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-From: Rufus        Title: State of the Code Update
-                        Posted On: Tuesday, May 29 2018, 06:59AM
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-Other than a few minor things, I haven't been able to put as much work
-in lately on Legend. That's changing so expect to see some new stuff
-pretty soon.
-I figured I'd give you a small update on where we were with a few
-things.
-RUNE CASTERS
-Rune casting is trudging along toward a finish line of sorts and we
-will be rolling them out in a different fashion than we have before.
-More on that later.
-What are rune casters?
-Rune casting is the ability to throw down (not literally) actual
-objects (runes) and change the balance of fate. Take something away
-from your opponent to give buffs and benefits to your group.
-They are a spirit/perception-driven build that are group focused
-but can also use their abilities to hold their own as a solo character.
-You're not going to be taking down mobs solo like a cause or a create
-mage or someone with ridiculous AC and high parry ability, but enough
-so you can survive.
-Think of them as an alternative to a casting tree (as you won't be
-able to chant). They'll be able to boost the efficacy of any group,
-be it primarily spell-wielders or melee folks.
-They'll also be able to craft charms out of their runes to compete
-with the amulets that druids make.
-MORE ATTRIBUTES MODIFIERS
-We've added melee mitigation, saving throws, gun accuracy,
-concentration, spell damroll, spell critical and mana reduction over
-the last year, but more are on their way, not limited to:
-Gun Damage
-Stat Caps
-Damage Cap
-Melee Crit chance
-Melee Crit percentage
-Weapon speed
-MELEE PROWESS SKILLS
-These have been in allskills for way too long and for that I
-apologize. After trudging down my initial design path, I'd painted
-myself into a corner.
-The initial design, and one that will probably carry forward in some
-fashion, is that each of these skills gives you access to a handful of
-new commands that do various things to your ability to either deal or
-take damage. For example, you could invoke an ability that gave you
-rounds of 70% melee mitigation while reducing your damage output to
-%. On the flip side, you might have an ability to, for 2 rounds,
-hit 100% of your attacks and do 30% more damage at the cost of your
-ac being temporarily '0'.
-The idea was to have timers associated with these.
-While some of these design elements will carry through, there's a
-larger problem in that with the exception of only a few of the ideas,
-the disciplines granted by the prowess skills were really only useful
-in groups. Imagine trying to take down the man-eating lion while your
-ac is '0'? You'd get pummeled, hard and fast. Or you might survive,
-but at 50% damage, so will the lion.
-So I'm looking more toward things that will benefit both solo and
-group play and at the same time, make these things a choice -- you
-have your choice between invoking a discipline or using skills, etc.
-That means we need to make them as valuable as skills. And it's hard to
-make an ability compete with tumble. ;)
-The end goal is to get solo melee closer to solo mage in capability
-with some forms of burst damage or ability to take hits a bit better
-without losing the efficacy of all build types in groups. The resultant
-problem is, that beyond time (timers, waits, etc), is that by and large
-melee-based abilities do not have a finite resource. We added one to
-Bastion and I've heard nothing but complaints even though the skill
-is invaluable as it is.
-So we're looking into solving those problems so the 'prowess' skills
-are on the horizon.
-TRADE SKILLS
-Further down the line are trade skills. People complain about the
-lack of practices, and, while I'll definitely argue that maybe the
-pokemon theory of skills is a bad idea, there's some relief coming.
-In the (somewhat) distant future, my intention is to remove the
-current repair/mend/forge/etc skills from the game and migrate those
-over to their own resource pool of tradeskills. A more use-based system
-than what's current. Everyone could at least attempt every skill
-without spending practices and achieve mastery in one or two and
-competency in a few more.
-Think: basically every trade skill system in MMOs. But with Legend's
-unique and (likely) annoying twist. ;)
-It's a ways off. There's a lot of ground work to do to even come
-close to making that a reality.
-As always, feel free to sound off on the discussion board.
-Ruf
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