Thread 718205008

She makes a good point

>>718205008 (OP)
TTD

no she doesn't

>>718205008 (OP)
At least it's not "Gain 1% bumfuckshit resitance"

>>718205008 (OP)
This is only a problem with chinese games desu

>>718205008 (OP)
why is the top of her hair brown, did she forget hair grows out and she needs to recolor it?

>>718205008 (OP)
I only get annoyed when item descriptions include the formula for the additional damage, chance of affliction, etc.
Don't need to know that there's a 0.75 x Skill Stat - Luck Stat chance of stunning my enemy, just give me a fucking number.

>>718205008 (OP)
>3% chance to inflict status effect that only does DoT
>anally raped in damage by +3 atk

>>718205008 (OP)
That's a man.

>color-coded stats with funny names
Based and Kingdom of Loathingpilled.

>>718205145
I do not miss when poopoopeepee colored hair was popular in the 2000s desu

>>718205008 (OP)
>Skill descriptions in a years old gacha game
I don't find this issue much in real vidya but good fuck, that "genre" can't do anything right

>>718205008 (OP)
i played gunfire reborn and some items you just kind of have to guess what it does

>>718205008 (OP)
Give 3 examples

>>718205746
>playing gachashit
You deserve this.

>Risk of Rain 2 vanilla
>half the time you dont know if picking something up will either straight up kill you or double your damage output

>>718205008 (OP)
Any game with procedurally generated magic item is shit.
And percentage multiplayer is a red flag telling you can break the game.

>>718205097
>There's only one enemy in the game that does bumfuckshit damage.
>The resistance is basically useless because it's secondary to the physical damage

3 piece set
>while equipped, unarmed strikes will give you sparky stacks
>while equipped, allows you to spend 3 sparky stacks to activate wumbo mode
>while equipped, your unarmed strikes will deal 1 extra point of damage while wumbo mode is active

>>718208964
>t.shitter

>>718205008 (OP)
she looks like a cream caramel

>>718205008 (OP)
yeah, I have not a fucking clue what the words in that comic means. but I already know this thread is about trannies

>>718212774
>set bonuses
>wearing one piece does nothing
>wearing two pieces causes you to gain bazinga stacks whenever you get a critical strike during a status effect proc, bazinga reduces the damage you take from status effects by 1% per stack (up to 10%)
>wearing three pieces causes bazinga stacks to increase your damage by 5% per stack and per status effect you are suffering from, when you reach max bazinga all stacks are consumed and all status effects are cleared, you cannot gain bazinga stacks for 20 seconds after this effect procs
>wearing four pieces grants +12 electric attack

Dark Souls was guilty of this and isn't just weapons, it was every item in the game.

>>718213541
Dark Souls is guilty of more than that, e.g. deliberately displaying incorrect attribute scaling gradings. There's obtuse mechanics and then there's just flat out lying.

I really am starting to turn on keywording. Maybe it's the wave of cars games that need to find a 100 difference ways to say battle cry / cleave but I've seen this leak over into other games. Either you have to vaguely vibe out what it does (which I can admit is sometimes fun) or it's tooltip spam.
The Shiren games are some of the best/worst for this. Because until 4 where you could hit down in a item detail to see what "grounded" meant you had to vague it out. There's just a difference with Shiren between getting random bullshit killed and getting killed because you thought that grounded men land you couldn't be moved, instead of it meaning you can't pick up items.

>>718208021
>+6% critical damage to counterattacks to undead dragons while poisoned during the winter solstice(does not stack)

>increases damage x3 when unarmed
>unarmed does 1 damage

its clear what it does, you gain nifty once your mojo is above the bazinga
that applies ayabaya based on their juju, its pretty straight forward
you don't need to google that
also >she

>>718205184
There should be a toggle. Show the formula so that you can see what will affect it, allowing you to plan builds. But also let me just see the current number it's giving.

>>718213541
Wtf are you smoking? Dark souls descriptions are basic as fuck. OP's image is making fun of gacha slop skill descriptions giving names to every minor mechanic of the skill resulting in an unreadable word salad because the gacha lifers are genuinely autistic enough to care about 5% damage difference.

>>718214236
This is OP as fuck though. That means every +1 damage on your fists is now +3 damage. This reminds me of flurry of blows shit in Pathfinder, it's a strong bonus

>>718214392
>>718214392
>That means every +1 damage on your fists is now +3 damage.
>there are no unarmed skills or stat increases

>>718205184
>Description says [14%] chance of stunning enemy
>mouse over the 14%
>it tells you 0.75 x skill - luck = 14%
This is the way

>>718213721
That reminds me of another annoying thing some games do.
>stats appear to scale additively
>actually, they all scale in different ways and don't ever let you know
>some are additive, some are multiplicative, some cap out at a very low number, and some use their own special calculation (that makes stat increases completely redundant past a certain point, unless you max it out where it suddenly gets a giant boost)

>>718205008 (OP)
I'm fine with this but I hate
lvl 1 dick strike : 100 damage
lvl 2 dick strike : 101 damage
lvl 3 dick strike : 102 damage
lvl 4 dick strike : 103 damage
.
.
lvl 25 dick strike : 124 damage
They do this shit in torchlight and games like that

>>718208021
>>718214064
+0.7% increased fire damage, but only if all below conditions are met:
- it's raining,
- in combat against enemies who are both undead and wearing metal boots,
- your character is under 50% health but above 45%,
- standing on wooden terrain next to an allied goblin,
- wearing at least two mismatched boots,
- poisoned and blessed at the same time,
- you dodged exactly 3 attacks in the past 47 seconds,
- the party bard is actively playing a flute,

>>718205008 (OP)
that is not how shading works.

>>718208519
They couldn't be expecting people to read even a quarter of this

>>718214586
The perils of hyper balancing, makes for boring as fuck progression.

>>718214236
That shit is busted in FFT where most melee damage is physical attack x weapon power, and unarmed is just physical attack x physical attack. With just a little setup punching is stronger than most weapons in the game.

>>718214586
It depends how dick strike is leveled, if it requires a finite resource, like skill points? Yeah fuck that. If it just levels with use, sure.

>>718214064
wew, a good thing that not-stacking clause was added.

>>718213490
>>718212774
Name 1(one) game

>>718214236
>>718214392
>find way to increase unarmed damage to just 10 or so
>unlock stun punch or some kind of punch flurry ability that causes multiple unarmed attacks to hit at once
>now you're suddenly an unarmed monster that can kill gods with his fists

I like it when games give you seemingly pointless upgrades that can break the game if you understand what items/upgrades to get.

i love gacha game bloat

>normal hit does 10 damage
>crit does 20 damage
>item gives +100% damage to critical hits
>crit does 30 damage

>>718205008 (OP)
Also the formula has a bug and it actually reduces your damage (I'm currently playing Daggerfall and that's half the skills and effects)

>>718214673
what you don't like yugioh on steroids? must be illterate

>>718205008 (OP)
This is basically gacha games and the illusion of depth they have. Most characters have convoluted skill descriptions that essentially amount to "do lots of damage," "debuff the enemy" and so on.

>>718214809
>normal hit does 10 damage
>crit does 200% damage (20)
>item gives +100% damage to critical hits
>crit does 300% damage (30)

>>718214586
>new passive skill: Venom Trueshot LV1
>10% chance to fire a poisonous arrow when you use Trueshot
>check out Venom Trueshot LV2
>+1% chance
>check out Venom Trueshot LV3
>poison lasts for 0.2 seconds longer
>it keeps alternating like this
>the skill only goes up to LV10, for a 15% chance and +1 increased poison duration
>the only gear that benefits this skill only causes a weak effect when Venom Trueshot procs

>>718214768
>DM throws in a monster with high DR to try and counter your 999 hits
>got pic related beforehand
outskilled

>skill has damage reduction effect
>might be described as "slightly reduces damage" or "vastly reduces damage" or just "reduces damage" with no adverb
>each description consistently corresponds to a specific reduction percentage
>there's no way to know what that percentage is without either looking at the damage numbers and doing the math or just googling it
>same game also has a bunch of skills with non-standard reduction percentages and those all specifically tell you "reduces dmg by 81%" or whatever instead of being vague about it

>>718214743
BG3

>game has very specific descriptions for every stat and ability including numbers
>Luck stat description: "Affects lots of stuff :)"

>Item description just straight up forgets to tell you about a certain property that the item has or gives you incorrect info
>You can only find out about this by finding the wiki page for the item

>>718215103
Absolutely true and I hate this shit. I don't give two fucks what jolt, thunderized, or electrafucked do. Just speak plainly. What the fuck is the point of making all these "elemental tags" when only one character has them?
>Oh but Anon the roster will get bigger then-
Then the game's not fucking done.

>>718205008 (OP)
>game has a load of retarded terms like this
>they all amount to either +% increased damage or +% damage resistance
>some of them are additive and others are multiplicative with no logic or information in the game despite being built around these modifiers
Fuck China

>>718214459
One of the worst offenders for that sort of thing has to be energy vs ballistic weapons in Fallout 4. Though it's essentially the same figures being worked with the way the damage calculation is done results in ballistic weapons being suited for high powered attacks while energy weapons are more suited for low powered attacks, i.e. sniper for ballistic weapons, rapid-fire for energy weapons. The game gives no indication of this and will happily let you make high powered energy based sniper rifles even though they suck terribly at that. Because it's a calculation done on hit the weapon damage indicators don't take it into account and display inappropriate figures. It's basically treated as a bug by the community though it is debatable as to whether this was intentional or not. Fallout 76 changed the way the calculation is done but Bethesda has never changed it for Fallout 4 despite numerous patches and being aware of it so it might actually be intentional even though it doesn't make much sense. If it's a bug it's a really big bug to have not fixed. Bethesda fixed far lesser bugs than this and it's not like it's a hard bug to fix. It's just changing a damage calculation. Probably just a single line of code.

>>718215514
>Item/skill/whatever bahavior was changed prior to release, but the description wasn't updated so the information is now wrong
>Also the translators didn't fucking understand it in the first place so it's double wrong on top of that

>>718215395
>increases defense +5 defense
>greatly increases defense +10 defense
>massively increases defense +20 defense
>defense stat is typically in the hundreds by default and hard to gauge as is

Translation: during your ultimate, press the skill button when the big-ass eye appears over the screen to deal a lot of damage.

