Yesterday, 08:57 AM
(This post was last modified: Yesterday, 08:59 AM by K Peculier.)
How do you do fellow corrupted players
This has probably been discussed ever since corrupted got their cool traits and despite this trait being nerfed from its first inception eons ago, it's still being touted as near universally disliked due to how boring thematically it is versus the more unique racial abilities available right now.
I'm thinking that painful grip should outright be removed from Shaitans so that Dev won't have to balance/tweak every single new item/ability just for shaitan that revolves around the grapple status but still replaced by something powerful enough to make the 10 Skill shaitans from quitting the race.
I believe it could be replaced with two traits that a shaitan could pick between, weighing offense vs defense utilizing their carapace.
"Your carapace is like a living weapon, you choose to utilize your carapace in violent and aggressive maneuvers."
(Your physical damage has a 45% chance to ignore armor and pierce, slash, blunt resists. Your chance is lowered by 10% per 10 Scaled SAN)
"Your carapace covers you like a natural suit of armor, or a makeshift shield. You choose to utilize your carapace in defensive and stalwart maneuvers."
(Def/2 + res/2) - 10% chance to parry incoming damage you can see with 35% Damage Reduction and gives you the Guard ability. (This parry will not work with other parry skills)
Honestly these sound pretty powerful even if you picked one in my opinion but I don't think it's as game-robbing in an unsatisfying way against PvE or PvP when compared to how painful grip can be used to its extreme conclusion right now.
My main motivator is to have shaitans who want to play to the strengths of their race not be forced into being a hugging monster IC and flavor wise, which frankly deserves its own class that centers around grappling instead of a single race.
There's no other racial skill ability that invokes as much `shame` then spamming painful grip even though its highly effective and can mulch certain builds into paste without much counterplay. But those are my ideas and some shamelessly stolen from other players I've discussed it with.
Feel free to add your own ideas of what could be added in place of the powerhouse of painful grippenings.
This has probably been discussed ever since corrupted got their cool traits and despite this trait being nerfed from its first inception eons ago, it's still being touted as near universally disliked due to how boring thematically it is versus the more unique racial abilities available right now.
I'm thinking that painful grip should outright be removed from Shaitans so that Dev won't have to balance/tweak every single new item/ability just for shaitan that revolves around the grapple status but still replaced by something powerful enough to make the 10 Skill shaitans from quitting the race.
I believe it could be replaced with two traits that a shaitan could pick between, weighing offense vs defense utilizing their carapace.
"Your carapace is like a living weapon, you choose to utilize your carapace in violent and aggressive maneuvers."
(Your physical damage has a 45% chance to ignore armor and pierce, slash, blunt resists. Your chance is lowered by 10% per 10 Scaled SAN)
"Your carapace covers you like a natural suit of armor, or a makeshift shield. You choose to utilize your carapace in defensive and stalwart maneuvers."
(Def/2 + res/2) - 10% chance to parry incoming damage you can see with 35% Damage Reduction and gives you the Guard ability. (This parry will not work with other parry skills)
Honestly these sound pretty powerful even if you picked one in my opinion but I don't think it's as game-robbing in an unsatisfying way against PvE or PvP when compared to how painful grip can be used to its extreme conclusion right now.
My main motivator is to have shaitans who want to play to the strengths of their race not be forced into being a hugging monster IC and flavor wise, which frankly deserves its own class that centers around grappling instead of a single race.
There's no other racial skill ability that invokes as much `shame` then spamming painful grip even though its highly effective and can mulch certain builds into paste without much counterplay. But those are my ideas and some shamelessly stolen from other players I've discussed it with.
Feel free to add your own ideas of what could be added in place of the powerhouse of painful grippenings.