Shattered Kingdoms

While dispel magic in general was made more powerful, we did something for elementals that can do a lot more than just offset the new dispel magic bonus.

It doesn't have anything to do with the impairment system. Here's an example of old vs new:

Old:
This is a jeweled neckband, a large silver treasure, weighing
approximately 6 lbs. It is of superior quality and is worth approximately
325 silver. It bears an enchantment to moderately increase willpower.
It bears an enchantment to greatly increase fortitude.

New:
This is a jeweled neckband, a large silver treasure, weighing
approximately 6 lbs. It is of superior quality and is worth approximately
325 silver. It bears an enhancement enchantment to moderately increase
willpower. It bears an innate enchantment to greatly increase fortitude.

Does this actually change anything? No. So what does it mean? Well.. nothing. But see below.


The line in the update notice where I said a lot of code refactoring took place? Part of that was a bunch of modifications to the enchantment system. The end result of which was almost no actual change in gameplay, but it is set up in such a way to make future changes much easier.

I'm/we're very grateful for all this, thank you.

I've noticed if I land the same enchantment on something that had the enchantment innately, it still shows innate despite the fact I've enhanced it instead of a separate line showing the enhanced enchantment.

Is this intentional, D?

Damage buffs plus impairment on many of these. Chain lightning and fireball are both spells of situational usefulness and this has not changed.

It may work similar to the way a warlock could already buff their elemental. But I decline to comment because I've never publicly said how the process works.

I know they are viable, although water is still probably going to be the weakest. It's still the first elemental you get.

Someone else mentioned that faerie fire didn't seem to help them at all. I think there is a lot of misconception about this spell. It probably isn't helped by the fact that it's a first level spell, which implies that it would be useful right away, which is the farthest thing from the truth. I am seriously considering making it higher level for warlocks just to reinforce this. It could also use a better help file.

Essentially it's only useful in PvP. If you've used it, you will be able to see that it is a debuff to magical protection. This won't help you against NPCs because almost none of them have MP to begin with. But it will certainly help a caster do more damage with magical spells against most players with enchanted gear. As a warlock is the most reliant on damaging spells, it made sense to turn this over to them, completely apart from it being a "fire" spell.

Yes, the damage was upgraded a bit, but that wasn't what I was going for here. The spell is already great for leveling if you can jump through the hoops to make it work. Making it awesome damage for PvP would have completely broken it for leveling purposes, so I didn't try.

I still need to write the help file. It does everything dig does without a shovel, but if you actually want to bury something, you will still need the shovel.

Addressed this in another post. It wasn't really about buffing warlocks, just something that made more sense to me.

We haven't changed any existing items so far. We may in the future. Nothing was changed with the recharge spell, but since you've pointed it out, maybe it needs consideration.

Yes, and this is the only change you should be able to see. But it doesn't actually change your save bonus.

Wait, are you saying you are seeing two lines or only one line? You should see two lines, as in:

This is a jeweled neckband, a large silver treasure, weighing
approximately 6 lbs. It is of superior quality and is worth approximately
325 silver. It bears an enhancement enchantment to moderately increase
fortitude. It bears an innate enchantment to greatly increase fortitude.

You utter the words, 'uoculoihuyl'.
This is a copper band, a medium copper treasure, weighing approximately 2
lbs. It is of outstanding quality and is worth approximately 194 silver.
It bears an enhancement enchantment to slightly increase magical protection.
It bears an innate enchantment to greatly increase magic resistance.

I can safely say that was quite heavily enchanted beforehand in the resistance category. Maybe it only affects new enchants? If I read your post right, I should see this:

You utter the words, 'uoculoihuyl'.
This is a copper band, a medium copper treasure, weighing approximately 2
lbs. It is of outstanding quality and is worth approximately 194 silver.
It bears an enhancement enchantment to slightly increase magical protection.
It bears an innate enchantment to greatly increase magic resistance. It bears an enchanced enchantment to moderately increase magic resistance.

Also, do the debuffs to saves work against npcs as well (assuming they have saves on what they wear)?

Does the level of a malediction/warlock spell effect the degree of impairment?

Ex. lvl 30 blindness resisted - 1 fortitude
lvl 40 blindness resisted - 2 fortitude
lvl 50 blindness resisted - 3 fortitude

He said the casting speed of the spell affects the degree of impairment.