Choke:
Estarra the Eternal says, "Ok well lets get rid of choke, that'd make our life easier. You can suggest some unique noncomplicated replacement or we will come up with one."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I'd also prefer it not be a clone of waning."

Estarra the Eternal says, "A new innovative, uncomplicated idea would be well received."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Or if you can come up with something that isn't aeon like."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't want you to get stuck, well it has to be aeon like."

Estarra the Eternal says, "You can think out of the box."

Revolts:
Estarra the Eternal says, "Basically i think revolts should take at least 15 minutes."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I agree that they shouldn't take 3 minutes."

Estarra the Eternal says, "That's a design issue with village feelings obviously."

Estarra the Eternal says, "It just seems a little artificial and forced to solve the issue with delaying when you can influence villagers."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Ok well some people like the idea of randomizing recovery time but I think that's wholly separate from solving the 3 minute wins."

Aetherflares:
Estarra the Eternal says, "Ships are expensive and intended to be involved in Aetherflares as the 'best' means of gaining points. If you can't field ships, or can't fly them well at all, you really can't reasonable expect to win. Also, 10-12 focusers means the flare would be over VERY quickly with no competition."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I agree with that comment insofar ships should definitely have a greater advantage over colossi."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Plus the whole point of aflares was to encourage ship combat."

You say, "So generally speaking, you feel that a team of all ships should always win even if the enemy team is holding the bubble on the ground?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "Yes, the main focus should be on ships."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't mind boosting colossi but they ships should always trump."

You say, "That'd be appreciated, right now there's not much incentive to focus compared to ships."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Ok maybe consider that for the revision."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Anyway, point here collossi should not eclipse or equal ships but rather they are to suppport ships."

Shrines:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Require a shrine room to be fully sanctified before powers may take effect."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't think there's much objection here."

On 1 area power per war shrine:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Ok well go ahead and keep this idea. Honestly I'm neutral to it but there's some strong background objection."

On cooldowns for shrine powers:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Maybe give us a range to consider like 10-20 minutes."

The Norns, Administrators of Fate say in unison, "Would this turn into people pre-raiding to get shrine effects raised, then just ignoring it ot go back in an hour?"

You say, "Yes."

You say, "So maybe the cooldown can be applied only if it's defiled away."

You say, "Not fading naturally."

You say, "That should solve the problem."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Ok well i'm not sure i'm crazy about cooldowns per shrine but keep it in and elucidate."

Demigods:

Estarra the Eternal says, "We had a lot of complaints that there was a perception you -had- to be a demigod to engage in combat, and we wanted to move away from a lot of combat advantages for demigods, but this report seems to really want to beef up demigods."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Also it seems like there's a move to lower essence costs or make more one-time essence costs or flex them or whatever but we see people with 400-600 milliion essence. I'd like to see essence spent more not less."

On skillflexing demi powers:

Estarra the Eternal says, "I'm on the fence iwth this. It would need to be limited so you can't easily cycle through powers and probably i'd want to make it expensive to switch, so maybe you can only switch out one a RL day at a 10M essence cost per switch, something like that."

On reviewing the costs of demi powers:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Review the costs/weight for the powers that currently exist, ascendant included."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Yes I agree the costs should go up."

D:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Explain to me the reason why any cost should be reduced hwen people are ssitting on half a billion essence."

You say, "Because it will only encourage more afk aetherbashing when what they want is suddenly 20 million more expensive."

Estarra the Eternal says, "What if we CAP essence at 100 million."

Estarra the Eternal says, "So if you reach 100M, you can't gain any more essence until you use it."

You say, "And adjusted costs with that in mind?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "Maybe."

On sealholders buying ascendant powers:

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't like it costing half."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Don't think i mind the other part though."

On allowing the purchase of demigod weight via essence/gold:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Ok i'm thinking of adding weight based on the level of essence, though essence gained would be diminished the higher your essence level, and you'd deactivate powers if you take one and then suddenly you drop below the level."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Does that make sense."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Or maybe all your powers inactivate if you drop below an essence level until you reshuffle it."