>random piece of equipment is relatively weak when you get it
>it has a hidden attribute that makes it the best weapon in the game
>the only way to know is to use it for an extensive period of time
>you cannot get it again if you sell it

This isn't actually that complicated, it's just written like a complete clusterfuck

>at start of every turn, if there's an ally within 3 spaces:
>>Grant "Guidance" and "Null Follow-Up" buffs to self and allies within 3 spaces
>>Buff self with: +9 Atk/Spd/Def/Res, +7 damage, +7 damage reduction
>>Enemy damage reduction from skills is halved
>>Require 10 less speed to follow-up attack an enemy; if unit already follows up, do +1 follow-up attacks

>Guidance:
>>Gain 2x SP after combat or using Assist skills
>>+5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat
>>Specials that reduce damage once per combat can be triggered twice
>>Special cooldown -1 after combat

>Null Follow-Up
>>If unit Spd > enemy spd, nullifies effects that guarantee enemy follow-ups or prevent unit's follow-ups

It's a lot of effects but it's only confusing because of how they wrote it

>gain stacks of Nigglewiggle on hit
Oh cool, I have a lot of ideas of how to maximize the effectiveness of
>(up to 5, max of one stack per second)

>>718216093
woops
>>718215102

>>718205008 (OP)
I love risk of rain but this is bullshit

>>718215729
what the fuck are you talking about
the minuteman rifle beats almost every ballistic weapon in being a sniper

>>718205184
No, fuck off. I want to see the formula.

>>718216152
How? it's just a chance for your hits to chain to other enemies, more ukeleles = bigger range/longer chain

>>718214392
Does WotR have fun unarmed builds? I know next to nothing about these games but heard that one was really good.

>>718216093
They refuse to implement the ability to mouse over/tap a colored phrase to see what an effect does. Which with how old Fire Shart Heroes is, I don't blame them. Imagine the amount of nightmarish spaghetti that would introduce.
Limbus for example, even with implementing this sort of thing early, still runs into issues where a certain word shows up in older kits and ends up accidentally placing a new keyword in older kits. It doesn't actually change anything but it's confusing when it does happen.

>>718216234
The description when picked up says absolutely nothing that you said.

>>718205008 (OP)
>Bottom
>simple with no ways to further engage with it
>Top
>player has build diversity being able to interact with the mojo, bazinga, ayabaya, and juju systems to create new and interesting builds

>>718216170
Short version is ballistic resistance is calculated differently to energy resistance meaning high damaging ballistic attacks are more effective against ballistic resistance than high damaging energy attacks are against energy resistance.
>the minuteman rifle beats almost every ballistic weapon in being a sniper
Because you can overcharge it to insane levels to compensate for the losses.

>enemy stats scale exponentially
>player stats scale logarithmically
>the only way to play at higher levels is with effects that deal % health damage and reduce % damage

>>718216361
And it takes you about ten seconds after picking it up to notice the chain-lightning effect when you attack
What exactly is the problem?

>>718216386
keep going im pumping

>find weird weapon
>look at it's description
>"This is a shitty joke weapon and you're retarded if you actually use it."
>if you put enough resources into the weapon you can actually make it good

>>718216413
>what is a miss/dodge

>>718205008 (OP)
This formula clearly means there are ways to build your character entirely around that mechanic to make that ring deal insane damage. So no that's not "it".

>>718216413
>on hit: heals target

>>718216291
Getting a few monk levels for some of their feats is the meta in those games. But yeah unarmed is good in pathfinder. It's not like other games where unarmed is a joke.
In its most basic form it's about getting 999 attacks and stacking damage bonuses on each hit. A +1 here, a 1d6 there, and every time you get another attack you're multiplying your power.
Then there's other memes that activate on touch. Like the Lich mythic path gets a thing that deals 1 STR damage with each unarmed strike.

Main downside of monk is that they need a little of every stat, so people try and build them to use different stats e.g. Scaled Fist to use CHA instead of WIS, dex-to-damage feats so they can dump STR, etc.

>>718216092
>>you cannot get it again if you sell it
This right here in specific is ultra gay. Give us an alternative shop to re-buy things we sold in the future if we so choose. Paper Mario does this in every game so you don't accidentally brick yourself out of one-time loot during times when you needed the money.

>>718205008 (OP)
Wuthering Waves Ability Descriptions.png

>>718215482
Oh yeah, I forgot about the weird spark items.

>>718216557
>rpg gives you boatloads of items that can potentially cause status afflictions
>doesn't work on bosses tho
>or mini bosses
>or any of the tougher enemies
>and this one random enemy for some reason
>just go back to equipping the weapon with the highest damage number because that kills everyone faster

>>718215489
>actually affects nothing

>>718217347
>it was supposed to do something but it was actually bugged
>stays that way for years because players have no way of knowing what it's even supposed to do

>>718215489
>datamining shows it only affects crits

>>718215395
>be FFBE WOTV (gacha game)
>skill descriptions say an attack deals extra small, small, medium, large, or extra large damage
>look into datamines
>35%, 112%, 165%, 200%, 220%, in that order
>some character classes use a percentage of their DEX and/or LUCK towards damage calculations on top of the standard ATK/MAG
>some classes don't, and instead just use 120% of ATK
>you as the player have no idea of any of this
>they just tell you THIS ATTACK DOES LARGE DAMAGE
I fucking HATE the Japanese with their STUPID fucking OBFUSCATION

It's simple:
Good
>Unlock ability to disarm enemies on crit
Bad
>Deal 50% more damage on crit
I don't care if the extra damage would end the fight, gameplay gets better with new moves and options not bigger numbers.

>>718214620
>at least two mismatched boots
I can... wear more?

>>718216692
>seperate item: ring of curse
>effect: your healing effects to others causes damage instead

>>718205184
Nigger

>>718205008 (OP)
This is every modern Genshin Impact character

>Ring of Dexteriry
>"Increases Dexterity"
>Dexterity isn't a stat

>>718214803
Dogshit continues being dogshit I see

>>718218304
name three (3) games that have this
Turning your high MAG healer into a death machine sounds fun.

>Skill descriptions are lenghty essays
>Gameplay is just two buttons

>>718218734
Disgaea 4, 5, 6

>>718218931
>description of ONE special attack for ONE character in ZZZ
meanwhile what it means in the game
>when button lights up either hit E for a counter or hold LMB for a grouping attack

>>718205008 (OP)
The thing that wrote this is a retard. Anybody that agrees with it is also a retard. You are a retard.

>>718219209
Read this
>>718219141
and explain to me how you would play that character based on that text

I wonder if these wall of text descriptions are easier to understand in the original Chinese.

>passive skill 1 boosts your basic attacks
>passive skill 2 replaces your basic attacks with basic attacks that deal extra damage with every 3rd hit
>no idea if these stack

>>718219424
The nature of Chinese terms probably makes them easier to read. If I had to guess, wordy english terms e.g. >>718219141 "Celestial Cloud Blitz" or "Qingming Eruption" are probably 3 or 4-character compounds in Chinese.
Chinese has a lot of shit like this, most Chinese idioms are just 4 characters long. For example the Chinese equivalent of "to shut the barn door after the horse has bolted" is 亡羊補牢 (dead sheep mend pen)

Can YOU decipher what this does?

>>718220710
Any bonuses to backstabbing now also apply to casting. What's hard to understand about this?

>>718220825
WRONG, you cast gains the ability to backstab and you also get bonus damage to all of your backstabs. Backstab bonuses don't apply to regular casts.

i think these complaining about vidya stats threads are some of the only threads with real gamers in them the rest is bot shit and retards
>>718220710
cast meaning like a friend? like some summoning thing? or a "cast of characters" or allies get bonuses for backstabbing that you would normally have alone?

>>718221073
Well that's shit.

>>718205008 (OP)
I noticed that RPG games in the past 10 years started piling tons of abilities and descriptions into 4 skills instead of having discrete skill for each effect

>>718220710
>>718221073
Kek I hate when they do that wordmancy bullshit
>"Bonus for striking foes from behind" =/= "Backstab" so of course it doesn't work, sillyyyyy :-}

>>718221527
>be immune to burning ground
>walk into a burning area
>die
>"umm akshually that wasn't burning ground, that was burning tar on top of the ground so it's different"
they patched it later but i'm still kind of mad

>>718212506
>>718205097
>the game somehow thinks that item is actually OP, so you can sell it at shops for fat stacks of cash

>game has "complex skill tree"
>4% extra fire damage against undead

>>718215489
If its a good game then the luck stat would affect all RNG generation in the players benefit
100 as a default just a times 1 multiplier
110 luck now every item drop gets a 1.1 multiplier of happening or being higher quality

>>718214354
>hold alt for the big boy tooltip

>>718214437
>mouse over part of a tooltip
yeah nah. sticky tooltips are absolutely disgusting

>>718205097
>>718222254
>>718222282
Every single time something like this gets brought up you always have one anon that says something like
>"umm ackshually the 0.4% penis damage resistance cockring is OP as fuck if you combine it with the gloves of basinolga you get in chapter 12 and the socks of zaaznezz you find in chapter 37 you fucking retard"

>>718216539
What's its proc coefficient? Does it even have one? How do they stack?

>>718205097
Resistances are a stupid fucking mechanic.

You usually don't have a clue what resistances you need until halfway through a fight, and you can't switch to the gear by then. And the gear sucks donkey dick against every other enemy. Since you usually want to keep one strong set of gear on all the time, you basically ignore resistances. 99% of games with resistance equipment are like this.

>>718222102
>they patched it later
>it was something that actually happened

>>718220551
It amused me when I realised that pictographic languges like Nihongo often seem to be Grug speek when translated direct to English

>>718222809
>open chest
>obtain the "Super Cool Fire Resistance Pants of Flame Retardant Burn Stopping"
>volcano level is ahead
>equip pants
>first enemy hits you with a rock element attack and you die
>mfw

I like when items have useless effects.
>10% chance to instantly kill enemies 20 levels below yours.
>Nevermind you're already instantly killing them without it

>>718205008 (OP)
>turns out because there's just a ton of random items in the game there is a necklace that increases enemy juju score when you glint them with a bonger, a belt that gives mojo when you bonger causing you to wahoo once for every mojo stack, shoes that give you a passive movement speed bonus based on mojo stacks and a shield that makes you bonger every time you move three feet and a sword that makes you wahoo whenever you trigger a movement based skill which item skills count towards and pants that makes your wahoo also apply glint
>this is the strongest build in the game

>>718222102
>item grants immunity to tentacles
>enemy uses black tentacles so it doesn't count

>>718223070
Part of the fun is figuring these crazy builds no one uses

>Skill Unlocked: +5 Speed
>Skill Description: Increases speed stat by 5.

