300-fragment Defense Rune

[Wildflower]

I am not convinced it will do much for the understated emphasis this game has on defense.
If defensive stuff would be more useful then perhaps this is a good addition.
But as it is at the moment the talents, cloaks or chests hardly seem to add much value there.
A rune would not solve the imbalance imo.
If we go that route, I would like to see talent have more impact as well as equipment.

[Dawnseeker]

I am not convinced it will do much for the understated emphasis this game has on defense.
If defensive stuff would be more useful then perhaps this is a good addition.
But as it is at the moment the talents, cloaks or chests hardly seem to add much value there.
A rune would not solve the imbalance imo.
If we go that route, I would like to see talent have more impact as well as equipment.

We have to be careful with allowing defense to be too powerful. Powerful defense, in combination with healing, could make certain high players essentially invincible, which is definitely not what we want.

[mattp169]

For once i agree with dawn.

I am against a new defense rune of any type. I wouldnt mind seeing a new rune that combine magic attack with say hp since that is definitely missing.
Nor would i be against current defense runes going to 12

[Wildflower]

We have to be careful with allowing defense to be too powerful. Powerful defense, in combination with healing, could make certain high players essentially invincible, which is definitely not what we want.

Careful of course.
But the talents are almost useless and do hardly anything against the crits Ada does.
Nor do the runes and talents effect heroics.

[Andy]

For once i agree with dawn.

I am against a new defense rune of any type. I wouldnt mind seeing a new rune that combine magic attack with say hp since that is definitely missing.
Nor would i be against current defense runes going to 12

The problem with that is that there are not enough other runes to fill the slots for Mages if you have a combined rune.

[mattp169]

The problem with that is that there are not enough other runes to fill the slots for Mages if you have a combined rune.

Sure there are.

More then enough to fill every rune slot with a useful rune

[Andy]

Sure there are.

More then enough to fill every rune slot with a useful rune

You are right. I miscounted. There are actually 8 defensive runes that a Mage can use:

Vitality
Resistance
Nibleness
Messiness
Infalability
Flintiness
Dexterousness
Burliness

[mattp169]

You are right. I miscounted. There are actually 8 defensive runes that a Mage can use:

Vitality
Resistance
Nibleness
Messiness
Infalability
Flintiness
Dexterousness
Burliness

they can also use
endurance
reliability

[hjam_8879649]

How about a rune that gives you a chance at 10 to 20 percent skill attack boost for one round or a def boost for one round or a HP boost etc etc, now that we are talking about a new type of rune.

[Andy]

they can also use
endurance
reliability

True, but they would replace some of the ones I mentioned. It would not help fill the slots.