My main concern with it is if it looks scifi enough but still in that Boundless art style.
More weapons is just more opportunities to have more fun.
I wouldn’t mind some sort of archer bow now that I am thinking about it. The arrows that serve as ammunition could help in making trunks more in demand since you’d have to make them into sticks. Then there could be different arrows, such as incendiary arrows and high explosive arrows, could provide additional crafting material sinks.
Kind of go all Judge Dredd with the arrows or some other weapon that’s a firearm. Would be really cool to have the ability to light an area on fire like he did in the movie (of course the damage wouldn’t affect players in any sort of PvE world). Particularly handy if we ever get dungeons and raids.
Ooo… what do you think about this idea inspired by Zelda games?
A Gauntlet that lets you pick up a single block and throw it at an enemy? The damage would be based on the HP of the block and what the gauntlet is made out of determines whether or not it has a penalty to that damage or a buff. Cause some of those blocks have thousands of HP. It could make bringing a smart stack of Rocks or even Stones worth while cause you could place it on the ground then pick it up and hulk throw it at an enemy. Might have some sort of splash damage involved or natural aoe effect.
Yeah. The effect could be kind of like the fantasy part and how the block is infused with that effect (animation the gauntlet holding the block).
I think we’d see some people reskin their characters green and to look like The Hulk just to complete the whole setup. lol
But it doesn’t have to stop just at rocks or stones or foliage. It could also be Compact, Refined, Decorative, and Machined blocks too. Sure it would consume the block with the attack, but it could provide a single series of a weapon with a whole lot of utility to any combat situation.
Why not have it all… some space paladin out for a hunt with steampunk ww1 soldier… variety is always a good thing… a handful of alt skins for what’s already in game would be great too
They are and maybe that will be something that will help the tank class, however.
Shields or anything melee will do you little good when it comes to trying to damage a cuttletrunk, a decent amount of time they are just right outside of iron fist range let alone something you can melee.
And unless the shield also reduces the knock back from wildstock by quite a bit. it would be hard to stay within melee range to do any meaningful damage, I can see it working with limited success against spitters.
Ballistic shields and portable shields can help out a lot in that.
I think the knock back of mobs just bumping into you is dumb cause they aren’t programmed to avoid bumping into other creatures.
I do think if there’s a lot more weapons with utility that it would make hunting a lot more fun. Then again it isn’t like we have any real mob mechanics anyways to really look at.
While technically not a weapon. I am going to say it here as well. I would also like an actual healing staff of some kind or anything that doesn’t involve throwing a bomb or some other projectile at other people, and hope people will stay still long enough for it to hit AND for the server to agree it hit. Which it often doesn’t because wonky network coding for some reason.
I figure that would be the trade off. The shield protects against knockback and cuttle attacks and H2H does major damage, but you can’t have an offhand item now and are limited to a H2H weapon if using it. You have to leave the cuttles to others.
I am pretty against anything that is clearly something that brings magic into the game. The concept behind additional healing items would be nice cause healing bombs are boring.
Perhaps a device you throw out on the ground and it creates a bubble that pulses and heals people inside. The tech behind it can be some sort of nanotechnology. After a short period of time the device explodes as part of its animation to explain the end of its duration. It could even be a device you shoot at the ground with some sort of gun. I’d still like it to use some sort of ammunition, such as crafting a power cell that comes with a couple hundred charges and each use of the item spends a power cell charge. Just an idea to make it work and support multiple areas of the game too.
I think with some sort of healing item that works like that it makes it possible to have stationary healing. Also, just cause the weapon isn’t killing something doesn’t mean it isn’t still a weapon. It just happens to be a defensive one in this case cause it involves healing.
A healing staff doesn’t have to be powered by magic.
I am looking for something where I can reliably target a player instead of waiting and seeing the lemmings will stand in the healing zone or what have you. which neither the current bombs or any throwable device will solve.
I am thinking of something along the lines of a staff or someother item where when i aim the cross hair over the player and push and hold down the button it starts a channeled heal that heals for X amount per tick as long as I maintain the target within a certain range of the cross hair which will grow in size a little to help compensate for fast player movement but not so large that it becomes an easy button. if the player gets to far out of the extended cross hair grace zone then the channal breaks, and you will have to reaim the smaller
standard crosshair over the target to start the channeled heal again.
I rather just shoot healing darts at people then with a gun. I have no problem with healing beams, just not coming from a staff or totem-like item. I think there’s a hero that uses healing drones in Heroes of the Storm that could derive some ideas from. Even the Operative from Star Wars The Old Republic MMO (which is where the healing dart idea comes from) could work. Zenyatta from Overwatch also has orb like heal over time style of healing and something similar to that could work too.
Perhaps a mixture of all of it as different items to provide a healer with a toolbox of healing for a hunting raid would be a good idea.
Don’t play that game, healing drones thou would take less skill to use then the idea i have for my preferred way to heal someone because there is then the challenge to try track the target if the target is moving. but if you can do so, then the heal is constant and reliable.
Why is there an aversion to staff shaped items when that is more or less already the case in this game?
A mixture of more would be a good thing as the combat system in this game is fairly lacking in my book in terms of what we have to work with.
DPSing is mostly just slingbows and sometimes the iron and gold fists, but because we do not have elemental fists. its pretty much sling bow only if you want to do competitive DPS.
Healing is almost a joke with healing bombs which just honestly felt like the devs were either lazy, ran out of time, or couldn’t figure out a better way to put in a healing system, and on top of the wonky network code its also unsatisfying to do in some cases when the heal gets reverted.
Tanking in this game is almost non-existent in my book when the DPS epics out preform the tank epics in terms of threat generation. and the fact that the tanks in this game have no way to force manipulate the threat table. like in most other games where you have a taunt of some kind that will put you to the top of the threat table.
Well the healing drones in Heroes of the Storm are pretty much activated on whatever your mouse cursor is over. So I guess there is “some” skill involved. It’s a MOBA after all. I think the idea behind throwing the healing drone at someone and if it “hits” the player it then follows that player and heals them does have some merits to it.
Why am I so against staff shaped items? Cause there are more creative item designs out there than a staff. Just cause we have some items in the game that are shaped like staffs doesn’t mean we need to have more. You can have a healing beam gun (matching the idea of what you want for a heal beam), healing darts (that can 100% just miss your target), or a device you throw on the ground that can area heal people for a small duration of time. This isn’t even including healing drones or orbs that could completely miss your target.
I do agree that healing in this game is a joke but so is DPS. It’s why we need a lot more options of both to make the combat less boring against a horrible AI. Group roles do need to be overhauled. Not to a class based system but the skill trees need overhauled in those areas to allow for healing and tanking to be a lot better and more well rounded. It’s to easy to design any sort of DPS role.
Perhaps a Taunting boon could be introduced for some of the weapons out there that allow them to triple or quadruple their threat or the epics for tanks could just be tripled in what they provide. I agree something needs to be done about that. I would be all for more boons or additional items that manipulate their threat meter.
Ah ok, EVE online is the game I come from that haves drones and in that game, its a “set and forget” until you need to change targets, The MOBA I play is LoL.
DPS is a joke but at least i deem it as “functional” where as the other two roles just seem to be missing much to much and really need some working. but all 3 roles obviously can use some help. I just feel Tanks and healers need more at this time with tanks being the most lacking.
