First Combat Defense

[Kismet]

Would it be possible to change Combat Defense (X) to where instead of the stated defense being your only defense, it switches with Dodge as your first defense and you still get the other two after?

[Gorth]

This would be nice. As it is, if you choose a defense, it only uses that defense. Setting which one to use would be good, if you are trying to train one, or trying to PROC something like Tactical Dodge. Maybe it just lets you dodge if the dodge endroll is over zero, regardless of if the others are higher, dodge of course being interchangeable with whatever your preference is.

Also, semi-related, but you can see your dodge roll, but no others, when without a preferred defense.

[jerc]

Also, semi-related, but you can see your dodge roll, but no others, when without a preferred defense.

Not quite - you can see any of the defense rolls that were actually rolled, but it will stop rolling defense methods if it hits one that succeeds, so it's fairly frequent that dodge is the only one rolled.

Anyway, count me as one more who would like to see this change! I don't like having to reduce my defenses just so I can train block, since dodge will just keep going up faster if I don't disable it altogether.

[Gorth]

Oh. That'd be why it does that. I'm not a big fan of it, because it usually means I can't get block training without severely limiting my defense. So even, then, if it just swaps up the order based on preference, that would be fine.