Wonky/Misleading Talent Descriptions (1.6.7)
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:00 pm
So after a discussion about it in the TomE discord, I decided to make a thread to record misleading and wonky talent descriptions that can cause misunderstandings or confusions with suggestions for corrections, I'll be adding more as I find more.
Also as a side note, absolutely tons of talent descriptions dont specify what they scale with, while others do, it'd be really nice QOL to actually know what your talent scales with, people really shouldn't have to use tometips to figure out what their talents actually do
So just a couple to start
Dissolved Face
"Your face melts, exploding in a targeted gush of blood and gore dealing xx.xx darkness damage (xx.xx total) in a cone over 5 turns.
This part of the description feels like it's a mix of "deals xx.xx total damage over 5 turns" and "deals xx.xx per turn for 5 turns", which honestly from a grammical point of view makes no sense, it should be one or the other, or at least be "Deals xx.xx damage per turn for 5 turns (xx.xx total)"
Blood Spray
"You extract corrupted blood from your own body, hitting everything in a frontal cone of radius x for xx.xx blight damage. Each creature hit has a xx% chance of being infected by a random disease, doing xx.xx blight damage and weakening either constitution, strength or dexterity for 6 turns."
Pretty much the same as dissolved face, has total damage and damage per turn mixed up, where it says "doing xx.xx blight damage for 6 turns" it actually says the total damage, not the damage per turn.
Also as a side note, absolutely tons of talent descriptions dont specify what they scale with, while others do, it'd be really nice QOL to actually know what your talent scales with, people really shouldn't have to use tometips to figure out what their talents actually do
So just a couple to start
Dissolved Face
"Your face melts, exploding in a targeted gush of blood and gore dealing xx.xx darkness damage (xx.xx total) in a cone over 5 turns.
This part of the description feels like it's a mix of "deals xx.xx total damage over 5 turns" and "deals xx.xx per turn for 5 turns", which honestly from a grammical point of view makes no sense, it should be one or the other, or at least be "Deals xx.xx damage per turn for 5 turns (xx.xx total)"
Blood Spray
"You extract corrupted blood from your own body, hitting everything in a frontal cone of radius x for xx.xx blight damage. Each creature hit has a xx% chance of being infected by a random disease, doing xx.xx blight damage and weakening either constitution, strength or dexterity for 6 turns."
Pretty much the same as dissolved face, has total damage and damage per turn mixed up, where it says "doing xx.xx blight damage for 6 turns" it actually says the total damage, not the damage per turn.