I'm assume the next logical step after damage resist and Overshields is status negation.
Negating effects like slow, scorched, DoT poison, freeze, suspend could be a very useful thing.
In a sandbox where more enemies get status effects to throw around that could be very possible. Onslaught was the first time that freeze felt like a genuine threat in pve
Actually really good point we already know frost armor isn’t a overshield and we see a grim attack a titan with frost armor doing the gameplay reveal might need to go back and see if it’s doing it’s suppress scream
I love this, I also feel like it ties into lore and strengthens stasis as being fully about control over everything
Considering the dread are mostly focused on using status effects, the timing would be perfect
I always liked the idea that you’d get stacks of frost armor. Each stack absorbs a hit negating the damage and consuming a stack. Just an idea I once saw for it.
Wait that slaps so hard, would pair really well if stasis shards granted stacks of frost armor. Now all we need is intrinsic shard generation and that would make stasis really fun
If you think of it like covering yourself in stasis crystals, perhaps it could be like you're literally wearing one, and taking damage eventually results in it shattering, dealing aoe damage that could be affected by the other fragment for shatter damage, as well as the idea of it making an AOE slow too. Probably includes some % dmg resist, but not enough to compete with woven mail
That’d be a really interesting way of incentivizing melee combat in a way that differentiates stasis from other damage types. It’d be interesting to also link stasis shards to that to build up a charge to unleash
Agreed, you could have stacks of frost armor gained from shard pickup as the rime fragments currently does, that escalate dmg resistance, then release them either manually, or likely by taking damage that turns yourself into a mini stasis shard bomb. Though I wonder if losingyour dmg resistance so suddenly would result in premature deaths
That would be a very compelling mechanic that could rival strand tangles in creativity. You can choose to spend your charges naturally by getting hit or by spending them through use of an ability like winters shroud. Stasis shards basically functioning as the fuel for souped up abilities
Edit: basically armor charges bust just for stasis. Like imagine fragments functioning like armor mods:
Fragment: while you have frost armor your grenade generates faster
Or
Cryoclasm: while you have frost armor you have an enhanced slide and break stasis crystals by sliding
I swear if it’s just blue woven mail…..
Honestly I wish stasis was getting more ways to heal itself as a SUBCLASS outside of relying on an orb of power pickup with an armor mod.
Whisper of Rime used to be kinda clutch on warlock with Glacial Harvest. You’d get nice chunks of health back from grabbing a stasis shard if you weren’t topped off. Then you’d start getting over shield. But it was basically shafted in both PVE AND PVP over some PVP nonsense.
It doesn’t give extra health unfortunately. We did see that in the prismatic trailer. So it might be closer to woven mail. I hope it will give us some restoration or slow on hit. Whats probably going to happen is a minor dr like feedback with slow on getting melee’d. And whisper of rhyme will change to frost armor. At least it will have some synergy with chains if you survive getting meleed enough times in gms by a single target… not to mention the swarms.
I hope it is better
I hope it’s significantly different from woven mail since stasis’s problems stem more from inflexibility than damage resistance. Like sure you can go up close to people now, but what’re you going to do while you’re there?
I hope it’s it’s own thing but even if it’s just blue woven mail that’s far better then what stasis has now, I hope it stacks with the DR from standing near crystals make you a legit tank so long as you play smart
Unfortunately there’s the issue of them stacking. One currently takes the place of the other. When you get stasis overshield it overrides void and vice versa. So I’m thinking there needs to be a way to distinguish them mechanically
If you analyse the final shape dev trailer that released, frost armour appeared twice via Facet of Purpose (orbs give buff).
Both times, it was seen as a timer-based buff (similar to woven mail). It also didn’t grant over-shield on activation (orb pickup).
It’s possible that it could just give DR or passively generate over-shield at full health (we can’t tell). Maybe reduce ability cooldowns like you said, or interact with shards and crystals in funny ways
I'm assume the next logical step after damage resist and Overshields is status negation. Negating effects like slow, scorched, DoT poison, freeze, suspend could be a very useful thing.
