why would you ever bother with status effect resistances instead of defense or health rings and potions and armor of poison/burn/freeze/whatever resistance are just vendor trash in EVERY GAME
stupid poststun/freeze/burning resist are all really good status effect resists in many games building stun and freeze immunity is core of many arpgs
I don’t think I’ve ever taken off the life ring
>>721062379>bothering with defensime-oriented gear at allThe best defense is a good offense. Enemies can't hurt you if they're not alive long enough to do anything.
>This status effect will hit you after three seconds of buildup.>Cram as much resistance to it as I can onto my character.>This status effect will now hit you after FOUR seconds of buildupthanks miyazaki
>>721062379PvP
In Souls games, status effect are easily avoided naturally by moving out of the area and letting the build up reduce before their trigger point. The ones you're most likely to suffer from are DoTs, and you can just cancel those with healing items if it's a serious concern. There's no point wasting equip slots on resisting effects, which probably won't offer enough resistance to significantly negate the rare occasions of the effect triggering.
it's good in dragon quest
>>721062379resist is worthless but immunity is everything.ribbons for everyone.
I like when you can get over 100% resistance to elements so it actually starts healing you
>>721064552name like three games that do this
>>721062379Maybe play a game where the status effect system doesn't suck ass
>>721062379You are supposed to hardswap them when needed
>>721064667Epic Battle Fantasy 3 4 and 5
>>721064667Diablo 2 with absorb gearToMEJackie Chan
>>721062379PoE says hi
>>721062379negative status effects in most games are either>a complete non-issue and ignorable with basic heals and average resistancesor>completely debilitates you unless you have the equipment to deal with itand even when it's the latter it's almost always just for one or two zones specific to itWhich is honestly fine eitherway, I'd rather have "forced" depth than the complete lack of it entirely, like something like FFXVI where there was ONLY flat defense and damage stats.
>>721064667stalker did that
Someone invent something other than spreadsheets for game design, please
>>721064898>use something other than math for accurate data calculationMaybe videogames aren’t for you, anon
What would be an engaging third axis of player power and agency alongside offense and defence?
>>721065229speed
>Status effect is extremely debilitating.>but you don't bother curing or preventing it because it looks cool
>>721064667Divinity: Original Sin 2
>>721065379personally i feel like speed falls under a defensive stat, no? moving fast means not getting hit typically
>>721065229lust
>>721065659it applies to both offense and defense..
>>721062379you equip them right before bosses that use that specific status ailment, and remove them right after
>>721062835it's worth it when it takes 2 seconds to heal the status effect so you can keep going without losing health, you basically double your time running
>>721065659Ah yes, blitzkrieg. The most famous defensive strategy.
>>721062379People who build for safety at the cost of damage deserve neither and will lose both.Simple as.
>>721066227oh hey you're quoting that guy
>Status effects are weak>Status effects are OP>Bosses are immune to status effects>Status effects are only used in niche circumstance, like dealing with a very specific enemy
*utterly rapes you for not having Status Effect resistance*
>>721066406who
>>721062379You use poison resist in the poison swamp. Ice resist in the ice cave. Fire resist in the volcano. RPGs suck now because they cater to people who are too lazy to perform the RPG mechanic of SWITCHING GEAR
>>721067983Focusing on switching gear sucks when there's no options for making automatic loadouts so you need to change out each piece of gear individually while scrolling through hundreds of junk items, plus even if there were a loadout system it's useless because all your gear falls behind in level and becomes obsolete every 5 minutes so you need to constantly rebuild the loadouts. RPG itemisation is pure AIDS.
>>721066406Don't taze me br-ACK!this and the stun baton were sillylaunch week before the sweats started doing arena was the most fun I've had playing AC multiplayer in a long while
>>721067983>RPGs suck nowthey always sucked>>721068929>AC multiplayerassassins creed has multiplayer now?
