Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Suggestions Luck

I just had an interesting idea of a Luck skill. This could be a viable alternative to Wisdom or Hevean's Gift. Basically, the skill would slightly influence the random elements to your favour providing combat bonus and better item drops.
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Luck

You have the uncanny ability to influence events to your favour.

Level 1: Offence and Defence are raised by 1%. You are slightly more likely to find better items.
Level 2: Offence and Defence are raised by 2%. You are somewhat more likely to find better items.
Level 3: Offence and Defence are raised by 3%. You are moderately more likely to find better items.
Level 4: Offence and Defence are raised by 4%. You are quite more likely to find better items.
Level 5: Offence and Defence are raised by 5%. You are much more likely to find better items.
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Thoughts?

1%-5% of offense & defense, are u sure it's not under-powered? luck should've increased more of those albeit in a slightly random manner, i feel.

any percentage in finding stuff?

this offense means chances to hit as well as making higher damage, is it? including luck in the game factor will mean re-balancing so it's kind of hardto imagine how it will work unless we use DD as reference.

this means i'm all bonkers. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Yeah... I think that raising Luck would be enabled in 2. But what kind it would be? I would prefer that it would be raising passive skill that can be both raised with skill points and if u don't want to raise it would come little up ´with each level of character... Or should it be like in D2 that it would be
like % and the best possible % would be somekind like in D2 that it would be something like 900 and this would mean that u get 900 times better drops...

900% luck on top of standard levelling up bonuses? I think that's a bit overkill! I was just thinking of Luck as an additional bonus to slide events to your favour, not provide uncanny God-like ability. Although I agree that my first thought might be a little under-effective, much like Wisdom was.

I do see what you're saying, though. Personally, I don't think Luck should rise automatically. You already have the Agility attribute to raise your Offence and Defence and just because you've worked at rising a level doesn't really make you any luckier. I think Luck would work as a skill. I see luck as trusting your instincts or being guided by a higher force. By developing this skill, you are learning to trust your instincts or guide to lead you to glory.

That's GOOD one... But I still think that there should be somekind of alternate
to this LUCK thing... Like in D2 even if u had 900mf the chances to get the best bow in the game was only 1/500000 so that isn't even enough... But LUCK
would be best in skill kind of thingie...

I see what you mean. That's why I didn't put numerical modifiers on the "better items" part of the skill. I really have no idea how much is better! And saying that you have a "900% better chance of finding good items" doesn't really mean anything if you don't know the figures to begin with. What I had in mind is that the net-worth of items you find would be worth a certain percentage more. Because items are generated randomly you can easily add another bonus worth an extra 10% in gold. So all items are worth more in use and gold!

And now I understand why you want it to rise automatically with levels. That way better items appear later in the game instead of right at the start. Good thinking! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />