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Dying

2018-04-16T06:31:25Z

Prios: Update to "enter the light" info

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[[File:Dying (skill).jpg|thumb|right|300px|A tombstone left behind by a player.]]
{{Quote|
The art of dying.
}}
'''Dying''' is a skill that represents the variety of unique ways in which a character has died. The skill unlocks small, but permanent bonuses to Max Health. It also gives access to a very useful ability, therefore it is actually a good idea for new players to try to get their characters killed in a variety of situations.

===Bonus Experience===
The first time your character dies in a unique way rewards '''bonus death experience'''. To see a list of the unique ways in which you've died previously (and how many times each), go to '''Skills panel > Dying''' and select the button there.

{{Quote|
(Earned 50 Death XP) 
(Bonus XP! First Death From This Cause!)
}}

===New ability===
At level 10 the Dying skill grants a new choice in the Death dialog, to "Enter the light". This new ability grants access to a portal to random locations, along with portals to [[Serbule]] Keep and [[Rahu]]. These last two portals have 8-hour cooldowns, however.

==[[Dying/Level Up Rewards|Dying Level Up Rewards]]==

{| {{STDT| mw-collapsible<includeonly> mw-collapsed</includeonly>}}
! Level || Reward
|-
| 10 || New death action
|-
| 20 || +1 to Necromancy
|-
| 25 || +1 to Nature Appreciation
|-
| 30 || +1 to Necromancy
|-
| 35 || +1 to Holistic Wellness
|}

==[[Dying/Stat Bonuses|Dying Stat Bonuses]]==

{| {{STDT| mw-collapsible<includeonly> mw-collapsed</includeonly>}}
! Level || Bonus || Totals
|-
| 10 || Max Health +5 || Max Health +5
|-
| 20 || Max Health +5 || Max Health +10
|-
| 30 || Max Health +5 || Max Health +15
|-
| 40 || Max Health +5 || Max Health +20
|-
| 50 || Max Health +5 || Max Health +25
|}

==Causes of Death ==

{{:Deaths}}

[[Category:Skills]][[Category:Other Skills]]

User:Prios

2017-10-05T04:18:36Z

Prios: Created page with "Full disclosure: I play this game primarily because I'm a pervert. My contributions are usually rewrites for conciseness, clarity, and grammar. My most egregious wiki edit: h..."

Full disclosure: I play this game primarily because I'm a pervert.

My contributions are usually rewrites for conciseness, clarity, and grammar. My most egregious wiki edit: http://soma.wikia.com/index.php?title=Terry_Akers&diff=10761&oldid=10720

Haste

2017-10-05T02:47:41Z

Prios: /* Consumables */ edit for clarity, wikification

This page lists various means of increasing run speed.

==Consumables==
* '''Bleeding Speed Potion''' (L 5) and '''Agonizing Speed Potion''' (L 20) can be learned from '''Alchemy: Ignite The Fire In Your Legs!''', a book sold by [[Yetta]]. These potions last two minutes and require at least one Fire Dust as ingredient.
* '''Wolfen Speed''' (L 35) and '''Concentrated Wolfen Speed''' (L 45) are alchemy recipes only [[Lycanthropy|Lycanthropes]] can learn, but the potions are usable by anyone.