>>718222809
yep
>next phase of the game is the Blob Forest
>nearby shop sells a gear set that gives 10% Blob Resistance
>but it has 2 defense
>all the generic gear from the last stage you current own has 3 defense
>generic gear from the Blob Forest has 6 defense
>the Blob Forest is the only place in the game with blob damage so the special gear would be useless in an hour anyway
Why do they always do this shit?

>get to the final boss of the zone, the Blob Wizard
>because it's a mandatory boss, they had to balance it so any build could win and progress
>therefore you can get by with zero blob resistance just fine

or even better
>enter the Blob Forest
>an NPC near the entrance gives you an amulet of Immunity to Blobbing so you don't have to deal with the status effect the stage is based around
>later on, gear drops from some enemies
>it has 10% Blobbing Resistance

>>718205008 (OP)
>game uses a keyword in the description of multiple items and skills
>look it up on the wiki
>keyword's value is different for each item and skill
I haven't played PoE in years. Did they fix "nearby" yet?

>>718205008 (OP)
>She
Anon...

>>718222928
>enemy hits you with a lava attack
>it's earth damage instead of fire damage

>>718222897
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Version_3.17.2
>Oil that has been set alight is now treated as Burning Ground, and applies a Burning Ground debuff, rather than Burning Oil.

>playing pic related
>melee skills are pretty straight forward
>wands are tied to the spells they can cast
>half the wands have an additional buff spell they can cast
>they just tell you the name of the spell, with absolutely no indication whatsoever on what it affects

>weakass poison dagger: 10 damage over 1 second (does not stack)
>poison dagger of the serpent god: 100 damage over 10 seconds (does not stack)

>additive % damage resistances
But it is balanced because there is 75% cap
>power creep dlc unique ring: +10% max fire resist

>Wooden Sword +2 damage 400 gold
>Iron Sword +4 damage 800 gold
>Iron Mace +3 damage 900 gold
>Steel Sword +5 2000 gold

>>718224090
and you're just left to wonder "did anyone even playtest this shit?"

>>718224285
Are you an actual chatbot? What does playtesting have to do with basic math?

>>718224349
Because it's the first piece of feedback a second set of eyes would give to a developer?
Why are you too stupid to understand such a simple train of thought, yet also quick to insult?? The fuck?

>>718205008 (OP)
This picture is gachaphobic.

>>718222809
I like it King's Bounty: The Legend, because there's only 4 types of damage and many units have their innate resistances to differentiate between them.
>recruit an army of demons with fire resistance
>wear a cape that gives your units fire resistance
>use a powerful AoE fire spell that also damages your own units, but because they're resistant to fire they're only dealt minor damage
's fun

>>718224431
I'm sorry, it's just that numerical problems like this are so glaring to me I struggle to imagine that you'd even need a second pair of eyes to realize it.

>>718215328
amazing

i've played too much POE to think the bottom one is good. like what if theres an item that converts all my mojo into bazinga, now i don't need to ramp mojo i just have infinite uptime on ayabaya

>Armor of the Ancient King
>-30% reduction to enemy armor penetration

>>718224994
>Sword of the Assassin of Kings
>50% reduction to the target's armor penetration mitigation

>>718214236
and it's beautiful

>>718225162
>>718214236
>game lets you stack physical damage additively and multiplicatively

>>718225241
>the game nerfs items noticing it is OP af
>the lucky players get to keep their old legacy items

>>718220710
if you hit enemies from behind with your cast (a projectile) you will apply backstab damage and you also passively get more backstab damage to all backstabs including non-cast ones

>>718225132
>this item is extremely broken once you pass a certain stat threshold

>>718222809
resistances and damage types should all be mechanically different from each other so there's a point in choosing one resistance over the other. i.e ice attacks are slow and cause crowd control effects while lightning attacks deal a ton of damage but all the enemies with lightning damage are glass cannons. so you can spec cold resistance if your build is good at clearing low hp enemies fast and shit like that

>>718223072
>be immune to the weapons of men
>get stabbed
>it was a woman
>die

>>718215102
It feels like every time I blink, a new paragraph is added to FEH skill descriptions.

>>718205008 (OP)
Or maybe, it means you want to keep track of your Mojo and maximize the enemy's Juju score and cast debuff-enhancing spells right before you hit your Bazinga threshhold to improve the Ayabaya effect.
Maybe you want to delay your swing so that your Mojo reaches the Bazinga threshhold right as the enemy enters an increased vulnerability phase.
Fucking casuals.

>>718214586
Just buy the XPbooster anon, it will let you get level 150 in no time.

>>718218304
>>718218734
Suddenly the healer is Death incarnated.

>>718218521
There's a ring of hell for that one.

>loot: LEGENDARY item
>gold & platinum icon
>effect: barely superior to buyable items

>add it to the long filtered stack of other legendary item
>try to sell it
>buyer: I'm giving you peanuts for it

>>718224984
It's funny when PoE2 came out and it turned out most PoE1 players are dogshit at the game.

>Various skills and passives increase the stat by X%
>Some stat bonus sources are multiplicative, other additive with each other and the game doesn't say which is which
>The game isn't popular enough for anyone to bother testing it and sharing the results

>>718214768
Fist of the North Star has such an odd combat system. Most shonen has the main character beat the guy, accidentally kill them, or at least slay (not kill) demons. And these were fights to the death. Meanwhile, Kenshiro is 100% in control, and uses a martial art to torture/humiliate his opponents. If the villains weren't filled with men like (((Jagi))) or Souther then Ken would look like a prick at least. Luckily, they're irredeemable pieces of trash, so it's fine.

>>718222809
>You usually don't have a clue what resistances you need until halfway through a fight
>And the gear sucks donkey dick against every other enemy
>Since you usually want to keep one strong set of gear on all the time, you basically ignore resistances. 99% of games with resistance equipment are like this.
you couldn't have nailed it better. it boils down to
>specialization is shit unless you spoil yourself beforehand
>you need to be able to stand up to all kinds of enemies throughout the game, so specialization is retarded
>enemies can be defeated with raw damage anyway so why bother specializing

>wizard
>have to balance between DPS, health, combat fallback capabilities.
>end up making either a glass cannon, an unstoppable God, or a failure that forces you to rest
>thief
>make a gimped character with all the drawbacks of a wizard, none of the perks, so you can do bows/traps (which the developers optimized the game such that they aren't needed/big problems)
>fighter
>get balance game with little need to reset. Hardest decision in build crafting is if you want to spread points to health/strength evenly, or if you want an ice sword or a fire sword

>>718225542
that's great son but your characters need to be able to win against enemies of any type so specialization is retarded
>while lightning attacks deal a ton of damage but all the enemies with lightning damage are glass cannons
great, but lightning is usually the fastest element so they get to shoot before you do and you're gonna be eating lightning nukes for days

>>718228260
>used to play wizard
>everything felt like dragging a fat black woman up a cliff
>played fighter once
it's like these games are designed to be fun if you play fighter, and just masochist kibble if you're some contrarion who wants to play le alternative class

>>718228860
wizard is just warrior but with different-colored damage numbers. you can't convince me otherwise

>increases speed by 386
>it takes 2000 speed to increase actual movement speed by 1%

>stack speed items at the expense of damage
>move 7% faster

>>718228917
yeah a warrior that can swing a sword 10 times and then has to go to sleep

>>718229041
are you insinuating that wizards are weak in traditional d&d style systems? because that couldn't be further from the truth. as long as you pay the bare minimum amount of attention so you can prepare the right spells, you will be like a deity and the MVP of the party every time

>>718205008 (OP)
yeah but i also put on the jing of gling that gives mojo whenever i deal ayabaya to an enemy, so its basically a full on juju loop and trivializes the entire game.

>>718229165
>say a very generic thing
>immediately a schizo jumps out of the woodwork "WERE YOU ACTUALLY SUBCOMMUNICATING"
no you troglodyte, i said what i wrote and you are experiencing a paranoid outbreak

>>718214586
Is that better or worse than
>Lvl 1: 1% Infliction Rate
>Lvl 2: 2% Infliction Rate
>Lvl 3: 3% Infliction Rate
>Lvl 4: 4% Infliction Rate
>Lvl 5: 75% Infliction Rate

>>718228968
>Most basic enemies are at least 10% faster than a default character
>Making speed boosts worthless
>Tank styled enemies are 5% slower than default characters, again making the speed boost worthless

>>718229296
>Having limited spells and having to rest
>"I wasn't referring to D&D you schizo!!!"
Get cancer and die you worthless retard :)

>>718229296
very generic? it literally only occurs in pathfinder and d&d

>>718229296
projecting

>>718206026
Man, fucking Gunfire Reborn. Extremely convoluted mechanics and shoddy cantonese to english translations do NOT mix. To this day, I still have no fucking clue what half the shit on the fucking owl does.

>>718229486
>what is dark souls
>what is any game with regenerating stamina but no regenerating mana (e.g. morrowind)
yes surely it's *checks notes* dungeons and dragons, a tabletop game that has had one popular video game made in the last twenty years

>>718205008 (OP)
>Game gives you limited ammo
>You can only gain ammo at ammo-locations which always fill you up to max
>Not having enough damage (ammo) means you cannot continue
>Upgrade for weapon includes 20% ROF, 10% damage or 25% to max ammo limit
>Only the latter is remotely viable

>>718224090
okay but a +3 mace could actually be better depending on how the game treats it
in something like nethack where stealth attacks do extra damage and maces take 2 turns to complete an attack but balance out with extra damage

>increases [stat] by +X
>[stat] is only ever expressed as a flat number
>how [stat] translates into any real numbers in terms of percentage or bonus is explained precisely nowhere in the game
Fuck games that do this, and fuck developers that do this. Don't just give me "+350 Defense" to my 1274 Defense. What does it mean? Does it increase my resistance to damage or does it negate damage entirely sometimes? All damage or just certain types? Is it percentage based? Flat damage subtraction? Does it scale linearly? Is there a cap?

>>718230254
>defense only increases your propensity to dodge, it doesn't reduce damage
uh...?

>>718205008 (OP)
>gross over the attacks per second aspect of the damage proc
Typical woman. Or woman adjacent.

