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@Bounty

Dual wielding would be great, I was disappointed when it discovered it wasn’t possible. But with only having 1 attack button I’m not sure how it would be implemented apart from making a set of dual wielding animations for every weapon which would require a lot of extra work. Maybe on weapons like the twin daggers we could equip two damage gems, one for each dagger?

that was exactly what I meant, heres an example. Basically, maybe it would be nice if dual weapons have double amount of gems, but they apply at 50% rate?

@Bounty

I like that oils only last a limited amount of time and you have to reapply. If you apply it you are going to want to make the most of it so it may make you more reckless. If it lasts the entire fight you are just going to be better during the fight with no trade off. For Echo Knight, I would use the damage buff rune before going in, then halfway through the fight find time to eat a vegetable cake or recast it to keep it going. Recasting it takes a lot of time and leaves you vulnerable so I like the risk here, and vegetable cakes are a limited and powerful resource.

There is a tradeoff. You used a consumable item and it is now gone. Is that not enough of a trade off? If you die to boss, its just wasted. I do think they should be rarer if they do that tho.

@Bounty

I don’t like the idea of a hunger bar, but I like the idea of adding more buffs to food, but not hour long buffs. I’d probably keep the buff lengths the same as they are now, but add in more variation to encourage food over a healing flask. The healing flask would always be a fall-back preventing farming. This is all with the knowledge that having “unlimited” healing will stay, if it were made more limited and the timer removed, then I would prefer food’s healing element to be reduced and more emphasis placed on a flask. I have come to appreciate the healing timer in combat though, healing at a bad time has far more severe consequences than in Souls. In Souls you can just chug another charge of estus, in NRftW your health may now be lower than it was originally and you have to wait a while to heal again. I love the extra planning I have to do to decide when to heal.

Reason why I fully disagree with this is very simple. Nobody would bother picking up any ingridients or food, or at least, 90% of players would not if food basically was another estus flask. why bother with food if it just a bit better version of the flask? This system would basically fully invalidate whole food system and it would be a waste of development resources and time and it would end up being a bad system nobody uses. I would rather have food be a slight long buffs and have whole world balanced around them instead. That way if I am struggling I am still incentivized to go out there, collect few peices of food (which should probably be rarer if devs decide to go with this), cook smth up that gives me hp and dmg buffs, and try again. If I am a good player however, I can challenge myself to do content without those buffs. It allows a slight option to self impose challenges, which is good as well. There would be no downsides of having no food on u, and having ur hunger bar empty,.

@Bounty

Honestly, I typically do not like respecing. I feel it is necessary in this game with the current stat requirements (and because of that I believe I advocated for it in another post) but I would rather the stats be changed rather than adding respecing to the game. I want my decisions when levelling up to be important and define my build and have a level of commitment to them. I understand the vast majority of players want respecing so I would be fine with it being added, as long as it has a cost.

I personally never or rarily use them, however this game simply needs them, and with current weapon requirement situation going on it really needs to be free until that is adressed.

@Secondary stats (Str

Strength could be paired with giving less stamina consumption when having heavy/medium equip loads and less stamina consumption with any weapon.
Dexterity could give more stamina regen, faster stamina regeneration startup time and faster movement speed in general.
Faith could give increased healing spells/food effectiviness and damage increase with lightining and plague
Intelligence could increase damage done with fire and ice and less focus consupmtion

I think faith would be the best connected to fire, I simply do not see faith not being connected to a rune like holy flame, and well, plague makes so much sense as well, given that the whole story is that its faith vs plague. I have no idea what those stats give by themselves, I will assume they do not give anything, and if thats the case thats really unfun and bad. That whole issue would be fixed tho, if they add soulslike weapon scalling in the game, However it should be reworked to make more sense to new players as ratings F to S would not mean much to new players. So instead of rating stats weapon scales with with a letter, how about writting a number of damage each stats type provides. Doing what u suggested would break the game in so many levels, I do not think its sustainable at endgame once game fully launches.