==Skills and Ability Mods==
Note: Information in this table is based on info in the wiki. Most information is untested in actual gameplay. In particular some of the "In Combat?" values may be incorrect.
 Modded numbers are based on obtaining all highest-level applicable item mods (as of 10 March, 2017).
{| {{STDT}}
! Skill !! Ability !! Duration !! Cooldown !! Uptime !! In Combat? !! Unmodded !! Modded
|- style="background:#3333FF;"
| [[Bard]] || Moment of Resolve || 8 || 60 || 13% || yes || 0 || +3
|- style="background:#00DD22;"
| [[Battle Chemistry]] || Mutation: Extra Toes || long || n/a || 100% || no || +5 || +5
|- style="background:#00DD22;"
| || Haste Concoction || 10 || 45 || 22%|| yes || +11 || +11
|- style="background:#E0E0E0;"
| [[Cow]] || Moo of Determination || 10 || 30 || 33% || yes || +13 || +13
|- style="background:#E0E0E0;"
| || Graze || 30 || 50 || 60% || no || 0 || +17
|- style="background:#55AA22;"
| [[Deer]] || Bounding Escape || 13 || 30 || 43% || yes || +8 || +8
|- style="background:#55AA22;"
| || Cuteness Overload || 8 || 30 || 27% || yes || 0 || +12
|- style="background:#55AA22;"
| || none (Generic Mod) || perm || n/a || 100% || no || 0 || +8
|- style="background:#DDDD00;"
| [[Druid]] || Hunter's Stride || 60 || 60 ||100% || yes || +2.5 || +2.5
|- style="background:#DD0000;"
| [[Fire Magic]] || Flesh to Fuel || 15 || 20 || 75% || no || 0 || +14
|- style="background:#A0522D;"
| [[Lycanthropy]] || Hunting Speed || 30 || 10 || 100% || no || +12 || +12
|- style="background:#A0522D;"
| || Shadow Feint || 15 || 20 || 75% || yes || 0 || +6
|- style="background:#00DDDD;"
| [[Psychology]] || Positive Attitude || 60 || 60 || 100% || no || 0 || +8
|- style="background:#FF8800;"
| [[Shield]] || Take the Lead || 10 || 30 || 33% || yes || +10 || +20
|- style="background:#FF8800;"
| || Vigorous Defense || 15 || 60 || 25% || yes || 0 || +6
|- style="background:#CC00CC;"
| [[Spider]] || Premeditated Doom || 40 || 40 || 100% || yes || 0 || +7
|- style="background:#CC00CC;"
| || Web Trap || 10 || 25 (15)* || 40% (67%)* || yes || 0 || +14
|- style="background:#CC00CC;"
| || Terrifying Bite || 10 || 30 || ** || yes || 0 || +6
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Numbers in parentheses require mod(s)
 <nowiki>**</nowiki>Up to 33% uptime, but requires landing a melee attack to activate

==Item Properties==
* Sprint speed mods on various items, such as the +1 to sprint speed on the "Amulet of the Rugged Traveler", "Ring of Jaunty Traipsing", or the +2 sprint speed on boots with the word "Windstep" in their title. These passive sprint mods stack.

[[Category:Mechanics]]

Combat

2017-10-02T18:36:34Z

Prios: /* Regeneration in and out of combat */

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This page is meant to be an introduction to combat mechanics in Project: Gorgon.

==Armor, Health and Power==
[[File:Armor Health and Rage indicators.jpg|thumb|right|673px|Armor, Health and Power bars as of the alpha build]]

===Armor===
'''Armor''' mitigates 1 point of damage for every 25 points of armor remaining.

===Health===
'''Health''' can be topped up with Potions during combat.

Combat abilities also can heal over time (see [[Mentalism]]) or heal by a flat amount.

===Power===
'''Power''' is consumed by using abilities that have a Power cost (most skills include emergency abilities that have no Power requirement, typically with a longer cooldown). The amount of Power available and your ability to recover Power between encounters is significant if you hope to take on more than one enemy at once, or even solo dungeons.

Power can be topped up with potions, which is relatively useful in some situations. The basic ability ''Dig Deep'', which can be placed on the sidebar, can also be used to restore Power (albeit with a long reuse time). Lastly Power regeneration can be enhanced in combat through Mentalism abilities.

==Damage==
'''Damage''' and '''Health damage''' are not the same. '''Health damage''' bypasses armor.

===Effect of equipment===
Soon enough you'll find that equipment has a significant impact on your total damage output and survivability. This seems obvious for an MMO but in Project: Gorgon equipment with bonuses that augment specific abilities is very common. For example "every time you use your Sword Parry ability, regain 10 Health". This type of ability enhancing mods would be found in raid gear in other MMOs.

You character becomes much more powerful once you have multiple pieces of equipment (weapons, armor, amulet) that enhance your choice of skills along with useful ability enhancing mods. Thus '''committing to your skill choices''' is important. While you can easily switch between skills, you'll find that even skills of the same level can vary greatly in damage potential unless you also switch your equipment.

===Critical damage===
Items sometimes have +xx% to Critical Damage. The default critical damage (not crit. chance) seems to be 125%.

Critical Damage gear is quite uncommon. Archery gear seems to get more of it.

==Regeneration in and out of combat==
[[File:Regeneration food example (maple carrots).jpg|thumb|right|306px|Sweet, sweet regeneration food.]]
Sitting does not accelerate your out-of-combat regeneration unlike in some veteran MMOs. You'll want to find various foods, drinks and snacks to top up your Health and Power between fights.

Regeneration appears to "tick" once every four seconds (so if a food says "+5 Health per update" it means +5 Health every 4 seconds).

Some combat skills such as [[Mentalism]] also provide Health, Power and Armor regeneration. Some of the abilities are group-oriented, other abilities are self-help (for example ''Positive Attitude'' will quickly restore a small amount of Armor, Health and Power).

