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It might be better if the shield strength is depending also on mental damage. It's just logical that the better the wand is, the stronger is the shield. And it would be a good use for the secondary weapon (which could be a wand which amplifies the shield).
The secondary gear is a nice feature but I'm a bit frustrated as there seems to be no use for it. I planned to play brutes / archers which use a wand as second weapon for a stronger shield, but the wand is useless for the shield. I also tried a hybrid of archer / brute, but all enemies are already dead before they make it into the melee ; )
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Can you make a protoype and test it and maybe have a few versions and see what people like?
That's beyond my skill
@FlarePlayer Why not?
Flare is open source, you have the creative tools with human readable 'guts' / critical game play building elements of the game engine. One can readily alter and tinker and try prototypes to see what works and what could use more work. You can reverse engineer some abilities / skills and combine functions / parts of other abilities / skills to make new / modified abilities / skills.
Focus on what the ~'lines of success' are / how to get to a significant improvement and try to filter out what is less and or not important to get this result. You can throw out a lot of things that could become bloat and or not necessarily needed right away; but also to work towards future proofing.
If you really want help the best / most powerful help for your own cause can be found within. If you give yourself a chance you might be surprised as to how far persistent hard and smart work can take you on your journeys in life.
Also you can probably find a solution within the power offered by the open source game engine tools. So as to be able to tinker with this shield ability with fails that bring you closer towards a result to your liking / what in your heart of hearts could feel to be 'success'.
If you suck at first then that means you can only get better as time goes on when you spend time towards getting better. Bit by bit, piece by piece, iterate, iterate, iterate. Every big thing is made up of many small things all put together over time. Put in enough time and effort and anyone can make big things in life:-).
Maybe you just motivated other readers for contribution... But for me it's too much effort. Im much worse at developing than at testing and through-thinking the game
That is fine, just do what you most feel is right for yourself to do. There are many ways to live life. Also to think that life would be so boring if everyone was the same. Although you might be better than you think if you just add a bit of time tinkering away. Even if you get ~1% better every day for a year that ends up being over 3 and a half times better than you started and if you keep that up it snowballs and compounds into a better and better result. Mostly it is a matter of finding what you are interested in. If you love doing a kind of work; you will know for it will not feel like work at all :-).