Dreadstone armor does not regain durability in lunacy areas

March 24, 2023

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As title says, when lunacy meter replaces sanity meter dreadstone armor doesn't regain durability over time. This is inconsistent with other effects where interaction with sanity is replaced with corresponding interaction with lunacy: sanity drain from wearing things, sanity drain on hit (Walter, night armor, thulecite crown force field), enlightened crown activation conditions - all those things work with lunacy when sanity meter is not available.

This essentially takes away potential cool niche of using self-repairing gear in Celeastial Champion fight, everywhere on surface during enlightened nights (especially hurts in lights out: as long as moonstorms are active dreadstone gear looses ability of self-reparation on whole shard, and untill CC kill no window for reparation exists), inside moonstorm areas. It's possible to use it as generic armor, but it's awkward to be forced to stay for days idling while repairing dreadtone set during repetitive CC fights, there is little to no point in using dreadstone suit in moonstorms minigame instead of thulecite suit (same protection %, more durability) or night armor (more protection %, almost the same durability, drains lunacy with same/better efficiency).

If self-reparation ability worked in lunacy areas, then dreadstone gear - items imbued with even stronger variant of nightmares - would exceel in fights with lunacy-related things and on lunacy-affected territory, which is very cool concept thematically; another bonus is that it would happen naturally, simply making things work consistently would result in that (without even need to add extra special effects to expand shadows vs gestalts conflict). Wilson's Shadow Courtier skill would also work better since it allows to both make full set easier and promotes fighting moon-related things like Celestial Champion - but right now player is encouraged to fight in lunacy areas with that skill and make dreadstone set, while being discouraged to use dreadstone armor in those fights and inside those areas because armor looses it's most impactful feature.