Weapon Death Procs
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- Sojourner
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Weapon Death Procs
Add more!
For proccing weapons, some of them have special proc messages when it procs on the deathblow, which is awesome!
Add special deathproc messages to more!
High priority.
Yea Yea.
For proccing weapons, some of them have special proc messages when it procs on the deathblow, which is awesome!
Add special deathproc messages to more!
High priority.
Yea Yea.
BEER
The issue with adding more death procs is that many of them aren't just for show--they do do more damage to the mob. Or, in the case of the bard glaive, it actually leeches mana from the mob and gives it to the bard. Which, of course, doesn't compare to the anti-paladin unholy avenger, whose death proc is even more beneficial to the wielder.
Khanjari's deathproc gives the rogue +100% xp. I mean, just look at Pava's...
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Nerox tells you 'man this thing is kicking my ass and i have blisters!'
Nerox tells you 'ok attempting it again put tape on my fingers for easier sliding'
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Most death procs are the result of when the damage from a standard proc would kill the mob. This makes some weapons impractical to have a death proc; weapons that grant extra attacks or that cast a spell as a result of their proc most notably.
I can look into increasing the potential death procs, or (brainstorming as I reply here) I can see about actually spicing up the final blow messages so that the end result has more flourish and interest.
I can look into increasing the potential death procs, or (brainstorming as I reply here) I can see about actually spicing up the final blow messages so that the end result has more flourish and interest.
Eilistraee
The evil sword from MD has a sweet death proc. IMO it is the coolest one I have seen.
Nerox tells you 'Good deal, the other tanks I have don't wanna do it, and since your my special suicidal tank i figure you don't mind one bit!'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
I'm sorry Vigis, but there is NOTHING in the game that compares to the pure, blissful satisfaction of the garrote death proc.
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Gormal wrote:chain lightning still doesn't have a final blow message.
Sure it does Gormal :) "That final blows"
See final blow!
Nerox tells you 'Good deal, the other tanks I have don't wanna do it, and since your my special suicidal tank i figure you don't mind one bit!'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
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Add deathproc messages to proccing shields too!
"Blood sprays from a kuo-toan bounty hunter as you deflects his attack, and dies."
Boooring.
Replace with something like:
"Blood sprays from a kuo-toan bounty hunter as you deflect his attack, and he falls to the ground quivering with a burst of bloodied thorns protruding from his body."
Or something.
There are several weapons that I know of with special messages on deathproc.
I tend to get the impression that the codewriter of the procs for weapons and shields who do not put at least some special deathproc message is just plain lazy, especially that thorns shield as shown above, for example! Like, they obviously entered ", and dies." as the deathproc message, you'd think they could have at least thought of something with a few more words.
I'd love to see well-written deathproc messages for almost all proccing weapons, except those that simply give more attacks I guess.
Even then, something like this could be considered:
"Adriorn's a huge glowing tree root seems to come to life, and Mr. Hanky staggers under a barrage of vicious blows before collapsing to the ground beaten, giving up the fight for good."
Or some such, perhaps.
"Blood sprays from a kuo-toan bounty hunter as you deflects his attack, and dies."
Boooring.
Replace with something like:
"Blood sprays from a kuo-toan bounty hunter as you deflect his attack, and he falls to the ground quivering with a burst of bloodied thorns protruding from his body."
Or something.
There are several weapons that I know of with special messages on deathproc.
I tend to get the impression that the codewriter of the procs for weapons and shields who do not put at least some special deathproc message is just plain lazy, especially that thorns shield as shown above, for example! Like, they obviously entered ", and dies." as the deathproc message, you'd think they could have at least thought of something with a few more words.
I'd love to see well-written deathproc messages for almost all proccing weapons, except those that simply give more attacks I guess.
Even then, something like this could be considered:
"Adriorn's a huge glowing tree root seems to come to life, and Mr. Hanky staggers under a barrage of vicious blows before collapsing to the ground beaten, giving up the fight for good."
Or some such, perhaps.
BEER
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Ashiwi wrote:I'm sorry Vigis, but there is NOTHING in the game that compares to the pure, blissful satisfaction of the garrote death proc.
Yes. That kicks ass.
Similarly the MD sword, and gythka deathprocs are real nice.
Even the 1h SF mithril sword one is cool.
It is shweee-eet deathprocs like these that make us yearn for more!
Obviously not more long-winded kickass ones like those are necessarily needed, and we don't wanna see some kind of "oh, I'll write and even better and bigger set of deathprocs" contest or anything.
Just some tweaking to spice up many current or missing ones.
While we are at it, the spicing up of deathblow messages on some other actions should be looked at too, e.g.:
"Your kick at a drow surface raider's kidneys made her die."
Er... even the "Your kick splits it head open" or whatever it is occasionally when you kick them to death is better (but is still lacking imo).
Better deathblow messages like we see for headbutt and other class skills (does vital strike have them?) etc. as well as lots of new weapon/shield deathprocs should be priority! yea yea
BEER
Can we add to this fixing the current procs text formatting so it doesn't look really fscked if you don't have the same terminal width as whoever wrote it?
All the line breaks really need to be pulled out of the procs that have them (GCD anyone?) and leave the word wrapping to the client so that it doesn't look broken and spammy.
All the line breaks really need to be pulled out of the procs that have them (GCD anyone?) and leave the word wrapping to the client so that it doesn't look broken and spammy.
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