Make Wizard Hats Acid Resistant

[Sundance]

You know how hard it is to land one of those perfectly?

Actually, far easier than landing a taser shot. Throwing weaponry has always been robust. So not that hard.

Lets look at the other antagonists which I feel are more balanced, like Changeling, Vampire, Nuke Ops, Traitors and Werewolves (arguably not Wraiths, but another topic for a different thread). 

These antagonists are fun to fight against because there's no hard counter. There's always X,Y,Z depending on the situation at hand. 

If the go-to for fighting against wizards is acid 24/7 then we have a problem with wizards as a whole. That said, whenever I roll security I specifically opt out of acid attacks because there's no fun attrition that I get when fighting other antagonists (unless, the wizard is cthulu-empower wizard, they can get smooshed).

Again, I'll reiterate my previous point, wizards gotta be nerfed back a little in terms of damage output and buffed in terms of defensive output. All of the above antagonists have defensive mechanisms given to them, the wizard has to specifically choose it. This is not good gameplay, you get none of that attrition, that back and forth fighting. 

I think that it's unnecessary to make wizard hats acid proof. Wizards have access to like a dozen hats on the wizard's den.

However there are some problems with acid instantly melting items. The Staff of Cthulu is a great point, that item definitely should be acid proof. You spend a whole point on it, it should require more to destroy than just acid.

Similarly, I've noticed that sometimes I don't even notice that an item I'm wearing has been destroyed because it's not obvious visually. I think that an improvement to be made would be to make the act of getting acid splashed in your face more visually and audibly obvious.

Also, I think that the same problem afflicts wizard ability casting where the only indication you get that you cant cast an ability (apart from it not actually casting) is some text outputted to your chat. Having a sound or an effect play would be helpful to players I think.

Absolutely do not make them acid proof, nosiree. Melt it in 5 seconds, that's really not that much of a buff and I don't know why peeps are getting in such a twist over it. I'd like to touch on your point about indicators, as I was on the receiving end of this.

I wasn't even aware that my hat melted off. Like you said, i tried to cast a spell, got the "you're not strong enough without your wizard hat!" and was like "oof". 

If there was a chat log, it wasn't obvious enough, as you would imagine the chat log spills out pretty fast in the heat of combat. There was no noise associated with the attack either, I assumed that there'd be a glass shattering noise but there just wasn't any. 

So the situation literally went like "Hahaa, phase shift into the room, here I am, the Wizard!" to "Hey, where'd my hat go".

Big Important Edit - The acid attacks also have a knock-on effect of spell choice. Next time I roll wizard I'll probably not opt for the more fun spell combinations and instead will go for the more destructive ones. Powergaming leads to powergaming, take note.