Focusing off an affliction still requires you to use that cure, doesn't it? You'd have to green out. Better realitycheck that before you talk about hyperbole and grounding.
I'd personally prefer it if all system created messages would automatically decay a short time after spawning, with people messages being left untouched. That would remove the vast majority of messages in the system!
The issue was that they couldn't ever (solo) kill you doing this, so it was just a spammy gimmick for group fights that anyone with two swords (so, anyone) could pull off. Effective for sure, but bad design.
Oh yes. It has more than one reset and they're staggered. The quest is also really non-intuitive in a few ways, and is basically bugged in a few others - like the speeder always showing that it's facing north when you look at it from the outside, th…
Moving the bard, force movement on you, or tumbling out when earache drops. If you can't make it that long without getting splatted you're out of luck if they have lots of summon resist.
It's a little different than Omniscience though, as that includes being able talk to/hear from places like aetherbubbles, not just the far planes. I think only omniscience specifically has been frowned on by admins, in the context of making it a dem…
Just wait for DW to come out :P Aeromancers will actually be best poised to capitalize on it, though the Pyro+Minstrel team will have a hard run on it.
Honestly, don't engage. The exact same drive that causes people to demand you play how and when they want you to play spills over into demanding that you argue with them how they want on the subjects of their choice. Just nah. No matter how exhausti…
The lollipops are pretty decent, you should be able to sell them for something. Otherwise yeah, ouch. That's a lot of mints and fireballs. That's why I'd never participate in a double--random promotion like that, especially with the nerfed presents.