Spitballing rewards for Toughness modifier

[sturdy scaffold]

In the current patch of 0.1.0, the Quantity modifier naturally increases rewards as more enemies = more ichor + more rolls for loot. Toughness, on the other hand, doesn't have any bonuses yet. This thread is to brainstorm ideas for said modifier.

• Increase loot quality. Tougher enemies give better drops, but not more drops, as that would compound with Quantity.
• Decrease satiety drain. Satiety decreases while in combat, higher Toughness leads to longer encounters. This can be offset by scaling satiety drain inversely with Toughness.
• Better quality chests. Respawning chests are of basic quality. Higher Toughness could give them scaling chance to be higher tier chests.

[sturdy scaffold]

Higher tier gear fills Satiety more than lower tier, therefore increasing loot quality would perform a similar function to decreasing satiety drain.

[spiral herald]

"Respawning chests are of basic quality. Higher Toughness could give them scaling chance to be higher tier chests." <-- while not wrong, that's also not entirely true. there are chests that respawn that are not white :)

[sturdy scaffold]

I am aware of one blue chest that respawns!

[spiral herald]

may I dm you, unless you don't wanna have a big spoiler ofc

[sturdy scaffold]

I'm 50 hours in and just grinding to theory craft, it's fine.

[sturdy scaffold]

Enemy damage doesn't appear to scale with Toughness. Not damage to the player, damage to each other. As-is, teamkilling becomes a rarer occurance the higher Toughness goes. There's still value in blocking attacks with other bodies, but decreasingly so.

Should enemy damage scale 1:1 with HP? idk. Depends how rampant/easy teamkilling is.