These soul hits for fighting need to go in general. Its a good idea in theory, but in practice it doesn't work well.

>Entire soul hit system needs to be tossed out because its really not that intelligent.

Depends on whether you look at it as a punishment or a cost.

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Right.

We have a soul POOL that is a cost for us to use things like glyphs and the such. We have to maintain our soul STATE through prayer, tending peoples wounds, etc, or else it falls down.

The thing is the things that attack our soul STATE are very ..very black and white and a bit ridiculous and quite archaic.

Last time I used protect for that situation then attacked the assailant, i got a soul hit. That also being said, a Paladin should not have to stop and wait for the mechanics of a situation to co-align with the soul system for the system to recognize that they are being honorable.

The issue is this system only really applies in PvP, where thousands of situations will all play out differently and you have a system that is trying to make a stark set of rules of engagement that really cant be adapted. I would not mind the idea behind soul hits if they were more intelligent, but they simply arnt. The system is founded in the RP of the Paladin guild, but its doing nothing to reinforce it, its only making us engage in PvP under a very set and strange set of rules in most situations or penalizing us when we ignore it because we are trying to be honorable.

As I recall, the system was complained about years ago but was not further developed because the explanation at the time went something like "In the new Justice system this will be re written and be awesome".

I like that idea but I think it should be based on the Target's PVP settings. If the target is open...low/no hit, target guarded...low/med, Target closed....normal.

It neither supports RP at this point, nor adds anything to the game. Its like a pebble in your sandal..

I would say until a better system can be thought up, it should be disabled.

>>Its just not fun trying to keep up with a tanked soul.

I've always thought the soul state stuff was a bit restrictive. I mean, we are soldiers of the gods and defenders of faith. There are dark gods. Clerics are doing that "choose a god" for bonuses/penalties thing. I wish we had an option like that, but with each immortal granting different ways to raise and lower your soul state, or something like that. Same general pluses and minuses, but different actions. For RP's sake.

I'm kinda hoping all that stuff will be getting rewired somehow during the bonding event.

>Its really kind of strange despite being the warriors for the immortals, we are so attached to the teet of one god that it makes roleplay really constraining. I'm really jealous of Clerics and their general freedom to worship their gods.

There's a reason paladins are paladins and not clerics. But it is a little restrictive.

Post-DR3, possibly, but this isn't a new issue so it'll probably have to wait until after we release.

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