Alright, I get hit with a statue. I cure myself, and set about destroying it.

*wait*

*wait*

You will TIMEOUT in 1 minute unless you do something.
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The sun reaches the zenith of the firmament, pausing in his quest to allow the
land to bask in his shining golden rays.
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You lose concentration and cease your attempt to destroy this work of art.

First, that's an old Aetolian trigger, from when I'd sit in the newsroom for a long time, so I wouldn't time out. Here's it just makes it so that when I'm checking the forums or something, I don't log out.

Note that if you even bat an eye, you stop destroying a statue.

Also note, that my timeout is set to five minutes...

It must be similar to taking down gates or something. You should be able to quick look, say something, send a tell or just hit enter to prevent yourself from timing out. That's what I would do when I was dropping wormholes in Achaea.

destroying a statue only takes 30 seconds

It's a bug then, that was four minutes.

No, read the Goddamn announce posts. Enchanting a statue now takes approximately 15 minutes. Destroying one takes 10 minutes. All I can say is.... LAME.

Give me a hammer and show me a person-sized statue that it takes me 10 minutes to destroy

Would be funny if they changed the materials from marble to steel.

now it looks like totems in achea... we all love totem duty, right?!?

I think it's a fantastic change. Why should you be able to make a basically mobile attack system within a matter of seconds, and destroy it just as easily. This takes some effort and commitment.

I agree, the ease with which statues would get set up and used for combat was ridiculous.

10 minutes for all intents and purposes, is undestroyable.

So if this is 2/3 of the time to put one up, it should take 3 rl days to chop a totem.

You should not be able to destroy it in combat, anyway. 10 minutes is plenty of time to destroy it out of combat if you bring a few people for backup.

Chopping down a giant redwood tree, (I realise these are not redwoods, but the parallel is there in size), with a regular hand axe would take you most of a day if not two to chop down. Lets see Elder trees taking 10 minutes to chop down now too.

Time to invent chain saws

Let's look at that same axe swung by an undead humanoid bear, filled with the strength of the Tainted powers of Nil etc etc.

If you up the time, stop totems from calling out. Maybe to the person who has them bonded, but if it takes 15 minutes to chop a tree, and we know when they start, it's absolutely worthless.

Yeah, they should take a bit to set up. But they just CAN'T take that long to destroy. They're totally invincible now. :/ What happens if someone tunes it against everyone from say Celest and Serenwilde? And then no one can nuke it even if it's in the middle of the road, on account of being pwned by masochism unless they have loads of people farcuring et al.? (And hey, Magnagorans don't have that. What do THEY do?)

Also, Richter, SAY THING should work, it does with gateweaving.

Or you could, you know, cure up, THEN destroy the statue. Statues are obviously not meant to be used IN combat, but as preperation before combat. If you can take them down in the middle of a fight, they lose most of their purpose. If you want to be able to break them in a fight, then they need to make again possible to raise them in the middle of a fight. Since They changed that, it's apparently not what They want.