First off, apologies for the long delay between posts, the next semester has started and I'm retooling my weekly activities around it as well as preparing for an upcoming move as one of my roommates recently bought a house and I can't afford this place by myself.
Bael-elves
Necro healers were always kind of boned in general, though they could hold their own in PK with Pain.V and sneakyness combined with a fair bit of talent. As I see it theres two options going forward. One, keeping them at cloth like their brother guild, but granting them level 5 sheilds instead of level 4. The other, lowering them down to level 4 shields and granting them the leather armor that orcs and priests have. It will also be much easier for them to hunt with a weapon, ie training weapons, than before, allowing them to hunt much like priests used to. That will be similar across all three healer classes.
Pure Necromancers, similar to wizards, will take over part of the "warding" burden/privilege, retain their role as primary tappers, shields, teleportation, cold/pain lists and of course the good old namesake ability of their undead pets which were never really all that exclusive to them in the first place. I always thought that was a bit silly. Necromancers who can only summon one at a time and whose summoning ability isn't unique to them at all. Maybe I'll do something about it if there is an imbalance.
Skeletons
I've made a previous post where I described the joke ability "bone" and how Skeletons will have a second guild option akin to rangers/gnolls to take over evil's archer race. Of course the typical melee double fighter class will remain and will have Parry as well, though I cannot remember if they had it originally or not.
Anonymous
The big news of this post is a big thank you to the anonymous poster who has given me a link to documentation on the tempest engine, that is, really really really freaking detailed information on how the game works. It's uncovered a lot of tiny things missing from my database design. It would have all been picked up as the game was developed, but having it pointed out now saves significant time later on. So, Cheers to whoever sent that. It is immensely helpful.
I also have another message of appreciation to another person and those who came before him, who have offered material support of some kind. Thank you.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Darkness Falls: The Crusade: Demons
For pretty much everything CoX demon you can refer to the craftie characteristics of goblins and craftsmen. They have the physical creation/reparation skills of craftsmen types,. When it comes to fighting, however, they have slightly less defense (studded leather vs chain) in favor of more offense (melee) while also retaining the parry skill that the other two have.
Burning Hnad Demons will have level 4 shields, leather armor, the ability to tap, though not to the extent of primary tapping classes. There won't be any mechanics tricks to it, BH demons simply have less points in the mental area than the others akin to the way CoX demons are better at fighting than a goblin would be, but not as good as a skeleton would be. They will have their pets, though the CoX might have them as well. I am uncertain on that specific point. They will cover the craftsman duties not covered by CoX demons, that is weapons/armor infusions/enchantments. They will also be the alarm wards casters as well as absorbing some of the other wards for evil realm (healing/refreshing) and if I ever manage to implement a fair approach to light/dark issues, they would also have a darkness glyph.
Burning Hnad Demons will have level 4 shields, leather armor, the ability to tap, though not to the extent of primary tapping classes. There won't be any mechanics tricks to it, BH demons simply have less points in the mental area than the others akin to the way CoX demons are better at fighting than a goblin would be, but not as good as a skeleton would be. They will have their pets, though the CoX might have them as well. I am uncertain on that specific point. They will cover the craftsman duties not covered by CoX demons, that is weapons/armor infusions/enchantments. They will also be the alarm wards casters as well as absorbing some of the other wards for evil realm (healing/refreshing) and if I ever manage to implement a fair approach to light/dark issues, they would also have a darkness glyph.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Darkness Falls: The Crusade: Werewolves
Wolves were always one of my favorite classes. I'm a fan of the idea
behind the berserker type of fighter and the shapeshifting ability is
just the cherry on top for me. My largest non-good realm character was
a level 35 wolf named "Ultimatemooo" and I can't really remember why I
stopped playing him. Anyway, as I have elaborated in the troll post, I
have made a strong attempt to re-implement berserk and make it useful at
higher levels and not really a death sentence. The theoretical method
for calculating berserk is to take half of the berserk skill and add it
to the weapons skill, while taking the same % off of defense. Having
run a few simulations, PVPwise, using berserk does provide a significant
damage increase and the defense decrease isn't so damaging that the
wolf is killed by a random level 1 town npc, which I remember happening
more than once in DFC.
As for shapeshifting, I initially wanted to keep it as a skill, and have the damage related to the shapeshifting skill % but that doesn't seem feasible for various reasons. Instead it seemed easier to implement it as a spell casting ability. If I recall correctly, blood coven vampires had spells to shapeshift themselves into bats and I remember more than once staff using spells to shapeshift themselves and targets. I mentioned in previous posts that monks and gnolls forms were less diverse and fewer in number. Monks and Gnolls operate in their forms with only one real choice, their highest level form. To use any other form would be stupid. Wolves, being the natural shapeshifters they are are given a much more diverse setup.
