Magic Resistance too low?
Magic Resistance too low?
With the change to MR (percentage blocked instead of percentage to block fully), MR seems rather useless. Could the current items with MR be increased so MR actually means something?
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I'd like it possible to have a 80% MR player who only has 400 hps.
What I hope we don't see is MR added to a bunch of high end items so instead of just being 700 hps all prot great saves and ac, they are also +10% MR...
I think this should be possible if MR can be accounted for well in the eq calcr.
well as in not how AC and HPs and save eq are currently balanced....
you should be able to have:
a 900 hp mage with shit ac and crap saves 0 MR
an 800 hp mage with good saves very low MR
a 750 hp mage with good saves and prots and some ac some MR
a 700 hp mage with good ac and saves and some MR
a 600 hp mage with great ac saves and prots and some MR
a 500 hp mage with great ac and lots of MR
a 400 hp mage with great MR and ac
What I hope we don't see is MR added to a bunch of high end items so instead of just being 700 hps all prot great saves and ac, they are also +10% MR...
I think this should be possible if MR can be accounted for well in the eq calcr.
well as in not how AC and HPs and save eq are currently balanced....
you should be able to have:
a 900 hp mage with shit ac and crap saves 0 MR
an 800 hp mage with good saves very low MR
a 750 hp mage with good saves and prots and some ac some MR
a 700 hp mage with good ac and saves and some MR
a 600 hp mage with great ac saves and prots and some MR
a 500 hp mage with great ac and lots of MR
a 400 hp mage with great MR and ac
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why should mages be allowed to have a great ac? doesnt make sense to me.
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Re: Magic Resistance too low?
Dalar wrote:With the change to MR (percentage blocked instead of percentage to block fully), MR seems rather useless. Could the current items with MR be increased so MR actually means something?
Percentage blocking is actually better for you than chance blocking, since chance blocking is unreliable. In terms of utility, chance blocking may be better, since as Nek pointed out, it can, every once in a while, save your hide.
Re: Kiryan, it should not be possible to have 80% MR. That's obscenely high, and ensures that even a tiny amount of healing would go really far (i.e. via potion or something). Unless, of course, you want to apply MR to healing as well, which is just goofy.
MR is still a novelty/style thing at this moment. I don't think they intended MR to supplant saves as a superior thing.
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At this point, I'd rather have a 2% random chance to shrug an 800 damage spell instead of a 100% chance to deduct 2% of that damage, simply because the amount of damage you're not taking is so minimal even a cure light would offset it most of the time. Sure if you do the math, it's exactly the same, but in a combat situation you don't care about saving 16hps from an 800 damage spell, you care about shrugging the spell entirely.
So if the system is going to remain the way it is, perhaps MR items need to be modified (increased) to accomodate the change, as well as changing the point value in the areas calculator for compensation. Perhaps a 100% increase (this would raise the player cap to 40%, but this could remain the same old 20% pending balance issues) would be fair across the board on all items. That would make the current serpent armor 10% damage reduction (unless I'm mistaken about it still being 5 MR). 80 damage off an 800 damage spell is a lot more feasible to me.
Just my thoughts.
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So if the system is going to remain the way it is, perhaps MR items need to be modified (increased) to accomodate the change, as well as changing the point value in the areas calculator for compensation. Perhaps a 100% increase (this would raise the player cap to 40%, but this could remain the same old 20% pending balance issues) would be fair across the board on all items. That would make the current serpent armor 10% damage reduction (unless I'm mistaken about it still being 5 MR). 80 damage off an 800 damage spell is a lot more feasible to me.
Just my thoughts.
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That's a very nice idea, though as I said, I think people may be making a grave error in assuming that MR was intended to supplant saves and prots in terms of utility.
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I have a hard time with the idea of giving huge amounts of magic resistance to players, allowing them to bypass damage in zones almost entirely, as long as they are not the tank. I think the most MR should give is MAYBE up to 25% resistance, and that still seems awfully high, with 15% being a much more appealing number to me.
Taking away the risk of catching the occasional area spell removes almost all the last of the risk to non-tanking groupmembers in a zone.
Taking away the risk of catching the occasional area spell removes almost all the last of the risk to non-tanking groupmembers in a zone.
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Just to shed a little light on this for you. It was decided long ago by the staff when magic resistance items started going in the game that no player should have more than 20% MR. I am pretty sure that has not changed. Judging by the way that slots and numbers were picked as they added more magic resistance items, it seems to still be the case.
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Magic resistance is even more overrated than ever before imo as well.
