Resistance Changes
Resistance should be passive instead of active. Before you raise your pitchforks at me, hear me out.
Resistance should passively give you damage reduction instead as a way to encourage more build variety. It also forces other players to not only build for attack speed or power or defense. It is just extremely problematic and dull to only fight one or 2 types of builds (I am looking at you sunken warrior spammers). I don’t think it’s an understatement how painful some high power builds are to fight. One dealing 200 damage, and one dealing 1300 damage in 1 hit.
Armor Piercing additions
Armor piercing can still reduce the efficiency of the target’s substats. BUT, it should also have a stacking mechanic to reduce opponent’s resistance. You have to hit a certain amount of times to deal the full damage. Allowing for more build variety as players would need to run at least some armor piercing to reduce resistance effectiveness. What this also entails is that if you use moves that hit multiple times, you can “armor strip” faster. Armor stripping is effective until out of combat.
This also makes builds that have beyond 100% damage resistance viable to use. Any previously wasted stats can now be useful.
You might also think, this would also be OP against NPCs, however to keep it balanced, the NPCs will have to hit you a few times to deal their full damage. (Let’s just say they have 8% armor strip per hit)
You shouldn’t have to deal with a stranger dealing 1.5k damage right off the bat from an ambush and have no way of fighting back due to not reacting fast enough to that said ambush, and limb loss(potentially).
NPCs should also have some resistance so that armor piercing would actually be used more.
^ copilot doing calculations for Lua but I don’t think it’s correct. Use it as a reference.
Everyone should also have a shield symbol as a gauge on the side or inside of their HP bar to indicate how much resistance there is left on the opponent and yourself.
Forces actual build variety instead of “unngaa bungga caveman brain, run power defense attack speed”. How about be creative and don’t rely on only 3 stats to beat other players.
