Damsels Progress
Added 2018-08-06 13:01:11 +0000 UTCI had a productive week. One thing I'm very aware of is that many of the changes I'm making to Damsels will be invisible to players, and others will have only minor effects. 1.03 will be extremely light on new renders... most of the Damsels rendering I've been doing has been for the Bard class in 1.04. But, a few examples of stuff that is already in 1.03, as of now:
Among the goodies that are up and working, however, are healing potions (and mana potions) to make playing without a healer a little more viable. Additionally, the "Advance" and "Retreat" mechanic has now been changed to allow you to move the character to exactly where you want her. One of the side effects of that is that characters now have an extra spot free on their main skill bar, which I'll be able to exploit in the future.
Damage will now have a "type", in 1.03 -- "Piercing", "Crushing", "Fire" or whatever, and the types will interact differently with armor and some monsters will have resistances or vulnerabilities to certain types of damage.
The process of refactoring has had a side benefit, which is that in going through the code I found some bugs that I haven't had reported, so there will be a relatively long list of bug fixes.
Looking forward to getting this out to everyone.
