While development is still ongoing, thought it'd be nice to make some posts on upcoming things and how they've been planned out. Partly to give readers and excited players waiting for the game something to look forward to and an idea of how things are going to work while at the same time maybe getting some feedback or ideas for improvement.
The unique thing with our healers is that they'll be generative upon minting, this means that for every class and gender we'll attempt to make each 2d image of a healer players mint completely unique from the other of the same class and gender. This means different accessories, stances, items, background, colors (to a degree), etc. They'll also have their own rarities but will be fully cosmetical only meaning they'll all have the same stats from each other.
If you've purchased an alpha vial, you'll be able to equip a few starter items on your healer. Keep in mind that while your healer is free to be traded (with some potential cooldowns to be used) but that doesn't always mean you can trade them with any items equipped as some items may be bound to account.
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While your healers will have the same stats, these stats can be improved by equipping items. Items will have certain restrictions such as, some may only be equippable by a certain class (light, ocean or nature) or they'll need your healer to be a certain level to be equipped. Some items may also become bound to that healer when equipped, meaning you won't be able to equip them on another healer later so your only option will be to salvage the item for some materials if your healer finds a better item for the same slot.
The healers will also begin with 2 healing abilities at level 1. They'll be able to learn new healing abilities as they level up while some times also upgrading current abilities. Let's take a look at the light healers 2 abilities for instance.
Sacred Shield - Places a barrier on a creature that absorbs 150 incoming damage, if the shield remains on the creature at the end of the turn it will also heal it for another base 50 HP.
Solar Flare - Sends out a direct heal at the beginning of the turn, healing your creature for base 200 HP before any creature makes any moves.
While they may learn new healer abilities, the new ones will be level 1, but at a certain level they'll be able to upgrade the existing heals, meaning they'll learn Sacred Shield level 2, which will instead absorb 300 damage and heal a creature at the end of the turn for base 100 HP.
The upgraded abilities will also cost more mana, this is to prevent healers from attempting to "boost" low level creatures in their party when they later have much better gear making mana regeneration regenerate spent mana on abilities faster than you can spend them. Meaning you'll be overhealing low level creatures and still spending a lot of mana to do so, and mana is going to be scarce and important.
Take for instance a regular day for a healer and their party of creatures, they may face 8-10 unique encounters with creatures they don't know the stats of and may attempt to capture them or simply defeat them by placing a creature type that's weaker than the creature type they're facing. All these things are going to cost you a lot of mana to keep your creatures alive, because if they faint they won't receive any XP when the battle ends. Healers won't be able to cast too many heals on their existing mana.
No worries, however, as there's ways to improve your healers mana.
If you don't have consumable items to regain mana instantly through mana potions or get a boost in your mana regeneration through mana elixirs, you'll also be able to find item materials to try your luck at crafting!
There'll be a lot of different items and slots, to craft them you'll need to find materials for them and have a profession that fits the craft. Most of the materials you'll be able to receive when defeating or capturing creatures or gathering them around the battle field after a battle ends.
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For gloves for instance you may need a material called Cloth, Color Dye, Leather and Holo Dust. All these material items will be "non-nft's" however when you go to craft it will also ask you to add some Zing to burn for your crafting attempt. This is how you'll be able to level up your profession skills when it comes to crafting while gathering professions will be leveled up through gathering attempts in the battle field and later in the open world.
While your craft may be successful, you may get an item for the wrong class, if you don't have that healer class or don't plan on leveling it up, you can always put the gloves on the market to see if someone else needs them since you've spent some crafting materials and zing on it it has a base price attached to it. One healers trash may be another healer's treasure.
There'll also be some RNG with all crafts, maybe the max + Mana pool these level 1 healer gloves can give you could be 40 while the minimum window may be 20, naturally getting the higher ones will be weighted against you as they'll be rarer. For healers just leveling they may not care too much but those who want to do competitive PvP at the level 1 bracket, it might make a big difference!
Either way, there's a lot to discuss about the crafting aspect and how we'll balance healer abilities and what their stats mean, I'll save that for another post as this one got a bit long already. Hope it gave you kind of an idea of what the beta of the game will be like, thanks for reading!
Haha alright! Now you are talking gaming!
It definitely does stir up some excitement when you are talking gameplay and mechanics. Having played every type of game type over the decades, I am trying to imagine what the whole experience will be like. Love the mention of pvp and hope it will not be totally pay to win as I probably am not up for an arms race.
These little hints and samples are perfect to keep people engaged and excited for beta and release.
The mana management twist is clever, forcing strategic choices instead of mindless spamming. Reminds me of old school MMOs where every cast mattered.
Crafting gloves with RNG stats is a neat twist, nice one to the developers. My old RPG days taught me to chase those rare rolls. I hope newbies don't get priced out, they probably won't
This is honestly one of the most exciting updates I've read in a while, the idea of fully generative healer NFTs that are purely cosmetic is brilliant everyone gets a unique look without affecting balance, love that.
Also, the depth you're planning for items, mana management, and class-specific equipment really shows this isn’t a “click and earn” type game there’s real strategy here, balancing mana use over multiple encounters, item-bound equipment, and the crafting system with Zing adds layers I didn’t expect.
Can’t wait to see more on the profession system and how crafting progression works long term, keep these updates coming and seriously, this deserves way more attention.
I know this princess... Is she not from the Re anime? I know Sora made her, but... that has to be the reference. right?
Reference is our light healer created by @craizuss
they could be sisters!! ha
very cool design!
I am not into games but you're tempting me. Lol.
good :P
Haha, I feel like a little girl in a sweet shop here in Hive., and you keep making sweets!
Wow. This is getting interesting. I can't wait to get a vial and participate as it all begins
You can already purchase vials which also give you hourly zing rewards: https://holozing.com/shop
Always think about starting splinterland but I feel as a newbie it's kinda late for me and I'd just get swatted by other older players.
Dunno, think you can rent cards quite cheaply, same will be possible for @holozing.
Oh, nice to see some updates on Holozing. It would be good once we can open the packs. 😀
Yeah I'm hoping very soon to be able to, got so many to open as well!
well, i can't really say anything wrong or backsides on this, everything seems correct from my point of view... so, all good!
That's pretty cool. I like the idea that there is going to be some randomness and uniqueness with the characters.
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Thanks for the update! Been a while! :)
Great to see another look behind the curtains! 😃