>>718231303
>Your stat maxes out at the hidden cap #
>Your character stats display whatever you've managed to boost that number to no matter how much higher

>Your attacks ignore % of target's armor
>Does literally nothing
If you put in the work to create a skill, make assets for it, at least use it for 3 fucking minutes so you know if it even works you stupid motherfuckers

>>718229380
that's close to how Etrian Odyssey does it
except it usually throws you a bone at Lv5(out of 10) instead of completely end-loading it at Lv10
unless it's a skill that only goes to 5, then there's a chance of it having either balanced progression or at least only being five levels vs. ten to get the better multiplier/whatever
also your case is better, at least there's a tangible and strong benefit waiting at the end vs. +24 damage and nothing but
(though depending on the game engine +24 damage could well be nothing to sneeze at, kinda depends I guess)

>>718228260
>rogue/assassin/thief
>high damage with preconditions and caveats and folds like a twig
>warrior/barbaian
>disintegrates shit with 2 hander while tanking everything

>>718214673
they probably don't, except the most autistic people.
i bet there's an optimize button that just equips the optimal gear for you anyways.

Undermine does this

>>718205008 (OP)
Hello?

>>718205008 (OP)
>Daniel, the King of The Niel kingdom
>Gain 1 level of Gigapower when attacking an enemy. When it reaches 5, the next attack will deal +50% Damage.
>a few weeks later
>Jessica, the Goddess of Gods
>Enemies attacking this character cannot receive Gigapower. -50% damage received. Every second attack will deal +50% Damage.

>>718205008 (OP)
Sounds like the description to every item in mobas.

>>718216692
>healing above the integer threshold causes instant death

>>718232383
>The optimize button exists just to gaslight you
>It just looks at total stats given, without focusing on the relevant stats or equipment skills
>Every time you accidentally press it you need to go through and fix your parties gear

>>718221527
Sounds like Path of Exile

>>718232383
At least when I actually played it there wasn't. Would have to manually upgrade skills and choose which ones to inherit
They really need a tl;dr on that shit. I opened it again just because and got some unit where their attack skill was a mile long with effects and damage formulas and shit, I had no idea what it was actually trying to tell me, so I put him in battle and it's just a ranged attack that lays fire tiles in front of him

>class with a really high natural speed and evasion stat
>it causes your teammates to dodge your healing spells every time

>playing Final Fantasy for the NES
>spells have no descriptions
>no idea what any of the buffs do because the spell names don't mean anything either
>it turns out that half of the spells are actually bugged and don't do anything anyway
I think it wasn't until FF4 that things actually made sense within the confines of the game (no prior knowledge or wiki usage).

>Developer nerfs overpowered game-breaking builds/strategies in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME
I'll give you an example right off the bat: Redhook Studios. I'm still mad about what they did to Darkest Dungeon one. If you make a game and jerk yourselves off about how hard and unforgiving it is and DARE the players to cheese it don't go around nerfing every single strategy people come up with to beat your game.

>>718232893
>healing spell has a hit%
I assume that's from Disgaea, and if so I'm really glad that I haven't yet because some shit like missing a healing spell would drive me up the goddamn wall.
I already get mad enough when missing 80% attacks in TRPGs, I don't need to get stressed about healing too.

>>718232106
That’s the EO2 formula for roar.

>>718221073
Isn't that what he said dough?

>>718218304
>>718226437
>ps: you can't cast healing magic on enemies

>armor actually works like evasion
What is this boomer bullshit

>>718233227
no wonder I immediately thought of EO lol
never used Beast though

>>718233105
I meant it, anon. I had a LOT of ninjas in my team at one point because theyre so fucking strong, and the enemy can barely touch them. But i literally couldn't heal them at all - they fucking dodged every single healing spell. It started getting funny after a while

>>718223319
>because it's a mandatory boss, they had to balance it so any build could win and progress
Sounds like soulless gookslop. A normal game would present a challenging fight and tell the player to git gud or get lost.

>>718232893
I don't know what's coming out of your staff, dude. I don't recognize the colored charges and sparks of your spells. I don't know what your chants and hand waves mean. I'm not trained in that. For all I know the boss told you to do an AOE that would kill me and probably the goblins around me. For what? To end the fight 3 seconds faster? I'm just going to set my mind on dodging everything. You want to heal me bad enough you'll figure it out. Or tell the boss not to put me situations I'll get hit. I'm speedy for a reason.

>stat is useless unless you go all out and stack it to the max
>it does 1 thing well but now your build is trash for everything else

>>718205008 (OP)
Yeah

>>718223924
Reminds me of the poison dart in Fallout 4. It does 60 damage...over a minute. You get a whopping, juicy, fentastic 1 damage a second from this gun. In a game where most enemies have minimum 300 health, plus armor.

>>718205008 (OP)
>occasionally
it literally says it right there, it's based on their juju score

holy shit women are retarded

>>718222809
resistance is a gear tax used in arpgs to force you to waste statlines on it
in any other genre its basically pointless and/or useless

>Power Amulet of the rogue
>increase damage when backstabing
>it doesn't apply to the backstab attack, it only increase damage AFTER you backstab

>>718233630
Man I hate this

A few games FUCK you if you forget about speed, but if you don’t dump strength you can’t keep damage

>>718233660
>non-compounding multiplicative formula
fake and gay. 20% extra damage means previous damage*1.2 (i.e. 1.44 total)

>game gives you a choice of stats
>you need a roughly even balance to be functional so it ends up being a case of "choosing" the 5 str 3 dex character and equipping a +2 dex ring or the 3 str 5 dex character and equipping the +2 str ring

>>718234003
>1.44 total
meant, if you have +20% and stack another +20%, you get 1.44x damage total

>basic armor set negates half the damage you receive
>anything better is functionally useless because you can never tank a 2nd hit anyway

>>718224776
You put way too much faith/give way too much credit into the average joe

reminds me of how stupid and trash darkest dungeon 2 is. thoughts?

>>718234003
That is gay though and would be only balanced if only weapons can give such stat so it doesn't stack

>>718216110
>stacks last 3 seconds each
>stacks are counted independently, meaning you can never reach maximum stacks

>>718218734
just one game but Siralim Ultimate
the earlier games in the series probably have it too but i've never played them

>>718222805
Read the wiki, dumbass

>>718214392
In a vacuum it looks strong as fuck, but if the average amount of damage is calculated in the hundreds then it's still a joke item.

>>718214586
Torchlight did in a way that makes the first level of a skill dogshit, but the 5th, 10th and potentially 15th game breaking. So a skill is either good at one of those break points or just good with 1 point but never any of the middle areas.

>>718233079
I still get more annoyed by
>Devs nerf fun weapon into uselessness because of complaints by the "competitive" players
>Compfags make up maybe 1% of the entire playerbase

>>718205008 (OP)
This is fine if those weird descriptors are a consistent part of the game. If so, then that just means the item is explaining in detail specifically how it does more damage so that you can use something else in situations where it isn't the most effective item you have, which creates a higher skill ceiling for the game.

If those descriptors aren't normal mechanics, then yeah, that's pretty lame, but I don't think I've ever played a video game that did that. It reminds me of when Matt Mercer makes a subclass for D&D, though. Every subclass he makes has some kind of resource you can do multiple things with and you get more if you meet some special condition or something like that, and it just sounds so silly when you read it out straight. I like it when characters in-game basically play a minigame of their own to solve problems, that can be cool, but RPGs are supposed to be immersive. Like, you play an RPG to feel like you're actually bringing this character to life. If they're constantly gaining and spending imaginary resources by appealing to arbitrary rules, that's immersion-shattering. Everyone's staring at you like, "Why the fuck is he dancing in place? Just swing your sword at the fucking monster." But then the monster explodes into bursts of flames and all the NPCs should be reacting like One Piece characters.

>>718217257
hate this shit

>>718205008 (OP)
Average modern Yu-Gi-Oh! card effect text for most cards past GX/5D sets.
>>718208519
This is just poorly written game text, it could be written out better. This is why card games use KEYwords in their description to cut down the necessary junk text.

>>718217257
>the mooks those status effects work did in 0.05 seconds anyway with regular weapons

>>718222729
Combinatorics is kino though. Just has to be implemented right.
I want an RPG where I play Baba Is You with my items to create overpowered demigods.

>>718228260
>wizard
>have to balance between DPS, health, combat fallback capabilities.
that's not true
you always build for max damage, no exceptions

>item's name gives you a clue to its effect
>It's actually mistranslated

>>718205008 (OP)
Except even that bullshit description tells you
>how it procs, being tired to weapon attack speed makes it much better on faster weapons/characters than slow attacking ones
>that when it hits a fixed number of stacks it goes off
>the damage it deals is based on an opponents stat. It may be a resistance, since that's obfuscated, but it might also be a weapon that gets better or worse depending on enemy level/tier and what it's stats are, meaning it either scales up and gets better as stronger enemies, or down and is less useful as the game progresses, and is potentially good as specific enemy types
All of this is relevant information to the player, and it's only missing a bit of key information

>item has no description
>you just have to figure out how it works by using it

>>718223165
>devs nerf that build the next day because it wasn't intended
no fun allowed, ever

>item made for rogue
>it's actually shit for rogues but excellent for warriors
>same goes for like half the gear and classes
>devs double down on this design because they actually suck at their own game

>increase CRITICAL damage
>reduce the chance of dealing CRITICAL damage

your damage is now luck-based

>>718235730
>he hates fun

>>718236239
this, trial and error is the most fun you can have in a game

>>718235730
Roguelike (actual roguelikes like Nethack/Adom potions and cursed items were fun because of this), if there's a way to find out what your item does its good gameplay design.

>>718236239
>the only way to know if it's fun is to try it
>game doesn't forgive mistakes and has permanent death effect

>>718205097
>>718212506
>bosses are immune to [effect]
>trash adds die too fast for [effect] to make a difference
(I think it was an old Ys game?)

>>718236389
These are always worth it unless you are fishing for breakpoints

>>718214586
>Doesn't post innate scaling increases of lvl 4. vs lvl 1
The flat bonus damage components of these things almost never are relevant

>>718236239
>There 50 of them like that
>All require 200 grindstone to upgrade them to a decent level to be able to see if they hold their own
You're right, if this is supposed to be fun I hate it

>>718236465
>if there's a way to find out
yeah it's called google when the game itself doesnt tell you

>>718236489
It's most games with a poison effect. Monster Hunter has poison as a status effect. The most you can do with poison is use skills that increase your damage while the target is suffering a status effect. Poison itself barely does 10% of a monsters total health.