You say, "Reshuffling would be great."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Well lets go on that premise."

You say, "Not as punishing if you suffer an unfortunate lag death."

On adding more powers:

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't want to go through each individual suggestion except to say i'm not sure how balanced it is with these combat powers."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Adding stats, dmp and damage buffs, that sorts of thing just seems will turn into 'must haves"."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Regen stuff and beast buff isn't too bad."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I like utility stuff but not everything here."

Races:
Estarra the Eternal says, "I'm not crazy about baselining all the races."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I do think there should be some races with high cons and some with low cons, and same with dex and everything else. I'm uncomfortable with the movement well lets just raise everyone's dex to 11."

You say, "So avoid baselining is the general idea?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "Yes."

On tae'dae:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Tae'dae are supposed to be slow, strong and wise, not sure the reason for the dexterity."

Estarra the Eternal says, "If balance penalty was lowered to 1, you thinkt there'd still be problems?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "They have a ton of bonuses."

You say, "If there are, I'm sure it will be brought up if you guys ever do races again."

You say, "So we need to get some field experience with new tae'dae first."

On Igasho:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Don't think they need the dex."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Don't understand lgoic of magic penalty."

On Mugwump:

*Same as merians

On Merian:

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't get +1 con for merian and -1 con for merian lord."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I definitely don't like reducing the fire weakness."

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "Makes base merian more tanky and leaves merian lord unaffected."

On Orclach:

Estarra the Eternal says, "I'd consider the +1 dex though."

Druids:
Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't mind lowering casting time to 3s and i guess i don't mind getting rid of point cleanse."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I'm really disliking making it a 30s instakill."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I also don't like the idea of making sap the focus of druid combat."

You say, "Would it be fine then to focus on thornrend instead?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "Sure."

You say, "Here's the other idea for thornrend."

You say, "-allow thornlashes/thornrend to work on a sapped opponent once again."
You say, "Have thornrend -not- instakill a sapped opponent, instead, have it cause a substantial amount of damage and bleeding (dependent on number of limbs lashed)"
You say, "-disallow igniting lashes while you are sapped, i.e., you're too moist to be properly lit on fire."

Estarra the Eternal says, "So we're making thornrend/sap the druid main ability again."

You say, "The main kill method there yes, since sap alone isn't the plan."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Fire should remove a vine."

You say, "Right now, if you have say...3 lashes on you, and you're ignited, you get cured of all lashes. If you're sapped, can it be so you only lose 1 lash?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "Oh yeah i don't mind that. I also don't mind that curing a lash that way causes a burst of increased damage."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Well what I would still like to see is a way to give druids more combat flexiblity that doesn't revolve around sap and thornvines."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Even if that means removing one of those skills and adding another, or even two more skills."

You say, "You'd like to see something that isn't sap or thornrend related that would help druids as well, and would compliment melds."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I think that'd be better than beefing up thornrend and sap."

Estarra the Eternal says, "What an ability that increases allergies, what about an ability that causes an allergic reaction, what if allergies get to teh point where you can't breathe and pass out, etc., etc."

You say, "Can I say you're fine with allowing potentially new afflictions then, just for druids?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "Well, no."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Don't say one way or the other."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't want to give mixed signals."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I'd prefer no new afflictions that have cures."

Estarra the Eternal says, "i'm definitely not encouraging new afflictions."

You say, "So new afflictions that have no cure but time are okay, if I'm understanding correctly."

You say, "But if it comes down to it, that's okay?"

Estarra the Eternal says, "Time or movement."

Estarra nods Her head emphatically.

Warriors:
On diminished returns for armour:

Roark Libertas says, "I don't have much opinion on that."

Roark Libertas says, "Should be easy to code."

On removing natural miss:

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't mind that but no "etc.", list every power that should have no natural miss."

You say, "Lunge, crush, assault, sweep."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Well not now!"

On changing swing percentages:

Roark Libertas says, "What are the % now?"

