Beast defense rework idea

Considering beast defense makes you tougher to attacks from animals, and most of those attacks consist of blunt damage and other various typical strikes against the body, why doesn’t beast defense get reworked to just make you more generally resilient to things like falling, tornadoes, NPC attacks(?), and the like? It would make the armor stat feel more grounded in reality as it comes from heavy armor pieces, which would protect you from more than just crazed Sameria boars

Add weight to these pieces aswell it’ll make it peak

I’d only accept a weight stat if it had funny interactions with certain moves

Like making “slam” abilities such as devastate faster and do more damage if you know what I mean

Holy shit

Weight as a substat could be badass hang on let me cook

Males u weigh as much as ur mom

hahahahahah

OR

JUST HEAR ME OUT ON THIS

REMOVE BEAST DEFENSE

AND WE CAN JUST USE THE DEFENSE STAT INSTEAD

complete sentence

SAME WITH RESISTANCE

PUT IT ON DEFENSE

BOOM, ONE LESS SUBSTAT WITHOUT REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY

HERESY /j

If we must have beast defense. Just don’t make it tied to vanity

Yeah no

Can you give me a reason to why not?
There’s so much stat bloat.

Vetex likes his players bloated and round and big and full of nothingburger stats

I don’t think giving people extra HP AND the ability to significantly reduce damage while charging attacks is a good idea

Also this would completely defeat the purpose of AP, which specifically is countered by resistance


remove ap.

Have the conversion be 1:1 tho

I demand my 99% damage reduction

Guys atp let’s just fuse dexterity and range together too

…oh wait

Throw in haste as well

The biggest issue with beast defense is by far the fact that its tied to vanity for absolutely no reason.
I think instead beast defense should be merged with resistance (and given all these other damage resistance effects) since it just makes sense.

Rename the current defense stat to vitality and rename resistance to defense.
You don’t wear plate armor to magically have more health, you wear plate armor to negate damage.

I think vetex wants everyone to look like generic knights too much to give a widely desired rework

the best answer is not needing beast defense and having beasts do regular dmg like everything else and not this stupid “immersive” % dmg cause with that reasoning all weapons and fight styles should be %dmg