King of Nowhere
2021-12-08, 09:17 AM
i am puzzled by the price of elemental resistance on armor.
it's 18k for 10/-, 42k for 20/-, 66k for 30/-, for each element.
the minor resistance seem way too overpriced. it's a small protection against damage spells, and alone it already costs more than making your armor +4. as there are 5 elements, getting some measure of protection from nuking mages would cost 100k. a dedicated nuker wouldn't have too much problem punching through a 10/ damage reduction, and the aemor would offer no resistance to other attacks.
the price climbs to slightly more than twice for 20/-. which is strange, the price normally rises exponentially, here it's only slightly above linear. anyway, it's 200k to get full protection against all elements; again, a huge sum. but 20/- is enough to offer serious protection in most cases.
it's to be noted that by the time you can afford that, you can easily get resist elements cast on you for long durations, for all elements. but the buff spell can be dispelled, and by the time you can afford that, dispels are common. so you spend 200k to have your energy protection be dispel resistant. if you're fighting other npcs; if you fight monsters, you may as well buy 5 pearls of power to cast resist energy five times.
The price to get 30/- reduction isn't much higher than the price for 20/-, and with 30/- you can take with relative impunity most damage-based wizard builds, except the most optimized. coupled with decent saving throws, you can also resist almost any area damage from monsters, except the largest dragons. and 330k seem a reasonable price for that. It's a price in line with the cost of getting 40+ AC, which offers the equivalent level of protection against normal attacks.
So it seems to me the price for energy resistance 10 should be greatly reduced, somewhere between 5k and 10k. the price for 20/- should be four times the (reduced) price for 10, and the price for 30 is more or less sensible in the dmg.
thoughts? is there something I'm missing that would make those resistances much more valuable than I realize?
it's 18k for 10/-, 42k for 20/-, 66k for 30/-, for each element.
the minor resistance seem way too overpriced. it's a small protection against damage spells, and alone it already costs more than making your armor +4. as there are 5 elements, getting some measure of protection from nuking mages would cost 100k. a dedicated nuker wouldn't have too much problem punching through a 10/ damage reduction, and the aemor would offer no resistance to other attacks.
the price climbs to slightly more than twice for 20/-. which is strange, the price normally rises exponentially, here it's only slightly above linear. anyway, it's 200k to get full protection against all elements; again, a huge sum. but 20/- is enough to offer serious protection in most cases.
it's to be noted that by the time you can afford that, you can easily get resist elements cast on you for long durations, for all elements. but the buff spell can be dispelled, and by the time you can afford that, dispels are common. so you spend 200k to have your energy protection be dispel resistant. if you're fighting other npcs; if you fight monsters, you may as well buy 5 pearls of power to cast resist energy five times.
The price to get 30/- reduction isn't much higher than the price for 20/-, and with 30/- you can take with relative impunity most damage-based wizard builds, except the most optimized. coupled with decent saving throws, you can also resist almost any area damage from monsters, except the largest dragons. and 330k seem a reasonable price for that. It's a price in line with the cost of getting 40+ AC, which offers the equivalent level of protection against normal attacks.
So it seems to me the price for energy resistance 10 should be greatly reduced, somewhere between 5k and 10k. the price for 20/- should be four times the (reduced) price for 10, and the price for 30 is more or less sensible in the dmg.
thoughts? is there something I'm missing that would make those resistances much more valuable than I realize?