Ideas thread 2022/23

[Azalynn]

- p sure glass-reflected dmg is scaled - it should be up to 50%

Throw on a glass set and go stand in some shadow warriors, if it is meant to reflect up to 50% it may just not be doing the math right? I dunno doesnt seem to work for me with full glass 10 + glass tower 10, if its working as intended, its still just not great then haha

[Keighn]

I swear I don't drink of do drugs....

.... but if I did I wonder if my posts would be more outrageous. Thank the gods spring is here and I am slowly adapting to the outside light.

[Keighn]

Was talking about grapple hook and I started to think of Rygar the video game and chasm and batman, castlevania. If there were special hooks around here and there that you could use your grapple on.. it could pull you across like a swinging motion. (be instant when you grapple mobs or charge though). Just more utility for that ol hook.

[SpekkoF]

Draconians should get some kind of a nifty buff when polymorphed into a dragon.

[Azalynn]

Im not sure with the last patch but since IFH is now the spell on Flamberge, does this mean that IFH can be rolled on random artifacts? That would be cool. Ice wind would also be a cool thing to add to the randoms, even adding XC but super rare maybe? I honestly think XC on a weapon wouldnt be the craziest thing, but if you want to keep it mage specific that also makes sense.

[Lifeisaparty]

An interaction I think would be neat between vampires and blood wyverns:

If a blood wyvern hits a vamp with their blood drain spell, it reduces a vampires hunger by 10% and reduces the cooldown of bite by 60s(?) (Maybe the cooldown should be shorter or the hunger drain more.)
A semi buff, semi nerf. It would make sense to need to refill on blood when a wyvern drains it and when fighting many using the blood drain spell for it to make a vampire completely drained of blood.
Could also increase the chance for the wyvern to use the blood drain spell against a vampire though I have no idea if that'd be even doable let alone easy to implement.
Something to think about, though!

[Lifeisaparty]

Another thing I thought of, I'll make it separate.

Bring back NV gear! Every +10 NV gives +1 range to bows and spells. Or maybe every +15 or 20. Allow us first strikes on mobs as casters at cost of defense or offense. Or better pulls as monks. Or better heals as priest, letting the support hang back further?
Lime potions and white potions depending on how they work may conflict?
But I want a reason to use NV gear again and this seems like a way to bring it back.

Vamps deserve more free NV imo instead of whatever we have now, I think +2 or 3? Feels like nothing for a hunter of the night atm, +5 might be better without being too much? I guess it doesn't matter much.
Or even reverse NV for vamps? More during night, less during daylight? That'd be pretty cool I think and fit vamps pretty well.

Just a spitball idea for NV.

[Keighn]

I believe the wyvern is draining life out of the target. A super XMP AOE. XEN MANI POR ir vampyric bite leeches lift or blood OUT OF targets. If anything, it is a wonder it dorsn't put vamps into the hunger and eventually starvation mode being drained. A vampire Wyvern would be horrible.

[Keighn]

Im not sure with the last patch but since IFH is now the spell on Flamberge, does this mean that IFH can be rolled on random artifacts? That would be cool. Ice wind would also be a cool thing to add to the randoms, even adding XC but super rare maybe? I honestly think XC on a weapon wouldnt be the craziest thing, but if you want to keep it mage specific that also makes sense.

I still think the Grim Reaper artifact was supposed to have XC instead of KXC. Summon daemon or death? Whaaaaa?

At one time couldn't you USE your enchant to cast the spell instead of swinging and hoping. Perhaps it was an old bug.

More wands or scrolls with disposable spells would be cool.

[Azalynn]

Can we take a look at one handed weapon numbers? It feels really, really bad to lose 30% damage from using a 1h + shield vs 2h as a fighter. This is also my resurrection of the horse to beat to death again advocating for half trolls to get some sort of boost or rework (or just adjusting 1h damage numbers fixes the issue)

I totally understand that 2h should edge out on doing more damage but i do think losing berserk stance and also having a worse dps average vs a 2h weapon just feels bad to lose twice every single swing.

I could be wrong, im kinda stupid.

Also i know it was just added but can we get the option to get rid of the "attacked but nothing there" message?

[Sumter]

to all of that.

dual wielding on half troll doesn't feel remotely competitive to any other race with 2h's. I get not everything needs to be competitive but it feels bad using 1h's comparatively.

Not sure if half trolls or 1h's need rebalancing, if not both.

[Azalynn]

And or just give beserker stance "faster fighter weapon attacks" instead of "faster 2h attacks"

That would also solve lots of the issues that are currently an issue.

[Keighn]

And or just give beserker stance "faster fighter weapon attacks" instead of "faster 2h attacks"

That would also solve lots of the issues that are currently an issue.

