Talk:Virtuous

Greetings!

I just battled the Drowned Crew and had a Focused Man-at-Arms in row 1. When the Drowned Anchorman attempted to bind the Man-at-Arms, he replied

"I will not join you in your doom!"

The entire team lost some stress and the Man-at-Arms was NOT bound, simply ignoring all effects of that attack. This happened TWICE in a row.

I could not verify what would have happened on the third attempt, since the boss died by that time. I am suspecting this is a stable feature, and not something the game rolls a dice for.

I am unsure about how to add this to the wiki page, since I don't know if this is a Drowned Crew only event or a general feature of Focused.

regards,

--CEProof (talk) 13:51, 7 March 2016 (UTC) (Timestamp not correct because I screwed up)


 * Hi. The line he says makes me think it's a special interaction with the Drowned Crew. However, I'm not sure there's anything binding it to Focused specifically: it may be something happening with any kind of virtue. We'll need to investigate more before adding anything to the wiki. Thanks for the information. --itaShadd (talk) 02:40, 7 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Greetings again, I bring updates!
 * I just fought the Necromancer with a Focused (again Focused...dang it!) Abomination. While still in Human Form, it was struck by the Necromancer's Six Feet Under, but replied something like 'I fear I am merely a fragment of it's...' (I didn't catch the rest, sorry.) Anyway, the Abomination was not affected by the stress damage of that attack.
 * After Transformation, allies had been hit by Necromancer attacks, and the Abomination cried it's RAWR in Virtue Color. I am fairly certain that they had been saved from the attack's stress damage as well.
 * I think you are right with your theory that this is a generally Virtue associated feature.
 * I would like to add: which may occur at all boss induced special attacks. This might lead to all new Virtue focused strategies towards defeating bosses. Too bad I had another Focused, or I would've been able to confirm this right away. Anyway, move this discussion to the Virtue page? (Also I modified the formating of my text for better clarity. I'm not used to wiki stuff..)
 * --CEProof (talk) 13:51, 7 March 2016 (UTC)


 * All virtues cause the hero to have a golden bubble, even for regular barks, and grant him immunity to many stress-inducing effects, so this is no surprise. The Drowned Crew's attack is a stress-inducing attack, come to think of it, but it also immobilises the target and does other stuff, so immunity to it came as a surprise - I suppose it shouldn't really have. We should add some clarification on the virtue page; I don't think the specific virtue is important here. --itaShadd (talk) 15:12, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Virtue effect
Hi, I saw your post and wanted to clarify your question about being under a Virtue's effect having special effects for some Bosses' attacks.

The information here provided has been extracted from the in-game code, so I would say it is true:


 * Drowned Crew: following line is displayed for the immobilizing attack i.e. "Heave-Ho"; effect: .name "CaptureBosun" .target "target" .chance 100% .capture 1 .on_hit true .virtue_blockable_chance 100%. So to answer your question, yes, being Virtuous will provide immunity to this particular attack.

For the Necromancer's "Six Feet Under" I have not been able to find any special code for Virtuous Heroes.

To sum up, only the Drowned Crew has a special interaction with Virtuous heroes. For the rest, being Virtuous just provides stress-immunity and the corresponding buffs for each virtue.