Ventor The Gambler: New Forsaken Master

Ventor The Gambler TLDR (new FM crafting bench, currency, and map mods)

So I have this idea with the new forsaken masters rework coming that adding a new master that already exists within the world would be fun. There are a ton of issues that could be solved with Ventor The Gambler.

I was thinking that ventor could have his own crating “mini-game” for SSFers and the Trade-phobic where Completing Ventors Storyline (some new fantastic adventure involving RNG and gambling) access to his Crafting table. I originally conceptualized a stash tab, but I think crafting benches fit with the current FM’s. The goal of Ventor is all about gambling education. You can design whatever feels good and random to his crafting table. Random Prefix, Random Suffix, and other things which allow you to temper RNG’s cruel hold on us. Maybe some sort of Divine Orb recipe that weighs the roll to be higher risking all your Divines?

I also thought that you could add 2 Ventor specific gambling currencies. The way I originally conceptualized this was you have White Orb of Chances, Yellow Orb Of Chances (3-1 patternable) and Red Orb of Chances. The only other source of the Yellow and Red orbs would be from dropping in Ventor Maps. The idea behind the Yellow and Red orbs of is to offer a slightly (or more than slightly) increase to the chance of getting a unique you want or the unique you don’t want. I do think that OoC are an underutilized currency in trade and spend their life becoming scours or dieing a quite death on the floor. This could be handled through the crafting bench but like sextants i liked the idea of upgradeable currency would feel better.

Explanation of new currency. As a benefit to trade players they get to gamble more with orbs of chance without feeling that I used all my chances and got nothing this currency sucks. You would get that often highlighted SSF moment of hitting a SICK core unique like an Inpulsa. This will also make chances more desirable as a sought after currency and an every league every path currency sync. I also think this is an elegant solution to increasing the “determinism” for SSF players who are trying to get specific uniques. As well as offering a way to balance the number of chance orbs versus the number of looted bases. Less Bases required but similar or slightly less chance required. Mainly The goal is to make Chancing feel more impactful. I think this would feel better to playes than simply increasing the rarity of chances by 9 and increasing their success rate by 9. Instead of looting 4-6 bases per map, you might only need 1 base per map, or 6 bases from 1 map and 0 from others.

How do you get Ventor Maps? Here comes a fun and completely random solution with tons of gambling quirks. Ventor’s Daily quest allows you to open a “Ventored” Map, like an Elder/Shaper map this comes with its own specific *sextant* mod , wealthy mobs, barrels, gamblers lock boxes. Whatever is sufficiently run and random. The idea is that Ventor is all about the roll of the Dice and the gamble. We all love our RNG, and that’s what Ventor is all about. Ventor the Gambler also gives you tier appropriate maps as a reward for doing his quests in maps.

These Ventor maps can drop Ventor specific items a new shiny uniques or a mod that only appears on rares dropped in his maps. This creates design space if needed. League specific items that are randomly decided upon opening the map with lots of wonderfully useless things in there to take up all your juicy Headhunter drop rolls.

Explanation of Ventor maps This keeps the game fresh and adds some player retention because YOU NEVER KNOW what you will find inside Ventor’s treasure trove, it could be a Doctor or It could be a scroll of wisdom, you just HAVE to find out. The hope is that with the injection of RNG in a Ventor map you will also find the loot rewarding enough to stop players from just selling off their ventor maps. My own idea on IIQ gear while in a Ventor map is that everytime you kill something or “complete” a Ventor map if your IIQ is too high you can (RNG) get “caught for cheating” and Ventor boots you out. He also takes away all your shiny poker chips because cheaters never prosper.

The Gambler part of Ventor’s Daily quest, is Ventor can spawn INSIDE maps (including the ventor maps) if you are lucky and manage to find Ventor in his map or any map, He rewards you with a Ventors Map for doing his quest. This means that you can hit Ventor Streaks giving you a great RNG mini-game where you get these crazy I got Ventor 20 times in a row stories.

I am not sure that this is fleshed out enough to be a full forsaken master. I was just having #showerthoughts and came up with this crazy idea for a Forsaken Master.

I also thought maybe a Ventor - Cadrio tug of war like the shaper/elder war, could be a cool mechanic. Allying yourself with a Forsaken master instead of fighting against one boss and allowing another boss to spread. Those of us who are the RNG kings choose ventor and those who are all about that BANK choose Cadrio. This was just an idle musing but could be fleshed out even more maybe into a league. I guess everyone hated parandus? I never got to play it, but I enjoy collecting his coins in flashback. I could go more into that in a different post.

I think we will see 2-4 new Masters and maybe new mods
Not sure if ur master will be added

ventor had a... questionable reputation and i don't think he even plays anymore.

making him an actual NPC would be in horrible taste, imo. haha.

Haha yes

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xpoohx написал:

The Gambler part of Ventor’s Daily quest, is Ventor can spawn INSIDE maps (including the ventor maps) if you are lucky and manage to find Ventor in his map or any map, He rewards you with a Ventors Map for doing his quest. This means that you can hit Ventor Streaks giving you a great RNG mini-game where you get these crazy I got Ventor 20 times in a row stories.

... 20 maps in a row, for free ? ( I mean, portal limited but still )
Do you realize what you are asking ? Aboslutely 0 chance to happen lol.
I would not want map drop to get nerfed in compensation either.


Also putting an incentive to not stack IIQ for people who can afford it is not something to expect too, neither should it be encouraged imho.

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robmafia написал:

ventor had a... questionable reputation and i don't think he even plays anymore.

making him an actual NPC would be in horrible taste, imo. haha.

He already has a unique which is already infamous. I think thats good enough... regarding his reputation.