Reworking Racial Traits

[Yue]

I always thought it was sad on RoK that classes were binded for the most part on specific races. I think Racial Traits should be improved and worked upon in order to justify making both magical and non magical classes for most classes.

Here is a proposal. Some of this is taken from the balance discussion we used to have a few years ago, some of it I am making up just now to see if it makes sense.

Humans

• 10% chance to deal 20% more damage on melee attacks
• +1 agi on hitrate

Half-Elves

• 10% chance to deal 10% more damage on melee attacks
• 10% chance to deal 10% more damage/effect on spells

Elves

• 10% chance to deal 20% more damage/effect on spells
• +1 on Agi Dodge

Saurians

• Natural +2 AC
• Infravision

Goblins

• Small Size
• Infravision

Dark Elf

• 10% Chance to inflict poison
• 10% Chance to absorb 20% of magic damage as MP
• 20% Chance of casting a spell with 50% of original mana cost
• +1 on Agi Hit Rate
• Infravision

Halflings

• +2 agi on dodge effect
• Small Size

Half-Orcs

• Poison Immunity
• Increased HP and Mana regeneration rate (6x)

Gnomes

• 10% chance to double a melee attack
• 10% chance to double cast selected spells
• Small size

Dwarves

• 10% chance to absorb incoming damage by 10%
• Poison Resistance
• +4 natural AC

[Zilveari]

Based on the reworking of AC in another thread, I would give Saurians, Dark Elves, Lings and Elves a natural bonus to dodge%. Each class having a different bonus.

[Yue]

Based on the reworking of AC in another thread, I would give Saurians, Dark Elves, Lings and Elves a natural bonus to dodge%. Each class having a different bonus.

Hmm.
Its interesting for elves because elves currently don't have anything nice melee wise.
Dark Elves... I'm kind of thinking Dark Elves as more of an 'outside the box' class. Maybe it would make sense to add a +1 agi on hitrate (according to current formula)
Saurians could work, considering Saurian is a race meant to be fried by any magic users hah. But their Agi is already high along with high str and decent end. Maybe they can be given a tad more AC for melee damage reduction?

And Lings I already added a +1 agi on dodge.
I was thinking it might be interesting to give better hitrate to melee lings, but that doesn't seem to make much sense to add on both. We're essentially adding agi there.

[Yue]

I think it would be interesting to make Dwarves more tankish.
If AC works as damage reduction we could give Dwarves a bit of natural AC (Even slightly higher than Saurians), and maybe give them a random chance to reduce incoming magic damage.

[Zilveari]

Sounds about right. Dwarves are very "hearty". Saurians could still make use of some extra AC since they have scales too now that I think about it.

[reoku]

sounds to me like those poor goblins get the... short end of the stick lolol

[Zilveari]

Fuck em. They were godly for years.

[reoku]

Terruh will never be forgotten.. long live the goblin king

[NiteHawk]

I'd honestly prefer changing stats before giving racial hidden bonuses. Besides some general things (Like infravision, AC) I think it should be stat based if we can avoid hidden anything.

Classes are what the hidden value changes should be in, (more damage, dodge,etc based on hidden stats).

I can understand some racial skill bonuses etc but those are easily visible.

8% more dodge is pretty much +2 agi. Why make it hidden?