Weapons & Equip Voodoo dolls redirect damage

[IndigoGolem]

Equipping a voodoo doll as an accessory should redirect 50% of damage you take to that doll's NPC. If you have both dolls equipped, it prioritizes whichever is in a higher accessory slot. Killing them this way can summon Skeletron at night, or WoF in hell if it's lava damage. I don't see this being overpowered because the Guide and Clothier can only take so much damage before they die and you start taking all your own damage again. If it still seems unbalanced, this damage should give them reverse invincibility frames that stop them from being healed by the Nurse for a brief time after taking damage.

 

[Moth to the Lampshade]

me loadout swapping between three identical loadouts each with a guide voodoo doll(both combat techniques, dryad buffed) in order to redirect like 600 damage(this is surely not a waste of my time):

 

[Salty_]

Putting the guide and/or clothier next to the nurse will make this a nearly infinite 50% DR. Unless you're taking like 600 damage in one hit, at which point you just cheated death. Once they die just swap in a different accessory. If they ever die that is, again you would need to take a massive amount of damage in a short period of time for them to die with the nurse healing them.

 

[IndigoGolem]

Putting the guide and/or clothier next to the nurse will make this a nearly infinite 50% DR. Unless you're taking like 600 damage in one hit, at which point you just cheated death. Once they die just swap in a different accessory. If they ever die that is, again you would need to take a massive amount of damage in a short period of time for them to die with the nurse healing them.

Fair point. I suppose it could just hurt the NPCs while still dealing full damage to the player.

 

[RainbowPotato]

What if you use both? Would that mean you have 100% dr? Kinda seems a little OP, I’d be more okay with something like 10%. Otherwise, good idea.

 

[IndigoGolem]

What if you use both? Would that mean you have 100% dr? Kinda seems a little OP, I’d be more okay with something like 10%. Otherwise, good idea.

Nope. If you use both, it redirects damage to whichever doll is in the higher accessory slot. If he's dead it moves on to the other one. You're right that 50% is a lot even if it is hard to heal the NPCs as fast as you hurt them.

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

Hmmm. Makes sense Tbf, though it should temporarily drop npc happiness and make the Lantern Sky not appear.

 

[RainbowPotato]

Hmmm. Makes sense Tbf, though it should temporarily drop npc happiness and make the Lantern Sky not appear.

I disagree with the lantern sky completely disappearing, but for each voodoo doll in the inventory it should decrease the luck gained by a small amount relative to the amount of npcs in the world and decrease the amount of lanterns seen by the same thing. Otherwise, i completely agree.