When do you unlock Enchantments?

[keith.lamothe]

There's also the minor shadow cloaking thing, and maybe a couple of others.

The cloak thing actually has a magnitude, of how much impact it has on enemy detection range.  Or at least it used to

But more to the point, there's also the question of the random additions.  The added stats for "light emission on something that at core has 30% fire attack bonus" is something that is hard to quantify.  Even something like "+10% attack power" versus "+20% mana regen speed" in addition to a base bonus makes a specific enchant hard to weight: which is considered better, for color coding purposes?  Etc.

We could just go by the point total of the item; the +10% on the secondary element on the +40% elemental ones is actually way more expensive than the original +40%, it's just to represent that it's rarer and more costly to get both effects on the same item.

[Professor Paul1290]

There's also the minor shadow cloaking thing, and maybe a couple of others.

I actually have this enchant, but I'm not quite sure what it does. Does it reduce the range where enemies detect you or something like that?

EDIT:
Nevermind, keith swooped in. XD

[KDR_11k]

As far as other feedback about the opacity of the system... well, generally randomized loot systems are fairly opaque.  I had very little idea how Diablo 2 or Torchlight were giving me loot, or when the next time would be that I would get a green/purple/yellow/etc.  All I knew is that I was really interested in seeing what it would give me next.

Those never told you "6 point progress to next drop" though. Throw a number at someone and he'll ask what that means.

As for a progress bar, I guess it could just decide on the enchant you'll get right away and then show your progress towards getting enough points for it.

Zelda 2 had multi-threshold point accumulation, it simply asked you whether you want to level up the thing you can afford or save up for something pricier.

[x4000]

Zelda 2 had multi-threshold point accumulation, it simply asked you whether you want to level up the thing you can afford or save up for something pricier.

That's true -- I always adored that system, actually, because it gave me so much choice.  We could actually do something similar here, but Keith and I have talked about another approach on skype just a few minutes ago, and I think that will suffice for now.  But thanks for reminding me about that system; that was one of the strongest components of Zelda 2, and I don't know how I forgot about it.  Talk about hooks!

[Martyn van Buren]

Not knowing what the new system is, if you're hiding the mechanics maybe you should remove the message that says "11 [or however many] points earned toward new enchantments"?  Seeing that number and not knowing how many points I need is odd.