Ecology

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Unknown2005-09-03 22:18:03
QUOTE(tsakar @ Sep 3 2005, 05:11 PM)
Its been said it is also slower balance recovery unless thats been changed since this morning.

and Ye, thats true, but if its in a guildhall, after the skill has been around for awhile, and the guilds have policies about not killing *anything* in a guildhall short of a weevil, on pain of outguilding or what have you, and everyone is informed, how is that going to make any difference?  Noone is going to be able to get into the guildhall to kill the animal to do that.

But anyhow just me pondering
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You shouldn't be testing crap like that right now - Lusternia's lagging like a bizzitch for everyone (DAMN YOU ABOVE.NET), and any commands sent between eq-loss and eq recovery prolong eq-recovery.
Munsia2005-09-03 22:22:34
Okay everyone get this straight. Lich is NOT transmigrate ok they are similiar but they arent the same so saying its unfair cause we get a lich like skill isnt so.. Think about it. Liches can die.. move a few rooms. shield. def up in a few seconds get right back into the fight with increased stats.
Druids they die.. they go to there pet which is in a safe place maybe oh.. very far from the battle.. def up. Get another pet (note this takes longer then lichdom since we have to kill an animal, revive it. wait for power to come back. Deep bond.) then go right back out..
So just shut up about it mimicing lichdom
If anything its mimicing trans planar just a prime plane version of it
Unknown2005-09-03 22:25:07
QUOTE(munsia @ Sep 3 2005, 05:22 PM)
Okay everyone get this straight. Lich is NOT transmigrate ok they are similiar but they arent the same so saying its unfair cause we get a lich like skill isnt so.. Think about it. Liches can die.. move a few rooms. shield. def up in a few seconds get right back into the fight with increased stats.
Druids they die.. they go to there pet which is in a safe place maybe oh.. very far from the battle.. def up.  Get another pet (note this takes longer then lichdom since we have to kill an animal, revive it. wait for power to come back. Deep bond.) then go right back out..
So just shut up about it mimicing lichdom
If anything its mimicing trans planar  just a prime plane version of it
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Shite, she's right. CONGLUTE IS LAME. YOU DIE, AND APPEAR AT A SAFE PLACE FOR MINIMAL XP LOSS - AT NO POWER COST!!!

lame.gif
Unknown2005-09-03 22:27:11
Could some of you talk about some of the other abilities you get rather than the trans ones.

I'm curious what basic hunting does for the game. Does it produce food? Can you track people?
Ashteru2005-09-03 22:28:54
QUOTE(Ye of Little Faith @ Sep 3 2005, 10:25 PM)
Shite, she's right.  CONGLUTE IS LAME.  YOU DIE, AND APPEAR AT A SAFE PLACE FOR MINIMAL XP LOSS - AT NO POWER COST!!!
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I always lose all my power...
Munsia2005-09-03 22:28:55
QUOTE(Phred @ Sep 3 2005, 06:27 PM)
Could some of you talk about some of the other abilities you get rather than the trans ones.

I'm curious what basic hunting does for the game.
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Ambush overpowered tongue.gif
Even though we get it its sickly... but it has to be done in a natural environment.
Basically all your attacks get a stun tongue.gif
Smudge sticks.. they own.. afflictions usually two kinds (depending on the stick you burn)
Fetishes.. WOOO FETISHES. tongue.gif They deliver poisons..
That sums up ecology

Ask diamante about desert/sap... he was bleeding for over 500 and almost died cause he didnt have cleanse.. I never hit him with my cudgel just burned a desert stick and sapped him
Munsia2005-09-03 22:29:15
QUOTE(Ashteru @ Sep 3 2005, 06:28 PM)
I always lose all my power...
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No power to set up
Tsakar2005-09-03 22:30:34
QUOTE(Ye of Little Faith @ Sep 3 2005, 03:17 PM)
And if you make it area only, then what?  We're paying 28 power to basically let ANY ONE have an instakill on us.  Sorry, it's not happening.  You'll see a couple of us dieing because someone wants to be an asrse-cake and make a hartstone and kill our familiars.

Daevos is right.  You're all upset about a single skill - do any of you know that I can knock you prone and cover you in mud, and instantly sap you?  Because the original mudslide has a delay - and my eq is recovered about .3 seconds before the mudslide hits? smile.gif  Imagine that with a mugwump.

I can make you blind and deal ~300 bleeding.  I can break 3 of your limbs, and deal damage.  All of these work just like the mudslide.  With a mugwump's eq, Ashteru is able to deal out poisons as fast as he could cudgel.  Do any of you want to sit and see him blast out 3 broken limbs, mudslide, sap, and then charybdon?  Just curious here.

EDIT: Forgot, he can also put you to sleep, give you slickness, among a good few others. smile.gif

smile.gif  This skillset is going to totally own anyone with half-decent timing, in a druid demesne.
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I never said to make it local area, I personally think that shouldn't happen, as it would make it way to unuseable with such weak animals and the like, and even if the animals were made significantly stronger it would still be too easy to just kill off the druids that use it. I'm not upset by anything, I've said before that I think its about time the druids got something to help them out.

