Elemental Weaknesses and Resistances

[Flashlight237]

From what I can understand, elemental damage doesn't seem to be doing anything more than providing damage or DPS boosts. That's boring. Why not give monsters elemental weaknesses and resistances to make elemental damage more... fun? From what I can gather, this is what I got:

Fire Damage:

Weakness: 2x (ex. Logons)
Resistance: 0.5x (ex. Hellshags and Batlings)
Immunity: 0x (ex. Stalagmites)

Electric Damage:

Weakness: 2x (ex. Crabs)
Resistance: 0.5x (ex. Armed Dillos, Spiked Squishers, Ground Spitters, Puff Monsters)
Immunity: 0x (ex. Stalagmites)

Poison Damage:

Recommended Pre-Requisite: Buff poison damage from runes from 4 back up to 5 per stone.

Weakness: +x damage taken from poison (ex. Petunias)
Resistance: -x damage taken from poison (ex. Dumtilians, Agents, Grunts, Scorpees, and Great Frogs)
Immunity: 0x damage (or -9999 damage taken from poison) (ex. Ooze, Ooze Horror, Stalagmites, Moonchyllus)

So yeah, there's that.

[Savage0]

Can't support, only role this has is ... over-complicating things.
But if it is implemented, will be interesting nonetheless. (believe poison resistant equipment was brought up somewhere, that works because poison is simplistic .... just ignores logic and DEF.) but that's just my take on this idea.

[yasvsV]

Support, this only makes the mechanics of game more realistic. I mean, shouldn't monsters with a natural affinity towards a certain element be able to completely tank or resist against that elemental attack?

[Anchorarius]

I'm getting Pokemon vibes all over. The idea seems pretty neat, dunno why someone said that it over-complicates things, but I think stalagmites will be a bit too hard to kill since it's immune to everything, even though it does make sense for those immunities to be in place. Maybe instead of these weaknesses and resistances to be 100% all the time, reduce the chances to somewhere around 50/50? I dunno, I don't think that poison/electric/fire runes are super useful in the first place. But it's a good idea, support (with some minor changes).

[Flashlight237]

Bump

[GeraltOfRivia]

Idea is really good and about Stalagmites beeing resistance to all stone and runes maybe a new rune will do the job f.e Acid Rune? This one would affect all kind of mobs. As for how it should look-something blue maybe. Flashlight you are good in that stuff so you can try draw it, i suck at it LOL .

[Flashlight237]

Idea is really good and about Stalagmites beeing resistance to all stone and runes maybe a new rune will do the job f.e Acid Rune? This one would affect all kind of mobs. As for how it should look-something blue maybe. Flashlight you are good in that stuff so you can try draw it, i suck at it LOL .

I mean the Poison Rune was originally created with poisonous things like acid in mind.