>>718222809
Hmmm, I'm travelling to volcano lava zone, maybe fire resistance will be of benefit here.

>>718222809
>playing Baldurs Gate 3
>boss has rock skin that requires a minimum threshold to damage it
>also has resistance to all forms of physical damage
>rouge is the only one that can damage it through crits
>stand in a circle and let it slap 3/4 of the party to death until the funny armor falls off
Very fun

>>718236721
It won't.

>>718236616
In Sunbreak they had a bunch of skills that had synergism where it would allow you to basically keep the monster poisoned the entire time and you got bonus damage to your attacks while the monster was poisoned.

It was a lot of fun.

>>718236721
the best fire resist gear you can get pre-volcano tops out at 2% per piece but is also all around worse than your current gear

>>718234460
>compfags had those weapons banned in their lobbies anyway
What was the point, Valve?

>>718236603
Not when its seed based on each run.
> Strategy guide is good game design argument.
Holy shit that's poor game design by default.

>>718235082
>I want an RPG where I play Baba Is You with my items to create overpowered demigods.
not an RPG, but noita (kinda)

>>718236603
>>718237093
binding of isaac lol
but some actually do tell you what they do
it seems completely arbitrary

>>718220710
Probably the worst duo in the game.

>>718236721
two outcomes
>fire resist BTFOs every other piece of gear, removing any interesting decision making
>there are enemies which don't use fire attacks, which will ass blast you and feel extremely cheap and frustrating, while also invalidating the fire resist gear
it just doesn't work. in the best case scenario you've trivialised your own game

>>718236721
>Get fire resist
>Every single enemy attack with a neutral melee attack

>>718218734
I only got an opposite example, Zombie Army 4.
Some weapons have "holy" attachments, with them your weapon deals insane amount of bonus holy damage to enemies, but it only lasts for a few shots and while it recharges it's just a normal gun. And when it's charged with holy, friendly fire will heal your teammates. It's basically the only form of team healing in the game, magdumping whole .45 ACP into your friend.

>>718205494
No, that's a cartoon, it isn't real

>>718236489
That's 99% of RPG/action games with debuff or crowd control.

>>718237917
This is a you problem. You're literally complaining if it's a no brainer but also complaining if it's situational and up to player preference. Fags just want to complain that they might actually have to think about gear and their own play experience rather than looking up max dps builds online and following it to the letter.

>>718222809
It worked pretty okay in older Souls games, but you're expected to go through with trial and error in those. I remember looking for a shield that had fire resistance for instance so I could better deal with a fire breathing dragon. Curse/petrification resistance would have been nice to have too, but I don't recall there being many opportunities to resist those. There was also the dragon ass lava shithole in DS1 where you wanted equipment specifically to wade through that fucking cesspit, but that was awful level design so I feel a bit daft bringing it up.

>>718205008 (OP)
Ring of Gwanja is broken however when mixed with the Sword of Blonggi

>>718219141
>>718220551
Chinese devs are genuinely fucked in the head with this shit.
Look at Gunfire Reborn for example, at first it was okay, but with new updates the skills and synergies got more and more obtuse and lengthy, and the latest seasons are so fucking full of this bullshit I just stopped playing it.

>>718238287
Everything in the original dark souls is a resistance. Even basic weapons.

>>718214803
god i wish that kind of bloat was only contained to gacha games

Kun: Heavenly Calling for Shu's Law
Unleashes Astral Ring's power to enhance the character.

The character is protected by Wheel of Destiny. When entering Stellar Outburst, unleashes Stellar Assault to deal 400% ATK of Physical DMG and enters Divine Gold where Basic ATK changes to a 3-sequence Divine: Banishing Ten Miseries that deals 100% + 100% + 300% ATK of Physical DMG. Divine: Banishing Ten Miseries SEQ 3 can trigger Stardust Flash. Each time Divine: Banishing Ten Miseries hits, gains Odd Thought that is capped at 3.
While Wheel of Destiny is activated:
● Characters protected by Wheel of Destiny in Stellar Outburst can trigger Jovial Deception: Shadowdimmer's Phantom support attack, causing the characters on the field to deal 1,200% ATK of Adaptive DMG (counts as Shadow Star Attack DMG) and granting them 11s of Rondo in the Shadows.
● In Stellar Outburst:
○ Standby characters cannot be switched in and they're replaced by Phantoms to aid in battle.
○ Tapping her teammates' avatar summons a Phantom that launches a support attack, dealing 100% x 4 ATK of Physical DMG (counts as Shadow Star Attack DMG). This also causes the character to unleash Shadow Star Attack, which deals 120% ATK of Physical DMG. After that, the character becomes invincible, and recovers all Odd Thought. After unleashing, the character gains 5s of Rondo in the Shadows. When Stellar Outburst ends, it removes Rondo in the Shadows.
○ In Rondo in the Shadows state, Divine: Banishing Ten Miseries generates a Phantom that deals 85% x 2 ATK of Physical DMG, and Weapon Skill generates a Phantom that deals 170% ATK of Physical DMG (counts as Shadow Star Attack DMG).

>>718205184
Owlcat's Rogue Trader drove me mad with that shit, but they changed it. Gives you the amount and if you hover over, the formula

>hit enemy
>big floating number shows damage dealt
STAHP

>>718240359
>damage numbers are 8 digits large
>it's not even close to as high as it goes

>>718240359
eh i think floating damage numbers are fine but it really depends on the game, i hate them in monster hunter but don't mind them in something like runescape. in diablo it's always tacky and i appreciate that poe doesn't have floating damage numbers.

>>718241129
there's really no reason you can't just toggle them in any game

>>718214064
>well, who would have thought about that one long forgotten self-poison unique from 1.0 would become relevant again?
>oh there's a new league unique which makes you count as being under the effects of the winter solstice after using a cold skill recently (see: 4s)?
>huh, retaliation/counterattacks have high base dmg and multiplier, and there's a keystone/passive skill/tech to reliably proc them on demand if you full invest into an obscure but specific stat that also doubles as a defensive layer under certain conditions which coincidentally your builds also satisfies?
>but wait, this class/ascendancy/subclass has a passive that nobody has ever used since release that lets enemies hit by your skills be counted as every single enemy type instead of their default type?
pic vaguely related
these kind of silly interactions and the planets aligning in order to make random unexpected builds works every new league is why I love poo1 and poo2

>>718205008 (OP)
>she
I don't think there has ever been anything like this in recent memory.

>>718241454
that too but devs are autistic

>>718240359
>hit enemy with some kind of rapid striking attack or automatic weapon
>can't even read the damage numbers because they're all merging together into one unreadable mass

>>718221527
wrong example, additive vs multiplicative is just basic math
but I agree, PoE has many examples of what that anon mentions, specially with ailments, see anon above for the classic burning oil/ground example
>be immune to bleeding damage
>"ummm ackshually it was corrupted blood so it doesn't count!"

>>718212506
>+5% damage
>you kill an enemy with the same amount of hits anyway

>Game has dozens of deep, complex systems stacked on top of each other
>"Wow cool, can you tell me how they work?"
>"No :D"

>game with limited ammo
>perk that makes gun do double damage right after a reload
>optimal way to play is now reloading every shot like a complete spaz

>you have a % chance to do something
>add another % chance to do something on top of that
fucking why

>>718235894
>rogue gear is best for warrior etc
>devs “balance” this by simply imposing massive debuffs if the wrong class wears the wrong gear because design and balancing is hard

>>718205008 (OP)
In this one case. Doesn't mean Nifty Gwanja is damage dealing resource only and you can't have a powerful cc, doesn't mean you can't mojo dump to heal yourself, doesn't mean bazinga threshold is the same for each class, doesn't mean ayabaya is the same type of damage for each class, doesn't mean juju score is only for ayabaya. In short, skill issue.

>>718241889
even worse is when the majority of players don't understand that and they keep insisting on using shitty builds then whine the weapon/class/skill sucks

>gear enables a whole new attack
>forget it even exists and never use it

>>718205008 (OP)
On a semi-related subject, I hate when games make up words for game mechanics and concept that could be explaining in regular english, and then have the game be in english anyway.

>>718214768
loved that in skyrim. play a cat for +15 unarmored damage, get fists of steel perk, get the pugilist enchantment from that sewer rat in Riften, 100 heavy armor, smithing, enchant, and alchemy, then do the alchemy-enchant loop to smith heavy armor gloves with a ridiculous armor rating. you can one-tap even late-game boss enemies, and when punching weaker enemies they randomly go flying across the room.

>>718242592
+15 unarmed* damage

>skill grants you chance to shoot a gun without consuming ammo or to scavenge extra ammo from enemies
You need to know whether the ammo is a common loot well distributed in various areas relatively to how often you would use the weapons that relies on this ammo if you made it default weapon. You need this meta-knowledge on top of needing to know whether the weapon that uses this ammo is any good. If that skill is good you need to take it right there right now when available because if you realize it's good halfway in the game you'll be missing on all the ammo you'd have gotten if you got it early when you should have. But maybe the balance team trolled you because the ammo isn't rare or the weapon is severely outclassed by others, who knows? Just roll the dice, bro.

>>718242578
I feel you. The worse offense is when a game use terms like "lunar rush beatdown hyper thunderbeast fury mode X" when it could just be called berserk mode. If there's already a berserk mode it's fine to make a more elaborate term for rare specific late-game effects, but doing this naming scheme with level 1 ability is mind boggling.

>animation cancelling invalidates half the game options
>it's never nerfed/fixed
>the devs keep balancing weapons like it doesn't even exist
>meanwhile you can shoot 12 rockets in a split second for 478231 damage when the normal best gun can at best do 350

>>718242228
>t. arms/fury leather warrior spotted
you don't have any way to dump threat, you're going to get hit while doing less damage than the rogue with worse gear

>resistances are completely unnecessary in PvE
>resistances are absolutely critical in PvP

>>718236721
>half of enemies are rock monsters who use earth spells because lmao get it it's a mountain

>>718244538
>the other half are goats

>>718240359
>>718241726
this.
for fucks sake, if there's ONE thing souls games have done right (except DS2 for some reason) it's batching damage numbers.

why don't you fuckers game devs copy THIS useful QoL thing instead of losing your XP/money on death and having to touch your bloodstain

>>718241726
>>718245234
What do you mean? Surely this is fine.

