Hey guys,
I've got some bigger changes ready with this update, which introduce new ways to improve our combat system. Please take your time and read through the updates. The largest change is the introduction of lifesteal and damage soaking bonuses.
New Equipment and Character Design Screens
I've recreated both of the interfaces. They now feature a large version, which also displays your character's chat head. The equipment screen has received 2 new bonuses:
- Lifesteal: Just like the vampyrism aura. You can now see how much lifesteal your equipment gives.
- Soaked: This tells the amount of damage your equipment is soaking. I'll explain this change in more detail below.
I've also fixed a bug where equipment screen bonuses would appear in the quest tab or in the music play list. This will no longer happen.
Damage SoakingWith earlier releases of strong weapons and special attacks, your character has become pretty fragile. Also bosses hit like a truck if you don't pay attention or if you use wrong prayers. I would like to give you the opportunity to also build tanky characters. To think about bringing more damage or more tankiness. Now, this cannot be done by just providing more and more defence bonus, because it will just result the chance of not being hit. Yet, an enemy can still deal the full damage on you.
To change this, I'd like to introduce damage soaking. The amount of soaked damage can now be seen on your equipment screen and it's a quadratic function depending on your highest defence bonus. Meaning, that you can stack up a lot of defence bonus in order to reduce the power of incoming hits. The equipment setting tells you the amount that is subtracted from every incoming hit. This calculation is done BEFORE protection prayers, so it's impossible to completely nullify an enemy's high hit.
I know that this is quite a big change, so I'd like to call it experimental for now. We may have to tweak the values a little and think of special scenarios where this system may fail. I'd welcome feedback on this topic a lot!
Other Changes- GWD boss cash drops buffed. They now drop 75-200k.
- Ancient Caves drops buffed. Items now drop in larger quantities and herb drops are noted.
- K'ril Tsutsaroth will no longer spawn an infinite amount of minions.
- Full Guthan's now has flat lifesteal bonus.
- Full Torag's now has flat damage soaking bonus.
- Spirit shields have slightly been nerfed. I reduced their defensive bonuses.
- Slight buffs to defender accuracy and strength bonuses.
- Health above entities can now be enabled via the Game Settings. This shows the exact health values above all enemies that are in combat.
- Hitpoints, prayer and run orbs now start to blink when they reach less than 10%.
- Aggressive monsters will no longer attack you when being in combat with another monster. Before this update, it was possible that certain monsters would attack you, even though you were fighting another one.
- A bug was fixed where shadows where flickering during combat.
- Santa and Jack Frost have left.
All the best,
Thomy
