Saga of Nakedness

[mordred3]

I know this has been posted and ranted about on these boards already, but I feel it deserves more attention. In fact I feel this is the most critical issue at the moment and needs to be addressed before *anything* else, including patch 1.

Decay rates in this game are completley out of hand. I've talked to GM's and been told this is a known bug but I see very little to no response by the developers on the boards about it. I'm not sure if this means they are working on it, or just know about it and are content to live with it for awhile.

However many players are soon going to get extremely frustrated.

By extreme decay rates, I seriously mean items are degrading within a few hours of being newly crafted. This is not an exaggeration. I myself have gone through sets of armor in 3-4 hours of hunting and multiple magic amplifiers in a night.

This is not "how it should be" and nor is it the fault of any players trying to hunt too high level mobs or using too good equipment for them (as I've heard some players try to brush it aside citing these things). All of our players use equipment relative to their level, and if we can kill a monster, it obviously isnt too hard for us.

I'd really like to hear that the developers are working on this and that it is their top prioriety. I could really live with them pushing off added features in patch 1 in order to fix this crippling bug as soon as possible. As it is now, most of my guild runs around naked only with a weapon (which wont last them long but fists dont do much damage) simply because it's become no longer worth it to wear armor.

Please note - I do want and accept a reasonable decay rate to help keep balance. No one is asking for no decay, but at the moment this is insane. Why should anyone risk their live for digging up supreme and excellent materials in dangerous areas (such as the Roots) only to make an uber weapon which lasts 2 hours. Items should last half a week to a week or something. A few hours is simply unacceptable. Even amassing enough of trash materials (basic or fine) to make something becomes tedious when you know the product wont last long.