Predictions on RUN Merits!

[orakio]

I've been saying that we should get Physical Damage to Magical conversion, but apparently folks have a problem with me and my posts. /Shrug/

We should give Bardark/light as actual spells. I'm not wasting merits on that and people should be ashamed of suggesting they waste two of our Tier 2 merits on it.

I agree on the bardark/light.

The physical damage to magical conversion is a good idea that fits thematically. The problem is how it works numerically as (outside of Shell) PDT on gear is far easier to acquire a solid set of imo than -MDT. The other problem is, Rune fencer magical mitigation isn't exactly impressive outside of their current harbored runes with ward:valiance or valliation up. This means the idea would have to be like Kelyn indicates, but doing so as a trait would be harder to implement(i imagine). Why is the trait harder? Because you couldn't code it to act as a 1 time check upon ability use, it would have to do the check on runes harbored on each instance of the trait going off.

I suppose part of the thing I see is that runes and enchantment effects don't HAVE to be elemental in origin, and that is the only way they are depicted currently. For example, a new rune "Ferrum" which is Latin for Iron and could represent physical properties and defenses rather than the more common elemental ones.