I'm pretty sure we have all good things to say on the system and maybe Larian will pick up on some of those.
Larian will pick up only those ideas that fit with their ideas or dont drastically change them. The only worthwhile result of these kinds of discussions is whether some modders pick up a good idea or not.
The Baardwark Bard mod should be the best option to hope for since it also includes changes to CC effects. And may also change how armors function.
The armor system and CC effects are very codependant and both need changing, not just one, to really have a better and more tactical gameplay.
The way to do this is to make a lot of softer CC effects that do not completely stun or freeze enemies but cause softer debuffs and similar negative effects. And then also keep hard lock CC effects - as critical hit success only. This would make them rare and hard to achieve, but still available because they are fun and tactically useful abilities -
if they are rare and hard to achieve.Some further balancing of how crits happen and what requirements they should have in order not to be too easy to achieve would then be relatively easier to add.
This could also improve value of Wits.
Constitution could then give resistance to critical strikes - and therefore higher chance to avoid hard lock CC effects, which would make it more valuable.
Thus the attributes would be balanced and improved. Armors of course, should work in some form of percentage based defense/damage reduction as i (and several others) already suggested.
It could be a simple point for point system because that is elegant and easy to implement - and extremely easy to understand even by the most casual of players.
While the insane amounts of armor and Hp numbers need to be toned down. Dealing in thousands of points is pointless.- ba dum-tshh.
Its literally pointless bloat that serves no purpose.
All numbers should be lowered into hundreds at most across the board. Armor, vitality/HP and damage values.
Thats not a big demand or a big issue but it would make the whole system more elegant, lean and mean.
