What's up, RMers?

[kyonides]

Well, its a two-part issue:

When the monsters/enemies are creating their uber-barrier, it applies a status effect. The spell itself doesn't stay in memory, but the status effect itself lingers on in each enemy's 'states' array. Given you are talking about a powerful spell, it would thus be a custom status effect in the States Database.

Whatever spell option you create to try and ward off the powerful spell effect, it needs to acquire the ID of the state to see if it even warrants being tested: too powerful or weak enough to dispel.

Ergo, the base mechanic of your proposed 'uber-shell' script would be that for any uber-state. And technically, could be valid for enemies and allies alike.

Here's the problem, you assumed I'd use or had to use states but I never intended to do that. It's a barrier separated from any specific monster or boss. You could say it's like an extra mob on screen. And here comes the new dynamic: if its specialty is physical attacks, then it'd resist blows that are like 200 HP damage or less. If it's magical, then all level 1 spells would be useless. Any attack of the opposite nature should go through and hit your targets.

Let's say it's like a general shield and not like SG-1 serpent Goa'ulds' personal shields. Yet, if it the attack is too fast, it gets blocked. Still, if it's too slow, it hits your target easily.