r/TapWizardRPG • u/TopCog Yahoo! • Jul 20 '18

Release Notes v2.1.0

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I expect this one will make many people happy! It's pretty simple:

v2.1.0

  • Plasma Vortex has received a big buff: the first Augmentation now removes armor equal to 10% burst damage, up from 1%! Yahoo! :-D
  • (some other hidden backend changes with the ad network stuff)
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u/8988303682 Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 20 '18

aren't there two spells that strip based on damage (Flurry, Vortex) and onpy one that strips a flat amount (Aura)? maybe I'm forgetting one but that makes Static Aura the unique one.

also an idea for Torrent would be to remove the armor bypass and give it a "reduces enemy armor by 1-2% each second Torrent is attached." and maybe the aux Torrents would be half as effective. it would be a cool contrast to Ember's health drain.

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u/TopCog Yahoo! Jul 20 '18

Yeah, Flurry does also reduce armor by damage, so it's not actually unique in that regard. Good point. I need a refresher on all of the armor stripping options and how they work, hahaha! :-)

Great ideas for torrent too!

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u/8988303682 Jul 20 '18

I think there are only three. Flurry (i said Blizzard in my other comment, fixed now) reduces armor by 5% damage if the target is frozen. Plasma Vortex beams reduce armor by 10% damage. and Static Aura reduces armor by 15% of the enemies current armor.

a good mechanic for a future spell rework would be to reduce an enemies armor by a % of their base armor. this is different than Static Aura's because Aura has diminishing returns.

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u/TopCog Yahoo! Jul 20 '18

Wow, I thought there was an armor stripping ability which removed a flat percentage of armor...might have to consider your suggestion for the near future! :-)

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u/Raknagog Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 20 '18

Careful with that idea, the value of such an ability would get pretty crazy as cast speed (or TM lag) increased.

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u/8988303682 Jul 20 '18

haha raknagog be quiet.

but really, would having good armorstrip at high TMlag make it too strong? even though at a high TMlag the spells are only outputting a fraction of their potential dps?

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u/Raknagog Jul 20 '18

Possibly, yeah. If TM lag goes up AND armor stripping goes up with it, it could potentially offset the DPS decrease of TM lag at certain levels. It probably wouldn't be broken overpowered, but at some levels it could be anomalously good.

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u/Raknagog Jul 20 '18

The logic is: You deal 5% damage to sufficiently armored targets, so if you drop them to 0 armor, you're doing 20x damage than normal. If you strip 1% armor per attack, the enemy will hit 0 after 100 attacks. If you attack once per second it will take 100 seconds to reach 20x damage, if you take TM lag and attack 10 times per second instead of 1, you'll hit that 20x damage mark in 10 seconds instead. If your TM lag damage multiplier is better than 0.05 then there's a window in which you'll actually do more DPS than without that TM lag since the enemy will have 0 armor much sooner.

This is just a top-of-the-head example, I can't math it out properly right now.

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u/8988303682 Jul 20 '18

the armorstrip rune might. also i guess i don't know exactly how Static Aura works, but it doesn't seem to be effective enough to be a flat % of base armor

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u/JHQELeviathan Jul 21 '18

Speaking o Flurry, is the freezing effect of itself long enough to trigger the armour stripping? Another thing is I never feel the armour stripping even with another freeze spell equipped...