Dear Santa Umishuli,

I'd like to request the revamp of the defense form, armadillo.

The days of 10vs10 PK fights and huge explore group outings has fallen off over the years and armadillo struggles to find use outside of these niche group settings, making this an extremely dull and a 100% reroll for most players.

Pachyderm has 98% of the damage reduction of a retracted armadillo, but without its movement being impeded by retract and with passive damage as well as gore, making it superior in every way but intercept (which can be gained by lower tier forms in most cases).

I propose that armadillo be made a bit more active in how it could be played in a PK settings as well as give it a bit of offensive utility in general.

Proposal:

1) Make a dillo's carapace do a bit of 'rebound' damage!

Each hide deflection would do a bit of damage to the attacker as well as give a chance of inflicting a few different side-affects, such as: minor strength loss from wrist sprain, losing grip of weapon (disarming), sliding off and causing to miss next attack (feint).

2) Make retract more friendly.

Remove the lag from retract for a more 'active' playstyle.

Currently it's 1 round to retract and 1 round to unretract, which actually makes reverting to word or fleeing dangerous because you eat lag and take some pretty hefty damage, seeing as unretracted armadillo actually does not have that great of damage reduction, which is something that the abovementioned pachyderm need not worry about.

This would allow it to actually be able to capitalize on some interesting situations like absorbing a flurry and shifting to something else or making a proper retreat without getting kicked around too badly.

3) Armadillos dig a lot... Give it dig!

4) Armadillos carry disease (leprosy). Make their bites a bit spicy!

Ok... It's really hard to make an armadillo 'cool', but I'm trying here. You all did a great job with Halloween forms, maybe you have some cooler ideas than I do. Please harness the powers of the holiday spirit to make armadillo interesting!