First tier of forms:
2) Physical damage, single attack
7) Earth damage, single attack
11) Cold damage, single attack
Second tier of forms:
16) Physical Damage, chance of attack being a double attack
20) Cold Damage, 10% stun chance
25) Earth Damage, 10% fatigue damage chance
30) Fire Damage, 10% chance for a second attack
Third tier forms:
35) Physical damage, 100% double chance
40) Cold damage, 25% stun chance
45) Earth damage, 25% fatigue damage chance for a second attack
50) Fire damage, 25% fire damage chance for a second attack
Each tier's forms have the same basis for damage and defense values meaning a level 50 wolf in any of the third tier forms will get the same usefulness from them.
As for shapeshifting, I initially wanted to keep it as a skill, and have the damage related to the shapeshifting skill % but that doesn't seem feasible for various reasons. Instead it seemed easier to implement it as a spell casting ability. If I recall correctly, blood coven vampires had spells to shapeshift themselves into bats and I remember more than once staff using spells to shapeshift themselves and targets. I mentioned in previous posts that monks and gnolls forms were less diverse and fewer in number. Monks and Gnolls operate in their forms with only one real choice, their highest level form. To use any other form would be stupid. Wolves, being the natural shapeshifters they are are given a much more diverse setup.
First tier of forms:
2) Physical damage, single attack
7) Earth damage, single attack
11) Cold damage, single attack
Second tier of forms:
16) Physical Damage, chance of attack being a double attack
20) Cold Damage, 10% stun chance
25) Earth Damage, 10% fatigue damage chance
30) Fire Damage, 10% chance for a second attack
Third tier forms:
35) Physical damage, 100% double chance
40) Cold damage, 25% stun chance
45) Earth damage, 25% fatigue damage chance for a second attack
50) Fire damage, 25% fire damage chance for a second attack
Each tier's forms have the same basis for damage and defense values meaning a level 50 wolf in any of the third tier forms will get the same usefulness from them.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Darkness Falls: The Crusade: Gnolls
Gnolls run a lot of the typical archer stuff they used to have, mildly akin to Rangers in good. The main difference comes in the spell setup. Gnolls still retain a few of the wilderness skill spells that rangers have, like improve.track and such, but they also pick up the slack when it comes to Chaos's shapeshifting class. Their intervals are every 10 levels, like monks and are all animal forms (Large Cats/Hawk/Bear etc). Nothing else really all that special.
Tomorrow I'll start in on posts about evil and possibly dive back into programming again, it depends as I am having a few friends over.
Tomorrow I'll start in on posts about evil and possibly dive back into programming again, it depends as I am having a few friends over.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Darkness Falls: The Crusade: Ogres
I hinted at some changes to the overall game that affected Ogres, but didn't get into a lot of detail. As of right now Ogres have the fire and earth lists that wizards have and when you consider that wizards have more elements available, well that is not terribly fair to Ogres. I've discussed a few changes with the others to be made to all the tappers that will even things out, so I won't get into that and I'll ask people reading this to put that point aside at the moment They will still have wards, that is, all of the types of wards available, unlike other realms who's wards are split between classes/guilds. They will also likely have better versions. The ability bonuses are not the same as would be elves and bael-elves and account a bit more for Ogres size, that is, they have the same basic mental characteristics but the other four stats vary from the other two races, like higher strength and constitution, but lower agility and dexterity.
Darkness Falls: The Crusade: Lizardmen and Orcs
Lizardmen haven't really changed, but like a few of the other unique skills it took time to come up with a good algorithm to mete out proper damage throughout the levels for Lizardbreath. It did prove very fruitful when dealing with something new and fun Masterpuppet and I came up with for another class, though. It will remain on a 7-ish second timer and the damage is increased over typical weapon attacks, to make up for the increased timer. Of course they will keep double and whether they had it or not before, they will have parry.
Orcs presented a problem, and still kind of do. I have designed some spell lists that initially cover most of the healer class basics. I have absolutely no frame of reference for orcs buffs and very little with offensive spells. Their skills and makeup are similar to priests, and if I'm not mistaken that does improve their hunting ability compared to what it was before.
