Since the Devs showed that access to the toa lands is at least possible, and that the common cry at present seems to be for more skins, why not have some sort of TOA event where the TOA lands are populated with a dozen or so artefact encounters which would effectively give artefact credit but for the SKIN ONLY which would then add those skins to the skin merchants purhcasable with feathers or bps
Most of the weapon and armour artefacts were land based, and it wouldnt need exact coding to match original encounters, the mechanics could be borrowed from other already ingame bosses as has been done with named SI bosses etc and I am sure there would be a way of finding a spot to set up a new location to transport the under water artefacts into land based ones (Eirenes hauberk and Staff of Gods being the obvious underwater ones)
Hopefully this isnt a suggestion beyond the powers of those in charge to implement and would be more interesting that just coding the skins and adding them to the merchant list
It also occurred to me that the ML9 map (and maybe the ML2 dungeon) would make interesting maps for future instances
Possibly over time extra boss mobs could be added based purely on chance of dropping some of the TOA trophy mobs
As long as this stuff was doable with 5-8 people and had similar rewards to SI bosses then I am sure it would be an event which could appear every couple of months or so for a weekend
Just some thoughts
Most of the weapon and armour artefacts were land based, and it wouldnt need exact coding to match original encounters, the mechanics could be borrowed from other already ingame bosses as has been done with named SI bosses etc and I am sure there would be a way of finding a spot to set up a new location to transport the under water artefacts into land based ones (Eirenes hauberk and Staff of Gods being the obvious underwater ones)
Hopefully this isnt a suggestion beyond the powers of those in charge to implement and would be more interesting that just coding the skins and adding them to the merchant list
It also occurred to me that the ML9 map (and maybe the ML2 dungeon) would make interesting maps for future instances
Possibly over time extra boss mobs could be added based purely on chance of dropping some of the TOA trophy mobs
As long as this stuff was doable with 5-8 people and had similar rewards to SI bosses then I am sure it would be an event which could appear every couple of months or so for a weekend
Just some thoughts