Items misc

NOTE:  Part of the GWF changes were merged from hachem_muche's MR (!407).  However, I didn't feel that the special casing of a bunch of specific talents or the limitation to range 1 was necessary, so those were left out and just the basic system is here.  Ihe no recursion flag is added here so if those special cases are decided to be necessary they are easily added.  In my view, limiting melee attacks to range 1 but only if they're special doubled melee attacks from one talent introduces an unnecessary and weird inconsistency.

Randart Powers:  A convenient counterbalance to the (mostly) talent level scaling of the most difficult content game is randart powers.  Randbosses only equip a few slots of gear, whereas players equip many, and the more scaled players get the more slots they fill with randart items.  This change cleans up some of the near useless randart powers (encumberance) and considerably increases the availability of the armor stat on them.  Part of the armor gain is restricted to high levels as the early/mid game armor in the game is pretty much fine, but weapon damage is scaling out of control endgame, and armor is hard to get on gear.  Many generic randart powers also had their values tweaked.  

Rare Items:  The generation algorithm for these is godawful.  This is a problem especially on Normal/Nightmare because players expect rare items to be interesting, and instead get something that is generally a lot worse than a blue item.  This is triples the randart power points on rare items and adds 2 more powers to avoid diminishing returns, which creates highly theme-focused items.  The full impact of this is hard to evaluate, but it should make rares a lot more satisfying.  I have now playtested with these changes quite a bit and am pretty happy with them.
 
Projection Ego:  There are two huge problems with this.  The first is that it makes NPCs able to pull huge burst damage ignoring blocking and at long range, and this is unavoidable unless you carefully check the gear of everything.  The second is that it encourages melee players to play at range just whoring this ego instead of actually fighting as melee.  As we are well on our way to melee classes not being horrible anymore this crutch is no longer needed.

The redesigned version gives a small bonus melee attack on random targets (not the same target) in range 10 on melee hit.  Sort of a weird AoE variant with no relation to the old functionality.  Number of targets is calculated by material level and each target can only be hit once.

True Grit:  A huge problem on NPCs and awkward design for PCs.  Redesigned a bit.  Now the stamina cost starts at 1 and goes up by 0.3 every turn at all levels, the resistance apply on activation not just at the start of your next turn, and the cooldown and sustain cost are reduced.  This is still ridiculous on NPCs if it can't be removed, but at least you have the option of running them out of stamina.  After like infinity turns.  Or something.  Feels much better on PCs.  Also upgraded to disable on runrest.

Greater Weapon Focus:  Too strong in all cases, and kinda awkward for PCs ever since I made it not instant.  This strictly limits the duration to scale to 8 at player talent levels and not much higher for NPCs, limits it to once per turn per weapon, and reverts it to be no_energy.

Shield Slam:  Cooldown and stamina decreased.  No idea what I was thinking with the original numbers.

Last Stand:  Adjusted the defense scaling to match the dex part of Shield Wall and also made it add armor.  Updated to disable on runrest.  Increased cooldown to 8 but removed all energy costs.


See merge request !400

Assassin Lord

Nerf Assasin Lord talent levels.  Shadowblade talents phase in more gradually, mainly on higher difficulties, since he has enough Mag stat to actually learn them now.

Nerf rogue sapper talent levels: Weaker melee and less stealth, reflecting updated changes to rogue talents.

See merge request !404

Artifact buffs2!

Buffed malediction by giving it curses on hit and spellcast, added some spellpower, removed regen malus to avoid resting issues
Removed healmod malus from Death's Embrace
Cinderfeet no longer damages friendlies

See merge request !412

Greater Weapon Focus will proc up to once each turn for each weapon. It will not proc if .turn_procs._no_melee_recursion = true.

Remove energy cost on deactivating Last Stand to avoid forced deactivation costing energy and add 2 cooldown to compensate

High Peak now have many possible events, including subvaults

Brawler update

Brawler wound up nerfed indirectly by several of the recent changes, notably the stamina cost added to its former core defense.  This update addresses the stamina problem, gives more uses for the increased combo point income, and restores the weapon damage passive to the normal formula.

See merge request !411

Increase the duration of Open Palm Block

Reduce Brawler bonus attack speed to 20% from 40%

Reduce Haymaker cooldown to 8

Draconic Body cooldown reduced to 15
Corrupted Shell also increases armour

Through The Crowd now also grants 3% global speed per stack (up to 15%%) and is also given to all party members

Windtouched Speed now also reduces all cooldowns by 10%

Superpower changed 60% of Strength and 40% Willpower modifier
I Can Carry the World also grants a size category and 10 more strength
Massive Blow also applies Counterstrike if a wall is hit (and fixes desc to reflect it ignores save & immunity)

Art gem polish, as requested

Artifact Gems now have the color_attributes table.
Crystalline items can be unmade and remade again at a higher tier.
Telos items now form a set.
Telos really did store his mind in that gem. Maybe you should keep it away from your golem... :)

See merge request !410

Ureslak Set

Ureslak's Femur and Ureslak's Molted Scales form a set.

Renamed effect Ureslak's Molten Scales to Chromatic Resonance, which can handle a list of damage types and checks damage type definitions.  The effect description and game log messages are enhanced.

Added equilibrium_regen to Object descriptions.

See merge request !399