>>718236780
Also relevant to BG3 and this thread:
>darkness spell explicitly says that you can't make ranged attacks into it
>enemies can make ranged attacks into it just fine
>Warlock invocation says you can inscribe rituals if you take it
>doesn't actually let you inscribe rituals
Fuck you Larian.

>>718205008 (OP)
I want the formula to be readily available so that I can min-max

One thing PoE did right for attempting to prevent description bloat (no no keep reading) was to globalize the simple keyword "recently affected by" to always mean "in the last 4 seconds". This is a good decision that a lot of games could copy. The concept of "recently" could have been defined differently between skills, with different duration windows like 3.5 seconds or 4.5 seconds, but why not make it a flat number and make it shared by all skills and always refer to it by same word? That way players can transfer their sense of timing from one skill to another.

With that said, I am now obligated to mention that aside from doing correctly this one specific thing, PoE has a shitload of description bloat that I won't bother defending at all. Even a broken clock is right twice a day etc etc. Their "recently affected by" is a fixed time constant but "nearby enemy" isn't a fixed distance. Holy shit why.

>>718244538
>>718244595
You are charged by a Earth Goat with ambiguous dust particle effects
>deals earth-elemental spell damage
The Earth Goat summons a boulder and kicks it at you
>pure physical damage

>stat is completely useless in the original game due to a bug
Good ol' FF1

>>718247060
nearby in poe isn't a keyword, what defines when something is nearby is entirely up to the unique/skill ect.

>>718222805
You don't need to know that unless you're gay and retarded.

>>718243749
>Weapon has an extremely cool name that makes it sound like the strongest weapon in the game
>Actual strongest has a boring, run-of-the-mill name

>>718248023
Yeh, I complain against it in my second paragraph. They did recently correctly but not nearby. In this case the broken clock wasn't even right twice at day I guess, but once.

>>718247060
>but why not make it a flat number and make it shared by all skills and always refer to it by same word?
i feel like it's a lot more complicated when it comes to nearby because now you having to universally balance prolif and auras and idk whatever else spreads shit while being in a certain proximity of X. nearby is just the easier way of explaining that whatever your doing is going to be passively affecting things around it and they can still make adjustments on what that means on a skill by skill basis. cause it doesn't really make sense for like poison spread to have the same amount of range as something like an intimidate aura

>>718241921
>Game has dozens of deep, complex systems stacked on top of each other
>they aren't actually complex, it's just spreadcheat micromanagement and busyworks

are you guys "line up procs and cds for burst window" or "raw stats and no on-use effects" chads

>singleplayer PvE game first
>balanced for e-spurt PvP shitter who will only play the same META anyway.

>>718235730
>game is full of cursed equipment

>>718249339
My rotation consists of pressing 1 and nothing else, of course.

>Game has hundreds and hundreds of items
>There's a few pieces that are obviously optimum for the different playstyles
>Everything else is never touched

>>718205008 (OP)
In a good game:
>So it gives a Mojo stack for every weapon swing, meaning that it should scale best with rapid weapons. I'm gonna use my Mirror Lord Rapier, with its echo strike I should achieve the fastest possible Mojo stack generation.
>If the damage is scaless off the ENEMY Juju score, then that must mean if I were to wear my Circlet of Contagious Laughter that buffs both my party members' and surrounding enemies' Slapstick, Juju and Post-Irony, then this ring would deal even more damage to them.
>And since Circlet of Contagious Laughter is BIS for offensive support builds, this ring would be perfect on my bard who I built specifically for Rapier usage with the Dancing Fencer feat.

>>718249339
>>718249592
I remember in PoE up to Incursion league, I got too lazy to even move by myself so I went for a flicker strike build that literally used 1 button. The whole setup needed its own epilepsy warning.
Delve league destroyed that build though.

>>718248721
I feel like they could easily have used two global terms here, "nearby" for standard aura range and "adjacent" for proliferation when enemies are within melee range of each other. I don't even mind if the game offers a way to modify these default values, like a keystone for bonus range on nearby or prolif. The important part is that when you simplify and globalize some of these mechanics it decreases description bloat but more importantly it means your playstyle from one character/build can transfer to another if you can use the same time/distance estimations. So I agree they couldn't use "nearby" for every single mechanic but they could have done better I'm sure.

>>718205008 (OP)
sexo with that OC

>>718249920
Flicker Strike felt a little bit too much like a seizure for me. Cyclone was my preferred caveman hold-down-rightclick-to-win build.

>>718249339
I aim for both extremes of the spectrum, a final setup where I right click the enemy for constant damage and wait for a single 30-60 seconds cooldown big ability. I don't want to constantly press the buttons for three abilities with a cooldown below 10 seconds, I'd much rather have no short cooldown ability and one big kaboom that is really worth keeping track off.

>>718249810
This is fine if it's not practical to actually farm bis everything so you have to beat the game with whatever jank setup you manage to get

>>718250492
That's what macros are for

>Game gives you the hard choice of 25% bonus to dingle status or extra 20% raw damage
Switch axe vial types are a fucking anomaly.

>>718205097
But that's what it boils down to in the OP. You've got a convoluted chain of effects that just results in a mathematical +1.4% DPS increase

>>718205184
The games that have the skills have an option to hover over to see what it exactly effects are godsends.

>game lets you do retarded shit like 100% chameleon or infinite damage loops
Any dev who does this by accident and then patches it out has no soul.

>>718250740
raw for solo
status for multiplayer, unless it's poison, who cares about that

>>718251164
Noita is the goat for that, you can create crazy spell combos that annihilate everything, including yourself

>Playing the Autism Fidget Program designed by Autists
>Shocked when it's senselessly dense and obtuse

Ring of Gwanja analysis: its effects is triggered when you gain Mojo until it reaches the Bazinga Threshold, therefore it should be paired with cursed items that penalize Bazinga and reduce the maximum threshold. The value should optimally be decreased down to 1 so that Ayabaya damage is inflicted with every swing. The player should avoid decreasing their threshold down to zero since it does not mean the Ring of Gwanja will be permanently in effect. As per item description, the extra damage is unleashed when the players reaches maximum, not when the player is currently sitting at maximum. Being always at 0 or 100 Bazinga will do nothing, the player must oscillates between 0 and 1. Since the triggered effects scales based on enemy Juju score, the player should consider investing in the anti-reverse curse aura mechanic to increases the Mojo score of enemies, thus dramatically increasing Ayabaya damage done against them. Lastly, the item mentions swinging your weapon but not hitting. Simply equip the fastest dagger weapon in the game and stab wildly at empty air to inflict ayabaya-elemental damage to all enemies on screen.

>>718233079
They're balancing the game to be hard. Why wouldn't they nerf cheese strats? If you want an easy game play something else or download some nigerwhipper9000 class mod.

>party members get introduced with equipment that's weaker than what you can buy
>weapon upgrading gets unlocked halfway through the game
>turns out one of the starting swords is unique and gets double the benefits of upgrading
>ends up being the inarguable best sword for several builds
>no way to get another if you sold it

>>718205008 (OP)
Sex

>game encourage minmaxing
>break every mechanic unless you make extra effort to avoid it
>mods have better balance than the base game

>>718218734
FFVIII has zombie status. If you heal zombie enemies you heal them and if you cast revive it instakill them.

>>718222809
Most games give you an idea of what the boss will be throwing because the trash mobs will be using mostly the same shit.
>Fire enemies in lava cave
>Ghost enemies in the graveyard
>Lightning enemies in the storm area
Only a few terrible games will decide that, no, they need to subvert your expectation and put a water enemy at the final bit with no explanation and laugh at your ass when your fire resist gear with extra water damage causes you to insta die.

>ring: +20% damage to poisoned enemies
>necklace: 15% lifesteal when attacking poisoned enemies
>armor set: increase poison damage by 50% and chance of inflicting poison by 50%
>weapon: 50% chance of inflicting poison and +50% crit rate towards poisoned enemies

>>718251245
>Noita
>developers don't know how to balance a game
>let RNG give potentially broken OP stuff to the player
>pretend the resulting chaos is how the game was meant to be played

>>718253497
>"balance" a single player semi-sandbox
Yikers.

>>718253497
if you are far enough to spam short tele bolt+nolla+circle of vigour with either an explosion on the bolt or enough damage stacked that it starts exploding, you kinda deserve to feel OP
besides,thats not nearly enough for what some bosses and true endgame can throw at you

>>718253839
>I like poorly balanced npc fight and broken mechanic

>>718252443
And that's why I play like a hording collector and keep at least one of everything in the game.

>>718254892
>game has limited inventory space

>>718255419
Yay for Storage!

>Limited stash size
or
>Literally no option for storage outside of your carried inventory

One of the biggest failings and best enhancements between Resident Evil 4 OG vs. Remake.

>>718236870
True, but poison itself is more an afterthought. You could do the same with stun, paralysis etc. etc. The idea is that poison as a DoT is basically worthless, because it either A. doesn't do enough damage or B doesn't effect the majority of targets.

I think most Souls games do it the worst. Poison hurts YOU far more than it does any enemy because it wastes your resources to cure it. The enemies don't care about being poisoned and the damage dealt from poison is so low it's barely a problem. Meanwhile Scarlet Rot in ER is marginally better because it takes percentage health from the target instead of a flat amount. Suddenly there's a poison worth using against bosses but it's STILL painfully slow to kill it's targets and it's not as widely available as the standard poison.

>>718216781
>>718205008 (OP)
Kek me when I read Jinshis kit

>>718205097
>Game is so vague about what resistance actually does that even autists are unsure
>everyone just stacks damage anyway

>>718208519
Weak, there's many more, especially on units with Styles, that are triple the length of that, there's so much text they shrink it

>>718257217
>Dark Souls 3 released
>entire community argues for 3 months how 'poise' works this time around, every wiki gets it wrong and people actually think it's a broken stat that does nothing

>>718253497
it's a roguelite, the entire point of the genre is to break it

>>718257348
Circumvallation is a crazy ass concept when you think about it. In order to keep the defenders from breaking out, you build a wall around their wall. In order to stop reinforcements from breaking the siege, you build a wall BEHIND your first wall. You have to build 2 walls to lay siege to a city with 1 wall. that's 3 layers of wall here for one city.

>>718214743
Elsword
Literally that exact thing to a T.
Like an equippable title says
>+7% chance of buff 1 when attacking.
>+7% chance of buff 2 when using a skill
>+7% chance if buff 3 when being attacked
>If you have all 3 buffs at the same time, gain (Unique Effect that causes a special visual to appear and deal damage) for 15 seconds (Cooldown 30 seconds).

