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stormdrag0n
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You know looking at traps... at first blush it seems like a awesome idea, but in practice traps in the game are pretty much joke-worthy; people rush through them, take the damage and yell at the cleric for not topping off their hp afterwards. Traps in this game could be so much more and could solve the huge problem of Dungeon speed runs and make the game feel more like D&D.
So I was thinking a viable solution to this would be to make traps random (never in the same place twice) and deadly (A Blade trap is going to slice you in two, at minimum a spike trap will severely hurt you) Resource kits could still work but at a reduced rate, and rouges would be put in front to not only scout but check for traps...like in actual D&D.
The alternative would be just to remove them, because right now they mean absolutely nothing, at least in my opinion. Would like to get others thought's on this.
So I was thinking a viable solution to this would be to make traps random (never in the same place twice) and deadly (A Blade trap is going to slice you in two, at minimum a spike trap will severely hurt you) Resource kits could still work but at a reduced rate, and rouges would be put in front to not only scout but check for traps...like in actual D&D.
The alternative would be just to remove them, because right now they mean absolutely nothing, at least in my opinion. Would like to get others thought's on this.
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yeah maybe if it was possible to fail, like you can fail and take the damage, or on a fail you take double damage even. I play a tr but there's too much free loot/exp already in game.
This is an open beta. Start treating it like one.
loot yes, XP ...you get XP so quickly now, it really means nothing. Failing your trap disarm would be good though I would even like to see that become a mini game like searching for anomolies in STO or lock picking in Skyrim, it could give the game a lot more depth. other than killing waves of monsters.
It would be nice if they were something to be careful of, and that rogues actually had a reason to disarm them. Give them some XP or vendor trash. Right now they're a pointless mechanic that some developer spent time in creating. Don't make that developer's time a wasted effort!
It would be great if we can make such deadly traps for foundry though.
This is an open beta. Start treating it like one.
And puppies..don't forget about the puppies.
Getting killed by traps is not fun, so they have to be limited in their effect. They do some damage and thereby consume some resources; not a lot, but a lot wouldn't be fun.
Depends on what you call fun, endlessly running through dungeons ignoring everything but the end boss certainly isn't fun, not knowing what you are facing this time and knowing that could get you killed is fun, at least for any real D&D player.
Right now they have handed the dungeons over to the speed runners and farmers....yeah it's easy, but it's not really the D&D experience folks are looking for, all I'm saying is traps if you have them shouldn't be an after thought.
They see traps just fine, the problem is it's not instant. When you walk into a room or hall you have to pause for a second for the traps to show up. Solo I do this all the time, if I grouped I can see where this would be a problem because people don't want to wait.
Yes they can, but Rouges are trained from Cloak tower on not to stop and disarm traps or you'll get
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Sure, we can disarm traps. But why bother? Rogues can't scout ahead, because stealth is timed, enemies can sometimes see us, and no one's gonna stand back and WAIT for it, anyway. This game is about action combat, not about real dungeon crawling. So we can't scout ahead and disarm. We can't disarm while the group's in combat and is stumbling around on traps. Best we can do is disarm AFTERWARDS, and why the hell even bother then?
Yeah, I just don't get it. This is D&D, so it has to have traps, but this also isn't really a typical D&D game, and traps don't really have a proper place here.
This would make traps dangerous and costly to ignore, without doing massive damage to players to the point of killing them outright. In short, take traps from being a mere nuisance to being a major nuisance that you can choose to ignore but the penalties for doing so would be substantial enough to warrant avoiding them if possible.
for example a saw blade trap that bites at you from a slit in the floor, if you are unlucky enough to step on it, would take away 40-60% of your health, rather than just doing 500 damage. Would definitely give people something to think about....
Traps are deadly weapons... they are planted to kill adventurer. So the damage should be deadly. 50% - 90% of targeted adventurer Health pool. (that means when trap DMG is set to 50% once the adventurer is hit while actual HP is under 50% he is insta killed). Traps have 10% chance to crit.
No mercy with lowbies!
Not only that. I lure tougher mobs on traps, works even on bosses.
but traps should do 60-90% dmg (max player HP)