Actually he makes a point in that the tone of your arguments has less and less to do with fearaura than it has to do with wolf totem. No one is disputing the awesomeness of wolf, and a lot of people even agree that it could be toned down.

The problem is that, as Derian said, there's a lot of 'the grass is greener' envy around, so he's just pointing out a facet of combat where cities have the advantage, and I agree.

There have been some valid complaints about fearaura and I figured the time will eventually come when envoys decide on a change. But if not, I have some ideas!

* Change fearaura to work like rad.

* Have fearaura cancel out the fearaura of a rival Ascendant.

* Change fearaura to cause (insert affliction here) on a 10 second timer. Someone suggested shyness to me.

My reason is that fearaura is incredibly effective in groups, almost too effective and it gives commune ascendants a distinct advantage against city ascendants. (is this scenario familiar, anyone?) Wolf totem grants 100% resistance to fear- compare to rubeus which two guilds in Celest or Magnagora have access to and only gives 33% (?) resistance. Harmony monks also have a fear resisting ability 'lumuti', which Seren monks have access to.

So I think to balance things a little, fearaura needs a looksee.

That would make it even better than it is now, but hey...

That would make it even better than it is now, but hey...

The first was the idea I pitched.

Not to get involved with the fearaura/wolf part, but learn about wisp before commenting. Wisp is restricted to forest terrain only. A summoned dryad can count as forest terrain just so us wiccans don't need to cart around pocket druids. It also costs 1 power to summon (except on ethereal), and disappears on a failed or successful wisping. The only way a wiccan is wisping in an Aqua meld is if a wiccan -runs into the group- first and summons a dryad. Then someone manages to get out alive. And any smart person knows dryads fall in 1-2 chops. Of course, some rather just run away from the dryad instead of just dropping it. >.>

Sounds like aquas need Aquacast Overwater.

Shuyin does your idea make it so it's worthwhile for Mag/Celestian ascendants to use fearaura against communes? I think that your idea would nerf it, which is fine, I guess. If we went that route, I'd say just delete it altogether.

That seems like a complaint about the nature of the game. A crow user faeling ascendant gets less use from flight than I do, I get less use from destruction compared to a druid, and more. Hell, warriors get less use for succumb, amissio, etc compared to wiccans/guardians. You see what I mean.

All skills will probably never be equally useful to everyone.

Damn straight. You have no idea how upset I was to get wisped and then sapped in my own damn meld.

If they want to delete it (and, while they're at it, revisit Ascendance in general)... sure, why not? The entire thing still needs attention, from raising to skills to, well. Everything.