Dex Builds

Keep dexterity to weapon wielding and attack speed, as it says on the character application format. We already have endurance and fortitude for stamina regenerating and stamina endurance. We also already have athletics and acrobatics.

I reckon perhaps having it so that you multiply their acrobatics stat by their athletics stat, and then multiply that by their endurance statistic, to get a dodge stat. (This would only apply in PVP, as in PVE, it will get too clusterfucky) For example:

Acrobatics: **
Athletics: *
Endurance: 15

2 x 1 x 15 = 30.

Dodge stat is 30.

For every attack that is gonna hit you, and you pull off a dodge, you lose X amount of that stat for the battle. This way it actually encourages people to FIGHT rather than act like spiderman and just hop all over the place, as they would actually have to PARRY... People with high dex builds are 9/10 of the time sacrificing other stats, and are more like "Glass Cannons", where they can deal damage quickly and to a good degree, but are weaker in long drawn out battles. And if you have the stats to match it and aren't a Glass Cannon? Good for you.

This statistic could be added to the character sheet, just under the table.

Fortitude would be something purely IC based, so for example, straight after a big battle, if you have 10 fortitude, you're not going to just be all 100/100 and good to go.

If player X fights players A and B, player X will have to actually either run away, or fight smart, and not use up all his stamina at once... This also encourages SMART FIGHTING.

Armour would not effect this dodge stat, as it MASSIVELY over-complicates everything, and more powerful and richer characters are likely to be ICly more trained anyways, so it still makes sense.




This idea actually makes the stats more relevant, as acts of running around and leaping and such aren't down to DEX, they are down to ATHLETICS, ACROBATICS, ENDURANCE and FORTITUDE.

Just saying, "Yeah, I got 1 ACR, but my DEX is 30 so I can triple ninja backflip" makes no sense as A: DEX is weapon handling, and B: 1 Acrobatics means you're a novice at acrobatics... Not that you can be a battlefield trapeze artist.