idea for brightshade gear buff

[fabin]

currently as the beta stands, it's clear the devs might take their time with this one, so i wanted to suggest some ideas while the beta's still fresh.

right now the brightshade gear is just glorified (and honestly weaker) thulecite stuff, so to make them truly endgame you gotta make sure they're worthwhile to make, like 80% of thulecite gear.

for the sword, i'd say to bump up the normal damage to 54 (so around 74 damage with planar damage) and give it an AOE effect, with a slower swing animation to compensate a little for the damage. i know by late game hordes and stuff is child's play, but if you're just doing random stuff away from hound defenses, AOE might help with surprise hound/worm waves.

for the armor, i have a VERY original idea (real). just let us decide between set bonuses, i.e: if we want enlightenment instead of sanity (chest + enlightened crown) or brightshade echoes (chest + helmet). brightshade echoes are like repeated delayed attacks that deal 33% our damage, so it'd be an alternative to the crown. since the armor would be very good, i'd say to keep the crafting cost and actually, REDUCE the durability a little bit to compensate for the power it holds. of course it'll still keep the shadow damage bonus.

just increase the staff's damage to 17 and make it refuelable.

i saw a suggestion to make the huskaxe a hammer/pick hybrid, so i'd say just to do that and give an AOE effect that destroys stuff around 1 to 1.5 bushes away from you.

i know by that by normal standards, my ideas are completely broken, but c'mon, it's endgame stuff, by that point you have to defeat crab king, which honestly is a bigger feat than defeating celestial champion in my opinion

[Dextops]

1 hour ago, fabin said:

with a slower swing animation to compensate a little for the damage

i don't know if something that later in the game really needs else to compensate for it's damage