Changes to how lavabending works

[Immallama]

Ok, so what if lavabending was an ability like AvatarState, where you click to toggle and it stays on? While Lavabending is on, your normal moves would work the same, except they would be made of lava. EarthBlast would become LavaBlast, Shockwave would become LavaWave, etc. This would eliminate the need to code a ton of all new moves (At least I think. I have no coding knowledge so I could be completely wrong.) and would also be less painful than changing your slots all the time. Obviously, Lavabending would have a large cooldown and would only last a short period of time before reverting back to normal bending.

To me at least, this just makes more sense than having all new moves for a sub-element. Of course, some normal earth abilities would need tweaking and a few might not even change. RaiseEarth could just raise a wall of lava and EarthGrab could surround enemies in lava, making escape much harder. You pretty much get the point.

This isn't up to me of course, so I wanted to know what other people think. This isn't a suggestion so don't bother begging for this to be added. I'm just trying to see if anyone agrees.

 

[Chen]

(Contains season finale spoiler)
This is a great idea, but I think Earth blast could be tweaked, as a lot of the time when you see Ghazan fighting and even Bolin at the end, when they fire independent Lava Rocks there is often a trail of Lava following behind the rock, so this could be added to the Lava-EarthBlast.
But overall this is a great suggestion, well done.

 

[Senseilove]

i believe that this is a great suggestion as chen said

 

[Vidcom]

This does sound good but my goodness it would be horrific to code I imagine. The other issue I can see here is people who just want to mix up their Earth and Lavabending. Like if you want to raiseearth but now you have this wall of lava :I

 

[Chen]

Yeah true, maybe it would only change 3 abilities? That would make it less of a nightmare to code and allow for both Earth Bending and Lava Bending, and maybe include some stock Lava Bending abilities as well.

 

[Vidcom]

I'd say just having a command that switches a certain set of moves of your choice would be best here...

 

[Chen]

Yeah that could work pretty well.

 

[Immallama]

I'd say just having a command that switches a certain set of moves of your choice would be best here...

That would be nice. Another option is simply having different controls for lavabending. Like shifting longer or right clicking instead of left clicking (Does that even work? I don't think there are any moves that use right clicking.)

 

[Chen]

I guess see what the other CD/Developers think.

 

[Vidcom]

That would be nice. Another option is simply having different controls for lavabending. Like shifting longer or right clicking instead of left clicking (Does that even work? I don't think there are any moves that use right clicking.)

You'd be surprised.

 

[AlexTheCoder]

No matter how you spin this it would still be a nightmare to recode current earth abilities. Also, it would be kinda boring to have the same moves all the time and just change the material. Earth is already amazing in that the material changes depending on what you use as a source.

 

[Immallama]

No matter how you spin this it would still be a nightmare to recode current earth abilities. Also, it would be kinda boring to have the same moves all the time and just change the material. Earth is already amazing in that the material changes depending on what you use as a source.

The different material just changes how it looks. Having the moves be made out of lava would look cool and work differently

 

[AlexTheCoder]

A wall of lava for raise earth would look like trash and lag a ton

 

[Immallama]

A wall of lava for raise earth would look like trash and lag a ton

Well I beg to differ on how it would look but I can't argue on the lag part. So I guess what I'm getting is members seem to support this idea but from a developers point of view it's not gonna work.

Also, are there any moves being planned that will use the right mouse button? I still think it would be cool to add double functionality to certain moves like EarthBlast.

 

[AlexTheCoder]

Can't talk about that you know the rules

 

[Immallama]

Can't talk about that you know the rules

Not really sure what rule I'm breaking but ok...

 

[Gamzee]

Not really sure what rule I'm breaking but ok...

They can't say anything they are working on without MistPhizzle's permition.

 

[AlexTheCoder]

Point to the Bear

 

[Immallama]

They can't say anything they are working on without MistPhizzle's permition.

Don't really see that in the rules but guess I can't argue. I'll just turn that question into a suggestion: Right clicking for double functionality.

 

[AlexTheCoder]

Don't really see that in the rules but guess I can't argue. I'll just turn that question into a suggestion: Right clicking for double functionality.

Mist made a post about it a while ago