Yay choke changes. Yay BlueMoon changes. Yay influencing changes. Just..awesome.

"- Mages and Druids have a new skill in meld: Dampen"

What does it do?

I would bet that if an admin feels brave enough to risk the flaming torches and pitchforks of angry players regarding another faethorn change, that down the road honeycombs could find a new purpose. Don't hold your breath on that though

Could just as easily make honeycakes give influencing fae a stronger effect for those who use one, but I'm happy with the change right now and could wait for some other time for these honeycakes. And that Dampen addition was a way to negate one's own demesne effects if they chose to. Unforceable, I believe.

Lets them kill their own effects. So, for example, if an Aqua has currents up, and decide they don't want it anymore, they can get rid of it without waiting for it to go away by itself. At least thats what I remember from the report.

Thank you!

... I'm coming back.

Did they choose to ignore the whole refilling of pipes while being off balance? (it effects monks mainly since their forms being a train style stops them from refilling short of kata terminating to refill a pipe) Or did the envoy just not suggest it?

It is on a fairly long list.

That screws up TP's as well. I have to stop for 7 seconds just to let my pipes refill

Make sure you bold the problem in the long list.

Hehe we have posted alot of bugs about generic archetype monk problems and I don't think they have been fixed yet. (Nejii have they, I haven't been on lately so I can't tell)

So Dampen kills the effects and not the meld?

Exactly

Oh. My. God.

You guys rock! Parallax got through! And yay for other changes going into aetherspace too! Whee!

As a side note, I was quite aware of the difference between Resonance and Spiral when comparing them previously, and I think you can easily conclude that the benefit of creatures not getting a few spaces closer to you for 30 seconds (or whatever) is marginal when with Spiral they can't attack you anyway. It's been a while since I looked at them closely, but isn't resonance holding you in place while spiral you can run away from them too?

Still, very, very awesome changes! Hope to see more in the future.

Oh yeah that is pretty bad too. I missed this the first go around. But the submission I think is for all classes in general (so if it goes through it will help the TPs too). It doesn't mean much to some of classes, but it will mean alot to the monk class and TP's now too.

For now the best thing is to have extra artie pipes since it also effects lighting pipes. But that gets expensive. Which is why they are gonna submit that change. I asked an admin if it was a bug and they told me no, it is something that an envoy should bring up.

What about giving a skill in psionics to refill pipes with that works on any channel, and let it be used when off-physical balance too. So then it would fix the problem for both monks aand mages. :-P Acrobats don't need the help, of course. >.>

The hope is when they fix it, that it will work off (all) balance. So I don't think there would be a need to differentiate between psionic balances or main balance. But again that is the hope, and if it goes through (which it should since well.... there are enough hinderances that not being able to refill things shouldn't be one of them )

"- NPCs engaged in an ego battle will not wander"


yes oh yes yes yees!!

*fails against willowisp in lag* I was hoping it'd wander away. <_<;; I need to read these posts more often.

Ones relevant to balance posted.

I think the point was missed on my bolded one. Ascendants didn't care about knowing WHEN they got a new skillset, they can just do AB ASCENDANCE between each one. We were interested in finding out how long it'd take to get to the next skill, since evidently it's going to take months and months RL of bashing.

If this is known and just an unrelated change though, that's fine!