Making my hits count

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I am sorely disappointed with the current 0-20 damage I get against an enemy. I realize this will statistically give a middleground to an attack rating of 20 so that it does 10 damage on average, but it tends to let heroes die, unheroically. I think a base attack and defense would allow more survival for my most precious units. A random bonus to the base attack is a good idea. Criticals are good too. The current way is just not fun.

I hate to be like this but change it or I will. :cylon:

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I tried to vote for MoM style combat calculation during the beta, but no such luck.

In MoM, every point of attack had a 30% chance of scoring a hit, likewise for every defense point. The probabilities for damage come out equal, a 10 point attacker will do the same amount of damage to a 10 point defender, but the variance is far lower since there's a bell curve involved. In other words, for an attack value of 100, it would be far more probably to score 50 than 1. In the current system, 1 and 100 have exactly the same chance as 50. Attack 100 versus defense 100 could easily score 99 points or 1 point of damage.

Not very good for heroes like you pointed out.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

It sucks that this causes all heroes to become wizards, as a melee is an epic joke. I wonder if this is a memory concern or a programming difficulty. Also the heroes need more health. I am thinking of making this my first mod.

 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 2
It sucks that this causes all heroes to become wizards, as a melee is an epic joke. I wonder if this is a memory concern or a programming difficulty. Also the heroes need more health. I am thinking of making this my first mod.

 

-Elemental: War of Magic: Useful Heroes-

 

Becoming a wizard isn't an option either, damage spells are kinda bad. Summons need just essence, so might as well be an archer with 16 or so essence :>

 

The damage mechanic cannot be modded atm, unless I'm badly mistaken. Hopefully it'll become moddable.