>>718257348
Reminds me of how it took literal thousands of attempts in a full on experiment to discover that Utopia ripping your pack in MD increases odds of a glossy card (iirc).
People assumed for a long time that he did nothing and even "stole" your rare cards.

I appreciate you guys giving game design tips. I'll be noting these down.

>>718236489
The alternative is something like Persona Q
>poison works on damn near everything, including bosses
>does % damage, so it becomes increasingly potent the more health something has
>on endgame/superbosses single poison ticks are often better than a whole round of actual attacks from your party

>>718253497
looks fun, I will play it

>>718216291
You fell for a ruse regurgitated by posers. Nothing about wotr is fun, it's tedium personified. Every character plays the same within their archetype (melee and ranged, magic has more variety but still not a whole lot) regardless of your build, it doesn't matter if it's using fists, two-handed axes, sword and shield or dual-wielding - you're always just an autoattack bot. Skyrim has more gameplay variety than owlcat's pathfinder.

>>718205008 (OP)
just press triangle to show the real effect

>>718205008 (OP)
>resistances can actually give you a hit or 2 for quite a lot of enemies
>it doesn't matter because the armor sets that give you damage are better in 99% of situations

>>718212506
>Finish the fire zone where enemies inflige fire damage
>Get armor with +50% fire resistance
>No other enemies in the game hit with fire
>The scenario won't take you back to the fire zone

>>718205008 (OP)
>increases critical strike chance by 45
>you start with 300 critical chance
>tooltip, Your chance to deal a critical strike

>>718257493
It's a really mind-boggling strategy. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote in big shiny red letters that laying siege to a city is the worst strategy of all time, the one thing you want to avoid the most during a military campaign due to logistic issues ruining all your momentum. Obviously you can't walk your men across plains and rivers and mountains and still expect to have food in the bank that outlasts the locals, their pantry is full and yours is running out. You can raid the land, but the locals know better than you where to get those resources and already took as much they could before you arrived, so you're naturally at complete disadvantage. Normally, that's how it goes. Sun Tzu wasn't a poetic or metaphorical writer, he just laid out the basic facts of what is a stupid thing to do in war and said "don't fucking do that". Meanwhile, Caesar acted like you can just go camping indefinitely with an army and start playing minecraft. He blocked the enemy reinforcement AND didn't let them block his massive chain of supplies. Somehow.

>>718205008 (OP)
Somehow I'm extremely irritated by the artstyle of this comic, its like a more faggoty stonetoss

>>718260484
>Implying just throwing Panic on them and watching them fumble every move for the rest of the fight while you nuke them with phys isn't stronger
The only one where poison is stronger is the velvet room postgame fight.
Every normal enemy dies to Mudo/Hama variants and every FOE/Boss except the Tower Spider dies to confusion/panic.

>>718226112
Have you ever noticed how shitty this guys expressions are?
Each is different and all of them are wrong

>>718216092
> find equipment or item
>It's unnaturally shit
>"Something feels special about this, but you can't tell what yet" or something similar in description
>item ends up doing nothing and has nothing interesting going for it
fuck OFF

this is why I despise diablo

>THE SCRIMBLO SHIELD
>0.89% CHANCE THAT THE ENEMY EXPLODES WHEN TAKING A SHIT BUT ONLY IF YOU WEAR THE TRAFALGAR AMULET OF MEDIVH

>>718205008 (OP)
>SEAmonkey artist
Leave

>>718232465
>when a gacha goes on too long

>>718213490
kek

>>718263998
We call him B^Uckley for a reason. Like, I had to save this Sam and Fuzzy guest comic because even when he's drawing someone else's charaters, he still makes them look like that.

>>718264830
Oh and he also uses WORDS WORDS WORDS even when he's guest comic-ing.

>>718222809
>game has both physical and elemental resistances
>but all elemental damage is delivered "physically" via attacks
>so it's better to just stack physical resistance

>>718263628
I think Sun Tzu also didn't grasp something that Clausewitz did much later in that you can't separate politics and war. War is an extension of the politic of nations, which also means that just because you know you can win a fight doesn't mean the enemy is just going to lie down and accept defeat. You have to actually beat your opponent down to the point where fighting is no longer possible or they simply lose the will to continue fighting at all. So while Sun Tzu may say sieges are dumb and a waste of resources, leaving it unmolested is essentially telling your enemy they can keep retreating there and recuperate until they're ready to try again. Hannibal should've sieged Rome after Cannae and didn't, and it was the worst decision he could've made.

>>718263405
>Item: +3% Critical
>Stat screen: Critical - 19676 (mouse over for % showing it's a 7.8% chance)
>Buff: Increase Critical by 5000
>Second item: +3% Critical Damage
Aiieeeeee

>>718205008 (OP)
B^U

>>718213541
>Dark Souls was guilty of this
I bet you find elementary algebra exceedingly obtuse as well.

>>718213541
I have no idea what you're talking about Nightreign has a lot of problems with skill descriptions. It's been months and I don't think people have even figured what the fucking chances are on the "occasionally instantly kill enemies" passive you can get despite all the datamining.

>>718264967
>Game has phys Def and magic Res
>Best tank has 0 of both and just a fuckload of HP he regenerates at like 1% per second

>>718238132
It thinks it's a woman irl. It isn't though

>get an item from a unique encounter
>game doesn't specify what it does
>oh boy I can't wait to experiment to see what effect this item has!
>figure it out
>it sucks

>>718216335
Yet look at the new bullshit limbus does, can't win with these retards. I don't even read what skills do anymore they are so op the game plays itself on winrate.

>>718266913
Well there's at least a couple that winrate better when you toggle their defense skill, like KoD Rodya.

>>718265178
I'm not familiar with Clausewitz but Sun Tzu was strongly in favor of winning wars cost-effectively. The ideal scenario was always, according to him, to win without fighting. He argued it was devastating to fight your enemies when they have their back against the wall. If you completely corner them, they'll fight to the death. If they have a small escape tunnel, they will slowly retreat and won't fight to the death, and therefore you can win the same campaign with less casualties if you give them chances. Sieging a city is the ultimate act of pushing your enemies against the wall, which is why it sucks on the deepest level. Your foes have maximum advantage and tenacity. They know they'll autowin at equal skill, equal luck, equal army size and equal resources, people invest in those big walls for that reason. Which is why Sun Tzu says, skip this bullshit. Can't attack someone directly? Take out their allies. Disrupt their alliance. Make their allies turn on them and join you. Win diplomatically. The big undefeatable dude hiding behind walls will give up when you're done converting everyone to your side. Don't just park in front of their walls and die.

>Hannibal should've sieged Rome
People give shit to Hannibal but I want to be lenient on the guy. Could he do it? Just walk over Rome and tah-dah? Why assume it'd work? It certainly doesn't feels like HE assumed it. Aren't his men completely beaten and bruised, isn't Rome intact? From his perspective, it was probably the smartest move to not commit himself to a siege right away. He probably computed 1% chance of victory in direct siege and 3% chance if he waited. Some bullshit bad odds like that. He chose his odds, he gambled and lost, and he probably wasn't surprised at all. His options sucked and he was gonna lose embarrassingly anyway, nearly guaranteed, because his country really fucked him over not sending support.

>>718268136
>Take out their allies. Disrupt their alliance. Make their allies turn on them and join you
It's funny that you bring this up in the context of Sun Tzu because that's literally what Hannibal was going for. He knew that his only way to beat Rome was to cut them off from their Italian allies, because Rome's unique strength was their ability to tank losses by conscripting new armies from across their various territories and is the source of Pyrrhus's famous quote.
The USSR during WW2 wouldn't be an unreasonable comparison.

>>718246574
>enemies can make ranged attacks into it just fine
What? I remember cheesing the fuck out that one quest in Act 2 where you protect the portal by just casting Darkness on top of it so the ranged mooks couldn't do shit and then I could just body block the melee mobs so they couldn't reach it.

>>718265769
>game has a tank
>can't taunt
>can't redirect attacks
>can't do enough damage to draw aggro
>can't really do anything but die slower than everyone else

>>718269429
Dungeons and Dragons?

How the fuck did this thread not devolve into tranny obsession when the OP image was made by a tranny?

>>718268663
Yes and no. When Hannibal took Cannae he probably picked the hard-but-correct choice that would've made Sun Tzu cry tears of joy. However I can imagine Sun Tzu immediately going "wait what the FUCK" watching Hannibal spent what, 14 years on the boot-shaped peninsula, without hardly any military activity? Just sitting and waiting. The way I interpret it, Hannibal was thinking.

"I won. I can't engage in a siege right now, but they can't kick me out, so I autowin. My country just needs to sends waves after waves of ships full of soldiers and I'll greet them at the shore, take those soldiers, surround Rome, and it'll be ours. This is how it ends. Everyone knows it's what's coming. Those ships are surely on their way. They are coming... Any second now... I'll wait a month... A year... Another year? Shiiiit, I did everything I could, my country just needs to secure the win, what are these fuckers DOING back home..."

What were they doing? Making him lose the war for no reason, apparently. Well not no reason, there was some complex political backstabbing going on or whatever. Still, sucks for the dude.

>>718269429
0/0 man is also brutishly strong dps
However
>Game has a tank
>Tank can't even attack
>Has no aggro
>No special abilities
>Unit is literally just designed to grow extremely large and take up space so the enemy can't proceed

>>718269759
>Unit is literally just designed to grow extremely large and take up space so the enemy can't proceed
That sounds fun.

>>718269685
Uncommon yet universally relatable topic for the board
It's just another version of the
>Awesome Laser Sword of Cool Incarnate: 100 atk
>Faggy Dildo Sword of Penis Addiction: 101 atk
Threads of silly game features

>>718269941
Spybotics was a great game, yeah.
>Early game unit without attacks breaks the game because it can alter the terrain

>>718269685
This is more fun

>>718258805
>there is hope
>no hope

>>718270391
That was the one, yeah
It's funny that it took so long to confirm
I remember people thinking it was indicating a new card, or a hidden rarity boost, or even just a nothing visual effect for excitement.

>>718257348
Did they figure it out eventually?

>>718269759
You could argue that physically blocking movement/attacks IS a form of aggro control

>>718258805
>>718270696

>>718269685
>wtf why is /v/ talking about video games
Not everyone has a complete mental catalog of every tranny artist you fucking weirdo.