Orcs presented a problem, and still kind of do. I have designed some spell lists that initially cover most of the healer class basics. I have absolutely no frame of reference for orcs buffs and very little with offensive spells. Their skills and makeup are similar to priests, and if I'm not mistaken that does improve their hunting ability compared to what it was before.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Darkness Falls: The Crusade: Goblins and Trolls
Goblins:
Not much to tell here. Chainmail is the "favored" armor, they still have their bombs that they get every 10 levels or so. I might slip in parry at somepoint since it makes sense they'd be a somewhat defensive fighter, but at the moment they don't have it. Currently they do have sneak since they are so small. SURPRISE! BOMBS! being the idea behind that.
Trolls:
Trolls aren't a terribly complicated class. Berserk, Pummel, 2 handed weapons in 1 hand and off the charts strength. I'm not sure how to exactly describe the method I did for stat layouts and how much bonus each race gets from how many points in what stat, and how that progresses from low to high, but initially it involved 7 levels. Very Bad, Bad, Weak, Average, Better than Average, Good, Better than Good. I had based a lot of these off of various stats I saw in logs I found across the internet with a little guestimation. Each rating had values (-4,-3,-2,-1,1,2,3) and each class had ratings assigned to each of their stats based on what they were good in. Take for example, a tamian:
Strength: Good (2)
Constitution: Bad (-3)
Agility: Good (2)
Dexterity: Good (2)
Intelligence: Better than Average (1)
Wisdom: Better than Average (1)
Total: 5
Tamians were designed to be versatile and able to do just about anything, but not be overly excellent in any one thing.
Then I came to Dwarves and realized, when I compared it to my Dwarf Paladin's stats, that "Better than Good" strenght wouldn't cut it. So I made "Super" and having taken another look, I went back and adjusted some of the other races to have the Super trait, like Elves with Intelligence and Halflings with dexterity. Then I got to chaos, and Trolls and realized, the highest possible bonus for a 20 str on super, doesn't even come close to the original DFC bonuses. So I created Super.ii. Which, after calculating it out, STILL didn't come close. So I created Super.iii which finally seems to have hit the mark. I couldn't remember for sure what armor they used before, possibly chainmail, but I upped them to plate. The changes to Berserk should make it a much more useful skill and a little more viable for hunting.
Just a side note, each of these "levels" are at equal increments between each other, so there is a uniformity to it and super.ii and super.iii actually have two of these increments between each of them so I suppose technically they should be super, super.iii, super.v. I'll lay out the mechanics of it after I'm done with all the race/class posts.
Not much to tell here. Chainmail is the "favored" armor, they still have their bombs that they get every 10 levels or so. I might slip in parry at somepoint since it makes sense they'd be a somewhat defensive fighter, but at the moment they don't have it. Currently they do have sneak since they are so small. SURPRISE! BOMBS! being the idea behind that.
Trolls:
Trolls aren't a terribly complicated class. Berserk, Pummel, 2 handed weapons in 1 hand and off the charts strength. I'm not sure how to exactly describe the method I did for stat layouts and how much bonus each race gets from how many points in what stat, and how that progresses from low to high, but initially it involved 7 levels. Very Bad, Bad, Weak, Average, Better than Average, Good, Better than Good. I had based a lot of these off of various stats I saw in logs I found across the internet with a little guestimation. Each rating had values (-4,-3,-2,-1,1,2,3) and each class had ratings assigned to each of their stats based on what they were good in. Take for example, a tamian:
Strength: Good (2)
Constitution: Bad (-3)
Agility: Good (2)
Dexterity: Good (2)
Intelligence: Better than Average (1)
Wisdom: Better than Average (1)
Total: 5
Tamians were designed to be versatile and able to do just about anything, but not be overly excellent in any one thing.
Then I came to Dwarves and realized, when I compared it to my Dwarf Paladin's stats, that "Better than Good" strenght wouldn't cut it. So I made "Super" and having taken another look, I went back and adjusted some of the other races to have the Super trait, like Elves with Intelligence and Halflings with dexterity. Then I got to chaos, and Trolls and realized, the highest possible bonus for a 20 str on super, doesn't even come close to the original DFC bonuses. So I created Super.ii. Which, after calculating it out, STILL didn't come close. So I created Super.iii which finally seems to have hit the mark. I couldn't remember for sure what armor they used before, possibly chainmail, but I upped them to plate. The changes to Berserk should make it a much more useful skill and a little more viable for hunting.
Just a side note, each of these "levels" are at equal increments between each other, so there is a uniformity to it and super.ii and super.iii actually have two of these increments between each of them so I suppose technically they should be super, super.iii, super.v. I'll lay out the mechanics of it after I'm done with all the race/class posts.
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