, but it makes an audible knock heard up to 300 feet away.

[Cirno]

Long time ago, in the time of the BR circle and portals spawning at random places, devs entertained the idea of a scroll being used to summon a blue portal. It was never implemented, so it's just an item for quests / vendor sell, at least for now.

[Rikuto01]

Originally posted by NPC_LUKE:

Originally posted by Rikuto01:

Why you've bumped a year old thread is beyond me, but the original intention was to use them as one-shot spell scrolls for non-caster classes. This idea has been shelved for the moment, so its just treasure.

Oh man, I hope this is reimplemented in some form! Wizard could permanently expand his repertoire of unique spells only able to be acquired from looted scrolls, get free casts of spells he's already got prepared/doesn't have prepared. I'd love to hoard a treasure trove of heal scrolls/Treant scrolls.

Some scrolls would have to have a knowledge requirement, and or a chance to fail (catastrophically) when casting high level scrolls with low knowledge.

The knowledge requirement was probably part of the concept, yes. You can see shades of this with the invisibility potion still.

Originally posted by Cirno:

Long time ago, in the time of the BR circle and portals spawning at random places, devs entertained the idea of a scroll being used to summon a blue portal. It was never implemented, so it's just an item for quests / vendor sell, at least for now.

Oddly I've never heard that one, just the bit about being able to write spells on them from an interview some time ago. Probably been a lot of internal discussion about it and trying to find a way to not make them broken. I'm fine with how it is now, but if it ever does come back it's probably going to have some functionality similar to OG diablo as that seems to be a main inspiration for items in general.

[NPC_LUKE]

Originally posted by Rikuto01:

Originally posted by NPC_LUKE:

Oh man, I hope this is reimplemented in some form! Wizard could permanently expand his repertoire of unique spells only able to be acquired from looted scrolls, get free casts of spells he's already got prepared/doesn't have prepared. I'd love to hoard a treasure trove of heal scrolls/Treant scrolls.

Some scrolls would have to have a knowledge requirement, and or a chance to fail (catastrophically) when casting high level scrolls with low knowledge.

The knowledge requirement was probably part of the concept, yes. You can see shades of this with the invisibility potion still.

Yeah, that's where I got the idea from.

[Oddball]

Originally posted by Cirno:

Long time ago, in the time of the BR circle and portals spawning at random places, devs entertained the idea of a scroll being used to summon a blue portal. It was never implemented, so it's just an item for quests / vendor sell, at least for now.

That's still not a bad idea to implement, finding a scroll that allows to call a portal. Would have to be something that does not survive the map once players leave though, if not used.

[NPC_LUKE]

Originally posted by Oddball:

Originally posted by Cirno:

Long time ago, in the time of the BR circle and portals spawning at random places, devs entertained the idea of a scroll being used to summon a blue portal. It was never implemented, so it's just an item for quests / vendor sell, at least for now.

That's still not a bad idea to implement, finding a scroll that allows to call a portal. Would have to be something that does not survive the map once players leave though, if not used.

I do like that idea as well. A get out of jail free card to use whenever you want.

[Oddball]

Originally posted by NPC_LUKE:

Originally posted by Oddball:

That's still not a bad idea to implement, finding a scroll that allows to call a portal. Would have to be something that does not survive the map once players leave though, if not used.

I do like that idea as well. A get out of jail free card to use whenever you want.

Would need something like a lock-pick trick to cast though, so folks just won't use it to avoid near death in combat situations. Also maybe every time you don't get the sweet-spot to cast it correctly, you take some minor arcane damage hit lol.