DR/Stacking/Otherwise

[Toxicity]

Alright, alright it's about that time. We've reached a grand point in things and now I have to ask it. Can we tone Damage Reduction down? And I don't mean the amount from spells alone, I mean overall. It's to a point where the meta is shifting to have everyone just hold the block button, miss their spells and still come out ontop because of the annoyances you have to go through to reach people.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of different playstyles, I love different builds and it's always just so cool to see two completely different sorts of people battling in a verb because I get hype over the smallest stuff. Easily appeased, that's me. But what I do not like is the fact that I'm seeing/have complained about/and have been complained to, about this incredible piling of DR.

It started with Teraphim sustain, who would just at first go agility to spam, before soon realizing that DR was the superior option and that you could just outtrade someone without blocking even at all for resting DR's sake. Strong racials(even still) stacked with DR.

To drakanites doing the same with a bit more because of their literal transformation giving them DR. And now it's at the point where people are literally flat out just going mcap over agi. This including people who SHOULD be building agility. Unarmed users.

 I think it's safe to say that at this point?

Things are getting a little out of control. DR is too good, it's too great and agility is severely lacking.

I'm not asking for an agility boost but to tone down DR to make things even. Right now there is no trade off to even be made. One is so vastly superior to the other that you're crippling yourself by trying to do anything different. Ontop of that. Can we please get a little helping hand in everyone uniting under a spirit bomb of crushing sustain?

Blood/Nature/Crystal. Everyone raise your hands up. (Don't get me wrong, this really isn't a complaint. I don't really care much about sustain. But when paired with the aforementioned DR? It gets hectic.)

Debate me, Unite with me, Curse me out.
Someone feel my pain.

[Esmeraude]

DR stacking bad.
Crystal/Teraphim bad.
Shield stacking bad.

When you see people fight or verb, and win without even doing ok? There's an obvious problem...
This means when you want to antagonize you practically can't, as you'll be hounded and hunted as others have.
And the entire natural flow feels dead, and now it's just cat and mouse. And it's not just magic, it's people's mentality too.
Metagaming is bad, and at this point, I am actually kinda tired and burnt out due to it... Yet still trying to push and do things.

Not sure what to do at this point, I could organize scenes with people but it just takes out the feeling of things being natural... And it feels like cheating.

[Milly]

me looking at nature ice dr build because it was ic

me looking at everyone realizing it was op so they went it too

hm.jpg

[Lokus]

ayo wtf i made a thread on this already and y'all posted hella quick

[Enigmatic Outlook]

Nature needs to go. At this point it's become a point of Nature Magma or Nature Blood or Nature Crystal and you're trying to claw away at 250 something vit [Highest I've fought was 270 Conjurer holding block] while hoping you can out damage them under Yggdrasil Bloom and Vines..

Before they can auto kill you.

It's really not cute...

[Left Brain]

Yeah, I'm not feeling this sustain wave. It's not fun.

Looking longingly at my mmo games.

[Gold]

Drake aura, scales, guardian, conjurer bubble. Pls stop

[Hated]

crystal teraphim




I lol'd


gut their ic?

[Esmeraude]

crystal teraphim




I lol'd


gut their ic?

Verbing isn't the base of your IC.
Fixing something like this doesn't affect your 'lore'.

[Dreamspeaker]

I warned them.

They called upon Boguidance syndrome.

They called me a madman...