HnRkLnXqZ.1870 Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Noticed this today while cleaning up my bank and character-inventories. You get the blaster with the second character birthday and keep it until you delete it. It was introduced long before we had the Novelty system. It has no exploitable benefits and the buffs are not that good anymore. It is mostly a novelty-like item that often comes in handy when people are bored, as normal novelties.What do you think about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quench.7091 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 I don't think it's 100% a novelty item. Sometimes I'll launch cake into random groups of people while waiting for an event timer, to give them that minor karma booster buff or magic find for the heck of it. However, I do think it should at least be an account-wide item that can fit into a shared inventory slot, if not a novelty item.Edit: A very trivial, but fun, secret to the cake launcher is that you can actually combo field the cakes. You can set the cakes on fire and launch them at your enemies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Making it account bound would sort of defeat the purpose of it being a birthday item, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eloc Freidon.5692 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 @kharmin.7683 said:Making it account bound would sort of defeat the purpose of it being a birthday item, no?Making birthdays character specific rather than account specific was dumb in the first place and shows in how they changed things up in the last couple years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quench.7091 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 @kharmin.7683 said:Making it account bound would sort of defeat the purpose of it being a birthday item, no?I think it's the only character-specific item from birthdays. I send all of my Birthday Boosters to my main character for the ultimate birthday experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeyspit.3965 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 8yr Anniversary coming up, perfect time to address this issue with the Birthday Blaster. Please move it to the Novelty tab where it belongs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Meh ... if this was before the ascended food it might be useful but you can have a slightly better buff that last 6x longer for 20s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeyspit.3965 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 @Khisanth.2948 said:Meh ... if this was before the ascended food it might be useful but you can have a slightly better buff that last 6x longer for 20sHey! 20s is like 13 waypoints! Not all of us have top of the line self-driving limo-Golems y'know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 @Turkeyspit.3965 said:@Khisanth.2948 said:Meh ... if this was before the ascended food it might be useful but you can have a slightly better buff that last 6x longer for 20sHey! 20s is like 13 waypoints! Not all of us have top of the line self-driving limo-Golems y'know.more like 4 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylan.2187 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 @Khisanth.2948 said:@Turkeyspit.3965 said:@Khisanth.2948 said:Meh ... if this was before the ascended food it might be useful but you can have a slightly better buff that last 6x longer for 20sHey! 20s is like 13 waypoints! Not all of us have top of the line self-driving limo-Golems y'know.more like 4 ...Wow, who pays 5s for WPs. Anything more than 2-3s I get around by using an LWS teleport tome or going to LA from HotM and porting to one of the racial cities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I asked for this item to be made account bound like 6 years ago, it's insane that it isn't. Then I asked again when shared inventory slots came out. As a novelty, it would be even better.@kharmin.7683 said:Making it account bound would sort of defeat the purpose of it being a birthday item, no?No, if you think its OP (lol) that a character less than 2 years old can use it, then just do a query of the info sent back from /age. If it's <2 then it doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 @Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 said:@kharmin.7683 said:Making it account bound would sort of defeat the purpose of it being a birthday item, no?No, if you think its OP (lol) that a character less than 2 years old can use it, then just do a query of the info sent back from /age. If it's <2 then it doesn't work.I don't think it's OP. It's a birthday item for a character, not for an account. Making it account bound would defeat that purpose. That was my point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 @kharmin.7683 said:@Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 said:@kharmin.7683 said:Making it account bound would sort of defeat the purpose of it being a birthday item, no?No, if you think its OP (lol) that a character less than 2 years old can use it, then just do a query of the info sent back from /age. If it's <2 then it doesn't work.I don't think it's OP. It's a birthday item for a character, not for an account. Making it account bound would defeat that purpose. That was my point.Yes, but it doesn't defeat the purpose at all. They still get to use it after age 2 and they can't use it before. Hooray, you turned 2, now you can use the family Birthday Blaster! Are you actually arguing that its better to take up one inventory slot on every character for a free item you could just as easily make account bound, because... what? I don't get the reasoning here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I’d prob remember to use it more as a novelty and it takes up less inventory.Win/win for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintpixie.7398 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 @Randulf.7614 said:I’d prob remember to use it more as a novelty and it takes up less inventory.Win/win for meYeah, same here. I just throw them in my bank and forget about them. If it were a novelty, at least I would remember to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Hayes.6890 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I think having a gun that shoots birthday cakes right next to my elite skill should be a way of life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 @Taylan.2187 said:@Khisanth.2948 said:@Turkeyspit.3965 said:@Khisanth.2948 said:Meh ... if this was before the ascended food it might be useful but you can have a slightly better buff that last 6x longer for 20sHey! 20s is like 13 waypoints! Not all of us have top of the line self-driving limo-Golems y'know.more like 4 ...Wow, who pays 5s for WPs. Anything more than 2-3s I get around by using an LWS teleport tome or going to LA from HotM and porting to one of the racial cities.with the time wasted with all that I could have chopped a bunch of trees/mined a bunch of ore that is worth more than whatever saving it might have given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 @kharmin.7683 said:@Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 said:@kharmin.7683 said:Making it account bound would sort of defeat the purpose of it being a birthday item, no?No, if you think its OP (lol) that a character less than 2 years old can use it, then just do a query of the info sent back from /age. If it's <2 then it doesn't work.I don't think it's OP. It's a birthday item for a character, not for an account. Making it account bound would defeat that purpose. That was my point.What about all the other birthday items, which are account-wide? If you have the mail carrier, finisher, the rock 'chair' or any of the armour sets or backpacks, or even the mini pet, they can be used on all your characters no matter how old they are. The blaster is an anomaly by being soulbound to the character who picks it up from the mail rather than an account-wide unlock like all the other birthday items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 That's a fair point. I hadn't considered all of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylan.2187 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 @Khisanth.2948 said:@Taylan.2187 said:@Khisanth.2948 said:@Turkeyspit.3965 said:@Khisanth.2948 said:Meh ... if this was before the ascended food it might be useful but you can have a slightly better buff that last 6x longer for 20sHey! 20s is like 13 waypoints! Not all of us have top of the line self-driving limo-Golems y'know.more like 4 ...Wow, who pays 5s for WPs. Anything more than 2-3s I get around by using an LWS teleport tome or going to LA from HotM and porting to one of the racial cities.with the time wasted with all that I could have chopped a bunch of trees/mined a bunch of ore that is worth more than whatever saving it might have givenSure about that? Using an LWS tome is instant from anywhere. Maybe 10 seconds to look up on the world map which LWS map is nearest to your destination.Going to HotM is also instant, after which you port to the HotM WP (no cost) directly aside the LA portal, then port to the Gate Hub WP (no cost) and run up to one of the racial city portals. Unless your PC takes a long time to load cities, it shouldn't take more than 30 seconds I guess.It's a micro-optimization for sure, but if I save 4 silver, it's worth it IMO. :DEDIT: I benchmarked it and it took almost exactly 45 seconds to get to a racial city via HotM->LA->GateHub. Let's say this only saves me 2 silver. That's about 25 seconds for 1 silver. For 1 gold it would be 2500 seconds = ~40 minutes. Crap. xDI guess I'll just stick to using LWS tomes or HotM->LA travel for closing continent-size gaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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