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0005539Valley 1Suggestion - Balancing IssuesJan 31, 2012 4:17 pm
ReporterTerraSleet Assigned To 
Status consideringResolutionopen 
Product Version0.566/0.567 
Summary0005539: Shield spells redesign
DescriptionI think the shields as they are now are fairly underpowered and abusable. These are the problems I see with them:
* They cost no mana to cast and have no shield cooldown, meaning you can deactivate and reactivate a shield to instantly regain its HP
* They do not regenerate HP
* They have a trivial 25% element resistance
* They have a very high mana/sec cost.

The current system encourages using shields as a reflex-based "blocking" system whereby you activate a shield just as a group of bullets are about to hit you and deactivate it immediately after (if it didn't collapse). The resistance % is so low that it's not worth the time to get multiple elemental shields.
My suggestion is to make shields more of a protective barrier than a quick-block spell. These are the changes I suggest:
* Give the shields a high initial mana cost and a low mana/sec cost (e.g. 50/sec) when at full HP
* Give the shields the ability to automatically regenerate HP and spend a lot of mana doing so (perhaps 5% HP/sec with the old mana cost/sec when regenerating)
* If you run out of mana while the shield is regenerating, don't deactivate the shield, instead adjust the shield's HP regen rate so it's regenerating using your mana regen.
* Give the shields a higher % resist or increase the % resist on each tier, e.g. from 25% at T1 up to 80% at T5.
* Activate a global shield cooldown when the shield is deactivated.
I haven't given any specific numbers because I'm not very good at balancing things numerically but I'm sure you can balance it out better than I can.
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Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Jan 31, 2012 11:37 am TerraSleet New Issue
Jan 31, 2012 11:40 am TerraSleet Description Updated
Jan 31, 2012 11:44 am TerraSleet Description Updated
Jan 31, 2012 4:17 pm tigersfan Internal Weight => Feature Suggestion
Jan 31, 2012 4:17 pm tigersfan Status new => considering