Priest items, some ideas

I was scratching my head about the situation with staffs damage stats and wondering what it might look like if you were to go in and clean things up a little. I compiled all the staff and accessory data, removed the damage stats and start looking at how stats were distributed across priest items (Scepters excluded for now). I plonked it all in a spreadsheet (yeah i know, i have a thing for spreadsheets), and start mocking up some changes to see how things could look if things were moved around a bit.

One of the issues (aside from damage) is the overlap of stats here and there, what i've tried to do is separate and tweak the stats so things are a little more clearly defined. Staffs focus on what your priests do (healing/conversion) and accessories are focussed on the other elements, like armor and cost.

Priest Staffs:
Conversion rates, Healing, Line-of-sight (sometimes) and Maximum Range

Priest Accessories:
Cost / Resistance / Armor / Speed / Train Time

I haven't completely worked out what to do for all the items(not even considered factoring in Scepters yet), but i wanted to share how i think things could potentially look with shuffling a few things around and with the addition of some accessories.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pU6MBq5suNasiScQu3YRBNwfcy1R1K4NFfNrfyLvnNc/edit?usp=sharing (click on Priest Item Changes at the bottom if it opens on a different sheet)

Penny for your thoughts.

 

Health could always be the one stat that remains as an overlap. I was thinking bigger picture in terms of taking away infantry armor from the Legion accessory, but we could always swing the other way with that and put an armor accessory in each alliance region and change the health one to a non-alliance item. I gave them different values purely to not make priests too resistant to certain unit types (those values can potentially be anything).

This was just to visualize how things could look with a clear separation of stats and less overlapping. It could also help make it easier to add / tweak / manage the data for those items if you have a defined set of stats the item types can use.

For sure, even just removing damage from all the items makes things quite a bit more readable.

 

Doesn't max range extend a priest's conversion range already Jeinx? What's that stat doing if not that for priests?

 

So do all priests share a default/base healing range at the moment? (staffs aside, given a few seem to have the new area heal stat already).