Tree of Savior Forum

Throwing equipment should not actually throw it

Suggestions
#1

I’ve noticed that there are a couple of skills that rely on throwing a piece of your equipment - Throw Spear and Throw Shield. The relevant item really does drop on the ground, meaning that it can potentially be lost to drop timeout or theft, and so players are overwhelmingly averse towards these skills.

My suggestion is to remove the item drop and instead create a unique and fake “thrown item” entity representing the dropped equipment, which remains in the inventory / equipped. The thrown equipment and all skills relying upon it become unusable until one of the following conditions is fulfilled:

  • The thrown item entity is picked back up by the same character (simply walking over it suffices.)
  • Some 5 seconds pass (or even more.)
  • The character changes map.
  • The character is KO’d.

If another character “picks up” your thrown item, they do not get an item and you do not lose one, but you must wait the 5 seconds to be able to use your item again.

#2

Sounds way better than what we actually have. I like the throwing spear skill for a 1v1 PVP Hoplite build, but not like in the state that it’s right now :stuck_out_tongue:

#3

This sounds good. Or maybe they could just sell consumable throwing spears. Just like RO, yes i went there, when archers had to buy arrows. And how do these skills even work on pvp as they are right now?

#4

@dracohandsome i’m pretty sure you can’t lose your weapon/shield.
i watched one guy do this earlier; he threw his spear, and then he logged off, when he got back into the game the spear was already on his inventory.

#5

Yea, I saw this as well the other day, you dont actually loose the item. I saw a stream of a hoplite throw his spear and when he opened his inventory the spear was still equipped in the window. So I think you cant actually loose it, the part where you throw and pick it back up is I think to make the game look a little realistic.

#6

But…

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#7

Owh, I am not sure about the shield, But I am quite sure the spear throwing thing does not actually throw your spear as I saw the stream on twitch yesterday. I am sure they will fix this( the loosing shield thing), as it would be absurd to loose an eq this way.