Shattered Kingdoms

Huge victory for stopping the MR barb/warlock cabal raid griefing.

Does chain lightning count as AoE, in this instance? I don't know how it works on the code lvl, that is why I am asking.

You know from the outside everyone participating on these little tit-for-tats looks a *little* childish. Despite correctness and/or past grievances.

ANYWAY - Dulrik a question related to the content, and by the way THANK YOU for the work, I know your playerbase is actually greatful

I'm curious about the pole arm change. Why does melee fighting stop when you unwield a pole arm? Is that a ranged combat change? Or would that be true if someone was in the front line too?

Cool changes. Dulrik, thank you for your continued efforts on Shattered Kingdoms. We all benefit from your hard work and patience.

It may just be too early, but I'm not really following this. Could you explain this a little more?

Thank you!



Does this mean that, upon dismounting, the PC would be ejected from the group? Or would it be the pet? Or someone else entirely?



Thank you!! Someday, when I play a lightie again, I will appreciate this SO much.

Thank you Dulrik.

I sometimes have to be ambiguous when I am trying to fit the effects of a change into less than 80 characters.

Galactus is right in that chain lightning is not considered by the game to be a standard AOE spell. However, I specifically coded chain lightning to get the 1/2 damage.

Peak stat modifiers encapsulate the previously hidden game effect of modifying your peak statistical capacity. Enough spells were doing this now to make maintenance a chore and so I refactored it. Instead of them being modified directly by code for various situations, they have now been institutionalized into a game modifier of their own.

And while doing so I took the opportunity to make spirit disorientation and fatigue a bit more penalizing. In this case, spirit disorientation not only reduces your stats but also your maximum stats. And like before, this will stack with multiple spirit disorientations. So you can no longer ignore the effects of spirit disorientation just by having a bunch of buffs on your gear.


Meanwhile, instead of fatigue always penalizing your constitution, it now penalizes the specific stat which had been previously buffed. So if you are have been buffed by giant strength, when it wears off you will have a strength penalty instead of a constitution penalty. Fatigue always modified your stat cap (constitution), but it will show up on your affect list now.

Generally speaking, it will be the mount. But mounts are not always pets.