Specialist armor is intended to be mixed with other types. Specialist trades in general attacking power and direction for defenses against ranged/specialized damage, and eventually grants a maximum attacking bonus against 4 of the 6 enemy types. They get the most defenses and options that let them become better at their job in whatever way they choose. things that focus on utility over raw damage. Utility is for players that wish to play the 'support' class, using items like mist bombs, antiguas, sudaruska, pepperbox. They focus on one weapon type more than the others, but buff the others enough to use them. Hybrid is for players that would mix and match weapons to create the strongest combination possible, using swords, guns and bombs at once. They have the option of giving up other weapon types completely, defenses completely, or both for more bonus towards that weapon type. Purist is for players that would only use that one weapon type exclusively, and allows them to truly master it in every way possible. The idea is that each class gets 12 armors from this exactly, based on the 4 play styles and subdivided into the 3 sub-play styles. Specialist splits into monster bonuses Gains additional status resist low and +3 HP, weapon buff +1 to all remains Offensive = Gains +1 damage instead of losing 2 gains MSI low per piece Fast = Gains MSI high per piece, maxes CTR/ASI Defensive = Gains +2 more HP, decent armor protection against all defense types, gains additional med to all statuses Utility gains negative global damage: med and splits into Generalist = Non-main weapon types buffed only slightly, gains MSI low Duality = One non-main weapon type buffed to slightly less than the main (2 optoins, one for each weapon type) all-in = even less defenses (cannot get to positive status resists) + weapon debuffs, gains MSI med per piece pure = huge weapon debuffs for other types of weapons (they become unuseable), gains status resistance low for all chaos = less defenses, statuses etc, less restriction on weapon type Purist fully maxes that weapon type with both pieces, splits into for 36 total = choose an additional play style aspect Utility = +1 weapon specific ASI/CTR, or MSI for bombsĥ* = splits to 3 piecea ea. Hybrid = +1 non-weapon asi for gun/sword, ctr for bomb Specialist = trades normal defense for the same amount of all non-normal defenses gains additional global damage lowĤ* = Gain a stat, depending on what you chose. Utility = focus shifts to statuses (+high to all statuses) and large ASI/CTR buffs Hybrid = focus primarily on that weapon, but gain about half the stats for the non-chose 2 weapon types Purist = focus entirely on that weapon, it gains large buffs global damage low+ weapon damage low, weapon ctr low, weapon asi lowģ* = splits to 4 pieces ea. I propose repurposing the gunner armors into bomber/swordy/gunner armors, and then going from there.Ģ* = splits to 3 pieces ea. Granting bombers and sword users additional armor types in the same way as padded was created for gunners would only continue to flood the game with these armors and would be a lot of work to generate. There are two obvious solutions to this- the first is to give bombers and sword users the same deal, and the second is to give bombers and sword users some of the gunner armor. My issue with padded is that there's too much of it and that it all pertains to gunslingers, overpowering them armor wise while flooding the game with mostly useless armor pieces. for 36 total = choose an enemy to focus on or generalist for 12 total = 4 types of status resistance/weaknessĥ* = splits to 3 piecea ea. = 3 damage typesģ* = splits to 4 pieces ea. I'd like to start with the padded armor set, which I believe to be quite central to the game at the moment.Ģ* = splits to 3 pieces ea. I've put a great deal of thought into this issue and came to the conclusion that the best course of action would be to re-balance armor around The Perfect Mask of Seerus and chaos cloak, because those are genuinely fun and worth using.

Spiral knights padded armor