The only thing I've said is looking at it from a balance perspective on how one thing which does auto-rezz on someone but is stoppable (although not necessarily easily) for 10 power is complained about to no end, and another once its made known not to kill familiars in guildhalls or whatnot is basically unstoppable for 18 power. I have never said it needs to be changed, upgraded, downgraded, thrown out, or what have you, I am just simply curious on how it fits in the general balance of things

Edit: About what Munsia said above, and after someone liches and is off eq for a good bit they can just be walked to/moonbeamed or otherwise gotten to, shield removed and killed again. But again as I said I am not 'complaining', simply interested
Ashteru2005-09-03 22:31:12
Just watch out for the Megawump from now on. Of course, only if I can learn to time it correctly. But let's imagine the pleasure of that blinding thing, I think desert, while I deal an affliction to you. Then, I'll throw a mountains after it, then I'll sap you. Then I'll hills you and then I'll throw some afflictions on you. And then, Oooru will beak you to dead.
Munsia2005-09-03 22:32:29
QUOTE(tsakar @ Sep 3 2005, 06:30 PM)
I never said to make it local area, I personally think that shouldn't happen, as it would make it way to unuseable with such weak animals and the like, and even if the animals were made significantly stronger it would still be too easy to just kill off the druids that use it.  I'm not upset by anything, I've said before that I think its about time the druids got something to help them out.

The only thing I've said is looking at it from a balance perspective on how one thing which does auto-rezz on someone but is stoppable (although not necessarily easily) for 10 power is complained about to no end, and another once its made known not to kill familiars in guildhalls or whatnot is basically unstoppable for 18 power.  I have never said it needs to be changed, upgraded, downgraded, thrown out, or what have you, I am just simply curious on how it fits in the general balance of things
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No doubt somethign will be implimented for trackers to kill our animals with their animals causing us to have our animal with us most of the time unsure.gif
Munsia2005-09-03 22:33:59
QUOTE(Ashteru @ Sep 3 2005, 06:31 PM)
Just watch out for the Megawump from now on. Of course, only if I can learn to time it correctly. But let's imagine the pleasure of that blinding thing, I think desert, while I deal an affliction to you. Then, I'll throw a mountains after it, then I'll sap you. Then I'll hills you and then I'll throw some afflictions on you. And then, Oooru will beak you to dead.
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Actually I like Mud/desert/sap/stagstomp.. thats an ownage move right there..
BUT cant do sticks in the trees
Munsia2005-09-03 22:36:18
Okay everyone picture about 4 druids breaking four sticks. Note that these sticks are room attack from what Ive seen or maybe they are random to whom it hits. (someone test this)
Cause it hits your enemy list not a target.
Another person whoring blindness...
Oh shite I'm pointing out how overpowered group combat is
Unknown2005-09-03 22:38:03
Sigh, gonna have to ask somebody in character...which is probably what I should be doing, anyway...
Unknown2005-09-03 22:39:01
I asked in game and they just ignored me.
Munsia2005-09-03 22:39:24
edit: or not.. I didnt have them all enemied tongue.gif
Smudge sticks do room attacks so we can cover an entire room with mud
Unknown2005-09-03 23:28:22
QUOTE(munsia @ Sep 3 2005, 05:39 PM)
edit: or not.. I didnt have them all enemied  tongue.gif
Smudge sticks do room attacks so we can cover an entire room with mud
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Or blind + 300 bleeding per stick burned.


HOWEVER. We can only have one smudge at a time. sad.gif
Ashteru2005-09-03 23:32:30
Imagine that:
3 druids,

mountains, hills, desert,
first afflicts with thin blood, second afflicts with charybdon and third attacks with cudgel. drool.gif
Unknown2005-09-03 23:35:16
QUOTE(Ashteru @ Sep 3 2005, 06:32 PM)
Imagine that:
3 druids,

mountains, hills, desert,
first afflicts with thin blood, second afflicts with charybdon and third attacks with cudgel. drool.gif
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No, the third raises cudgel, then all three try to climb up and sap. biggrin.gif
Munsia2005-09-04 00:08:29
QUOTE(Ye of Little Faith @ Sep 3 2005, 07:35 PM)
No, the third raises cudgel, then all three try to climb up and sap. biggrin.gif
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raise= raises EVERYONE not shielded in the room
Geb2005-09-04 00:31:56
QUOTE(Ye of Little Faith @ Sep 3 2005, 11:25 PM)
Shite, she's right.  CONGLUTE IS LAME.  YOU DIE, AND APPEAR AT A SAFE PLACE FOR MINIMAL XP LOSS - AT NO POWER COST!!!

lame.gif
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You do lose what power you had on your prompt, but yes it can be no power if you ran all of your on hand power down before you died.