- Phantasms Phantomspheres may now shatter shields. See the ab file for
syntaxes.

Nice chaindrag buff. Good game, non-Magnagorans.

EDIT: Apparently I was misinformed about phantomsphere's limitations, nm, it's safe!

- Druidry PathTwist will now have a chance to suck personal enemies into
the path when they are attempting to leave its (non demesne-centre)
location.

- PathTwist will now afflict enemies with dizziness.

- Phantasms Phantomspheres may now shatter shields. See the ab file for
syntaxes.

- Wicca Dryad trees will now count as forest for most (not all) purposes
relating to communes - including nature blend, nature vines, willowisp,
some bard songs, etc. Excluded specifically is nature flow and totem
tree.

- Dryad trees may now be chopped down

- New Wicca skill: Willowisp

- New Music specialisation skill: Encore

- New Cooking skill: Dietician

- Ghosts and Dreambodies can no longer regen health and mana naturally.


If encore works like it was explained to me...it should be tossed into the "epic fail" pile.

Why the Ghost/dreambody change? Seems like a pointless nerf. Do dreambodies regen at all now?

I'm guessing it's because of those 30 kethers (from 4-6 demigods all firing at once) Thoros tanked without going into red.

I hope not. If they are going to nerf everything based off of artifacted, truefavored, avatar demigods....things are going to get ugly.

So now dreambodies can't heal at all until they sap health from someone or get back to the body?

So new willowisp beats shield, block, sitting, and monos, but it requires forests/dryads on target and destination room. Discuss. I think at the very least, blocking or shield should stop it as with all 'beckon-like' abilities.

whats the "encore"? anyone knows already? explain, explain..

I'm not sure how this is going to work out.

Ethereal is going to be impossible to raid. More impossible, that is.

I'm still very curious about Encore. Songs can tic at double the speed for 5 power? If this is the case, let me just say...no thanks.

Actually, what I think people should consider is whether ease of chopping dryads/forest environment req balances out all the things that wisp beats. Eh, we'll see.

Yeah...it's not gonna affect cities much (they already have to be in your demesne before you beckon? Or you go into theirs to dryad? Right) but against Glom/Seren...gaaaah.

Niceee! however, does this means hunger and willpower drain is now twice as fast as before? uhhmm..

I would just like to say that Pathtwist is still useless. Adding the chance to pull enemies in when they try and leave the room is not much of a boost to a skill that you can use once per demesne for 4 power. If you want to use it again you have to dissolve or break the room the path is in, and giving dizziness as an effect when pulled through is useless as it is easy to cure that off once you get pulled through.

The reason we asked for dizziness was not to "afflict" so much as making pathtwist a demesne effect that had a % chance to give dizziness to personal enemies when they moved a room, possibly moving them a direction unintended.

This version of pathtwist is just as useless as anything else, it is not hard to avoid that 1 room in 50 that you know is possibly going to suck you in, and when you can't even see people who are shrouded/invisible get pulled in you basically have no idea if it happened or not, as well as the lack of mobility plus the cost of using this power makes it another of those "flavour" powers. A pity, since the original pathtwist despite its ease of avoiding the effect was at least viable in combat. Not to mention that nobody in their right mind is going to willingly enter the path to follow the druid.

Double hunger from cacophony? Double passive damage and spirits from Wilderrane? Double bleeding from Harbingers?

Good times. Can't wait for wildnodes this weekend.

Captivate is going to be REALLY critical...eesh.

So, with new willowisp, I think it's obvious one thing is certain:

Make Ethereal Meldable.

Sure.

Willowisp and encore. GG. Seriously, GG. Can I have my permastun now plz?

Thanks for nerfing my skills, Thoros.

Sap (DREAMWEAVING VERSION) is a useless skill in general. Terrible eq, mediocre healing. Half the idea behind dreamweaving nowadays is 'light espionage', and anyone with a brain and a door or a chandelier (COUGH MAGNAGORA'S NEXUS IS IMMUNE TO DREAMWEAVING COUGH) can completely negate it. Stealth is much more obviously suited for espionage now. I'm just an attrition combat carebear.

To be fair, if you ever die in dreamform, you did it wrong. What stops you from bodysnapping?

I guess i should also mention that to be fair, the new wisp is a delayed (3s) summon. I.e. You get a message, 3 seconds later, poof. You can also resist it.