07-19-2016, 06:27 PM
If we're not going to nerf what Vampires already have, then please, yes, make them actually give a flying fuck about Holy. Originally I wanted the Holy weakness to scale up with the light weakness for Vampires, so anything around the same line of thinking is a good addition in my opinion.
To put this in a little context, Vampires get:
There is no world where these benefits are on equal ground to 33% light weakness, 25% holy weakness, and reduced healing from non-vampiric abilities. The lore dictates that Vampires generally make themselves obscure, hiding their race from people and manipulating others into doing the work for them. In practice, most Vampires couldn't care less about people knowing who they are, and anyone who might would be crushed in seconds by the obvious red-flag Lunar Lunatism.
Punish these people. If people want to use all of these grossly overtuned skills, give the rest of us the ability to exploit their recklessness with holy enchants. I'd argue that 50% isn't even enough at times -- even if we ignore the body shields that Vampires can get from being surrounded by charmed people, dealing 50% less damage and having a 50% chance to hesitate results in doing 25% effective damage to them. This means if you do not build a metric fuckton of status resist, Holy would need to quadruple your damage before you did the same average damage to a Vampire as a human.
The gist of this post is that high sanctity Vampires have way too much going for them, and promoting secretive behavior with enormous Holy weakness is a good thing.
To put this in a little context, Vampires get:
- Anywhere from 25-50 more stats than other races.
- The ability to inflict level 50 charm and hesitation for 3 rounds (with the skill refreshing these debuffs for 3 rounds, making them last the duration of the cooldown), be immune to those status effects, inflict fear, and recover an infinite amount of FP.
- Access to one of the best skills for sustaining against tanks, Life Drain.
- The ability to heal for 200 health with Silvermists, if it was ever necessary. (Healing reduces per cast)
- Upward to 66% dark resistance.
There is no world where these benefits are on equal ground to 33% light weakness, 25% holy weakness, and reduced healing from non-vampiric abilities. The lore dictates that Vampires generally make themselves obscure, hiding their race from people and manipulating others into doing the work for them. In practice, most Vampires couldn't care less about people knowing who they are, and anyone who might would be crushed in seconds by the obvious red-flag Lunar Lunatism.
Punish these people. If people want to use all of these grossly overtuned skills, give the rest of us the ability to exploit their recklessness with holy enchants. I'd argue that 50% isn't even enough at times -- even if we ignore the body shields that Vampires can get from being surrounded by charmed people, dealing 50% less damage and having a 50% chance to hesitate results in doing 25% effective damage to them. This means if you do not build a metric fuckton of status resist, Holy would need to quadruple your damage before you did the same average damage to a Vampire as a human.
The gist of this post is that high sanctity Vampires have way too much going for them, and promoting secretive behavior with enormous Holy weakness is a good thing.
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