@Stabbey - I never said anything whatsoever about shields.
I said HP.
HP.
No shields. No equipment. Hit points. Fire hitpoints. Ice hitpoints. Electric hitpoints.
That's what I'm taking about. More variation on hitpoints, so some enemies have higher elemental hitpoints than others.
If you were to bring shields into it (and I didn't), they could have varying degrees of elemental hitpoint boosts (it certainty wouldn't make them worthless - on the contrary, it would only add to their power, especially when you bring random elemental hitpoint augmentation into play)
