Maybe healing is a bit overpowered?

Knightwing4 · Post by **Knightwing4** » Thu May 13, 2004 7:21 pm

I'm talking about heal potions mainly, assuming you get like 20 of them, you're pretty much immortal unless you get paralyzed or sometin, perhaps there should be something to limit them?

ATI · Post by **ATI** » Thu May 13, 2004 7:32 pm

Use paralysis and see what happens

Heal potions aren't the problem use things like knockdown, stonehold, hold person, other fun spells to prevent someone from using a potion. Its that easy....here is the way it works..

Most Tanks will almost guaranteed have horrible will and reflex saves, so smash them with that. Taunt works awesome because 99% don't use concentration (theonly check against taunt)

Monks are good all around from what I remember....so you're best be is to just hit the monk with something or knock him down so he can't move or called shot him to teh leg to stop him from running around. Try using taunt to hit them more often

Mages: terrible fortitude saves, so spells that target that area will destroy their ability to use a heal potion. Knockdown almost always works.

Clerics Terrible reflex saves

All these weaknesses should be exploited to win in PvP, Heal potions aren't your problem tactics are. And if a player is using heal potions to stay alive indefinitely against monsters that is just smart playing.

I could only see healing pots as bad in PvP which i have just helped to guide your tactics in this way.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:19 pm

Heal Kits are way more effect than heal pots though...

dond · Post by **dond** » Thu May 13, 2004 11:35 pm

healing kits also weigh a ton more

unless you're a str heavy build, where ya gonna put all your loot with those heal kits taking up so much space?

Kelin · Post by **Kelin** » Fri May 14, 2004 10:01 am

Mmmm well an heal kit can heal me of max 61 points with a +12 one. An heal pot can heal me of 224 hps

I won't say that healing kits are exactly more effective

Drosera · Post by **Drosera** » Sat May 15, 2004 4:48 am

A funny way to resolve that would be to put a chance of healing failure during combat. (i don't know if this is possible to script).

If you use a pot or healing kit you have 1 chance on 5 to fail healing totaly (during combat only). Every 5 rank in the heal skill reduce the critical failure by 1. (5 rank in heal give 1 chance on 6 to heal, .... ).

AndrewCarr · Post by **AndrewCarr** » Sat May 15, 2004 12:02 pm

Have that on starter crafted ones maybe, as they may have been made by an inexperienced mage.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Sat May 15, 2004 3:19 pm

Drosera wrote:A funny way to resolve that would be to put a chance of healing failure during combat. (i don't know if this is possible to script).

If you use a pot or healing kit you have 1 chance on 5 to fail healing totaly (during combat only). Every 5 rank in the heal skill reduce the critical failure by 1. (5 rank in heal give 1 chance on 6 to heal, .... ).

Nah, make it like casting a spell, but it uses your combine total of concentration and disipline to see if the potion swigging was interrupted.