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It can suggest skills that are not used often by the playerbase, for review purposes!
I've mentioned it before, but I would love to see a 24th rune implemented into the Runes skillset. Lusternia's runes are based on the Elder Futhark, and we have one missing from the set: Thorn (or Thurs/Thor/Thurisaz). From a roleplay perspective, I'd love to see it added to the game.
Report 607 was suggested to help pre-allergy Druids keep their opponent still -- they, more than those who chose other Druid tertiaries, had difficulty holding opponents in their melds. That's not such an issue anymore since the Druid special report was implemented.
However, Runes is also the tertiary least chosen by Mages. TP and TK are apparently better (or so I've been told - I've never played a Mage). While I think Runes for Druids is fine as it is, is there an opportunity to add an affliction or effect to the skillset that would primarily complement Mage combat? (Of course anything that's going to be implemented would affect how a Druid would use the skill, but there are some runes that suit certain melds over others).
The effects of Lusternia's runes are typically aligned with the Elder Futhark meaning. For example, rad means 'travel', cen means 'enlightenment' (the opposite being stupidity), isa means 'ice' (stillness), daeg means 'day' (faerie fire). Thorn, this missing rune, means 'giant', or 'powerful force' (in Futhark the meaning is literally 'thorn' or 'self-protection').
So... I don't know what the shortcomings of Runes are for Mages, but some ideas that suit the theme of the rune might be:
- Damage to health
- Reduce strength of opponent (enfeeble)
- Some damage done by victim is rebounded (justice)
- Weakness
- Prone (was rejected in report)
- Sleep (was rejected in report)
Consider that runes can be slung, double-slung, fused into demesnes and used in prophesies. I would consider fusing to be where the greatest effect from the rune would be found.tl;dr: new rune that is Mage-centric, rather than Druid-centric, to improve viability of the skillset compared to TK and TP!
I approve of this thread! But my fingers refuse to agree or like any post from my dearest Celina. :P
One thing that annoys me is that you can make brewmeister malts teas and so forth in batches of 10 just like alchemy but you have to brew them one at a time.
This makes the process take 10 times as long instead of just a more reasonable twice as long.
This is an outrage that my gigantic sense of entitlement will simply not allow!
Stupid mercury mumble mumble.
The new guilds have plenty to work on but some of old guilds are pretty well squared away. After getting Necroscream a new power this last round, there is right about zero chance of getting anything else in it for rl years.
Hyperactive will be changed or we are going to start storming server closets 99% style! But it's being addressed.
Glamours and tarot are pretty solid.
Recent attempts to change common skills have been shot down or met with harpy grade vitriol.
So yes, some of us are indeed scraping the barrel.
Glamours could use a flare change. The whole afterimage mechanic is terrible.
Cantors can envoy that themselves. That's super guild specific and I leave the Cantors defend any buffs to themselves.
It sucks. You have to use it twice in a row and consume power just to use anything in glamours more than once or twice. Colourburst and such are garbage without afterimage, only setting up after image means you halt doing anything else just to get an afterimage.
It's been a huge issue I've always had with glamours.
Envoys take pity?? ^:)^
I like Kelly's idea. though my vague understanding of the warrior code from bits and pieces from what Roark has said over the years...is that it is super hard to alter. Not entirely sure how possible that is.
From a combatants perspective, I have never even given glamours a second thought in a fight. In our fight, I don't think I even noticed if I had them or not. However, I'm okay with glamours if you are Draylor! For other bard specs that don't lean on the cantor damage button it would be nice to see the tertiary have some real application like tarot and ecology.
(It took me a solid minute to find the smileys button. Why so lonely?)
I fought as a glamours bard, and found that outside of the basic hindering potential of hypnoticpattern and the defense provided by illusoryself, there was little of active use to be found in the skillset. Same holds with acrobatics too, really. Bards are 'momentum' based, having to chase after earwort balance to keep from having the majority of their effects nullified, so the weak affliction potential of both skillsets leads to their active skills seeing little general use. While some of the effects are situationally useful, they are disproportionately hard to use and/or random for the time it takes to fully use them.
In short, flare being changed to work like blanknote would be a good change. However, the chance on maze should be toned down, to compensate for the increased ease of keeping someone sighted. Partial power loss on failure seems appropriate.
As such the blowgun skills are one of the worst offenders, truly serving absolutely no beneficial purpose in the hands of -monks-. I'd like to suggest making darts a bit more useful, by allowing darts to pierce and break shields when they hit for a power cost, or to launch multiple darts at once for a power cost.