2011-11-29, 07:55 AM
IllegallySane Wrote:*Is reminded of how Nens and any class with Light-based attacks are god-tier in DFO because practically all of end-game is weak to Light.*
Just not fond of it. It places too much power and bias on certain elements (even moreso than now), where if the next batch of monsters/bosses are immune or super resistant to your element = HAHASUCKSTOBEYOU.jpg.
And if the next batch of monsters/bosses are super weak to an element, that class(es) with that element become flavor of the month/year and gets massively bandwagoned because no one wants any other class for damage dealing.
Make a super annoying boss that switches to a random resist/weak combination every 5 minutes or so. The combinations would be the same as usual: Fire and Ice are mutually weak, Lightning > Water, Light and Dark are mutually weak I think? All that's left would be to settle the combinations for Poison and what Water would have an advantage over. Anyway, said boss would only use elemental attacks of the element it's currently resistant to so players can tell which element it's currently weak to, whenever it isn't using non-elemental ones.
Or perhaps, make weapons that are really difficult to obtain (drops from a major boss at a low rate, obtained from a really long and annoying quest chain, forged by Blacksmith with rare materials, etc.) but have slight elemental properties attached to them. There would be no such weapons for any class with elemental attacks except for Paladin and Aran, but they will have their charges nerfed to reduce their advantage (since they would benefit from it too)...or just make such Swords and Pole Arms unequippable by Paladins and Aran.
Or perhaps, make weapons that are really difficult to obtain (drops from a major boss at a low rate, obtained from a really long and annoying quest chain, forged by Blacksmith with rare materials, etc.) but have slight elemental properties attached to them. There would be no such weapons for any class with elemental attacks except for Paladin and Aran, but they will have their charges nerfed to reduce their advantage (since they would benefit from it too)...or just make such Swords and Pole Arms unequippable by Paladins and Aran.