Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs


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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 02:26

Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

This would buff a rarely-useful resistance, and make it a compelling choice to spend enchant scrolls on when the Spider branch appears.

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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 02:38

Re: Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

Are mottled dragons secretly spiders? Uhh, but, I would never be compelled to burn enchant armour scrolls for the sake of web immunity. More likely I would be spending it on SDA if I didn't have rP (which is an actual player resistance).
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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 02:40

Re: Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

I like this. Webs are very very dangerous to low-ac high-ev characters, the kind of character who might be using MDA. It does make sense from a simulationist perspective, if the MDA is just too slippery for either napalm or spider webs to stick to. Perhaps it should resist nets as well.
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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 02:51

Re: Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

I would never* take into consideration web resistance when deciding what armor to wear. Mottled armor is already good so it's fine if the resist is useless. If rSticky existed on other items, maybe it would need a buff. Personally I'm fine with less useful resists.
*Unless my character was very weak and couldn't kill jumping spiders safely and Spider was the easiest place to gain exp, and then web resistance would still have to outweigh the benefits of the armor that mottled armor is being compared with, and it probably won't, if that armor has better stats.

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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 03:07

Re: Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

it's a good pun (?)

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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 03:14

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Berder wrote: Perhaps it should resist nets as well.


I thought about this but didn't want to push my luck :) Also, I think throwing nets might have weights, so it's a little less simulationist.
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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 10:17

Re: Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

PleasingFungus wrote:it's a good pun (?)

The short term for sticky flame is Napalm, so it's actually rNapalm and not rSticky so it's not actually a legitimate pun.
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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 16:44

Re: Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

What about resist constriction?
*No friction armor*
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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 19:51

Re: Make mottled dragon hide/armor and rSticky resist webs

I would sometimes pick this armor just to make spider far less annoying, even if i lost some ac doing so.

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Post Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 22:53

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xentronium wrote:What about resist constriction?
*No friction armor*


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