i dont like it at all. too many things could go wrong here. what about mages and resist? melee skills would own on a monster, cause they would never miss, but spells would still get resisted(alot). i cant imagine ADDING life to king goo goo...lol. plus there are alot o monsters that are harder now for mages and some for melee chars. this would take diversity out of that, like king goo goo is hard to hit with melee but easy to hit with spells, and alot o new bosses, the spells are "not very effective". but melee works well against, kinda screws mages a little i think, hunting ones anyway. my bears would own though...lol.

Sounds a really good idea, *however* has the potential to seriously imbalance PvE in the favour of poly mages / warriors.

Although I'm sure most mages use Poly for PvE, for those that don't it's worth bearing in mind. We'd need to set resisting spells to 0 for all monsters accordingly.

I do like this idea, though. It would certainly make PvE more 'consistent', and would doubtless make hybrids more attractive for PvE too.

It would also make ranged classes more fun to play, because if an arrow almost always 'hits' then there is the perception of less ammo being wasted - even if the reality is that HP has been increased to balance this.

I actually have a slightly different suggestion on the back of this.

Instead of completely rebalancing the monsters, perhaps we could have these kind of things implemented into Debuff spells or abilities?

There is currently no true 'utility/support' class in Obsidian such as a minstrel/bard.

It would truly be great for group play if we gave these abilities to such a class. Buff party members, and debuff monsters in terms of resisting spells/armour/dodge etc.

Sounds a really good idea, *however* has the potential to seriously imbalance PvE in the favour of poly mages / warriors.

Although I'm sure most mages use Poly for PvE, for those that don't it's worth bearing in mind. We'd need to set resisting spells to 0 for all monsters accordingly.

I do like this idea, though. It would certainly make PvE more 'consistent', and would doubtless make hybrids more attractive for PvE too.

It would also make ranged classes more fun to play, because if an arrow almost always 'hits' then there is the perception of less ammo being wasted - even if the reality is that HP has been increased to balance this.

I actually have a slightly different suggestion on the back of this.

Instead of completely rebalancing the monsters, perhaps we could have these kind of things implemented into Debuff spells or abilities?

There is currently no true 'utility/support' class in Obsidian such as a minstrel/bard.

It would truly be great for group play if we gave these abilities to such a class. Buff party members, and debuff monsters in terms of resisting spells/armour/dodge etc.