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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0004968 | Valley 1 | Gameplay Idea | Oct 22, 2011 4:20 pm | Jan 27, 2012 2:17 pm | |
| Reporter | FallingStar | Assigned To | |||
| Severity | minor | ||||
| Status | closed | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 0.529 | ||||
| Summary | 0004968: Have potions spawn healing puffs | ||||
| Description | A thought I had while playing along, now that healing and mana drops exist in the world, having potions puff out a cloud of these drops rather than give a straight heal might be an interesting mechanic. One reason would be to differentiate potions from scrolls a bit more, have them feel different in use -- make the scrolls you craft have a niche that's different than the potions you find. Might rebalance so that scrolls give a stronger single shot heal, and the potions gave less, but could potentially have spillover drops that stuck around if you used the potion when you were still close to full health/mana. This mechanic could also set up another strategic element in boss fights, dropping piles of healing puffs in certain places. Could be a good thing or bad one, I don't know what it might do to the balance. But it would be an additional element of setup to a fight that would give an alternative to the battles from run and shoot. It also might tie the potions into the world a bit more, sorta like the faeries in a bottle in Zelda seemed a novel way to heal that fit the world. Alternative would be an entirely different class of crafted item to have these mechanics, but might become over redundant to have four or more ways to heal. In any case, it just struck me as an interesting enough thought that it would be worth shooting out there and see what other people think. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Feature Suggestion | ||||
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This is something I've been planning for quite some time as a new spell for multiplayer. At any rate, I'm not going to be changing the existing potions/scrolls for that -- they are intended to always be 100% identical to one another. |
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By the way -- the original thing I put in mantis I think was called "healing foxfire." I just haven't gotten to it yet. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Oct 22, 2011 4:20 pm | FallingStar | New Issue | |
| Oct 24, 2011 7:56 am | tigersfan | Internal Weight | => Feature Suggestion |
| Oct 24, 2011 7:56 am | tigersfan | Status | new => considering |
| Oct 24, 2011 9:36 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0017024 | |
| Oct 24, 2011 9:36 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0017025 | |
| Jan 27, 2012 2:17 pm | tigersfan | Status | considering => closed |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - Gameplay => Gameplay Idea |
