[SUGGESTION] Ability Damage Items

Ability-based boosts

By WarlokLord on January 2, 2009 4:30:44 PM from

Ability Damage Items

In Beta 1 there were times when, if you had acquired certain combat items, you delivered more damage with regular attacks than you did utilizing special abilities. Now in Beta 2 with such items more reserved in their raw damage bonuses I find myself thinking that it would be very nice to encounter items that do nothing for your regular attacks but that enhance your special abilities. My inclination is a percentile boost to raw ability damage.

An item that adds 10% to Torch Bearer Fireballs, or 20% to Erebus` Mist damage. Stuff like that. The option to combine such with normal effects is there too of course.

This would also help maintain the import of damaging ability usage in the face of aforementioned regular attack boosting; generally, I would not want to see a repeat of Beta 1 circumstances where a Demigod foreswore ability attacks in favour of more lethal regular ones. That said, an idea.

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I love this. I definately think there should be items that increase ability dmg. As you said it keeps the focus on uber-cool active abilities and thus make the game more exciting. It also adds another all important choice, increase regular attacks or make abilities even stronger.

I firmly agree. Think of Rook!

I tentatively agree. It depends on how they are implemented - unique, DG-specific, favor items, etc. I'm picturing a tight team of five TB all with juiced fireballs or a team of 5 Vamps with +20% dmg mist or something..

Imo a sysmtem like WoWs spellpower system is something that will be required for this game before release

The important part is giving the magic users the same endgame scalability as the melee/weapon users, one of the big flaws in DoTA imo, once the mage got rank 5 icebolt for 600 dmg thats it! while the melee blademaster can keep upping his attackspeed and dmg.

Would love to have an active +% and passive +%.

Would love to get an extra few % on passive abilities.

Items that boosted spells would be great, I think.

Quoting Sevenix,

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Imo a sysmtem like WoWs spellpower system is something that will be required for this game before release

The important part is giving the magic users the same endgame scalability as the melee/weapon users, one of the big flaws in DoTA imo, once the mage got rank 5 icebolt for 600 dmg thats it! while the melee blademaster can keep upping his attackspeed and dmg.

I disagree whole-heartedly. Many of the advantages of the spellcasters is indeed not the damage output, but the disable powers. The ideal is that they are nukers in the beginning but still useful endgame as a result of their ability to stun, slow, silence, etc.

What this means is that a team full of casters is an early-game powerhouse and late game snooze patrol this is true, but then again, anyone try and play FF1 with only white mages?

Now i'm not saying i'm against this idea, but I also don't believe it is as "required" as Sevenix thinks.

great idea

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[SUGGESTION] Ability Damage Items

Ability-based boosts