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "50%, 35%, 15%."

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "Swipe is 50/35/15, swipe is 50/25/25, slash is 50/15/35, hack is 60/20/20."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I assume they want more percent onthe main body parts, like head/gut, chest."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I think i like having secondary area higher."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Like 70-20-10."

Estarra the Eternal says, "or 65-25-10."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Lets just say you want the main body part to be in the 60-70 range and we'll worry about the secondary/tertiary parts."

Monks:
On momentum loss from changing targets:

Roark Libertas says, "How about it drops -1 when it gets that low?"

You say, "So instead of -2, -1 instead?"

Roark Libertas says, "When it gets to 2mo."

Roark Libertas says, "So there is always a penalty."

Roark Libertas says, "Just not so strong at the bottom."

On momentum loss for hitting nothing:

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "Seems more like a bug to me."

Roark Libertas says, "Yeah that sounds like a bug."

On standardizing grapples:

Estarra the Eternal says, "That seems complicated."

Roark Libertas says, "So make balance modifiers factor in for grapples."

Roark Libertas says, "Not too fond of that one. Is there anyway to adjust base balance generally so that it works for everyone?"

Roark Libertas says, "There really isn't a good way to turn off balance tweaks on a case by case basis."

Roark Libertas says, "Plus generally I don't like completely erasing advantages and disadvantages for race stats."

Roark Libertas says, "Softening them yes, but completely erasing seems to cheapen the races."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Lets say no to that unless there's a better universal idea."

You say, "So if I'm understanding correctly, it's okay to adjust so all races can do it, but not completely removing the disadvantages."

Roark Libertas says, "Yes, I'm fine with that."

On grapples not building momentum:

Roark Libertas says, "Why is this bad?"

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "Because you can grapple over and over to gain momentum almost unstoppably."

Comprehension flashes across Estarra's face.

Estarra the Eternal says, "Good reason."

Roark Libertas says, "Can't you punch over and over to do the same?"

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "Yes, but the target can still act back. Grapples are hindering."

You say, "Yes, but grapples hinder you, punches, not so much."

Roark Libertas says, "I see. So no way to defend."

Roark Libertas says, "Makes sense to me."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Ok."

Roark Libertas says, "Shouldn't be hard."

On more parameters for perform:

Roark Libertas says, "Let's table this one, because what we do with the momentum based syntax might impact this one."

Roark Libertas says, "Just combining te syntaxes of those two ideas would be diffiuclt."

Roark Libertas says, "Though I am warm to the other idea."

Estarra the Eternal says, "The other idea being the report 739?"

Roark Libertas says, "The other oen."

On balance loss for kata chains:

Roark Libertas says, "I agree it should behave same as the first in the chain."

On lunge mods:

Roark Libertas says, "Actually this would be easy to code."

On butojo:

Estarra the Eternal says, "I said no caveat."

Estarra the Eternal says, "If we do it."

Roark Libertas says, "I see. I agree."

On akhoosh:

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "Doesn't it require three specific mantra-types?"

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "That's quite a big limitation."

Estarra the Eternal says, "I don't mind the raising power oh akhoosh, not sure of hte 2s balance. Its not supposed to be a form of tumble."

Roark Libertas says, "No opinion. Should be easy."

On veil:

Estarra the Eternal says, "Meh, don't see the point, but no objection."

On tattoomaster:

(Iosai the Anomaly) says, "Guild-skills generally exceed trade or general skills in power."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Its supposed to be better than splendor robes, these are monks, splendors are spell casters."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Tattoomaster is a trans skill, same as splendors."

You say, "Tattoomaster is just clearly superior to splendours, and people balance around splendours."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Well they shouldn't."

Estarra the Eternal says, "Diversity is part of combat IMO."

Estarra the Eternal says, "The question shouldn't be is it better than splendors (it is) but is it imbalanced and OP."

You say, "I understand. If the wound reduction from armour stats goes in, it should help with this issue as well anyway."