Damage Guard, Cannith Crafting

[Urklore]

Did the Damage Guard effect get removed from Cannith Crafting?

[Hobgoblin]

Did the Damage Guard effect get removed from Cannith Crafting?

I don't know, but Lynn said that they weren't working at all. Just 1d6 damage no matter what.


Maybe change crafting level?

[droid327]

Yeah damage guards have been deprecated in general afaik

They didn't work and they were never going to be useful even if they did. They were just a noob trap for players who thought they could make a thorns build like you can in other games

[Yokido]

(Hi)

Listen. Technically a guard build is possible. You just have to ignore everything besides, hp/prr/mrr/fortification.

With a full set of LGS guards you can do a lot of hurt.

[archest]

Guard effects are Exclusive to Random loot
Air Guard, Earthgrab Guard, Slay Living Guard, Trap the Soul Guard

I haven't seen thorn, evil, good, spike someone said they were diminished in update 46.

Cannith
I think the only one which has a similar effect is the Fearsome shard is still craftable. I enjoy it

[noinfo]

(Hi)

Listen. Technically a guard build is possible. You just have to ignore everything besides, hp/prr/mrr/fortification.

With a full set of LGS guards you can do a lot of hurt.

Lot of investment for something that only works on lower difficulties.

[Wahnsinnig]

With a full set of LGS guards you can do a lot of hurt.

No. The damage from passive guards is so low it is irrelevant. Maybe a character 100% focused on guards can complete epic normal quests, but it will be slow and boring.

[Yokido]

@Wahnsinnig

It used to be a valid tactic against Demon Queen Lailat, but the devs changed her AI so she spent much more time casting spells and less time swinging. Her initial AI was much more physical damage oriented.

Guards are still useful/viable for tanking Xyzzy as-well. Trick is to get a low AC, then get corrosive salt, crushing wave, (bramble-casters) thorn guard, disintegration, and steam guard. Those are the only that damage her, that I know of.

@noinfo

Correct. Even at it's best, because the survivability to damage ratio favors offensive players so much these days, you'd be hard-pressed to find a location or a build strong enough to make guards viable, realistically speaking. Fun, but not viable.