>>721062806plenty of games where enemies have gimmicks that you have to defend forimagine going to fight Nightshade Paolumu without sleep resistance
>>721062379>Equip or use any kind of status resistance in a fromsoft game >Have to wait for the status bar to climb down to your new 0 for some reason >This has never been fixed in over a decade
>>721067983>swap out gear just to run through 50 meters of hazardous terrainJust make permanent relic upgrades if this is all an item is good for.
>>721062379I wear these in soulsgames for the poison swamp areas
>>721070303I've always fought every monster with whatever armor looks cool and same with weapon regardless of element
>>721070303>imagine going to fight Nightshade Paolumu without sleep resistanceClutch claw the fucker into a wall, beat his ass up, break its wings, throw it into a vine trap, beat his ass again, throw it into a vine trap a second time, give it a concussion, throw it into an electric trap, flash it out of the sky if it gets cheeky enough to tty and fly with its broken wings.
>>721067983>get cool items>can't use them because you need to use the boring mandatory cuck gear for the cuck zone (legit humiliation ritual)That's just shit design.
>>721062379I like it when the equipment provides significant bonuses like immunity to certain damage types like poison or frostif it's something garbage like 10% less fart damage taken it's boring as shit
>>721062379>oh hey im in a lava area and every enemy is spewing fire, maybe I should equip a fire resistance ringI agree that resistance potions are trash though. It's annoying to figure out when I'm supposed to use them for their maximum potential.
>>721062379Single resistances are usually kinda useless till you run into that one hard area/boss they does 90% fire damage.I never bothered to try but I think you could utterly trivialise a game like elden ring by swapping restances and your weapons damage type before every major battle for instance.
>>721062379I hate how the poison resist ring in DS1 is 15000 souls but the boss right before it only dropped 10000 and the only time you’d really care about it is Blighttown which is coming up soon.
>>721064898Just don't play RPGs. It's an extremely stagnant genre.
>Game has an accessory that blocks Instant Death attacks.>All Instant Death attacks in the game are programmed to just deal the character's max HP in damage, instead of proccing the Instant Death status flag or whatever.>Making the Instant Death prevention accessory completely fucking useless against preventing Instant Death.
>>721071820My favourite is>Game has status effects>Every boss is immune to all of them >Normal enemies all die in 2 hits from normal attacks
>>721065462Not really debilitating, but still neat.purple looks better than the healed blue
Really depends on the game.The problem with all status effects and crowd control in general is, when applied against the player, they can just drag an encounter for too long.So they're either made as a gimmick that will completely wreck you unless you build around it asap, being somewhat rare and pontual or will be no more than just a momentary bother.
>>721072441as a connoisseur of poisons and other dot effects, this is my most hated fucking thing in any game ever. why even fucking bother having it if it does nothing? it doesnt even work as window dressing most of the time so you get absolutely nothing out of it. devs who do this should be hanged and beaten like pinatas.
>>721071820>>721072441>status effects are important and somewhat mandatory>they are rolled with RNG>you will reset until that 40~80% lands instead of getting fucked until it works normally
>>721070546>fixedIt's to prevent constant gear swapping during fights. You will still get afflicted if you swap to a status defensive gear when close to filling your "bar".It's a very wonky thing that a few players would manage to navigate and equip all of these on the fly during a fight, but it's there.Maybe it's also aimed at PvP?
>>721062379The only trash thing here is your question.Of course it depends from game to game.
>>721074598Jrpgs always have demented stats and systems where nothing makes much sense and they only patch if it entirely breaks the game
>>721066164>doing hailingtree an hour ago>realize if I use an immunity ring I can clear the rot lake without getting aids>rot lake puts a debuff on you that still builds rot after you get out>unequip ring
>>721065512leadership stacking was funjust immune to everything
>>721062379They can be quite useful in pvp
>>721078919Only if you roll in the rot and it covers your body. Also the ring makes the bar longer that has to fill for you to get the status
