the three stages was kind of an afterthought. Also, I'll probably make fire masters able to fly too, like ozai did in the final battle. In addition, I'd like to give firebenders varying degrees of heat resistance, starting from being fire proof, to being able to bathe in magma, if at all possible. On waterbending I'd make it go from having a normal swimspeed, but with swims innate, to a very fast swimspeed and have them amphibious, since a powerful waterbender could keep an airbubble around them. bloodbending could be done, but it wouldn't really do anything more than water.... and make a nice bloody mess everywhere. Probably add it in just for fun, but we need to come up with something else for masters as well. I remember seeing a breath attack somewhere that caused delayed frostbite damage. That would be cool. I'll have to find that.
Edit: Hum.... I just did some testing myself. I got both the other breath attacks to work for the earthbenders, but when I pit them against each other I get a lot of bruising and occasionally a bone break even with slade. JediaKyrol, how did you test it/ who did you test it against? For the low level earth benders, it's fine if it just bruises, but I'd like the stronger ones to be more deadly. Also, no matter what caste they were, they showed up just as "Earth Kingdom Citizen", which is okay, I guess, but I thought it would show their bender status too. I'll have to go back over the code.
Edit 2: I haven't been able to reproduce JediaKyrol's results for the slade. In any case, I have good news and bad news. The good news is, after extensive testing with syndromes, I found a way to make the master earthbender's attack more lethal. the bad news is that it's not entirely realistic. Near as I can tell, it makes them bleed everywhere, pretty much. I'm gonna try and make it affect only internal organs, since blunt attacks often cause internal bleeding IRL. And then I'll have to try and nix it so it doesn't make each organ bleed at once. I'll probably have to make a creature effect line for each organ.... oh well. Anyway, the plan is to give the master earthbenders a slade attack and the syndrome attack which uses trailing vapor flow, because the other breath attacks don't seem to deliver the syndrome very well, with the exception of trailing dust flow, which causes high risk for the bender himself. I'm gonna try a few more things first, but that's probably what it'll end up as.