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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0008020 | Valley 1 | Gameplay Idea | May 22, 2012 12:51 pm | May 24, 2012 4:12 pm | |
| Reporter | MaxwellDemonic | Assigned To | |||
| Status | considering | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0008020: Enhancement for Time of Magic characters | ||||
| Description | I just thought I'd throw this idea out there. Perhaps the Time of Magic era characters could redirect a portion of their incoming damage to their mana pool. So if they take damage, they'd have a passive that took like 1/3 of that damage and redirected it, taking it out of their current mana pool. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Feature Suggestion | ||||
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That's a cool idea, but wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose of their having high mana? That's a tricky one. |
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They're already arguably the most powerful character type in the game due to Mana. Not sure if they need this big of a boost... |
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It sounds a bit too powerful - after all, mana regenerates while health doesn't. Introducing this would result in a (milder) form of the problems with shields. My understanding of Time Of Magic NPC's is that they should really be glass cannons; to that end, it makes more sense to do it the other way around (where they can spend health as though it were mana if they haven't got enough - this would probably need to have a conversion rate so you can't spam your whole health bar away before you notice you're using health.) |
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Perhaps it could use some tweaking, but do keep in mind the redirection wouldn't allow them to be extremely tanky, with their naturally low health, it just make things hurt a little less but still cost them something. It promotes dodging attacks if at all possible. Also, they'ed die before taking enough damage to completely deplete their mana bar. |
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It does, however, effectively give them an additional 50% health, which is way too powerful for an already powerful Age. (The mana loss really won't do much, given the sheer amount of mana they already have.) |
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Couldn't it work as a normal enchant? At least if it somehow was less effective with already high health. Also the conversion rate probably could be something like at least 3-10 mana for every health since 1:1 doesn't sound like much. And wouldn't it be 33% more health instead of 50%? |
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Nope. If 33% of damage goes to mana instead of health, it means you only take 20 damage out of every 30; as such, if you had 60 hp you'll take 3 hits instead of 2 -> +50% health. An enchant with a hefty hp to mana ratio could work, though; the scaling could then apply to the amount transferred to mana. |
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What about if the bonus for Time of Magic characters is: no 12 second time limit on shield spells? It would be really convinient for em, since I imagine they would be using the spell quite a bit, and it wouldn't nessisarily make them that much more powerful either (since they are already quite strong) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| May 22, 2012 12:51 pm | MaxwellDemonic | New Issue | |
| May 22, 2012 12:53 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0024593 | |
| May 22, 2012 12:55 pm | Nanostrike | Note Added: 0024595 | |
| May 22, 2012 1:55 pm | BenMiff | Note Added: 0024604 | |
| May 22, 2012 4:03 pm | tigersfan | Internal Weight | => Feature Suggestion |
| May 22, 2012 4:03 pm | tigersfan | Status | new => considering |
| May 23, 2012 12:59 pm | MaxwellDemonic | Note Added: 0024708 | |
| May 23, 2012 2:07 pm | BenMiff | Note Added: 0024715 | |
| May 23, 2012 2:42 pm | Enrymion | Note Added: 0024722 | |
| May 23, 2012 2:43 pm | Enrymion | Note Edited: 0024722 | |
| May 23, 2012 3:27 pm | BenMiff | Note Added: 0024730 | |
| May 24, 2012 4:12 pm | GauHelldragon | Note Added: 0024819 | |
| May 24, 2012 4:13 pm | GauHelldragon | Note Edited: 0024819 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - Gameplay => Gameplay Idea |
