Wild Status Effects - Reworked

Wild Status Effects: Reworked Mechanics

A. Why These Changes?

In the base game, many status ailments and elemental blights feel either too weak to matter. This mod aims to:

• []Differentiate effects so each status has its own identity and counterplay.

  []Encourage tactical decisions around using counter skills and resource management.

• Enhance thematic immersion by tying mechanics to narrative concepts (e.g., fire as anti‑regen mechanic, sleep having aditional damage on wake up hit).

  The mission of this mod is to make you think twice before letting a status build up or ignoring blight resistances on your build.

  B. Design Changes

  Note: For more detail, check the mod's README.txt.

  I. Reworked Status Effects

  Note: For a visual showcase of the changes, check the Videos section of this page.

  🔥 Fire Blight

  - Increased Fire Blight Damage dealt to the Red Health Bar, this acts as a regeneration counter mechanic.

  - Reduced Fire Blight Damage dealt to the Green Health Bar compared to the damage done in vanilla. This is done to compensate the increased damage on the red health bar.

  Reasoning: Fire should has now an anti-regen identity, rather than simply being another DoT mechanic.

  ☠️ Poison Status

  - Poison Damage is now exponential, each damage tick multiplies itself with a multiplier.

  - UI: Added the health bar's danger effect when poison damage scales into high numbers.

  Reasoning: I want poison to become a pressure mechanic, reflecting venom effect worsening if left untreated. The first damage ticks deal minimal damage but if the player forgets about the poison status, it can be fatal.

  💥 Blast Status

  - Hunters dodges reduces the incoming Blast Damage, whenever the Blast Damage is reduced to zero the Blast Status disappears.

  - Blast Damage is greater compared to vanilla to compensate Hunters being able to reduce it by dodging.

  - Blast Duration has been greatly reduced, in vanilla you had 25 seconds to execute 3 dodges which was inconceivably easy.

  - Blocking while having the Blast Status will accelerate the blast detonation.

  - UI: Whenever you block and explosion effect is triggered to signal the timer reduction the Blast detonation.

  - Hotfix (Vanilla): Now the game updates the Health Bar Blast Damage indicator (UI) when having the Blast Resistance skill active.