Temple Termagant
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Joined: Saturday, 21st November 2015, 16:36
Tuesday, 24th November 2015, 19:32
Hydra Form beheading
Hydra Form was recently changed to not regrow heads because
However, weak chopping attacks make your form weaker now instead by chopping your heads off, which imo is also a bad feature. Reasons:
1. This is not intuitive. If there is one thing every new players and what people know from mythology is that hydras regrow heads and a slashing weapon is a bad idea against them.
Yet against a player in hydra form, it is now in fact a very good idea to use slashing weapons as even lowly orcs can reduce your head count. It is true that hydra form works differently in some aspects than the actual monster (which I never found was a problem to begin with), but your form shouldn't do the exact opposite of what can be expected: "If I take on hydra form slashing weapons shouldn't be too much trouble for me, amirite guys?" Plus the whole heads thing worked almost identical to the monster anyway.
2. One of the (few) strong points of hydra form is that it works well against hordes of humanoids due to cleaving and regenerating hp on kill but now it's iffy because said humanoids are really fond of slashing polearms.
Hydra form is situational as it is, why nerf the one thing it excels at.
3. Now with all that being I don't care about growing extra heads from a gameplay perspective because it was just a neat gimmick that almost never mattered anyway (but losing heads on the other hand has very real consequences), I suggest that
Hydra form cannot regrow heads, but neither can it lose them. This way, a) it truly works different from the monster and b) it stays good at what it does - namely devouring tasty, tasty humans.
Hydra form is already nothing like monster hydras, and allowing players to make
their form stronger by getting hit with weak chopping weapons isn't a good
feature.
However, weak chopping attacks make your form weaker now instead by chopping your heads off, which imo is also a bad feature. Reasons:
1. This is not intuitive. If there is one thing every new players and what people know from mythology is that hydras regrow heads and a slashing weapon is a bad idea against them.
Yet against a player in hydra form, it is now in fact a very good idea to use slashing weapons as even lowly orcs can reduce your head count. It is true that hydra form works differently in some aspects than the actual monster (which I never found was a problem to begin with), but your form shouldn't do the exact opposite of what can be expected: "If I take on hydra form slashing weapons shouldn't be too much trouble for me, amirite guys?" Plus the whole heads thing worked almost identical to the monster anyway.
2. One of the (few) strong points of hydra form is that it works well against hordes of humanoids due to cleaving and regenerating hp on kill but now it's iffy because said humanoids are really fond of slashing polearms.
Hydra form is situational as it is, why nerf the one thing it excels at.
3. Now with all that being I don't care about growing extra heads from a gameplay perspective because it was just a neat gimmick that almost never mattered anyway (but losing heads on the other hand has very real consequences), I suggest that
Hydra form cannot regrow heads, but neither can it lose them. This way, a) it truly works different from the monster and b) it stays good at what it does - namely devouring tasty, tasty humans.
