I was wondering what the "Wet" condition in the Water Blast set does?

[ConcreteDragon]

 I can't find anywhere that says what it actually does as far as game mechanics go.

[Maelwys]

9 minutes ago, ConcreteDragon said:

 I can't find anywhere that says what it actually does as far as game mechanics go.

 

Very little.

 

It's a mostly unused mechanic. Essentially at one point the Devs had big plans for it... but they never amounted to anything and/or got reverted. However the effect itself stayed in place and for a long time was completely unused.

 

Recently in i28p2 "Dehydrate" from the Water Blast set got tweaked to deal a bit more damage to wet targets... but AFAIK that's the only thing it actually works with currently.

[Uun]

It was originally intended to interact with Liquid Nitrogen (in Arsenal Control), but that functionality never made it past the Beta server.

[Glorificus]

It would be cool if they eventually implemented a BG3-like mechanic for the Wet status - maybe potentially increasing damage or chances of critical hits from Cold and Electric sets' attacks - Electrical Control, Electric Melee, Electric Blast, Assault, etc., as well as Cold Domination, Ice Control, Ice Melee, Ice Blast, etc.?  

[tidge]

3 hours ago, Glorificus said:

It would be cool if they eventually implemented a BG3-like mechanic for the Wet status - maybe potentially increasing damage or chances of critical hits from Cold and Electric sets' attacks - Electrical Control, Electric Melee, Electric Blast, Assault, etc., as well as Cold Domination, Ice Control, Ice Melee, Ice Blast, etc.?  

 

I'd vote 'no' for a variety of reasons.

 

This isn't Pokémon.

 

Sets become unbalanced... or put another way, if some sets get chances for more damage their base attributes have to be decreased to maintain balance with sets that can't get the boosts. Nobody wants that... and frankly it would be a development nightmare to try to balance all the sets just to become Pokémon.

[UltraAlt]

4 hours ago, tidge said:

I'd vote 'no' for a variety of reasons.

 

I like the idea, but agree that it probably would be a pain to program into the game and re-balancing would be an issue.

Re-balancing is always a nightmare, so, even though I like the idea, it is probably best to leave well enough alone.