Halls Hopper
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Joined: Tuesday, 15th May 2012, 10:12
hides
If you are a fighter and you have choice:hide or armour made from hide(not matter what kind) theres no argument for hide
If you are a spellcaster and have choice of hide and armor made from hide you will probably ignore both (and take robe unless with high armour skill you will ALWAYS take armor)
My point is that hides provide relatively less powerfull characteristics than their improved versions.
Some major facts/suggestions i noticed are:
1.Hides are the same weight of armor.(thats at least strange for me because usual armors are made with additional materials(like steel/iron etc)-unless scroll of enchant armor only shifts shape of those scales and skin into armor)
2.Felids(as for only pure animal-based species) should be able to wear them(that would add slight use of hides) because why not:
-they are small and hides should be able to be cut so it would fit em(inability to wearing armor is caused by dense fur and small size i believe)
-they are dependent only on mutations and jewellry(which are both based on luck(RNG) )
-and just compare to other races(Centaurs and Nagas have their special items).Ofcourse Centaurs and Nagas are survivable without bardings so do Felids without hides so why not deleting bardings?Nothing against but just wanted to add some "interesting feature" to that race.Ok exra lives are enough interesting but still maybe 5% of people play felids often(just straight gues)
3. Alternative use: If above idea would eventually fail(or develop-whatever) hides should provide some percentage boost for either:
- power of all spells(not above 30%,because it would make robe of Archmagi obsolete-providing no bonuses of rF+,RN+ etc)
- power of hide colour spells(dragon-fire,steam-fire and ice(?),gold- increased all spells success etc- each could be debated)
- delete any AC boost if not set to negative(or alternatively opposing elementals hurt alot more-for troll leather-all spells and gold drag armor-all melle attacks for example)(as they would only get benefits, the major disadvatage which should make this choice not obvious for spellcasters and competetive with randarts(in lategame).Blame yourself if you wanted to have firestorm at maximum power and got mangled by those pesky executioners.
What ya think?
Nope