its how light magic now has the capacity to one shot
why are people acting like armour piercing is going to deal more damage than defence
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It could be interesting if Defense functioned more like a traditional armor stat/bar in that it carried a higher resistance to damage than your actual HP does (10% DR?). Unlike your actual HP, however, it wouldn’t regenerate, or at least regenerate as fast (maybe conditional regeneration such as dealing damage regens it a bit?).
Then armor piecing could just split the damage between defense and your actual HP. Maybe at max it could be a 50/50 bypass. Drawback would just bypass the defense itself and attack your actual HP, but then this wouldn’t really matter much anyways since the way defense works post update or is planned to work is that Drawback won’t be based on HP + vit HP + defense but just your base HP + vit HP anyways.
Aight, I’m kinda done cooking right now. Tell me if I incinerated the kitchen or something. At least the idea in concept would separate people from associating defense with your true HP though. Just realized though, the separation also would clarify and ensure that armor piercing only works best against users of defense until the their “armor” is gone. Not sure if armor piercing is going to be a flat damage increase throughout, but it shouldn’t affect your true HP (only blocking and the proposed armor stat/bar from defense)
Actually I’m gonna cook this up for suggestions just in case.
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defense just got hit by a huge nerf by having its regen removed and now armour piercing gets added
it’s an unfortunate sequence of events
“Yo guys I sure hope I got enough defense (4,000) hp to counter pierce scali-”
Regen got a stat of its own so it makes sense to have one countering it
Just learn to dodge fr
Wait what when did regen get nerfed
lol just wait this isn’t it
except it’s not countering regen at all
Rather than a nerf, it’s balanced ngl. High regen should only be locked behind vitality-based builds and it solves blocking strategy to completely tank damage when regeneration stat can be obtained by people in the Nimbus Sea update
Testers probably suggested the change when they found out they could do just that
any way you look at it, it’s a nerf and a really big one as well
the 22% increase helps but fights rarely last shorter than a minute, especially outside of munera
there isn’t / wasn’t a heavy defense / blocking meta
Would be way better lol
I mean it isnt in our version but what about the tester universe? Vetex wouldnt just blatantly add armor piercing for no reason at least, he may have a spaghetti code but he’s sensible
no balance changes were actually implemented according to the trello
also this
interesting
idk how to even feel about this I mean ig free block ig
huh thats neat
imagine surge spammers
if GOOD AGILITY items get this, I’m unkillable