[Translation] Armour Types

[Szaman]

Originally Posted by Chaos_Theory

I think focus is how easily you are interupted while casting spells or using skills? Higher the focus the less likley you are interupted.

Thx.

Originally Posted by Chaos_Theory

Well what I found weird with leather armor is that rangers/assassins will be wearing and typically they are mage killers. One would think that they would have low physical defense but higher magical defense. I do agree that this doesn't tell us about the hidden bonuses.

They still may be. We know too little about the skills and the game mechanics to speculate.
What I would expect is assasins/rangers to have no extra bonuses to magic defence as they get more HP and skills that can drop a mage very fast (yes, they too can die fast, but that is the point of learning who to target first and how to approach enemy to be at advantage and surprise him).
Low physical def is of no concern to them as they should dodge a lot and they should NOT tank.

Originally Posted by [PhiberOpticks]

I find that difficult to believe, as that ability will probably be inherent to the classes that are supposed to have dodge bonuses.

Since these items are part of a set, it is more than likely that each piece of equipment is suited for a specific school.

In case you don't dodge it.

I think you miss one thing - some classes are predesigned to use certain armor and weapon types - eg. rangers will be better off with a bow/dual and light then with a shield/plate and a sword. It's the combined class + armor bonuses that make the difference (in my previous post I did not mention class/ability bonuses as we were talking about armors only). It's never JUST the class or JUST the armor.
I like the concept of wizard with plate (stygma) but this will surely have some drawbacks (like lowered casting speed etc. or getting only the basic magic/physical defence benefits due to the lack of passive skills). Yes, for some specific purposes it migh be favourable to wear armor set other that the "predesigned" for the class but it's not an instant "win" button.

Originally Posted by Fleiva

Lineage2 lol

Sorry, You're so wrong... Maybe in low grades.
Ever tried this in S or high A grade? Lack of skills and proficiencies kills this concept (at least when You don't have few bilion adena to spend... but endgame in L2 is just broken).

[Fleiva]

Originally Posted by Szaman

Sorry, You're so wrong... Maybe in low grades.
Ever tried this in S or high A grade? Lack of skills and proficiencies kills this concept (at least when You don't have few bilion adena to spend... but endgame in L2 is just broken).

Im not wrong at all. There was a stage back in c2 iirc where daggers went for doom heavy and shield, for example, and characters like tyrant have been seen many times with heavy armors in olympiad, daggers go with shield into olympiad aswell most of the time against skills based characters, tallum heavy archers in forest of the death? A lot. Tanks using robes just to fight mages? a lot also.

[Szaman]

I did not say it is impossible. But at current stage it's stupid (it's all the matter of what changes took place in what chronicle - C2 was daggers a.k.a. "I can one-shot a supe-dupa-defence tank with a butterknife", later came Necros a.k.a. "I can gloom/anchor the <piii> out on anyone", then archers and so on). We (all L2 players) all know how stupid and unbalanced this game was/is. Only in CT1 did NCSoft do something to... well... not "balance" the game, but to put some things in right order. But that's too late for this game...

[Pancak3s]

lineage2 pvp is completely broken on all levels, therefore anyone who tries to compare anything with lineage2 pvp is wrong.

[Ipmia]

Originally Posted by Pancak3s

lineage2 pvp is completely broken on all levels, therefore anyone who tries to compare anything with lineage2 pvp is wrong.

Just as RFO, saying otherwize is blattant lie.. actually any pvp game isnt balanced the question is " can we still enjoy it regardless the few unbalances issues that ANY game will have no matter what ?"


personnally i did enjoy it way much than RFO, the only pvp game comming close ( and better) was DAOC.. and i played most of them at high lvl. RFO being the worse one with the servers not being able to handle the CW adn were you couldnt see anything comming unless the target was almost on you..