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Magic resistance is even more overrated than ever before imo as well.
The code change wasn't intended for PCs. Differentiation between PC MR and mobs might be in order, but having 15%+ shrug rates? Um...no?
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Re: Magic Resistance too low?
moritheil wrote:Dalar wrote:With the change to MR (percentage blocked instead of percentage to block fully), MR seems rather useless. Could the current items with MR be increased so MR actually means something?
Percentage blocking is actually better for you than chance blocking, since chance blocking is unreliable. In terms of utility, chance blocking may be better, since as Nek pointed out, it can, every once in a while, save your hide.
Re: Kiryan, it should not be possible to have 80% MR. That's obscenely high, and ensures that even a tiny amount of healing would go really far (i.e. via potion or something). Unless, of course, you want to apply MR to healing as well, which is just goofy.
MR is still a novelty/style thing at this moment. I don't think they intended MR to supplant saves as a superior thing.
Um so you think it would be crazy unbalancing to have a 400 hp mage with 80% mr?
but since you pose the question which would you rather have 700 hps and
all prots great saves and -150 ac
or
80% MR no saves, no prots, and +100 ac?
and tonights winner in the Toril EQ lottery is demi belt and skull earring!
rer wrote:Personally, I think we're all taking this too far. I agree with !!x - adding more than 10-15% MR for a PC is just rediculously unbalancing. Because, Kiryan, people will find a way to get all prots, 80% MR, and at least 0 AC.
They won't find a way to get those stats if the areas staff don't want them to. Now, if you could get 80% MR with 4 items..yea it'd be possible to get nice saves and prots. But what if you needed 10-15items to get MR that high? Your ability to maintain other stats and acheive that level of MR would become impossible.
I'd personally rather have max ac/saves/and 700hp than 400hp !ac !prots and high MR. Mob melee owns casters at least as often as spells imo.
Re: Magic Resistance too low?
kiryan wrote:moritheil wrote:Dalar wrote:With the change to MR (percentage blocked instead of percentage to block fully), MR seems rather useless. Could the current items with MR be increased so MR actually means something?
Percentage blocking is actually better for you than chance blocking, since chance blocking is unreliable. In terms of utility, chance blocking may be better, since as Nek pointed out, it can, every once in a while, save your hide.
Re: Kiryan, it should not be possible to have 80% MR. That's obscenely high, and ensures that even a tiny amount of healing would go really far (i.e. via potion or something). Unless, of course, you want to apply MR to healing as well, which is just goofy.
MR is still a novelty/style thing at this moment. I don't think they intended MR to supplant saves as a superior thing.
Um so you think it would be crazy unbalancing to have a 400 hp mage with 80% mr?
but since you pose the question which would you rather have 700 hps and
all prots great saves and -150 ac
or
80% MR no saves, no prots, and +100 ac?
That depends on how great the saves are, and whether or not you're fighting something with multiple possible save effects.
Let me give you an example. It used to be that if you could get your saves up to -50 or so, some spells would give you a message from your save and you would take a very small amount of damage (say, 12 dam from cyclone). It's my understanding that it doesn't actually work like that any more, and that you only get one save for half damage. In that case anyone can tell you that taking 20% damage is a much much better situation than taking 50% damage (and saves don't always kick in).
You are right in pointing out that this is a mage class, and therefore not something that can prot/heal itself. Still, you must agree that MR applying to everything (spells, spell like abilities, supernatural effects like dragon breath) makes it vastly more useful than a similar number of saves.
Now, assuming similar AC and being a class that can heal yourself (and having heal unaffected by MR), hell yes, give me a 400 hp char with 80MR.
Now, taking your example, "80% MR no saves, no prots, and +100 ac?" No, obviously this is going a bit too far for MR on a mage, were such a thing even possible. Still, assuming the gear wasn't something where every last item in a set had to be worn to get any of it to work at all, one can always swap out items here and there and get, say, -50ac, 600 hps, some prots and maybe 50MR, and that combination would be very powerful. Therefore, asking me to choose between two handpicked examples is misleading, as there is probably an optimum in between the two extremes of no MR and all MR.
Let me reiterate that, as I understand it, the point of MR for PCs was originally to make your character look cool, and occasionally get saved from taking damage. It was a perk of having so much save gear that you could afford to swap some out. In no way was it intended to replace saves.
Unless you're fighting beholders or something with serious status effects that require saves, MR is vastly superior to saves. Therefore MR would supplant saves if you enabled an entire range of MR from 0 to 80%.
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