Defense Changes:
I’m going to keep this brief. Essentially what I want is for defense to be separated from the health bar in the current way it is showcased. Instead of it being + HP that doesn’t count towards your actual HP, it will now actually be armor.
For starters, an indicator for this could be your green health bar being covered in a yellow one indicating your defense HP. This armored health bar will receive reduced damage (10% DR; 50% efficiency for blocking), however, to balance this the health bar cannot regenerate barring some potential exceptions that can be voted on.
Secondly, by separating the health and armor/defense bars, we can now change up how armor piercing works (assuming it doesn’t work like this already). So instead of it just doing more damage based on your defense, it specifically targets your defense stat.
So let’s assume a max of 5 AP, and make every 1 AP reduce defense DR by -4%.
Eg. Assuming 10% DR
1 AP: -4% Defense DR (100 damage base → 94; 6% DR)
5 AP: -20% Defense DR (100 damage base → 110; -10% DR)
When defense breaks, it reduces an overlapping damage to 0 assuming a certain threshold. So no running like 54 defense to turn a 500 damage attack to 0. If you have 54 defense, then 108 damage can be negated whilst the rest bypasses (this is mainly to address AP doing higher damage to defense).
Thirdly, this will also affect the resistance aura/focus. The HP boost provided from these will be considered defense/armor. Unlike defense from armor, however, this actually regenerates over time (faster when charging). Although you can vote on this.
Note:
I forgot to include this earlier, but thankfully the edit button exists. When out of combat defense will regen like normal HP. In-combat, kills heal like normal.
Alright, now onto some polls.
- It should regen armor defense to 100% (100% of defense stat)
- It should regen armor defense to 50% (50% of defense stat)
- It should regen armor defense to 25% (25% of defense stat)
- It should not regen armor defense (0% of defense stat; only thing regenning is focus/aura armor)
- It should regen on it’s own after a period of time
- It should regen after a period of time after you hit someone
- It should begin regen after hitting someone
- It should not regen at all (maybe aura/focus as an exception depending on votes, and Spirit Weapons)
- Spirit Weapons should regen Defense HP due to it drawing upon “Creation” energy
- Spirit Weapons should only regen defense HP on hit
- Spirit Weapons should only regen defense HP on hit and only a % of that damage is what is regenerated
- Spirit Weapons should not regen defense HP
- 50% efficiency for magic/fs/weapon vit hybrids (magic/fs/weapon and spirit weapons can regen defense, but Spirit weapons 100%)
- 50/50 split (magic/fs/weapon and spirit weapons can regen defense, but at 50% efficiency for both)
- No regen split for vit hybrids (solely spirit weapons at 100%)
- Spirit weapon regen 50% efficiency (solely spirit weapons again)
Conclusion:
Tell me if I cooked here, because at least this change completely separates HP and Defense which looks to be the direction we are going anyways. This also ensures that AP doesn’t affect damage done to your true HP which it shouldn’t anyways since it’s meant to be anti-defense.
