Sustain Buffs

The suggestion is nice, but why is the energy removal expressed as a percentage rather than a fixed value? This disadvantages players who invest more stats in energy.

What about a buff similar to the leopard or reindeer transformation? It could cost energy to cast, but once activated, it would drain energy every X seconds.

If you have multiple buffs, you won't be able to fight for long if you don't have enough energy.

2 hours ago, Shenmue said:

but why is the energy removal expressed as a percentage rather than a fixed value? This disadvantages players who invest more stats in energy.

The reason for the percentage and not a number is to make the points per energy stat goes down the more you put stats into it, The more buffs you use the less you have for skills you can use, let me give an example of both to show what I mean.

A light swordsman use.

Swordsman Resolution   25 Energy       15% Energy
Haki Buff                            45 Energy       25% Energy
Light Sword                       30 Energy       20% Energy
 Total                                 100 Energy      60% Energy

With a flat energy cost a player will just have to put 20 points into the energy stat to make the 100 energy and to keep all their buffs up, use all their skills with no downside to having more buffs and skills than other players.

With a percentage cost every point a player puts into the energy stat gets lower the more buff they use so for a Hybrid player to have all 3 buffs up they will have to have 100 points into the energy stat to keep all their buffs up and have 200 energy for other skills so they have to balance their buffs and their stats which in turn balance the game.

3 hours ago, Shenmue said:

What about a buff similar to the leopard or reindeer transformation? It could cost energy to cast, but once activated, it would drain energy every X seconds.

If you have multiple buffs, you won't be able to fight for long if you don't have enough energy.

Another point of the suggestion is to keep the fighting going and not make players have to always stop and regain energy because it keeps getting drained over time, this will only really work if the energy regen upgrade on gear worked for combat then players will have to stack that to keep fighting and having fun.

1: %Energy Costs of skills will double down on the punishment of going hyrbid. The fruit system is to help overall with the end-game aspect of the game and should be doubled down on in terms of creativity: what that means is every player should strive to fit a fruit into their build. If you want to punish players for using a fruit look at the future of sea prism and gears. Gears.

Run and Buff is a hard meta to try and attack with this kind of change, if you go the route of the transformation cost; you will have nobody using haki just like reindeer and leopard. We mess around and use the transformations but in pvp 1: the models dont have clothing, 2 the energy drain sucks.

Energy + Cooldowns is already a pretty good gateway in combat. If you put a flat cost of energy reservation it would work out amazingly.

1 hour ago, archadria2 said:

1: %Energy Costs of skills will double down on the punishment of going hyrbid. The fruit system is to help overall with the end-game aspect of the game and should be doubled down on in terms of creativity: what that means is every player should strive to fit a fruit into their build. If you want to punish players for using a fruit look at the future of sea prism and gears. Gears.

Run and Buff is a hard meta to try and attack with this kind of change, if you go the route of the transformation cost; you will have nobody using haki just like reindeer and leopard. We mess around and use the transformations but in pvp 1: the models dont have clothing, 2 the energy drain sucks.

Energy + Cooldowns is already a pretty good gateway in combat. If you put a flat cost of energy reservation it would work out amazingly.

In most cases the % cost is better than a flat number and that is only if you use my numbering i'm sure if added it will be way less than the numbers I put there.

This will buff Reindeer and Leopard because they wont have the energy drain this will just have a flat % off their energy

Thanks for your replay @Dareem, but I still have some issues with the percentage system.

- Players will still have to stop to charge since after using some techniques they will be low hp.

- I don't see how it impacts more hybrid players than normal players. Normal players will have more energy stats so they will lose more energy if it's percentage based.

- With an energy drain system, people with low energy (hybrid players) will have an harder time chaining techniques.

We can adjust the energy drain value so it's not that big. Also people will keep their clothes

Energy drain sucks, but it's still playable right? Isn't that better since you can last longer than fixed time and decide when to stop it?

@archadria2 what do you mean by "flat cost of energy reservation"?

for instance right now using haki costs 50 energy, My thought was maybe a little more than that. a constant 70, achieved by -7 energy on the buff itself. 

I see what you mean @archadria2, but what if the player wants to keep it longer?