Hello, I wanted to gather the community’s thoughts on something that’s been on mine – and various other people’s minds – for some time, being that of Thanhium’s current strength.
So far, its strengths are:
- It is stronger than steel, far more stronger than any open material right now save for Blue-Steel and Carbarum; materials that are currently impossible to get.
- Frostbite. It can effectively disarm someone with just a cut, being able to give someone a cold from a stab and more worst scenarios lead to permanent amputation, wounds are granted Frostbite which lead to limbs being ‘impossible’ to move for an undefined amount of time, leading to PGing of its already powerful effects.
- Thanhic-Poisoning. Injuring a mage with this not only grants the associated injuries above, but also stops them from casting for an undefined amount of time.
- You are able to tank spells with Thanhium to a certain amount, however at times does it cleave through spells like butter.
Rather the list, right ? This doesn’t account for its rarity and gatekept nature due to how Thanhic-Forging is locked knowledge. Now, I wouldn’t really take note of this due to how it’s a way of making sure that it isn’t spread too far – granted as it’s a powerful metal, keeping it in check and rare is a good idea.
To give a more indepth view of how strong it is, allow me to show you this.
This is me asking the effects of Thanhium upon a person should they get cut by it.
Nonetheless, due to how communities are currently run, what mostly happens is there is one specific Thanhic-Forger, and the rest just feed them materials and he pumps out weapons for his group. There isn’t anything wrong with this since it’s how most people would do things, but due to it – the ability to keep Thanhium in check is now disrupted, granted that everyone and a lot of people have Thanhic-Steel weapons now; where in CRP, you are more likely to run into it than Lunarite at this point.
It has made CRP encounters dull, boring and the same where one party tries extremely hard to cut someone so they could list out the effects in OOC. At that point, should it be the first move, then it just goes to PVP instead as starting combat with Thanhic-Posioning is unwinnable. Not the most fun way to go about combat, isn’t it ?
Granted, there is a few specific way to defend yourself from Thanhium:
- Wear armor
- Use Nephilim Dragonsflame on it for two continued emotes.
- Use Arcanium
The first defense is something that’s applicable for everything else, not just Thanhium, but combat in general. Nephilim’s Dragonsflame can only be accessed by Nephilim – and even then, it uses their Inner Flame which slowly drives them to a PK should they expend themselves entirely of it, furthermore it lasts only a few emotes meaning that to avoid their weapon shattering; they only need to defend themselves or use a shield for that set of time. Arcanium is a nice way to defend yourself from it, but like Thanhium – it suffers from being gatekept, furthermore it requires a Voidal Mage to make it.
So tell me, I’d like to know from all parts of the community; the CAs, the mundane folk, the PVP crowd, magic-circles, etc. What are your thoughts on it. Does it need a nerf, is it fine, or do you agree with its writer?
(Thank you to Mr 'Tom' RiftBlade for allowing me to use the screenshots in this!)