It is somewhat intended that their logic is exploitable. I'd rather the player be able to consistently outsmart them than always getting forced into fighting both a necromancer and a skeleton.
It's a relatively small change if you're not upgrading them, but the way they upgrade is changing quite a lot.
Please read the blog post: 
Shattered will at some point be considered 'complete' by me, but it'll probably be a while after a new city quest. I do certainly think we're getting closer though.
It's worth noting that the shield starts cooling down immediately after it activates, you are not losing out on cooldown duration if it ends up lasting longer.
Hm, there must be something extra going on here because from a quick test the cooldown works correctly in both A and C:
A: shield is correctly reduced to -100 cooldown, can be triggered twice in a row on two successive attacks
C: shield cooldown went from 90 to -10 turns, after re-triggering the cooldown correctly started at 90 turns.
I'm not totally sure what you mean by this. The talent absolutely shouldn't require the shield to be currently active to trigger, and it doesn't from my testing.
Reading over these comments, I generally agree that Gladiator already has a lot to deal with and the extra juggling of shield uptime is a bit much. Some of this is intended, but I'm considering softening it a bit by allowing the shield to stay active as long as enemies are near OR the gladiator has combo. This won't affect balance much but should make it feel like the various mechanics are clashing a lot less.
I appreciate change can be difficult but I agree with Alek's opinion there are issues with the previous splash designs, and his desire for Shattered to showcase his work at its best. This one is the largest change, mainly because the existing proportions were very off (man was skinny under that armor!) and the armor design didn't make any sense for a character coming from a nordic-inspired area.
Hey Dungeoneers,
There's going to be one more new thing in the next Shattered Pixel Dungeon update: new splash art for the Warrior! As usual the art for this is by Aleksandar Komitov, here's a little sneak peek.
This (plus other hiccups) has delayed v3.1's release a little past the '1-1.5 weeks' estimate I gave earlier though, expect another beta patch soon and hopefully a release in very early June.
(Image Description: A pixel-blurred image teasing the Warrior's new splash art)
The shadows aren't ever going to match exactly but I do agree the barrel shadow doesn't look right atm. This is something I'm tweaking next beta.
What I meant is that shape differences would be an option I would take before something like a colorblind toggle. Before shape differences, I want to see if I can just tweak the colors to work reasonably well for everyone. The inventory UI is already really cluttered and I'd like to try and avoid pushing that further if I can. The latest beta has some more color tweaks that I'm quite a bit more confident will work for people.
Hey Dungeoneers, v3.1 is ready for beta, just in time to meet the estimate I gave (for once)!
In this blog post I'm going to go over what's coming in v3.1! This update has a a mini Warrior rework, some new rooms in the dungeon, a new trinket, and an assortment of other changes and additions.
Hey folks,
Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.1 is getting very close to being ready for beta hopefully you'll hear more about it in this coming week. One other new thing in it that I haven't mentioned yet are two new rare enemies! Both are encountered in the Sewers, here one of them: Gnoll Exiles!
Gnoll Exiles are super powerful gnoll scouts, but they aren't as aggressive. Years of solitude has made them pretty shrewd, and they won't pick a fight with you of your allies. Of course they will retaliate, but the extra loot in their backpack might be worth the very tough fight.
(Image Description: A screenshot showing the Cleric hero approaching a gnoll exile. The exile looks similar to a regular gnoll scout, but wields a spear and has grey fur.)
Hey Dungeoneers,
The next Shattered Pixel Dungeon update will include a new trinket! It's a simpler one this time, with more of a cute aesthetic. It's a little reference to a favorite ferret.
The Ferret Tuft boosts evasion for all characters, including both allies and enemies! That might sound like a mixed bag, but keep in mind that there are lots of ways to counter enemy evasion: magic, most ability attacks, surprise attacks, etc. You'll need to make more use of these than usual to benefit from the trinket, but the extra defensive power can be well worth it.
(Image Description: An image showing the item info window for the new Ferret Tuft item. It reads: "Ferret Tuft +3: A tuft of silky white ferret fur, held together by a lime green ribbon tied into a bow. Ferrets are known for their agility, mischievousness, and lack of integrity. Some of that power seems to radiate from the trinket, enhancing the evasion of anything nearby. At its current level this trinket will increase the evasion of all characters by 60%.")
Here's another side content addition coming in the next update to Shattered Pixel Dungeon, a few new terrain objects! Each region is getting something new for a little more visual variety: barrels in the sewers, cages in the prison, metal scaffolding in the caves, flaming pedestals in the city, and chunks of rubble in the demon halls.
These new terrain types will show up in some new standard rooms, and a few of the existing rooms already in the dungeon. Here's an image showing one example, with some very much unfinished barrel visuals.
(Image Description: screenshot showing the sewer region. In the top-right of the room there is a row of storage barrels. The barrels are using placeholder visuals, they are notably lower detail than the other dungeon elements.)
Hey Dungeoneers,
The next Shattered Pixel Dungeon update is going to have a variety of smaller changes, including four new badges to earn! These badges range from fairly easy to quite difficult, and are all about specific challenges. Here are some hints:
- Defeat enemies with the help of terrain (traps, plans, chasms)
- Have lots of buffs or debuffs at once
- Survive the ascent with the amulet's curse peacefully
- Beat the game using a very, very high level pickaxe
(Image Description: An image showing the four new badge being added in the next Shattered Pixel Dungeon update. The first one is golden (medium difficulty), then one is platinum (high difficulty), and the last two are diamond (extreme difficulty).)
Hey folks,
The next update to Shattered Pixel Dungeon will make some pretty big changes to the Warrior. His current shielding over time benefit is passive and hard to notice, so I'm changing it to grant him a bunch of shielding up-front, with a cooldown.
I'm toying with some of the balance on this atm, but would also like to add a bit of interactivity to this by having it only trigger when the Warrior is about to be below half health. This gives me room to make the effect stronger, in exchange for the extra requirement on its use.
(Image Description: A short GIF of the Warrior taking damage early in the game. Just before the incoming damage from the rat is dealt, The Warrior gains a burst of 5 sheilding, completely negating the attack. The Warrior then starts to retaliate and defeats the rat.)
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Unfortunately tieing the rooms together like this would require a lot more work than it might seem. The actual room contents are generated independently of one-another, and so tieing their size together would effectively require fully generating the next floor before the prior one is generated. I also don't think that landing onto a mageroyal is going to break your fall in the way you imagine, it could just as easily apply the refreshing effect and then the damage from the fall.
I'm also not too keen on giving players more ways to mitigate fall damage, as the elixir of feather fall already exists for this purpose.