Request: Improved Traps

eldarth · February 2015

I would love to see traps have the following additional properties:

Damage: None, 10%,20%,25%,30%,40%,50%,60%,70%,75%,80%,90% of Total Player Health
Disarm Penalty: -10%, -20%, -25%, -50%, -75% chance to disarm
Poison/Disease Debuff: (curable with Cure Poison/Disease)
- None
- Slowed 10% for 1 minute,
- Damage over Time: 5% of Total Health every 10 seconds for 200 seconds
- Blindness for 5 seconds
- Paralyzation for 5 seconds

Also, if a trap is detected it should be possible to trigger at a distance or disable at a distance by attacking the trap.
If attacking detected trap using melee instead of ranged, should trigger trap with 50% chance of being affected and 50% of damage and no debuffs.

thane6000 · February 2015

Cool effects you got there. Some of them remind me of the trap effects at Neverwinter Nights 2. I agree with the improving of traps as you suggested it, but I'm afraid that the most likely scenario we'll get is only the adjustable damage.

bardaaron · February 2015

thane6000 wrote: »

I agree with the improving of traps as you suggested it, but I'm afraid that the most likely scenario we'll get is only the adjustable damage.

If that. I doubt they will ever give us control like that. It'd be great if they DID, though. We could make them MEAN something, and traps in combat areas would be serious business, as a misstep could spell death.

reiwulf · February 2015

I wish this could be done, it would add a whole new level of strategy to quests.
I hope we get some attention.

valcontar73 · February 2015

Can Blindness be done with fade to black effect?

melinden · February 2015

Although not as detailed as your request, traps are changing with mod 6.

Traps now deal a percentage of damage as well as cause an injury.

You can find that in these Preview notes:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?850201-Elemental-Evil-Preview-Patch-NotesNW-45-20150217a-2

eldarth · February 2015

valcontar73 wrote: »

Can Blindness be done with fade to black effect?

Yep. That's how I handled my "boss" phase 2 transition in Rise of Ingeloakastimizilian.
A Fade to Black fast.

mrgiggles651 · February 2015

melinden wrote: »

Although not as detailed as your request, traps are changing with mod 6.

You can find that in these Preview notes:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?850201-Elemental-Evil-Preview-Patch-NotesNW-45-20150217a-2

My character bet a Seven Suns Trading Cost merchant a gold piece that won't be applied to Foundry.

eldarth · February 2015

mrgiggles651 wrote: »

My character bet a Seven Suns Trading Cost merchant a gold piece that won't be applied to Foundry.

Ha! Beat me to it. I was gonna say something like that -- especially since Mod 6 is nearing release and Foundry STILL is not available on Preview Server. Guess no need for it to be enabled since there are no changes.

melinden · February 2015

I just tested this on preview. All traps with the exception of Disease Vent and Acid Vent cause an injury.

reiwulf · February 2015

oh nice! I hope they take more HP too.

tantivetyrell · February 2015

I saw Featured Quests on previews foundry list. Anyone knows of any of those featured quests to have traps for testing?

eldarth · February 2015

reiwulf wrote: »

oh nice! I hope they take more HP too.

Patch notes state that traps now cause a percentage damage.
-- undoubtedly in game only and not foundry.

torontodave · March 2015

What if you have two sawblade-traps, occupying the same space..

will the dmg be doubled? as two blades are coming up?

reiwulf · March 2015

I believe that you can't put two or more traps too close together.

argrosch · March 2015

eldarth wrote: »

Patch notes state that traps now cause a percentage damage.
-- undoubtedly in game only and not foundry.

Someone from my Guild already tested it and he says, that the changes also work for the Foundry.

eldarth · March 2015

argrosch wrote: »

Someone from my Guild already tested it and he says, that the changes also work for the Foundry.

I'm guessing that means works in foundry quests -- but I'd bet percentage/injury is not changeable within the foundry editor.

...and earlier, no you can no longer overlap traps -- they must be a minimum of 10' apart if I recall.

hustin1 · March 2015

I didn't even bother putting traps in my Foundry precisely because they don't really mean anything -- anyone can see them, so they're trivial to avoid. Instead I tried to create ways for the monster AI to have tactical advantages, such as holes for archers (who are accessible, but not directly). Also, as an unintended benefit, if you aggro them but don't kill them quickly, some will figure out a way to track you down via pathing, bringing any buddies they find along the way with them.

bardaaron · March 2015

Yeah that no-traps within 10' of another totally ruined a puzzle I was working on. It involved having to pick the right spot to walk on, but now it doesn't work. Still, I am glad to see some improvement in traps themselves. It would be great if we could set the percentage of damage, on up to 80 or 90%. Straight-up one-shot traps just frustrate me, but ALMOST dying could be intense. It gives that "OH ****!" moment, and if you run into one in the middle of battle, it can be disastrous.

torontodave · March 2015

[edit. oops. we're talking about traps.]

Request: Improved Traps

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