Because of the pace of the game, Paralysis becomes quite useful if you're being swarmed and as it falls under sorcery, it becomes a useful tool and you don't have good AOE to throw back at people unless you have a talisman from another school.<br>
<br>Poison doing ability damage could be attrocious. A weak character could have their mobility crushed because their strength is now 1. Or their HP reduced to nothing because their Con is now low, or their MP reserve killed.<br>
<br>The only problem I have with poison now is how long it lasts and how long you might be expecting to deal with it. Not to mention that it comes from so many sources.<br><br>Then there's the player side in that it's useless to kill things with, but the sorcery tree has it as a primary offensive tool.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 May 2010 05:58, Mark Wedel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwedel@sonic.net">mwedel@sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 05/26/10 03:28 AM, igniz revolver wrote:<br>
> As a victim of many of these attacks, i'd agree with some of these<br>
> changes but not others.<br>
><br>
> Confusion and Paralyse are nice CC's for a creature or player to use,<br>
> but their duration is so long and the effects so potent that it's<br>
> something a player should endeavor to become immune to. If the duration<br>
> could be reduced, that would be better.<br>
<br>
</div> this may change with other changes, but one issue for most spells is expected<br>
lifetime of the creatures.<br>
<br>
So the problem here is that if duration is too short, the player using it<br>
against monster doesn't happen much, since the monster is not expected to last<br>
very long anyways.<br>
<br>
Confusion is at least survivable - its annoying, but if you have potions of<br>
healing, word of recall, or other items, one can get out of it.<br>
<br>
But to me, the problem for a player is having monsters wonder around aimlessly<br>
tends not to make them much easier to kill - it typically makes them harder. So<br>
it almost becomes a purely used monster attribute - maybe not a bad thing.<br>
<br>
paralyze can be effective on monsters, but problem is generally that if you<br>
can paralyze them, you can hit them with something else instead that will do<br>
damage and kill them. And if duration is too short, that is even a bigger issue.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> Poison changing to stat damage would be horrific to deal with. The only<br>
> thing I'd like to see changed about it is the duration of poison and<br>
> also disease. It seems impossible to overcome disease and poison can<br>
> last so long. From a player perspective, poison does too little damage<br>
> over too long a time to be effective against monsters, but for a player<br>
> - poison can stack up to horrendous levels.<br>
<br>
</div> disease is more an effect, so I didn't include it here. It also is something<br>
that is much more effective for players to use against monsters than vice versa,<br>
simply because it spreads to other monsters, and in most maps, you have mobs of<br>
monsters. It perhaps shoul<br>
<br>
Poison is nastier now, but if one is paying attention, usually not deadly - if<br>
one can heal any amount of damage, one can typically survive it.<br>
<br>
A general change I would like to see is just a bit slower combat in general.<br>
So in the case of poison, it may be it drops your stat for 5 points for 20<br>
seconds, but spreads it out over that time, so initially you are at -1, two<br>
seconds later, -2, -3, etc. If a message/indicator shows up, this gives the<br>
player time to do something - drink potion of cure poison, run away, whatever.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Blind is okay, imo, but fog doesn't seem to work for a lot of things. So<br>
> spells like Steamball are less useful than they should be.<br>
<br>
</div> I stated the issue was with fog of war, blind isn't that nasty. If I know<br>
where the walls are and where the exit is, even when blinded, I can probably get<br>
to safety.<br>
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