In-combat regeneration from foods or drinks is a rarer commodity. There are in-combat Power or Health regeneration potions that can be bought from NPCs or crafted. They tend to be very pricey, and of course have a fairly limited duration.

If you "mezz" a creature for long enough (eg. [[Psychology|Tell Me About Your Mother]]), the "In combat" indicator will disappear and one update of out of combat regeneration will happen, even though the creature is still aggressive.

===Foods===
Most types of '''regenerative foods and drinks''' are crafted or bought. Exceptions are the '''Mild Cheddar Cheese''' which drops from Giant Rat, and Milk which can be obtained from the Cows in Serbule with an empty bottle. These are non-negligible sources of Power regeneration which can be very helpful to new players.

===Buffs===
Typically one food or drink can stack with one snack and one flower. However this is still very much in development. It seems that foods provide Health and Power, while drinks provide only Power. Both can be stacked. Flowers provide a max power bonus (right-click them).

For people specialised in [[Sword]] combat, the [[Calligraphy]] skill offers a temporary effects that allows for special combinations. Similarly the [[Meditation]] skill offers temporary effects for people specialised in [[Unarmed]] combat.

==Rage and special attacks==
[[File:Foe using Special Ability (Rage).jpg|thumb|right|300px|This goblin is in ''vulnerable'' state as indicated by the overhead icon.]]
'''Rage''' is the energy source that powers monsters’ special attacks. As you hit monsters or they hit you, they gather Rage, and when their meter is full (an orange looking hand), they user their super power.

Many player skills, like [[Sword]] and [[Psychology]], have abilities that hamper monster Rage. For example [[Psychology|Psychoanalyse]] will slow down the rate at which the enemy builds rage, while [[Sword|Sword Parry]] will reduce the enemy's rage by a flat amount.

An enemy's special attacks will be revealed to the player in the target window when the relevant [[Anatomy]] skill is of sufficient level (ie. by fighting this type of creature long enough).

You can tell when an enemy uses a special attack by the overhead icon.

{{Quote|source=[http://projectgorgon.com/2014/05/design-issues-still-needing-improvement/ Developer blog] May 13, 2014|
I’m leaving the Rage system alone for now, until we have more players grouping up. Looking at the stats for small group combat, it looks like groups use rage-depletion a little more often. So it may be that I can tailor Rage to be a more compelling group-combat mechanic, where one person in the group has the “rage-keeper” role. That could be interesting.
}}

==Movement and kiting==
In a game like this, where you can find all kinds of clever ways to stack speed buffs, it’s possible to run extremely fast. This is a problem in a combat, where the players can be much more mobile than the monsters.

One way the game currently addresses this is that you can not “sprint” backwards, just walk backwards. So if you want to get away quickly, you have to turn around.

{{Quote|source=[http://projectgorgon.com/2014/05/design-issues-still-needing-improvement/ Developer blog] May 13, 2014|
But that change by itself doesn’t solve anything, because the game doesn’t force you to face your target to attack things right now. This means you can turn away from the monster, run down the hall at high speed, and keep shooting arrows — the arrows would go through your head and hit the monster behind you. This is silly and bizarre.}}

Kiting is something the devs want to address eventually, although it is intended to allow some amount of kiting — "archers should be able to move and get a few extra attacks in".

==Vulnerability==
Monsters periodically go into this vulnerable state, and some attacks do extra damage against vulnerable monsters, so it’s sort of a whack-a-mole mechanic — you use your vuln-boost ability when you see the monster flashing vulnerable.

A big red glowing thing happens when the monster is vulnerable, plus it makes a sound.

An icon flashes over the monster’s head when they’re vulnerable, and [[Anagoge]] Island has an explanatory tip about this (when you get your first Sword ability that does extra vulnerable damage).

==Looting enemies!==

Loot appears at the top of the loot window and can be picked up via either double-clicking the icon, or by using the Loot All button. Not all creatures will have loot.

If you have the right equipment, you may also have the option to perform an autopsy, skin, butcher, extract a skull, and bury the creature. Some creatures can be skinned but not butchered, and vice versa. To have a chance (20%) of extracting an organ, you will need an Organ Knife.

Note that to skin or butcher an animal, you will need to have a free inventory space, even if the yielded item is stackable and already present in your inventory.

Also note that the butchering knife and skinning knife are distinct items, and do not overlap in features. You must have both in your inventory. There is a "multi-purpose" knife, but it has less bonuses than the highest quality butcher and skinning knives.

When an enemy is slain and it drops special loot (cyan, yellow, purple colour), there is a distinctive sound and a particle effect.
[[Category:Mechanics]]