Status affecting items/spells

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Right, in your example, given the choice between a 10% chance of confusing the target, after which I still have to kill it, or just doing 10% damage, I'll almost certainly pick the damage option, and so I'd wager would the vast majority of our player base.

In a 1 on 1 fight perhaps. Otherwise being able to incapacitate 1 enemy while you take out another? Which would mean a staff with the odds set for use as crowd control.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by wobbly

In a 1 on 1 fight perhaps. Otherwise being able to incapacitate 1 enemy while you take out another? Which would mean a staff with the odds set for use as crowd control.

I mean, if we're talking about being able to take on groups outside of the early game, then there's a ton of other changes that will need to be made, because it's much too fatal to be in LOS of multiple high-level enemies at the same time.

IMO the way to do staffs is to still make them 100%, but make the effects weaker (e.g. only -1 speed).

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by Derakon

IMO the way to do staffs is to still make them 100%, but make the effects weaker (e.g. only -1 speed).

Now you've replaced the problem of statuses being unreliable with statuses being boring!