Buff the amulet of vitality


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Post Saturday, 3rd March 2018, 00:10

Buff the amulet of vitality

Having seen a lot of arguments for guardian spirit vs regeneration amulets lately, there are even some posts were vitality is considered inferior to guardian spirit. While I'm not suggesting any changes to the regular amulets, I think there's at least room for the unrand amulet of vitality to be buffed until it's clearly a powerful item. In other words the rationale for the change is unrands should be powerful and this is one that is arguably worse than a non-artifact amulet.

Currently it's +15 hp, regen. So increasing either of those, or even both, seems simple enough without tacking on random +slaying or +AC etc.

Option 1: +15 hp, regen++.
Option 2: +30 hp, regen.

Super buff option: +30 hp, regen++.

Super buff might be going too far, but hey, I wouldn't mind.
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Post Saturday, 3rd March 2018, 01:57

Re: Buff the amulet of vitality

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Post Saturday, 3rd March 2018, 02:17

Re: Buff the amulet of vitality

Vitality being worse than Spirit is kind of goofy, but I think the bigger problem is that Vitality is doing the same thing as Spirit in the first place: effectively increasing your max HP and regeneration rate. Just buffing it won't solve that.

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Post Saturday, 3rd March 2018, 06:06

Re: Buff the amulet of vitality

Maybe the unrandart can protect character from instadeath. For instance, you cannot lose more than 50% max hp (+max mp if spirit shield) while wearing vitality.
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Post Saturday, 3rd March 2018, 08:20

Re: Buff the amulet of vitality

duvessa wrote:Vitality being worse than Spirit is kind of goofy, but I think the bigger problem is that Vitality is doing the same thing as Spirit in the first place: effectively increasing your max HP and regeneration rate.

But it does so while leaving your MP alone, which is a big plus. I would always prefer it to Spirit, even without any buff.
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