Is Stamina, Health, Magicka enough?

concobar · June 2014

Seems like there should have been at least three more attributes, perhaps two handed weapons should have had their damage modified by Strength or Might? perhaps light weapons and Bows by Agility? Maybe medium weapons a average of the two? Magicka attacks by Intellect? Perhaps all stamina and magicka should affect is how many times you can use your abilities but not how effective they are?

Enkil · June 2014

Certainly isn't. Look back at morrowind and you will see proper attributes such as strengh, intelligence, agility, etc.. They've dumbed it down further and further each game since then.

concobar · June 2014

I can not imagine it would be that hard to fix this trend, maybe add in the other three attributes and adjust attribute points to match in a future major patch? I would think this would allow for more variety in character builds as well as more gear/enchantment variety.

figure each point in...

strength adds to weapon damage for medium and heavy weapons as well as modifies light and heavy attacks.

Agility adds to weapon damage for light weapons and bows as well as modifies chance to dodge incoming attacks.

Intellect modifies damage of magicka attacks and modifies resistance to same.

stamina, health, magicka increase resource pools.

IIRC this is kinda what DaoC did

Will_Chokabich · June 2014

Stats would easily allow people to tweak their gameplay more, instead of this cookie cutter broken bull crap we have right now. If someone wants to stack strength and crit, slap on a two-handed sword and cleave people in half? Good for them. Want a high magicka pool and regen so you can heal, sacrificing your ability to do damage? Let people do it. In addition to powering up health, magicka and stamina, give people a +(x) to a stat such as strength, dexterity, wisdom, etc. Instead of base health pool and regen, Constitution could serve as a defensive stat, increasing resilience to spells and damage.

Enkil · June 2014

Just start with the Morrowind attributes and tweak as needed:

Agility
Chance to hit
Block
Dodge
Bow/Dagger Damage

Endurance
Max Health
Health regen
Max Stamina
Stam regen

Intelligence
Max Magicka
Spell Damage
Destruction staff damage

Speed
Rate of movement when walking, running, and swimming

Strength
Damage for all other weapons

Willpower
Max Magicka
Magicka regen
Magic Resistance
Healing staff damage

Instead of putting attributes points into HP/Mana/Stamina, we would level up the above attributes. Health, Magicka, and Stamina would all be derived from these stats. This is pretty standard in MMOs and RPGs and even in most of the Elder Scrolls titles..