A locked channel + ego drain for a Kingdom type effect is either never going to be worth using, or is going make you invulnerable to bleeding damage.

If the skill just auto-clots every time you get Bleeding damage (you can actually see that you're going to bleed before you get the first "You bleed X health." message) you'll never get 1500 bleeding. And if you're taking 1500 damage with only 1000 ego left, you don't want Forcefield up either. If the skill is balanced correctly (maybe even as low a ego=2*bleeding) it'll be worth the risk of burnout.

It could also be a passive Kingdom enchantment that clots more bleeding, or just that stacks with kingdom.

The other option is to have it be a replacement for the CLOT skill (maybe not lock a channel at that point?) and just type CELLADJUST instead of CLOT, and you'll stop 60 bleeding for 150 ego, instead of 20 bleeding for 150 mana.

Personally I like the auto-clot idea best because it isn't an improved clone of Kingdom or Clot. It serves a similar function, but isn't just a formula change for any other skills.

It would be too little. No one ever uses gedulah (sp), green, full or mantra fire unless they're slitlocked, because it's a waste of time and they would rather be attacking. An attack that did less than that, and on a longer balance, but for no power, would be totally awful. You can't attack while spamming on id, so for it to be usable at all it either has to be an out-of-combat utility effect of some description or a passive ability. So some clear definition of the clotting/bleeding forcefield thing is the only thing I can see to do with it.

The Forcefield example was just a "for instance" of another skill that functioned similarly that addressed your concern. I was just saying that with Forcefield there are certain times you wouldn't want it active, but that's not a reason to not have the skill at all. The same with putting up the defense mid-fight when you already have 1500 bleeding. If you knew it was going to burn you out, you just wouldn't use it.

At your most recent post, I'm assuming you know that psionics is still just as affected by choke/aeon as everything else is, so you have to be referring to locked channels. I think that personally I like this suggestions best. Passive curing always makes my life easier and someone else's harder. The affliction list of cures would be crucial to whether the skill gets through though.

I'm thinking mending/arnica cures, but I don't know if there are any of these that shouldn't be in the list. I would think rigortmortis itself wouldn't be cured, but the resulting broken limbs would be fine.

That'd be one thing that would make Psionics unbelievably sexy: have choke/aeon/sap not affect them. I say start with this suggestion.

I'd like to see SuspendedAnimation work regardless of afflictions, Lifedrain increased to 15% of the damage done, ..., and DoublePain increased to 10% wounding bonus. That still leaves us with some useless and redundant skills, but makes the skillset overall worth taking.

Sorry. I get latched on a single topic and discuss it until I'm done or get bored.

So the other suggestions were
Anything else come up that I'm forgetting? Increasing percentages on lifedrain and doublepain sounds fine to me.

Let's talk about SuspendedAnimation. It's basically trueheal that takes out of the game for 30 seconds, right? Does it have a balance cost upon returning? What stops it (besides command killers like amnesia or SAC?) Do people generally consider it useful or completely worthless?

This thread hasn't really generated a lot of useful ideas so far, so I'll throw a few out just to get the ball rolling. Most of these are off of the top of my head and not well-thought-out, so feel free to criticize and post counter-suggestions.

1. CellAdjustment -- I'm not really sure what to do with this skill. One idea would be to have it cure certain "body" afflictions (mending/arnica type afflictions, not regeneration afflictions). Another idea is to have it drastically reduce bleeding, or possibly even "cure" bleeding completely. In either case, it should be moved up in the skillset and allowed on the Superstratus channel only.

2. Regeneration -- I think that the regeneration for harmony users is too much. To make this skill more useful, I would actually like to see regeneration from harmony -PHET mantras changed so they are weighted. One mantra gives 5% regen, two mantras give 8%, three mantras give 10%. The psymet regeneration ability, then, would add 5% unweighted regen on top of other regens, for a max (not counting mercy/etc) of 15% regen instead of the current 20% regen. That makes this skill worthwhile and drops the massive regen abilities we already have slightly.

3. Doublepain -- I have to reserve suggestions for this since our wounding formula still seems to be under construction. When we only do 300 wounds in a combo, the 5% bonus is basically useless. If our wounding is going to be low, I would like to see this boosted to 10%. If our wounding stays up, though, the 5% bonus may be fine.

4. Mindfield -- This is an interesting idea for flavor, but useless for normal life. I don't know how much damage it actually causes, but if it is as minor as I expect, I would like this to be changed so it doesn't require a locked channel. So you lose 100 health when you scry a psymet monk? That's not enough to even be noticeable unless you are spam-scrying.

5. Pheremones -- This is another ability that is nice in theory, but it doesn't really perform better than love potion in any case. It would be useful if we were mages or something, but as monks it never matters whether someone is on our allies list or not, so the side-effects of love potion rarely hurt us. This skill is basically useless, but unfortunately I don't have any great ideas for how to improve it. Suggestions?

6. Lifedrain -- As already discussed, with regeneration this skill is redundant. Instead of what it currently does, I'd like to see this changed so that it converts 10% of your damage into mana or ego damage (you can choose which). This might actually make it more feasible to pull off the akhangooshkrak kill, and would have other uses in groups.

7. Forcedsymmetry -- Instead of converting the wounds against you and splitting them between limbs, why not make this an offensive skill? This would take all of the wounds you do to a target's limbs and split them evenly between the two limbs. So, for example, if I have this up and attack their right leg, the wounding is actually split between right and left. This would only be useful situationally, especially since it requires a locked channel, but it is much better than it is now.

Or the same amount chosen, like transmute. That would be interesting.