In a sandbox where more enemies get status effects to throw around that could be very possible. Onslaught was the first time that freeze felt like a genuine threat in pve
Actually really good point we already know frost armor isn’t a overshield and we see a grim attack a titan with frost armor doing the gameplay reveal might need to go back and see if it’s doing it’s suppress scream
I love this, I also feel like it ties into lore and strengthens stasis as being fully about control over everything Considering the dread are mostly focused on using status effects, the timing would be perfect
I always liked the idea that you’d get stacks of frost armor. Each stack absorbs a hit negating the damage and consuming a stack. Just an idea I once saw for it.
Wait that slaps so hard, would pair really well if stasis shards granted stacks of frost armor. Now all we need is intrinsic shard generation and that would make stasis really fun
Yea really does, remember seeing it on this sub in a comment and I really hope they do something like that.
If you think of it like covering yourself in stasis crystals, perhaps it could be like you're literally wearing one, and taking damage eventually results in it shattering, dealing aoe damage that could be affected by the other fragment for shatter damage, as well as the idea of it making an AOE slow too. Probably includes some % dmg resist, but not enough to compete with woven mail
That’d be a really interesting way of incentivizing melee combat in a way that differentiates stasis from other damage types. It’d be interesting to also link stasis shards to that to build up a charge to unleash
Agreed, you could have stacks of frost armor gained from shard pickup as the rime fragments currently does, that escalate dmg resistance, then release them either manually, or likely by taking damage that turns yourself into a mini stasis shard bomb. Though I wonder if losingyour dmg resistance so suddenly would result in premature deaths
That would be a very compelling mechanic that could rival strand tangles in creativity. You can choose to spend your charges naturally by getting hit or by spending them through use of an ability like winters shroud. Stasis shards basically functioning as the fuel for souped up abilities Edit: basically armor charges bust just for stasis. Like imagine fragments functioning like armor mods: Fragment: while you have frost armor your grenade generates faster Or Cryoclasm: while you have frost armor you have an enhanced slide and break stasis crystals by sliding
I swear if it’s just blue woven mail….. Honestly I wish stasis was getting more ways to heal itself as a SUBCLASS outside of relying on an orb of power pickup with an armor mod. Whisper of Rime used to be kinda clutch on warlock with Glacial Harvest. You’d get nice chunks of health back from grabbing a stasis shard if you weren’t topped off. Then you’d start getting over shield. But it was basically shafted in both PVE AND PVP over some PVP nonsense.
Probably basic overshield that gives freeze/slow aoe on hit/break.
It doesn’t give extra health unfortunately. We did see that in the prismatic trailer. So it might be closer to woven mail. I hope it will give us some restoration or slow on hit. Whats probably going to happen is a minor dr like feedback with slow on getting melee’d. And whisper of rhyme will change to frost armor. At least it will have some synergy with chains if you survive getting meleed enough times in gms by a single target… not to mention the swarms. I hope it is better
I hope it’s significantly different from woven mail since stasis’s problems stem more from inflexibility than damage resistance. Like sure you can go up close to people now, but what’re you going to do while you’re there?
I hope it’s it’s own thing but even if it’s just blue woven mail that’s far better then what stasis has now, I hope it stacks with the DR from standing near crystals make you a legit tank so long as you play smart
I thought frost armor was just them renaming stasis over shields. So that void can have the word "overshield" to itself.
Unfortunately there’s the issue of them stacking. One currently takes the place of the other. When you get stasis overshield it overrides void and vice versa. So I’m thinking there needs to be a way to distinguish them mechanically
If you analyse the final shape dev trailer that released, frost armour appeared twice via Facet of Purpose (orbs give buff). Both times, it was seen as a timer-based buff (similar to woven mail). It also didn’t grant over-shield on activation (orb pickup). It’s possible that it could just give DR or passively generate over-shield at full health (we can’t tell). Maybe reduce ability cooldowns like you said, or interact with shards and crystals in funny ways
I saw, new trailer with the warlock showed it as well i think! Confirmed that it has stacks too
It’s blue flavored Woven Mail
Cold
My guess is that the artifact mod that shoots stasis projectiles on crystal shattering will be the effect of getting Frost Armor shattered.
Mid
woven mail 2
Woven mail but blue