Interesting New Weapons

[thesovereign]

Various Royal potions weaponry and potions have been released. According to the neopets battlepedia the first 4 are weapons that do icons, and of the tested ones they do not look too bad. Voidberry Potion looks like it is maybe a new prickly potion type weapon dealing dark and air reflected icons, but it may just be dark and air reflection. If you know the stats of any unknown weapons, feel free to contact us.

Flaming Blooble Potion 90,000 NP Multiple Use
	Attack +[] Defence
8 icons when used against opponent with 21 INT or less (including 1P), 14 icons otherwise. You have only five seconds to take cover once you pop the cork.

Voidberry Potion 290,000 NP Multiple Use
	Attack Defence
This weapon attacks with reflected icons (so these icons will use your opponent's strength boost.) The mysterious power of the voidberry harnessed.

Elixir of Intellect 0 NP Single Use
	Attack Defence
+2 Intelligence Drinking this would be quite the intelligent thing to do.

Vial of Fragrant Oil 60,000 NP Multiple Use
	Attack +[] Defence
7 icons when used against opponent with (currently unknown) INT or less (including 1P), 13 icons otherwise. One whiff of this and youll feel like you wandered into a perfume store after an earthquake!

[+stoicjohn]

The dark on the Flaming Blooble Potion is fractional, it shows 4 but does 2.8. So the weapon does 12.8 icons against a 2-player opponent with the right intel.

10 fire

10 water

2.8 dark

I smell a downgrade in the middle of the night.
Free_Avs is a tonu btw

[Nightwind]

I'm thinking it has to be more then the dark that's fractional. 2.8 rounds up to 3 displayed icons... but I don't know the math to test this properly. Can you produce another set of shots with the flame reflector shield used?

[+stoicjohn]

ok updated the screenies in my first post to isolate the icons.

[Nightwind]

nice work isolating the icons, now I REALLY don't understand how the system works, but I have to admit the evidence is absolutely conclusive.

Your brilliant, and generous.

Thank you.

[thesovereign]

huh must have been downgraded over night - which is a good think because these things are still probably overpowered for their rarity.

[+stoicjohn]

Yeah this thing is weird, It's better than a yblaster except for the whole "sucks in 1-player thing" but it's a great gshield buster so it's a pretty good tertiary weapon. I'm going to have to dig around and see what the other "10 thru gshield" weapons are worth.

PS I like that this encourages 2-player fighting, of course if they hadn't made the Scroll Potion they wouldn't need to encourage it. Just sayin.

[thesovereign]

(12-03-2009 06:52 AM)stoicjohn Wrote:  Yeah this thing is weird, It's better than a yblaster except for the whole "sucks in 1-player thing" but it's a great gshield buster so it's a pretty good tertiary weapon. I'm going to have to dig around and see what the other "10 thru gshield" weapons are worth.

PS I like that this encourages 2-player fighting, of course if they hadn't made the Scroll Potion they wouldn't need to encourage it. Just sayin.

Actually scroll potion kinda prevents this from destroying quickfights. With scroll potion constnatly knocking intel off of pets it makes these things worse in quickfights - where they are way too powerful and would probably make most fights end in draws for small pets.

I think the decline in quickfights is more from people finding better ways of matching up against opponents on the boards and the how annoying it is to wait to withdraw from a fight when they can't figre out what is going on.

[+stoicjohn]

The Flaming Blooble Potion does do 14 icons

I think tonu's have a 30% dark resistance but I'm keeping my mouth shut until some can validate that I'm right so I don't have to put two feet in my mouth:

http://forums.finalhit.org/thread-22368-...#pid444650