[Suggestion] Merge Living Armor with Sentient Armor
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Idea
Living Armor and Sentient Armor are 2 approaches on protection and utility for armor.
While Living Armor has a drawback with durability and a bit less protection, Sentient Armor only has fixed utility in form of flavored Tartaric Gems.
Combining with them with all upsides would be too powerful but having an expensive upgrade with drawbacks might just be the curse we all were looking for.
Possible Approach:
By some sort of lategame upgrade path / ritual / other procedure (maybe as described in Lore), Living Armor and Sentient Armor are combined to create (what you think) the best of both worlds. However, the drawbacks might prove fatal if you fail at pleasing the demons within.
In order to make it not too overpowered, it constantly drains the player's Soul Network just like Bound Tools and requires more Demonic Will than Sentient Armor. The Protection increases the more Demonic Will is available (just like Sentient Armor) and carries over some off the effects of flavored Demonic Will, albeit not as powerful.
For example:
with Steadfast Demonic Will, you still get the absorption bonus when killing enemies but no passive extra health and the knockback resistance is weaker (or requires more Demonic Will to be as strong).
It could only have a maximum of 100 Upgrade Points (or even less) and cannot use Upgrade Tomes (to make it harder to customize it to the specific needs of the wearer).
It uses an Armor Gem like the Sentient Armor in order to activate the special effects but it is also a seperate set (that provides only little protection but still the upgrades when deactivated).
When deactivated, the armor could take damage which would be repaired with a massive LP and Demonic Will drain on activation.
If you die, the demons within might receive the power to fully vacate your armor, reverting it to a standard, unenchanted Living Armor (possibly keeping the upgrades, though).
The deactivated form can be enchanted but the vast amounts of demonic power interfere with lesser arcane arts, reducing the enchantability.
Lore:
While your best friend at hand to support you in all your tasks has grown very attached to you, you are saddened by the fact that it suffers for you and it has yet to learn to heal itself (Of course I am speaking about Living Armor!).
Bella Highborn infused armor with pure demonic will, maybe you can reproduce this behavior to help overcome the struggles you have with your armor.
Combining Living armor together with Tartaric Gems (to allow them to harbor demonic power), a Demon Blood Shard (to imbue them with a demon soul) and a Sentient Armor Gem (to teach it the capabilities of Sentient Armor) teaches the Living Armor to draw upon demonic power to strengthen itself, however it seems to disrupt some of its initial capabilities. The infusion drained your spare Tartaric Gem completly and left you pondering whether it was worth the "upgrade" as it seemed to be weaker than both Living and Sentient Armor.
After collecting some Demonic Will, however, your Armor has since become stronger, resembling some of the traits of Sentient Armor but also reducing its ability to learn and adapt.
The Living Armor needed to be battle hardened and powerful in order to be able to accept the demonic infusion (Needs to be upgraded with Draft of Angelus, cannot learn new things with upgrade tomes, needs upgrades present (levels of which might be halved)).
While activated, the demons within feed on your Soul Network and use Demonic Will to empower the armor.
Wearing it gives you a rush but you also feel consumed... and a hatred for all blood mages.