- Packet Colors: The weird place where the qualifier system gets edge-casey is when the defender has to know what color the packet that hit them was to determine what happened (good luck at night, especially when the NPCs can't even see what they're pulling out of the packet bucket). 5 Spell Flame against a shield? Depends on whether it was blue or not. Can I evade 10 Poison Doom? Depends on whether the packet was blue. PCs can only throw blue packets if they're holding a ranged weapon so there's at least a clue if you see them make the attack, but monsters with "natural" ranged weapons don't necessarily work that way (or at least, I as a PC have no way of knowing if that's true).
5 spell flame against a shield is a spell carrier, therefore shields dont block it.
Valid attack zones depend entirely upon the delivery. If an attack is swung by a weapon (i.e. the Physical delivery, which includes arrows and bolts), it only works if it is not blocked by the target. If an attack is thrown with a (non-arrow/bolt) packet, it works so long as it lands on the target or their direct possessions, including weapons and shields.
10 poison doom via packet, is a weird call but I dont think you can generate that attack without a weapon
As an example of a weird call that a PC can generate, United Blow + Imbue Magic allows a call like "90 Spell Body" to be made with an arrow, so the defender probably wants to be clear on whether they can block that. Though the packet seems weirdly indecisive about whether it should be "United Blow" or "United Strike", so that may be related. But this is a digression and not related to anything that actually happened in this playtest, so I'll drop it here.
From the playtest packet:
"blockable attacks (for example, not using the Massive carrier or the Spell qualifier) "
I saw (and safely ate) quite a few "Poison Dooms" I don't recall hearing one with a damage call attached, but please keep in mind we had some newer NPC's and they might have just merged calls through human error.Can I evade 10 Poison Doom?
I saw (and safely ate) quite a few "Poison Dooms" I don't recall hearing one with a damage call attached, but please keep in mind we had some newer NPC's and they might have just merged calls through human error.
I also don't recall any "Weapon charms" I did see a ton of shuns delivered that way though (and that is just super annoying). I'll do my full post mortem when I get home today.
Huh didnt realize you cant evade contact poisons, that is decent.
Or Parry them.
Packet said:Some defenses – like Parry and Riposte or other weapon-specific defenses – have changed to specify that they work against any attack with either the “Weapon” qualifier or the “Poison” qualifier (only if the attack is made with the physical delivery). This helps eliminate some exceptions.
Some defenses – like Parry and Riposte or other weapon-specific defenses – have changed to specify that they work against any attack with either the “Weapon” qualifier or the “Poison” qualifier (only if the attack is made with the physical delivery). This helps eliminate some exceptions.
So if I'm a fighter with raging blow, poison trigger and up to a 70 slay. I could combine all those and do a 70 poison strike enfeeble and just have to hit their shield? Is a coating a weapon swing? The only defenses for it would be poison shield, poison block, phase, dodge, cloak alteration? Just trying to understand some combos here.