SUGGESTION: Ring curse rework

ShatteredPD

Hello PD players,

today I want to share with you a suggestion to improve one of Shattered's many features.

Shattered PD reworked nearly every aspect of vanilla PD, curses being no acception. However, ring curses behave mostly the same as they did in vanilla. Cursed rings aren't degraded but act as such, reducing player's stats. This is always bad, sometimes even run-ending if the player doesn't have a way to remowe the curse.

So, I propose a change that would make ring curses less detrimental and more interesting. Rings would still have mostly the same stats, just like cursed weapons and armors do, but with a caveat.

Some ideas I came up with:

  • Ring of energy would still boost recharging, but it would drain player's saturation in that process.
  • Ring of sharpshooting would still boost missle weapons, but using them could trigger a random weapon curse effect.
  • Ring of wealth would still provide extra loot, but any equipment you would find would be more likely to be cursed.

This would open new gameplay possibilities as equipping a cursed ring could suddenly be a viable option. Players might even cast cursed infusion on a ring to get more power if they don't care about the drawback. All in all, it could turn a mechanic which is just punishing into something more interesting and probably wouldn't be that hard to implement, just to come up with a drawback for every ring.

Posted Jan 25, 2021, 12:13 AM UTC

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Dielight•

Upvote this man, spread tho word. LET THE KING KNOW THESE SACRED TEXTS!

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Thanatoast02•

I like

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BrolyParagus•

I think for Ring of Energy, instead of saturation, you could still increase charge rate but reduce the maximum of charges by 1 or 2. The curse would be around the theme of wands.

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ikillppl•

Theres definitely room for more interesting ring curses, but probably wont be dealt with for awhile. The dev still has 2 more talent trees coming, and has said hes working on alchemy stuff, new classes, better shops, quest changes, and so on. If you haven't, check out the news post on his plans for 2021

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Quacken8All SoUs on one item or bust!•

Ring of wealth doesn't give you much equipable loot until it's already heavily upgraded

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Candras•

Just dump 3 upgrade scrolls in it and you'll be struggling with inv space.

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