>>718271101
Ah my bad, sorry. I must've misremembered, haven't played in a while.

>>718214236
Monk bros lets all laugh at this stupid cat

>>718270872
I suppose, but iirc enemies there always targeted the thing they could kill.
Basic ranged attacker has 2 health
The pig unit fully expanded has like 20.

>>718205008 (OP)
>Attack has 10% activation rate to do mostly useless "thing".
>Each level has effect "increase activation rate by 10%" so that at a max level of 10 it would be 100% rate.
>Enemies by that point would naturally have a 50% resistance to thing. But still 50% is ok.
>However the "increase activation rate by 10%" wasn't a flat 10% of every attack, it was 10% of the original activation rate.
>So in reality at max level its a 19% activation rate, and adding in resistances its now a 9.5% chance to work.
>So skill is just a complete waste of time and points.

>Modern RPG
>Try to use a skill
>Instead of hard values showing me exactly how strong it is and what it does you just get a set of stars. More stars is more betterer.

>>718272425
>Game has stat ratings for enemies
>SS to E grade
>People look into the game files
>B+ HP on one enemy: 25,000 HP
>A+ HP on another: 16,000 HP

>>718269340
I literally rerolled a Warlock last month out of spite because I got killed by 5 duergar all shooting me one after the other without a single miss as I stood in the dead center of a darkness spell to try and get some use out of Devil's Sight.
And before you ask, no. Duergar's Superior Darkvision does work in magical darkness.

>>718272938
anon, health isnt the everything of an enemy...

>>718205008 (OP)
Genshin kits

>>718273412
>S grade def: 1500
>A grade def: 1800
They later rebalanced all the enemy profiles though. To have S grade Def you need like 3000 Def now, and for HP you'd need like 150,000.
SS is 4500 Def.

>>718236721
>enter volcano lava zone
>time to switch to that water weapon I've been saving
>lvl 50 iron sword 999 dmg
>lvl 12 moist mace 20 dmg

>>718238426
as someone who has played Gunfire I agree for the newer characters I just vaguely guess what works based on the abilities they have. With that said can't wait for the new DLC

>>718214803
i hate limbus so much it's unreal

>>718274997
I just wish it would explain what the modifier does in the game rather than have you guess. If you played Dead by Daylight before they changed the descriptions you'd have shit like
>Basic attacks cause MANGLED and HEMORRHAGING
>Increases speed of dashes TREMENDOUSLY
But if you'd never know what they actually did, once they changed it you found out "tremendously" actually meant like 3%.

>>718205008 (OP)
he's not making a point
he is simply criticizing PoE

>>718214586
This drove me nuts when I played warcraft 3
items that increase your int just increase your mana and mana regen

I make custom spells and ensure that there's some attribute scaling.

>>718274997
/v/ is finally growing up enough to appreciate FF13.

>>718205008 (OP)
>lv1 of skill
does a thing
>lv2 of skill
does a completely different thing
>lv3 of skill
stronger version of lv1
>lv4 of skill
its a passive

>>718242592
You can skip half of all of that and just do the alchemy-enchant loop with Heavy Armor 100 and do the exact same thing.

>>718216152
There is at least a logbook to see all this shit.

>>718275224
>from Lobotomy Corporation to Library of Ruina to Limbus
Honestly didn't even like Ruina, I think they just wasted a good concept with their gacha autism.

>>718275647
it's the worst case of monkeys paw i've ever experienced and I've played videogames since 1996

>>718275474
context

>Wizards staff
>10-12 point of bludgeoning damage

Why the fuck is it called a wizards staff then?
Just make it:

>Wizards staff
>+15% Spell damage/modifier/potency/bullshit

>>718274997
That's what 99% of items already do, they just turn it into some fucked up word salad like the artist in OP's pic mentioned.
>This item is a minor improvement to your Jaegnes, but if equipped along with cloth blessed by Giernax, adds an additional 0.5 x Mareil bonus to your Vevier.
>TL: +5% DEF and some attack bonus if you have specific pants.

>>718205008 (OP)
>>718205008 (OP)
She'd never survive my modded Battle Brothers playthroughs.

>>718275790
Play FF13.
All equipment is simply +damage or +hp
And that's all you need.

>>718214743
Skyrim has a few armor sets like this. There's that Stahlrim set you can get just by opening chests which grants +100 armor or some shit on top of base stats plus waterbreathing. It has equal stats to Daedric armor despite being light so long as you have all 4 pieces and thats not even including the +60 stamina and +40 duel weild damage. On their own the pieces suck

Baldurs gate loves to layer keywords.
>doing this does X
>hover over X
>doing X does Y
>can't hover over Y because I'm already hovering over X and they didn't consider putting into 2 esoteric descriptions might be met with 2 attempts to understand them

>>718214803
It's because KoDya is effectively two completely different units that do different things, rolled into a single unit.
Half her shit is for her normal skills and half are for her negative skills, and you can swap her right away by using her defense skill. I didn't even read any of her passives and figured it out entirely from just using her wrong.
She has twice the text because she's two units.

>>718205008 (OP)
That was how bonuses worked in that awful Suicide Squad game, you'd gain stacks of bullshit that would culminate in a shart when they maxed out

>>718227020
My biggest piss off in rpgs.

>"Your KV1's have more armor"
In reality
>Armor buffed by 3% (negligible)
>Because the devs are lazy, this only applies to the KV1 with the gun and not the flamethrower variant

COH2 is full of useless mini buffs that only serve to signal to the enemy what build you're going for. There's maybe 3 that give measurable gameplay buffs like the one that makes the Ostwind give suppression and many of them are straight up broken because the abilities were changed in patches like the 'penal battalion flamethrowers are 6% cheaper' when penals havent been able to use flamers since release

>4 different classes have a skill called attack up
>all of them have the exact same description
>the 3 front line offensive classes gain 130% attack when the skill is maxed
>the medic gains 300% attack when the skill is maxed

>>718276796
I love dredmor

>>718277884
VITAL HIT!
>Makes party of 5 Medikos

>>718223213
>character's default walking speed is 500

>>718269759
Tanks in Guild Wars 1 worked like that, except the growing part. Enemy ai was coded to always attack targets in ranges with the lowest armor ratings, so heavily armoured high physical damage resistant players would never be targets if there are casters nearby, so you had two choices:
>only tank is within aggro range of any enemies and after he's done collecting foes, casters and healers nuke it from max possible distance
>tanks line up around a corner during a pull around a corner to create a "steel wall" of bodies that monsters run into and catch onto
I still remember those Steel Wall runs in The Deep.

>>718278634
Dang man that sounds fun, I never really looked at GW much because I was introduced to it by way of the GW2 spambot that used to live on /vg/.

>>718278781
You can still play it and do it solo too with heroes nuking shit for you, if you line things up well enough.

>>718278781
they made gw1 AI incredibly annoying for no reason

>AI ignores tanks
>AI runs out of AoE

ok this is logical, but it makes for a fucking awful experience

>>718278940
The annoying part of the aoe scatter mechanic was introduced much later together with Hard Mode sometime after Factions release, I fucking hated it with every fiber of my being.

>>718278940
>>718278880
Do you have to pay a sub fee?

>>718279228
No, it's buy to play.

>>718205008 (OP)
Lel. Ability tooltips in a nutshell.

>>718279335
Hmm, might give it a try then

>>718216553
>recieve "dads antique sword": 'it's seen better days' damage: 1
>Act 5 blacksmith: "wait a minute that sword...the lost blade of Johnny Two Dicks..."
>recieved "Johnnys Double Dickblade, damage: 9999"

I remember FFTA's description of the Geomancy passive was something like
>Element [Absorb]>[Null]>[Resist]>[Normal]>[Weak]
Which is technically exactly what it does, lowers your target's elemental resistances by one tier, but it still looks like nonsense at a glance.

>>718236721
>wear fire resistance
>enemies do molten damage and lava instant kills on contact

>>718242009
>perk makes you fire projectiles in a circle when you reload
>pick up gun that's kind of shitty but has a really fast reload speed
>kill everything by holding down the reload button without firing a shot
>gets nerfed in the remake

>>718217257
>RPG gives easy access to full AoE instant kill spells with high accuracy midgame
>Also items that raise infliction chance of ailments, death is counted as an ailment
>Also an extremely high luck character that comes with both kinds of instakill by default
I never fought a single normal enemy ever again. It didn't work on minibosses and bosses but man it was easier than using an avoid item

>>718253497
>make apocalyptic death weapon
>kill yourself instantly
death is one microsecond away at any point, the game is perfect

>>718280864
Why'd they call him Johnny Two Dicks?

>>718253284
>Literal first item I get is a "double poison damage" trinket
>Special skill randomly changes to lowered damage but guaranteed 2 stacks of poison
>Randomly get a low damage poison fang skill after the first boss
>Reach final boss: 390,000 HP
>Poison her
>60,000 damage a turn
There is a point where it feels like destiny, isn't there? Shame right after they nerfed the trinket.

>>718222805
1. His music.
2. Was electric.

>>718275865
Because casting items in BG have some paltry direct damage in case you want to bonk a goblin for a few points in close combat.

>>718281703
I wasn't even referencing BG, that's damn depressing

>>718281434
First he fucks you with the sword, then he fucks the wounds with his dick.

>>718282031
He accidentally dropped his incredibly sharp sword one day.

>game doesnt show actual stat numbers
>uses bar graphs instead

>>718236489
>fallout 4
>weapons can have poison effect
>does tiny amount of damage every second
>effect doesnt stack
>almost totally worthless

>weapons can also have a bleed effect
>does tiny amount of damage every second
>effect DOES stack
>becomes OP as fuck

>>718282116
>the bar graphs are actually just inaccurate bullshit
>need to wait for an autist to test every weapon and create a spreadsheet listing their results

>Optimal weapon stats in the game is one that does +20% damage to SPECIFICENEMYTYPE
>If you want a build worth fuck all you need to gather a weapon for each damage type, jump into the clunky ass inventory menu, and switch to that weapon type before you engage combat or get jumped by the enemy (you should have read the guide/played the game already to know whose going to fight you)

>>718241456
This is cool.

>>718205008 (OP)
This was absolutely written by a chubby, schlubby dude who pretends to be a chick, wasn't it?

>>718216152
>short flavor or vague hint for an effect that is fairly obvious in gameplay
>more specific description for less obvious effects
>codex description that explains specific effects of both
Best solution IMO.