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Just checked pathtwist, it entangles. Enemies can still ENTER PATH freely. 

EDIT: Also, Bluehorn in Wildewood doesn't deal succumb. It does a one off mana drain and asthma.

Except that is something entirely within the affliction system and it's been pointed out that effective synergies work outside of it.
We also already have significant concepts along the themes of the fae, ancestors, seasons, and so on already present in our skills, they're part of the reason for the guilds we now have.

Also echoing, what's the synergy between Wildewood? Succumb? Last I was asking about it the best a wildewood can contribute is breaking bones to keep people in place. The WW massive damage bomb is also based on primarily physical stuff which, MDs don't seem to really be able to help with.

Lycidas said:

Saran said:

*shrug* The concept that was tossed around (and may be in the works already) was that HS would rework allergies into a stacking debuff on their targets which thematically represented the forest itself becoming more and more enraged at the victim for their various trespasses against nature.

There's a few ways to mechanically utilise this, something that slowly gets worse as it builds up, something you consume to cause certain effects, etc. For example, if you build up enough you could turn into a shape similar to what we've seen a druid utilising during the Nature Wars (kinda Viridian like). There was also some discussion on inverting that into a rage themed mechanic, or having both, which leads towards a relatively common "overheat" mechanic where you build up a resource and need to keep it in a certain range for maximum effect, going too high screws you up a bit while staying too low means you're less effective.

edit: It's really just an extrapolation of some stuff we've seen a few times in visions and the like, it's also generally fitting with lore concepts already present particularly a recurring in Crone, Buck, Winter, and the like  .

If you're talking about this post right here, it wasn't here when I was typing up my post, because we were typing at the same time. Nor do the forums update the thread when you post, so I actually had no idea you posted that until now. So no, I didn't ignore it. How is it being reductive? I said UNIQUE not only, I swear people either cannot read or just choose to cherry pick and in the worst way possible.

That post was up for an hour before you made a two(?) line post saying we should focus on Ancestors, perhaps you need to refresh more often.

Yes, Ancestors are unique to Serenwilde, that does not make them the only unique thing to Serenwilde and they already are pretty well featured within our skills already.

Again, you seem only interested in pushing your ideas and not actually working with the other people trying to participate, as with the Timequake thread. (Read over it again, see how often you actually even acknowledge alternative ideas when you already had one posted, or adjust your ideas based on the responses of other people)

Yes, even taking into account the meld changes coming down the pipes. The fundamental issue is that Seren skills are a random grab bag, whose themes were established over a wide range of years. Serenwilde DID once have a synergy, long ago: sleep locks. Moondancers were the champion of sleeplocks, tied in with the very best and most powerful users of dreamweaving when it could sleeplock and sleep attrition, and even spiritsingers once did sleep attacks in Wildarrane and through Glamours. Add in morphite poisons to the physical fighters to avoid breaking sleep locks and there's your Serenwilde synergy. 

But the game moved on, and these skills got patched in wildly different directions, but the skillsets that depended on them never really moved on. There's just so much piled on optimization in different directions at this point that the slate needs to be wiped clean. Unlike other orgs, I don't think there's really a solid, unique, and useful jumping off point either because it's all just so scattered. You look at Mag and can say "Okay, plague. Deathmarks. These are quintisentially Magnagoran themes and mechanical conceits, let's go from there." That just... doesn't exist for Serenwilde, making it hard as a player to pick a direction to go.

An aquamancer's demesne will strip an elemental defense (Needlerain), chill(Icefloe), force down flyers and people in trees(Typhoon), heal allies(Healspring), stun enemies(Jellies), pull enemies toward the center of the demesne(Currents), and passively make waterbreathing ineffective(Stillwater). Whirlpool will force people toward the caster in flooded environments, and make it harder to leave the room. The target is supposed to be to build toward Preserve, which is an instakill requiring the target being below half health and in a frozen condition- it also does damage if the target is shivering, or frozen but with more than 50% health, dealing more damage to the latter than to the former, with variable power costs depending whether or not the caster is in their own demesne and if the target is chilled/frozen.