That would be pretty awesome tbh.

Is faster speed enough though? You take more damage. I dunno why you can't deliver a bit more damage. It doesn't have to be a lot.

I'm also unsure if off hand can proc or not in polymorph form. I thought i could but I don't think it does. Actually, I'm not sure non-staff procs at all in polymorph form or just goes off like non-polymoprh.

I had a thought on the gems:
Amethyst - vs. paralysis/sleep
Diamond - general magic (which is uh AM, VAM, like spells)
Emerald - poison magic
Fire Opal - fire magic
Onyx - necromantic magic
Ruby - blood magic (vampyric magic)
Sapphire - cold magic
Topaz - lightning magic
Zircon - vs Clone magic (I dunno why I always look at zircons as cloned diamoneds

As stated now: ruby
plain +20% resist fire
polished, add +20% dmg to fire spells

sapphire
plain +20% lighting res
polished, add +20% dmg to OG/VOG etc

diamond
plain +20% resistance to regular (arcane?) magic (ie not fire, vamp or elec, cold. XC is vamp btw)
polished, add +20% dmg to regular magic

I wanted to added onyx (black dragon) & emerald (green dragon) but couldn't settle on the buffs, so they're on hold. Obviously weapons and armour could be socketed for various effects in the future.[/quote}

Colorless zircon is known for its brilliance and flashes of multicolored light, called fire. These zircon properties are close enough to the properties of diamond to account for centuries of confusion between the two gems.

Zircon occurs in an array of colors. Its varied palette of yellow, green, red, reddish brown, and blue hues makes it a favorite among collectors as well as informed consumers.

Zircon is a popular gemstone because it is available in a variety of colours and colourless, faceted zircons have been used as a substitute for diamonds. Hyacinth is the name of gem-quality zircon that is yellow-red to red brown and starlite the name given to blue, heat-treated zircon. Zircon is sometimes confused with cubic zirconia, the synthetic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO4), that can be cut and used as a gemstone.

So, Cubic Zirconia is what I have been thinking as the clone. Still. We have food that has prot vs it so I'd stick with certain food. Though, blue was lightning res on dragons so perhaps sapphire should stick.
I really think Fire Opal should be related to blood magic.
Sapphire To Cold Magic (if we ever get cold magic as yeti aspect & cone of frost seem to be the only ones I see and only mobs/monk have those)
Topaz for Lightning
Diamond is fine
Ruby for Blood Magic
Onyx for necromantic magic
Green (well, poison wind does do damage now)
Amethyst vs Hold/paralyze/sleep magics Perhaps it makes your own more powerful and lasts longer.
Zircon vs clone magics. Your clone would be that much stronger if you use those same percent values.

fire opal just screams fire though. Maybe topaz doesn't seem right though being a November month birthstone it could be cold. In the end, the player is going to use the corresponding polished gem no matter which you attribute it to.

Now... where's our cold spells?
Where's more spells on weapons?
Where's that increased aspect damage for poor little monks? Slapping mobs for 15 magic damage.. BLEH.

[Azalynn]

And or just give beserker stance "faster fighter weapon attacks" instead of "faster 2h attacks"

That would also solve lots of the issues that are currently an issue.

That would be pretty awesome tbh.

Is faster speed enough though? You take more damage. I dunno why you can't deliver a bit more damage. It doesn't have to be a lot.

I dont know if it is enough to be fair i just know it would be much better than what we have currently in game. Using one handed weapons feels pretty bad in comparison. Obviously using a shield is supposed to be the more defensive option but when you lose damn near half your damage to wear one, that feels terrible in my opinion.

[eggmceye]

Can we take a look at one handed weapon numbers?

who's this 'we' that you're referring to ?

(i also note you're one of about 2 peoeple who had anything remotely nice to say abt the last update so I guess you get away with it)

[Azalynn]

Can we take a look at one handed weapon numbers?

who's this 'we' that you're referring to ?

(i also note you're one of about 2 peoeple who had anything remotely nice to say abt the last update so I guess you get away with it)

The "we" im referring to are the people who i associate with on PD, the same dudes ive been playing with for 10 years. I understand youre a solo act with the game, wasnt talking about your team, but just the dudes who play the game.

The last update was great, huge fan of the direction and was overall great for the game, thank you once again.

[LaughingCoyote]

Expand tinkering so you can craft jewellery and tinted jewellery. Necromancers and Enchanters can create rings but tinkers can only do gold rings atm.

other than for the sake for completeness I don't really see why - even tho it's a really easy thing to add

This was so long ago that I can't remember the impetus, but I'm pretty certain it was for completionist sake.