Gravitational Barrier | Gravitational Barrier

[Xenocidius]

NAME: Gravitational Barrier ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Physical damage is reduced by N. N is the collective HP of your creatures divided by 30.	NAME: Gravitational Barrier ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Physical damage is reduced by N. N is the collective HP of your creatures divided by 25.

ART: Art from Elements the Game IDEA: Xenocidius NOTES: It occurred to me that Gravity needs a new shield, and that it should take advantage of the high HP of Gravity creatures. Similar to Hope, this can block a lot of damage. It also makes Pharaoh slightly more useful. N is rounded down. SERIES:

[rosutosefi]

Will block less damage than hope, but will not eat up creature space. I dunno it it's OP, but I like the concept!

[Rutarete]

Two words: Flying Titans.

[furballdn]

2 elite armagios+upgraded gravitational barrier=3 shield. It's not as OP as it looks.
2 flying titans+upgraded gravitational barrier=4 shield. Not too bad.

[Naesala]

I think 30 might be a bit high, but that's just me. 25 feels better. also, how does this do for rounding?

[Xenocidius]

Rounds down. Maybe 25 would be better, and it should probably be round up.

[furballdn]

Rounds down. Maybe 25 would be better, and it should probably be round up.

I don't know about 25. with 25, two flying titans would make a shield of 5 as opposed to a shield of 4 when it was 30. I still prefer 30 over 25.

[Naesala]

How about changing it so unupgraded is 30 and upgraded is 25, and drop the automatic +1?

[dragonsdemesne]

Love the idea!  I think it's actually weaker than Hope, but that might be okay.  In Light, for instance, one RoL will give +1 to Hope, but with this shield, any creature other than a flying Titan or a ridiculously buffed creature is going to give +1 or less to this shield.

The shield is definitely balanced as is, and it might see some use if it were coded.  I do like Naesala's post above me, though, because that keeps the card at about the same power level, but differentiates it a little more from Hope.

[TheManuz]

I made a little table to see the values

Total HP	Every 30 rounded down	Every 30 rounded up	Every 25 rounded down	Every 25 rounded up
0	0	0	0	0
10	0	1	0	1
25	0	1	1	1
30	1	1	1	2
40	1	2	1	2
50	1	2	2	2
60	2	2	2	3
70	2	3	2	3
75	2	3	3	3
90	3	3	3	4
100	3	4	4	4
120	4	4	4	5
125	4	5	5	5
150	5	5	6	6
300	10	10	12	12

As a general rule, i'm for rounding up. This way, if you have a single creature, even with 1 HP, you get 1 point of shielding.
I'm also seeing that there is not much difference between steps of 30 or steps of 50.
The last row shows a situation with 6 Titans in play.

[Naesala]

Based on Manuz's chart I'd like to say that rounding up with the unupgraded using 30 and the upgraded using 25 seems the best option

[furballdn]

It's like the gravity hope card.