[D4] Evade skill - animation stop frame

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@Beefhammer-1932

Go a head and dodge or roll away from something, it takes a second to gather you balance and continue on.

Go ahead and try to to eat and drink nothing for days, without sleep, etc, getting hit by downward smash from a giant hammer on your head and your legs without getting any bones crushed…

… doesn’t make sense… but that is not the issue here, the issue is that the combat would feel less clunky.

@Beefhammer-1932

But you want a second magical resource that makes no sense.

Not magical, it is just for Evade / Dodgerolls, etc. Games like Wolcen already have that and the Dodgerolls in combination with this resource work fine, especially now that you can roll through enemies without collision.

@Beefhammer-1932

Sure it’s clunky, that’s the point.

Doesn’t mean it is good.

@Beefhammer-1932

It not a spammable ability and ine you need to think about using.

And so you had to do it with the Evade / Dodgeroll costing resource, as Evade having its own resource and having to think about when to use it are not mutually exclusive.

@Beefhammer-1932

I do wonder how many people enjoyed hit stun because it was immersive and made sense, even though it made combat clunky(until breakpoints),

I actually enjoyed Faster Hit Recovery (at least for the most part) and I advocated for a similar system coming back in D4 as you can see here:

Hit recovery Diablo 4

I think they should have replaced Hit Recovery with a Stagger Mechanic on your character. Imagine that the XP Bar on your character now moves down to the bottom of the UI and on top of your Skill Bar there now is the Stagger Bar for your character. Every hit you take from enemies adds a certain amount of Stagger, depending on the attack. Some attacks can add less Stagger to your char, others more. Once the Stagger Bar is full, you get microstunned for x seconds and the Stagger Bar deplete…

My suggestion was basically to give your character a Stagger Meter that fills up when you get hit or block, and once it is full, you get micro stunned.

This basically means that you will not as easily get stunlocked as the “FHR” first has to build up over a certain period of time, but you still would want to avoid fighting too many enemies at once, certainly when enemies are around that also do heavy hits which would apply more Stagger…

… and it also would make the combat feel better (due to less frequent stunlocks) while still remaining tactical and punishing if you don’t plan well.

So a Stagger Meter as a new FHR / FBR and a Resource for Evade / Dodgerolls without its interrupt/recovery frame both keep all the positive effects, while removing the negatives.