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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Active blocking suggestion
Malva
Member, Alpha Two
Active blocking has a very high cost: not attacking, not using skills, walking slower and consuming stamina per blocked blow. Therefore it should be something extremely efficient to offset all the cost of you actively raising the shield.
My suggestions are:
1) Perfect guard
A passive in which if we block at the exact moment of the enemy's attack, we would mitigate 100% damage and have a reduction in the stamina cost for blocking this specific attack
2) Battle exhaustion
In the first 3 seconds of blocking attacks, our stamina cost will be reduced. However, from that time on, our stamina cost becomes progressively higher until it becomes a continuous cost (like when we run) of stamina, forcing us to lower the shield again.
I believe that these two changes would bring more significance to active blocking and more action elements for combat, which is precisely AoC's proposal, to have a hybrid combat
My suggestions are:
1) Perfect guard
A passive in which if we block at the exact moment of the enemy's attack, we would mitigate 100% damage and have a reduction in the stamina cost for blocking this specific attack
2) Battle exhaustion
In the first 3 seconds of blocking attacks, our stamina cost will be reduced. However, from that time on, our stamina cost becomes progressively higher until it becomes a continuous cost (like when we run) of stamina, forcing us to lower the shield again.
I believe that these two changes would bring more significance to active blocking and more action elements for combat, which is precisely AoC's proposal, to have a hybrid combat
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Comments
If I'm in a pve group, me holding block a non-issue as long as IA is running, so I wonder if the real concern you have is people spamming block in pvp (especially because point 2)
That said, active blocking is inferior to dodge-rolling, so something has to change for it to even matter. Lately I've been using a 2h Spellsword because shields seem pretty meh.
I actually play tank and I wanted this mechanic to be not only more impactful, but also something more dynamic.
Well, look, if I just improve active blocking, without bringing any negative points, the tank meta could just be raising the shield and being a damage sponge. Games like NW are like that and fail to provide interesting tank gameplay.
These two suggestions together not only significantly improve active blocking, but also prevent a possible "goal" of just keeping the shield up.
The idea is that the good tank raises the shield at the right time to guarantee the "perfect guard" or alternates between raising the shield and lowering it so that it always remains within the 3 seconds of "Battle exhaustion".
In other words, it will benefit the experienced player and punish those who just want to raise the shield and nothing else.