PvP and Magic Damage

[enemy123]

after battling in the dunes for a few days now i kinda wished magic damage against other players was still halved. even with the new jewels and there resists battles are more or less kinda a 2-3 hit thing and well in digging gear its 1 shot and your going down.

At least with half magic damage and the new jewels battles would be a little more interesting and also give the poor melee person a chance who only really has a chance if they have magic shield aura and also buys a little more time for diggers to escape.

but well what do you guys think? good or bad idea?

[forever]

I think this would make a battle never end. If the mages only did half the damage the healer would have no problem keeping everyone healed.
It dose seem the melee could use a little more help from the Devs.

[swe999]

I think medium armor should have high magic resist, yielding a new class of warrior.

I also think that the nerf to magic would have been more effective had the damage been reduced by 20% instead of the cost increased by 20%

but, thats just what I think, let go build some monuments

[pr0ger]

Just hit the AoD way to nuke, get all the PvPers pissed of, this time it's not only RPG-seeking guys and neutral dude who'll rant here!!! forum will be nuked

Nah. Push up jewels, chance to resist and ... dunno... link stanza to share damage - drain heal ?

[grimjim]

I think medium armor should have high magic resist, yielding a new class of warrior.

I also think that the nerf to magic would have been more effective had the damage been reduced by 20% instead of the cost increased by 20%

but, thats just what I think, let go build some monuments

I like this idea. Medium armour needs a utility boost, that would be perfect.

[riveit]

I like this idea. Medium armour needs a utility boost, that would be perfect.

Why not give significant magic resistance to heavy armor? That would do the most for melee fighters. I never understood why making better resist jewels was going to help the meleers that much, since the nukers are wearing the same jewels. Why not give the resistance only to those who really need it, the heavy armor wearers?

[grimjim]

Why not give significant magic resistance to heavy armor? That would do the most for melee fighters. I never understood why making better resist jewels was going to help the meleers that much, since the nukers are wearing the same jewels. Why not give the resistance only to those who really need it, the heavy armor wearers?

Medium armour lacks anything 'distinctive'.
Giving it magic resists gives it its own niche and makes meleer's choose between magic/special attack defence and physicall defence.

[roninpvp]

Medium armour lacks anything 'distinctive'.
Giving it magic resists gives it its own niche and makes meleer's choose between magic/special attack defence and physicall defence.

This idea will never work cause it makes waaayyyy too much sense

[ncrijns]

Would make melee overpowered. I don't know about you people, but a melee that's hitting me does over near 1000 damage easy per hit.

Little me does near 500 per hit at a measly 155 skill. and I'm using a 1 hander. Basicly the only difference in the melee and magic guy is that the melee guy has to move around to make the kills, and the mage can lazy select a different target in range.

Not saying that the system is perfect, far from it. Only that halving the spell damage isn't the solution. It would make any elementalist under 200 skill useless in the PvP area because of the natual higher resist the higher level people have.

I like the magic bonus to the armour idea, more thinking on that!
Say like: 0%-5% resist bonus for the enviorment/race the piece is from?

[bmaze]

The idea for MA could also be applied to shields / 1H combination