[Spotlight Concept #2] Lyssa's Realm

You mention of beauty gave me an idea or two.

The first one is instead of an armor crafter, maybe you can find a social clothing crafter there (ok, AL 5).

Maybe lyssa's realm would be the best place for a stylist NPC that has been requested.



In other thoughts, since it is a realm of chaos, maybe there could be a casino there for one of the maps (a non combat map).

I like the idea of a NPC for appearance alteration being in here. When you are able to get to UW/FoW seems to be when a lot of people get bored of their current appearance.

For enemies, what about one who when reaches half health changes to a different one/different profession?

Something that I first imagined when I heard this was the arcane sanctuary from D2. Something like that with many paths and junk set in what seems like space. Then there could be random teleporters and the like, which you would have to find your way through. Some quests could include puzzles which would involve party members all doing different things, but little or no fighting.

oh man that would be cool, but profecies adherent... hmmm...

BEauty and illusion aye? If you play around with it, you could create a totally ugly place, and the goal is to make it beautiful, only to realise it was always beautiful, but the eyes were masked in an illusion. pfft... whatever.

Beauty and illusion.... how about splitting the area in two and making both areas intwertwine with an infinite combination.

ooo, if every party member had an actual role (and i dont mean class specific party members) that would add in a new level of skill into the game, instead of gathering a party together and go "kill this, done, pick up items^^"

i have only 2 opinions to share
1: keys = chaos keys, for sure
2: i love the idea to fight lyssa or some huge, near impossible enemy at the end, kind of a 'The Sleeper' kind of boss for those of you EQ fans out there, that would be an IMPOSSIBLE boss, that either gave you a title, or some amazing green items, but 99% of the groups that spent the 3-5 hour clearing run getting to it, would not kill it

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for the weapon drops mabye weapons that change color's slowly, like a fellblade but the shadows would be different colors.

also, mabye instead of having to pay 1k to enter, each party member has to be drunk to enter

Hmm for enemies with the whole illusion and disguies theme going on i was thinking that they could be pale and vary in colours depending on their class, they could be made to look innocent and unthreatening but kinda creepy and sad looking with big eyes and extremely skinny bodies and when they come into aggro range they could change colour to something harsh or vivid like a deep red and their faces could become contorted with rage and they could have a piercing scream or something, anyway that was pretty vague but thats my idea.

I think we should play on Lyssa's Trickery and really get players to use their noggins.

I liked the idea of invisible bridges or invisible doors. ^^

I was thinking, as the "reward" thing after doing quests there, you would find the npc who could change your appearence. As in, hairstyle, face style, skin colors, etc. People have been asking for a character re-maker npc, and I thought it would work perfectly in Lyssa's realm.

Maybe you could have some sort of first profession changer, where for the duration of your fighting in "Lyssa's Realm", you are that profession and get to sue all the skills from it. Lyssa's the goddess of illusion afterall, and it would cut out the tedious searches for certain professions.

or a hard quest to gain lyssa's favor.

A place called the Netherworld Plains would be cool, where time goes both too fast and too slow. Mountains would spring up in mere minutes, yet some plants would take ages to grow. The enemies would spawn from fires that would randomly light themselves, and they would look like wisps of smoke to begin with, but as your group aggroed the trails of smoke would start following a target. As the wisps were moving, they would slowly transform into creatures of some sort.

I think Lyssa's realm should look much like pre-sear ascalon, landscape, npcs, quests and all - but with water that burns, houses that attack, and obsidian wyrms to fight instead of field worms when you help farmer Dirk.

The final boss could even be Gwen that pulls out Shiro-like moves while she babbles about Old Mac's bull and stuff.

There are some great concepts in here that could really make a zone with a different feel to it. First, the random map is a MUST.

Changing zones - to get to the next zone, there could be a mirror activated by NPC spirit (Sara, Gwen, whatever) when you talk to her/him. The mirror will show a landmark that appears in that zone (also in a random location each time). Each map could contain a few landmarks. If you select a landmark before viewing the mirror and you guess the wrong landmark, it takes you back to ToA. Guess right (or pick it after viewing the mirror) you go to next zone.

Mystical Staff: FoW has Chaos Axe that glows, Lyssa should have an extra special staff or wand (casters have been begging for something unique looking forever). It would be cool to have something that left a trail as it moved. Sort of like a Fourth of July sparkler. It constantly changes color (don't bother dying it).

Pet: Changeling - appears as a different animal each time you rezone. Cycle through the existing pets randomly, but could be a unique appearance as well.

And instead of a new armor crafter, there should be an appearance NPC as suggested earlier. It would be a similar cost to FoW armor, but the faces and skin colors and hairs would be unique to Lyssa's realm (purple skin? idk about that, but something that would stand out as significantly different) not just a chance to pick a new one from the old standards.

Edit: One more thing, Lyssa should be available the reverse of the other realms. When a zone has favor, they cannot enter her realm. Only can be entered without favor. I know that it would cause a change to the statue thing, but maybe at ToA there could be a new NPC called Sara that shows up when you kneel when favor is somewhere else to let you enter.

Oh man, that was the coolest, I would love to see that implimented!

The idea has great potential and loads of room to expand. I was browsing ideas this morning just because I had a good idea for a weapon mod and then found this thread, it may fit nicely so I thought I would throw it in.

I was thinking about a weapon mod for Disenchantments, 10 or 20% chances on magic resistance if you like. This is aimed more at the Mes/Curse, shatter enchantment sort of stuff, not elemental etc and this would be the perfect realm to have these mods. I haven't put any thought into how it may impact on other professions skills but it's a start.

Another Idea i had following on that whole pre thing.
Maybe when we enter the realm, it will be a completely rebuilt area of one of the areas in game.

Meaning= A rebuilt version of lions arch if you want to do it on lions arch.
But heres the deal.. Everything has to be REVERSED. Mirror world

I love the idea of reverse mirror world, appearance changer. And I agree with some people that pets and armor should be FoW and UW special so Lyssa should not have it.

Creatures that mess with your mind enough that they 'reverse your casting spells' without you knowing... I.e. a monk spell will do damage to that person, vamp gaze will heal the enemy. It should be a random monster skill, that you would have no way of knowing would happen until it does.

I always thought it would be cool if that "Realm of the God" were completely different in style. FoW and UW are very similar...

My idea is that the Realm for Lyssa is huge boss battle. The premise is that Lyssa has captured a powerful inter-dimensional being. However, she is using all her power to make sure the monster stays in its prison, and she needs you to kill it.

Basically this would be an epic battle akin to a Final Fantasy end boss battle where the boss has many stages, and at stage strengths and weaknesses.

We definitely need more Realms...I am surprised we got Sorrow's Furnace instead of them. It seems like such a hole that needs to be filled.