STATUS

Hmm. I like the idea of a sort of anti life steal weapon, and I like the idea of a weapon that sort of charges up. Maybe I could do something that deals damage based on how much damage the last attack you got hit with did. Sort of like counter in Pokemon.

Or I could do something with critical hits. Maybe if an enemy is at full health, the first hit from that weapon is a guaranteed critical. Or maybe the lower your health, the higher your Crit chance with that weapon. Maybe your critical hit damage increases against enemies afflicted by a certain status that the weapon applies.

I actually already have an weapon that kills instantly (not always) but has massively reduced damage. I'll definitely look into the defense ignoring ability though.

So basically every item gets a randomly selected template that determines it's rarity, icon, name, and attack pattern. There's about 350 templates to choose from. Then, the items stats are generated based on the level of the weapon, which is determined by the enemy or chest that dropped it. The stats for weapons are ATK, DEX, accuracy, and critical hit rate. Each of these stats has a range they can draw from, so no two weapons are alike.

However, once the stats are generated, then the prefix is generated. Common weapons don't get a prefix, but uncommon weapons and above do. The prefix determines any modifiers the weapon gets. There are 12 uncommon prefixes. 4 are materials which affect the four stats mentioned above. 4 are elemental prefixes which give the weapon an elemental type and status ailment. And 4 are accessory prefixes that give the weapon an additional modification. Two of the accessories give stat buffs but decrease the opposing stat, one accessory increases critical hit DAMAGE, and one accessory gives the weapon first turn priority in battle.

That's it for uncommon. Now, rare prefixes are basically any combination of two uncommon prefixes, with some exceptions. No weapon can spawn with two elements, or two accessories. A weapon CAN have two materials though. And materials can be the same, and stack, so you can have ATK+ and ATK+ for a super damaging but kind of plain weapon. You CAN'T however have a weapon that does increased Crit cabbage AND gets turn priority. Those are both accessories, and you can only have one. Each of these prefixes has their own name, so you won't get a "Fierce Burning Longsword" but instead you'll get a "Incendiary Longsword." That way you don't have ridiculous long weapon names that don't fit on the screen.

Now, EPIC weapons get a combination of any THREE prefixes, with the same rule. No two elements or two accessories, but multiple materials are allowed and can stack. By the way, you can have an element AND an accessory, just not two of one type. Legendary weapons get the same prefixes as epic weapons, and so do Mythic weapons, but they also get unique effects that aren't listed on the item card. They also get a little red flavour text to distinguish them. Those are what this status were trying to figure out.

All in all, there's about 1,000,000 different stat combinations you can roll on any given weapon, with about 350 templates and another 350 prefixes, so there's approximately 122,500,000,000 different weapons that can theoretically be generated by this system. And the weapons database only goes up to about 509 slots to make it all work.

It's been a lot of fun to figure out! Essentially I figured that database entries don't necessarily need to be used for hard-coded weapons. Instead, the entries from 1-36 are blank, and are overwritten when you get a new item. That's basically your backpack capacity. The next 40 slots are for randomly generated loot, then the next 40 slots are for shops, etc.