Cracked Armor = The New Condition

I am convinced. After reading about the new skills for GWEN and seeing the new monster skill that inflicts multiple types of conditions including cracked armor, I would say we have a new condition coming soon. Perhaps with hard mode but maybe in GWEN. I also think that some skills that we have now might be rebalanced in the future to inflict the cracked armor condition (Penetrating Attack, Chop, Blow to name a few). What's the communities thoughts on this? I'm pretty excited to see another mechanic like this added into the game.


EDIT: Added a question mark to the title to prevent misleading information.

What would cracked armor do to classes like ritualists? You can't really call their clothing armor.

anything is armor if it provides protection

Why on earth do you guys torture yourselves with all these assumptions? Just wait till the game comes out already, or at least until you get some concrete information...

My thoughts exactly

"Cracked armor", to venture a guess, results in your armor having a -nn applied to it for a period of time (or until fixed).

Makes you wonder if there will be any "repair" skills/spells/kits needed...

As said in this thread when you type OQASQ5KPW+HflnyP5l8ReAA in your template you get a bunch of new skills which you can't use though, but look promising.

The reason we torture ourselves is because we are bored and anything new comes along I love speculating about it!!

It would be funny if cracked armor made the armor permanently unwearable. That would lead to some weird scenarios!

"OMG THAT MONSTER BROKE MY FOW LEGGINGS OMG!!!"

... Which could have the interesting side effect of removing the "elite" armors from gameplay.

However, that's unlikely... skills that crack armor would be to prevalient for the effect to be permanent. Imagine having to buy new armor after every fight?

I could see a clickable repair kit as a remote possibility... however expect it to be like any other condition that you get over in time (providing it doesn't kill you).

More likely just a condition for -20 armour or some such.

Why dont they just use the hex spell...Weaken Armor? Same purpose correct?

no, because we dont know what armor cracking does yet

I believe that assumptions for new content is a form of imaginative entertainment. Don't post in my thread again if you don't want to talk about it.

Well, I think it'll be one of the two suggestions offered: either it will apply -XX armor value to the character (possibly just the armor piece) for some period, as a duration condition, or will render the armor moot as a condition duration (the armor being moot would be that the character has no armor value for that region and/or has no use of the rune/insignia). I'd see it as a timed effect for either case; if it was permanent and required a repair kit, that would be pretty rough. Of course, if it's only valid in Hard Mode, that would be the point.

As to the above, even if it works exactly like Weaken Armor, it's different in that it's a condition, not a hex. So you can slap it on someone with hex breaker, or they could slough it off with mend condition. Gives more options.

Why do I get the feeling that Air Elementalists will be able to aply this skill and gain another advantage over Warriors?

No really.Blind,Weakness,and Cracked Armor with 25% Armor Penetration?

Ugh.

whats up with totuters madness, it lets you move 3,000% faster........wtf??

and another one sound off a horn to everyone that we are here, thats cool

Chances are they're monster skills.Torturers Madness will probably belong to a boss,while the Horn skill will probably be used by a certain monster where if you don't kill him in a certain period of time,he alerts other monsters to your whereabouts.

At least,I hope thats what it is.

Why not use water snares instead of crippling? Same thing.

I'm referring to the skill that lets (sum1) move 3,000% faster. Water hexes only slow down, on max, 90%. So really, they would be able to move 2,910% faster.