Allow Vigor to overheal
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L3mmi05/Val
In the game's current state, Vigor is perhaps the least used shiftstone, often getting discarded for adamant and stubborn for damage negation effects.
Besides just making it heal more or requiring less damage (I'm gonna out some thoughts to these at the bottom, but they're not the main focus of this post), I think a good change would be to allow the healing to go over 20 HP.
A problem that all defensive stones share is that they don't really do anything until you get hit. Stubborn, Adamant and Guard however at least interact with that first hit and reduce the damage.
Vigor already has the downside of having a limited amount of healing to give each match (6 if the opponent isn't playing damage negation), so in some scenarios getting a 5 damage burst while staying at full HP - something that should feel great - can feel like you just lost 2 HP you could have healed to gain even greater HP advantage.
On Changing the Numbers:
I feel like a 3hp heal would be justifiable for how hard it is to proc, 4 would maybe even be too much.
I'm against lowering the activation number, since that would completely change its current playstyle of going for two hits and follow ups to fishing for singular, strong hits with Walls and Grounded Cubes.
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SDRAWKCABMIAY
This would make a lot of sense, the potential 6 bonus health doesn't change, you just have less of a chance of just burning that health and effectively being punished for not being hit yet
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TicketyBoo
I think it would work as decaying health, you could gain a small amount up to a cap, and then anything above that acts as a reserve and increases the time that you keep that full HP
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Pompyy
maybe the vigor overheal could be not as actual HP but as a "token" of sorts that blocks the next hit entirely
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Your_Neighbor_Nat
Pompyy Hmmm, I don't really think full damage negation on overheal might be the way to go, though in regard to things besides just an HP heal/overheal happening... if it's boosting the players "vigor", what if it gave a sprint speed boost?
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Your_Neighbor_Nat
Perhaps the over-healed health could be vigor colored health bars that fill over the standard ones from left to right as the player over-heals... though that might not account for edge cases of healing to over 20 over-health. Do you think the over-heal should have a cap?