Worm

[l'Ancien]

Just a random idea.

What if you gave the Worm "Stealth"? All the other legendary creatures have special abilities. Hydra has a damage shield attack--acid blood--and seems to have an area of affect attack--three heads. Lich and Bronze Knight are champions, and have access to magic/rally and artifacts. The Phoenix comes back from the dead. Spiders have Web, Fafnir and Ice Drake have Breath. The Worm doesn't have any special ability.

The ability to stealth would represent the Worm's ability to hide underground. Therefore, he should have 100% magic resistence (not +100%, just exactly 100%) while stealthed, and should have increased defense or damage resistence while stealthed. That's not required for the concept, if it's difficult to achieve or would be too unbalancing, but would make it more accurate for the concept. In any case, he definitely should not suffer any defense penalties for being stealthed, since it represents actually being underground, which is presumably safer than being on the surface of the battlefield.

Is that possible? Would it be good? What do you think?

[Boaster]

I actually did give the Earthworm a special ability. It casts Aftershock on attack, at 5% chance.

A very good idea you have presented, but as far as the magic resistances and the whole load would prove to be difficult. The Earthworm does have good Stealth Factor, comparable to a Thief, but I don't think giving him the Stealth ability would be a good idea. That would almost be like putting Stealth on an Earth Warrior. It's bad enough that he's strong as all hell, but he can sneak up to you too?

A very good idea, but I don't think it would be good to use.

[l'Ancien]

admin said:

I actually did give the Earthworm a special ability. It casts Aftershock on attack, at 5% chance.

A very good idea you have presented, but as far as the magic resistances and the whole load would prove to be difficult. The Earthworm does have good Stealth Factor, comparable to a Thief, but I don't think giving him the Stealth ability would be a good idea. That would almost be like putting Stealth on an Earth Warrior. It's bad enough that he's strong as all hell, but he can sneak up to you too?

A very good idea, but I don't think it would be good to use.

Yes, well, but he should be able to sneak up on you. He's underground. Anyway, a thief can kill any champion with one or two blows, as long as you eventually win the combat.