Hydro Shield implemented!

Post by **Rias** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:29 pm

Hydro Shield has been implemented in its complete form, and now has an informative wiki article.

Orris · Post by **Orris** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:07 pm

This is awesome!

Nootau · Post by **Nootau** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:54 pm

Is there a way to mitigate the accuracy penalty of the hydro shield from the Mancer's pov?

Post by **Rias** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:11 pm

No, it's meant to be a balancing factor of this type of shield.

Nootau · Post by **Nootau** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 9:46 am

Currently this shield does not lessen the damage of flame attacks, could this be changed as this shield is vulnerable to cyromancy?

Post by **Rias** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 7:38 am

Hydro Shield currently reduces damage of nearly all damage types, and is not specially vulnerable to cryomancy. Additional effects where appropriate are on the overflowing to-do list.

Nootau · Post by **Nootau** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 6:51 pm

I have not noticed damage being lowered thanks to Hydro shield, I can only noticed accuracy penalties. Do you know of a NPC that does roughly the same damage per hit so i can test myself how much it reduces?

Skjotur · Post by **Skjotur** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:23 pm

Carved wooden swords do a small range of damage, you could ask someone to attack you with one of those.

Nootau · Post by **Nootau** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:17 pm

I will make note of that, thanks.

Acarin · Post by **Acarin** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:18 pm

While the damage range for wooden swords may be low, they may also be less sensitive to change in damage. If you're planning on looking for finer changes, don't expect to be able to do this getting hit by a low damage weapon.

Of course, this would depend on how big the hydro shield damage reduction is. If it's less than 20% you may have a difficult time resolving it without getting hit a hundred or more times.

Just an FYI.

Post by **Rias** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:48 pm

The degree of damage resistance on Hydro and Aero shield vary from strike to strike, so it'll be pretty difficult to test. Test weapons and debug messaging have proved they're doing their jobs, though.