Change 6353

```Originally Posted : Wed Aug 10 22:58:28 2022
Posted by : Burlok
Title : Fighters / Defend
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Greetings Denziens of Tsunami,

The fighters of Tsunami recently held their annual conference. During
their strategic planning meeting it was determined that the biggest
complaint against them is that "they do too much damage". In order to
mitigate these complaints they determined that "we could also be more
defensive". Make it so.


The defend skill had been temporarily deactivated (in terms of bonus AC)
during the class adjustments that recently occurred. This has been
re-activated. The soft-cap on bonus AC from defend is eqal to the AC of
their shield. So in terms of bonus AC you are typically looking at around
their shield value.


I have also a "defend_chance". This is the chance of a combatant with a
shield and the defense skill to block an attack! The soft-cap on this is
currently 20%. The super-soft-cap is about 25%. The amount blocked depends
on a shield AC and any "block skills" that are currently active.


So Warriors and Knights will now block attacks sometimes.


BURLOK THEY ARE BLOCKING MY PSYCHIC ATTACK!!

Yes. They currently will. I guess holding a slap of metal in front of your
brain messes with the brain waves (will still bypass the AC bonus).
Currently there is no damage type that bypasses this passive block. This
may be tweaked.
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