Oooh, I never noticed the layer thing, now it makes sense. One more thing then, is there any way to find out what layers and body parts an item will cover aside from looking at the actual pattern?

For metals that aren't naturally in the provided commodities already (copper, tin, brass, bronze, pewter, etc.), use iron commodities.



In terms of offense, Glamours was a favourite of mine considering the stacking of both hypno and rainbow pattern on top of SS songs was ideal. Colourbursts and transfix not being shruggable was a pro as well.

In terms of defense and utility, Ecology was desirable in regards to both the charms and pathway use. Poisons and smudges are fun to play with, and banes can help if you remember to use them, but since poisons can be shrugged and smudges have to be repeatedly cast, I'd say you'll want Glamours if you want something more direct. I did enjoy my Ecology though and the stuff I could mix up with it.

I don't think there is. I have yet to figure out exactly which layers are occupied by every different category of clothing item, and believe me, I've tried. My only recourse now is to corner an experienced tailor in-game and grill them for what they know.

One problem is that there are a lot of different categories of clothing items, and often multiple different nouns (pants, pantaloons, trousers, etc.) are used to describe clothing that's mechanically identical, which adds a bit of confusion.

It's number of spheres. It changes depending on caster and target but how negative they are doesn't affect. Things like Dragon and Volcano sphere which would increase magic damage and fire damage don't matter because Spheres are dissolved upon casting so don't affect the damage.

The general damage from Meteor is linear. Something like...

A + . A and B of course, fluctuate with things like int, offensive boosts like War karma blessing or Magic runes, as well as dmp resistance and target health.

Edit: I don't have any logs but I remember testing on Aramel and each sphere added about 900 damage.


@Femalekepheraidea: Yeah, it's an excellent race, the only downside is low dex (which affects your stance/parrying). I don't know how big the effect is, though. I'd totally be female keph if I was... female.

With the caveat that between casting a meteor and it landing you should be able to recast one of the spheres, so if you've got negative fire or magic resist spheres, slap it back on before the meteor lands.

You could, but usually it'd be better to hinder so they don't run away, or just plain moonburst/nightkiss/symbol/whatever.

*divorce solanis*

The kephera armor restriction only applies to actual armor, right? Not to clothing items like greatrobes, splendours, cloaks and coats?

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Yep, so it really only affects warriors.

I can't say for sure, but I hope it also applies to greatrobes etc. If it didn't, I'd almost consider it a bug.

So basically, Kephera can get a rather massive armor compared to pretty much any race? Hrm. That is rather surprising...

There is a reason we've been trying to get them to halve racial resistances/weaknesses (like they did with all the other racial bonuses excepting regen).

Well... if kephera weren't allowed to wear any protection, their natural armor wouldn't be an advantage. It would most likely be a DISadvantage, since I presume Level 3 racial resistances aren't as strong as a 50/50 greatrobe, let alone Splendours. I think the armor restriction may actually be more for flavor and a bit of realism than balance, because of kepheras' weird body shape.

Female kephera are ill-suited to warrior guilds, anyway, and male kephera are very clearly intended to be monks. Still, they could go warrior and take Splendours, or just use a greatrobe if they wanted.

Why was it decided not to halve resistances and weaknesses? Any particular reason?

Also, does anyone know the approximate percentage value of each level of racial resistance? Maybe it's not all that much.

Didn't they tone down elemental resistances? I don't feel as tanky as I used to be against magic.

Yes, is there?

You'd be presuming wrong. A resistance level is 10%, not scaled with DMP.

Speaking of resistances... Do stats on armor count directly towards DMP, or do they have some other way of cutting damage? If other, roughly how?

Well, 50/50 would be something like 33%/33% under the DMP system, right?

1-20 = 1:1 = 20/1 = 20%
21-40 = 2:1 = 20/2 = +10%
41-50 = 3:1 = 10/3 = +3.33%
Total: 33% (rounded down)

Or for 65/65 Splendours:

1-20 = 1:1 = 20/1 = 20%
21-40 = 2:1 = 20/2 = +10%
41-65 = 3:1 = 25/3 = +8.33%
Total: 38% (rounded down)

Then again, I know better than to argue with you. I'm sure I've missed something somewhere along the line.

Armour is not scaled by DMP either.

Neither armour nor racials are.