Pandemonium Purger
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Joined: Thursday, 16th April 2015, 22:39
hellfire is a bad game element
Greetings, my name is Alatreon, and I just had a really interesting and fun character a couple of days ago. He was a GrBe of Makh, and was able to conquer 2 zigs, all of pan, and tomb. He had 11 skills maxed out and 80 AC, 28 EV, and 32 SH. He resisted everything but cold with three pips. He had but one rune left to go, which was in Gehenna. He was on the bottom floor of Geh, where he died. You want to know how he died, he didn’t die by Asmodeus, or by monster bumrushing him. No, he died by two hellions, two tier-2 demons with hellfire killed the Gr that beat 2 zigs and had 14 runes. He had nothing to fear, except for hellfire.
This brings me to my main point, hellfire is a bad game element. That only exists to be able to kill an op character. In fact, it is the only things said character has to fear. This is wrong, a game should not have to rely on 1 ability to kill a player, especially if that ability can’t be mitigated in any single way.
My solution to this problem is to add various other abilities that can hurt or kill the player. Things like adding a pain brand to executioners, a version of firestorm/glaciate to Brimstone and Ice Fiends. LCS to Hell Sentinels. Things such as these serve to further enhance and diversify the monsters from the previous classing system of: Hellfire=Dangerous, No Hellfire=Pushover. Take Ancient Liches as a well-designed enemy. They don’t have any irresistible attacks outside of Torment, and yet are still one of the most powerful enemies in the game. Another good change would be to make Hellfire like torment, where for each + of rF you have, you gain a 5% reduction to it.
Anyway, this is just my rant about hellfire and it’s effect on the late game. I hope Hellfire is changed, because it is one of the few things holding this game back.
TL;DR: Extended needs new ways of killing the player beyond standard hellfire
- For this message the author Pollen_Golem has received thanks:
- duvessa