Enhance Armor

[zurcon]

The only negligable affect of enhance armor is that it makes your armor impossible to wear to other classes... So I guess that means people will sac my gear if they loot it ? =)

Please, when I enhance armor (for instance) I get the following bonus:
5 vs slash 5 vs bash 5 vs stab 5 vs magic
=enhance armor=
6 vs slash 6 vs bash 5 vs stab 5 vs magic

Judging from most rom muds, (and this one showing no signs otherwise) AC is absolutely pointless past level 10 or so =P. AC affects how often someone misses against you.. and that pretty much stops as soon as you get out of mudschool.

How about +1 through +10 hps on successfully enhanced armor?

[Seryie]

I personlly don't use this skill, I heard when you cast enhance armor on something, it adds rotdeath and this is why I didn't and never will practice it.

[zurcon]

Hurray for the number crunchers. 1 prac = 1 hp?

Anyway.. one of my pet peves about rom muds are power gamers who don't even practice.. they just spam every skill to 100%.

In any case, this spell needs help.

[Davairus]

There's already a long thread in the training grounds (newbie forum) discussing ac. Why don't you take a look at that? Assuming you already didn't. By the way rotdeath means it crumbles into dust after you die, which does make it pointless practicing, if you happen to die regularly.

You might want to try enhancing something better than a fur jacket or whatever that was. The benefit will be depending on what the parent item was like. Also, recall that in ROM muds, various slots have an AC multiplier so a 1 point gain to that item would go quite a bit further.

[zurcon]

Right, apparently the ac in AR is exactly like it is in stock rom.... In other words useless.

Which makes enhance armor useless (which is something everyone already knew).

Which is why I'm wondering what you think of the suggestion for +1->+10 hp

[Sebryn]

Since you haven't played a character to 50 yet, and you apparently seem to think that every psionicist spell you've mentioned thus far is either A) useless, or B) in dire need of a total reworking, what exactly makes you think that your opinion on how to improve said spells is going to be given much thought?

I'm just curious...

[Davairus]

Each point does contribute to a small amount of damage reduction, so its not completely useless. The thac0 breaks down at 30, the small reduction in damage doesnt not. Show me someone who leaves the armor spell at 1%. I've suggested a few times to the other imps to have AC checks in defences but they've not been too over the moon about the idea and frankly neither have I.

A spell that adds 10 hp to armors is going to be problematic, that would make it possible for level 50 psis to have 1200 base hp or so if they put the effort into it. Thats doubled by pyramid, increased further by your defences, and then again by bio feedback, again by displacement (which also dodges spells), again by any resistances you have - illithids resist blunt - then again by AC (but not by so much, which is sensible at this point). Improving the base hp through equipment with spells isn't an idea I am very enthusiastic about since its going to hit all those multipliers.

As for psis in general, yes they have a lot of useless skills, but they also have more than their fair share of stuff which is too good and its just a matter of recognizing what that is - they're easy to spot. I suggest you run a comparison of them with healers, warriors and invokers before posting another thread about yet another useless skill found on them.

[zurcon]

[zurcon]

[a ponderer]

both of them:
Its chief aim is to create misses, but it ALSO contributes to your damage reduction

you also need to relax just a bit, you will be flamed plenty in your time on this forum, it will save you much time to just ignore it, as your replies (however correct they might be) will iether be flamed as well or ignored.

[Baer]

For future reference, please edit your posts instead of posting a reply right after another post of yours, it takes up bandwidth and is just an all around waste.

This is a forum rule.

[Davairus]

By "chief function" I meant "primary function", which I figured was enough. The damage reduction errs on the negligible side, but I wouldn't be complaining about getting it in addition to good stat. The "miss" thing for melee is the most significant contribution it makes to hp. That just goes limp after 30-ish, because this thac0 was designed for a 30 level MUD, and its since been expanded to 50 levels.

Revamping thac0 is on the to-do list, so don't fret about it. But don't expect it to ever be wonderfully powerful. You won't see "frail" mages decking themselves out with -500 AC to walk around with like 10% damage reduction. We've got sanc, parry, protection, blur, displacement, as well as spells like word of recall, phase shift, prot shield and fly scrolls to deny fighters commands, and rivers to prevent dirt kicking for them - the MUD has been adapted to having gimpy ac. In fact, if any significant AC contribution is ever added, its probably gonna be stolen right back out of those aforementioned things. Which will you prefer?

[Sebryn]

Let me start by saying that my post wasn't meant as an outright flame (there are several others here far more capable than I of achieving that level of dickheadedness), but instead was meant to draw focus on the fact that you've made several posts recently while not having played the game thoroughly enough to have what I would consider an above average opinion on the topics of game balance and mechanics. Allow me to pull in a few of said posts for reference...

In reference to spells not landing:

[Burzuk]