Gues, quit complaining about Geo demesnes. Gods, first we all agree that Geos need an upgrade, now you all bitch because we're capable of killing! Amaru, you need to shut your damn mouth because all YOU ever do is complain when ANYTHING kills you, but Gods forbid we even TOUCH your skills. The rest of you, let us have our damn peace. We deserve this upgrade. Go complain about Hartstone.

So I transed Magic for nothing then, since I really cant think of a way that it has helped me. While on my side, I could look at the multiple counters against physical damage and be amazed.

Also, an aquamancer can dilute, cutting the amount you heal per sip, thus increasing the amount of damage they can stack.

I take 1500 from your staff, and that is ignoring the passive damage you are also able to afflict. I also have a problem with that comment of yours that stun doesnt slow down healing.

I've sent up my own assessment of the combat skills available to Aquamancers to my guild's representative to the gods. I did not state anything about the damage ranges because Koan had that underwraps, but I did make statements about the lack of synergy between the skills. Here is what I sent:

Classlead Input:

The Aquamancer is a very limited archetype with only one means of eliminating a target.  The skills possessed by the archetype lack the synergy needed to allow an Aquamancer to overcome the defenses of an opponent highly resistant to magic and elemental damage.  Damage being the archetype only means of eliminating the target is inadequate considering that the class also lacks any means of stripping a target of its defenses.

In this write up, I will comment on a few of the Archetype’s most prominent spells. I will show why they are lacking and what can possibly be done to correct the problem.

Aquamancy

Tsunami-

Enemies are forced prone if they lack the levitation defense. Easily countered with levitation. An Aquamancer does not have any means of stripping a person of levitation, let alone any other defense. Therefore, an opponent with levitation will remain immune to the effects of this spell the entire fight.

Possible Solution (Perhaps turn tsunami into a periodic balance stealing attack.  It will better hinder the attacks of an opponent, while still allowing them to heal.  Or, give Aquamancers a means of stripping defenses.  Without defense stripping, this spell is really not worth casting against anyone but a new player)
       

Typhoon-

Painfully forces flyers to the surface of the demesne.  It has no effect on people already on the surface. Also, levitation will eliminate the damage taken from this attack.  Any fighter worth their salt will have levitation up, so this spell is only good as a means of keeping people from fly in the demesne.

Possible Solution (Allow typhoon to do periodic damage to enemies regardless of their flight status.  Make the damage blunt damage, and possibly have the damage increased if the person is frozen.  This would give some synergy between icefloe, freeze, and this spell.)

Icefloe-

Passive periodic freeze attack, no damage. This spell is easily countered by sipping fire.

Possible Solution (Refer to Typhoon.)

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Flood-

Allows one to establish a room with water, leading to a possible meld or the use of some of the room/demesne Aquamancy abilities. Problem is that it costs 1 power to cast. The cost itself is a bit prohibitive, considering that power reserves are not naturally regenerated. 

Possible Solution (Just make the cost of eliminating taint or another demesne cost 1 power, or actually a bit more.  Right now, 1 power is a bargain when it comes to destroying another person’s demesne.  I suggest that the cost of using flash flood be raised to at least 5 power, but the cost of using normal flood be set to 0 power.)

Sweetfount-

Heals caster and allies. An excellent spell, but just have a suggestion to boost it a bit for use against enemies. Give it an effect of stripping defenses periodically from enemies.  It would then give other Aquamancy skills like Tsunami and Icefloe greater chances to be effective.
Turtle-
Summon a turtle at the cost of 10 power. Does minor damage, and gives waterwalking if it is being ridden. The power cost is completely out of sync. The pet disappears after the caster departs the realms, and the pet offers nothing of great worth in extra combat ability or general utility.

Possible Solution
Runes

Runes supply the user with little in the way of abilities to work towards a decent affliction lock.  The rune list is very incomplete, and a bit too heavy on afflictions that cause fear as a secondary component. Runes are expensive to create, and really only seem to be cost effective when put in statues. Unfortunately, statues must be stationary, outside, on a road, or in an urban area. There is no way to actually kill an enemy with runes, unless the slinger is lucky enough to have Othala give the target sunallergy or crotamine.

Possible Solution (Add more afflictions to the list. Anorexia, Relapsing, and Aeon would be decent.)

Sling and Staffsling-

Sling runes at a target in the room with you (sling) or in the adjacent room (staffsling).  Slow on balance recover (Over 2 seconds for a Merian). There is no way to even harass a fighter with sling, since the target will have easily recovered from curing the affliction long before the slinger has a chance to sling a new rune.

Possible Solution (Lower the base balance recover on runes to around 1.5 seconds.  With a level two balance recovery advantage, the recover will take about 1.05 seconds. Still a bit over herb recover, so in no way overpowered.  Also allow the slinger to sling right before or right after casting an illusion.  The only way a single rune can possibly be effective is if the illusions can be used to disrupt healing. (Like bites and illusions are used in Achaea.)
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Othala-

Cost two power and gives a random affliction. If it works like Loki from Achaea, it will normally give stupidity, asthma, sensitivity, fear, sleep, reckless, or ugliness.  Using two power with only a chance of giving an affliction not on the normal rune list is not very cost effective.

Possible Solution (Remove the power cost. The monetary cost to create the rune is prohibitive enough.  Using the rune in a sling is at best a hit or miss proposition.)

Supersling-

Cost three power and allows user to sling two runes at once.  This attack would be more effective if the rune list was not so limited.  Right now, there is really no need to use this attack because of the slow recovery speed and the lack of effective rune combos to sling.

Possible Solution (Same as runes overall, increase the range of afflictions runes can give.  Allow the marrying of illusions and supersling to allow the slinger to work towards a possible affliction lock.)

Illusions

The Illusion skillset seems to be made with the idea to compliment the rune set. Unfortunately, the set of afflictions that the rune set supplies is pretty incomplete.  Illusions are unable to help in the process of moving towards some effective affliction application, because the afflictions needed to accomplish that are not available.  Illusions do allow the caster to give mental afflictions, but the afflictions themselves are at best a nuisance to the receiver.

Phantom-

Gives mental afflictions in a manner like hellsight in Achaea, but far more limited.  The mental afflictions given seem to center around afflictions that give fear as a secondary affliction.  The afflictions are harassment at best, and most of the time it is probably just best to point ones staff at the enemy.

Possible Solution (The solution to this skill would be to increase the effectiveness of the rune skillset.  Then afflicting someone with phantoms would increase the healing workload of the afflicted and possibly allow the rune slinger to work towards an effective affliction combination.)
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Reality-

At the cost of eight power, this spell will essentially give the same afflictions phantom does to everyone in the room but the caster.  Have the same problems as phantom, with the added problem of hitting allies.

Possible Solution (Have reality work on people on the casters enemy list only.  Reality then will be a spell that can be cast when allies and are in the room.  The solutions stated for phantoms will work for reality too.)
Summary

Outside of damage, Aquamancers lack any means of defeating a target. Normally, that would not be a problem if the Aquamancer generated a respectable amount of damage. Unfortunately, the damage of the archetype is moderate at best, and limited in scope (Refer to Koan’s report for numbers).  The archetype is unable to tailor its damage to the target’s weaknesses, and is unable to strip the target of defenses to create an opening. Against a well prepared target with decent magic and elemental resists, an Aquamancer is at a significant disadvantage. The archetype needs to have a bit more synergy created between the guildskills to allow the archetype to defeat targets with damage or to give the archetype alternative means of defeating targets when damage is not an option.

Just thought I would share your opinion of what the Aquamancers needed to be balanced, though that was before fuse and needlerain, as well as faster demense effects.