Ok, let me take a stab at an idea for a new mechanic to help curb raiding. As I said, I'd like nexus guardians to be used more, so let's try to incorporate that as well!

What if nexus guardians have a special attack that warps a target's aura. Someone can only be hit with this attack once per game day. At the end of a game month, all aura warps clear. Each warp of an aura will cause a health drain (because the energies of the plane are now inimical to the aura). The health drain rises exponentially depending on the number of aura warps. Thus, someone may easily handle one warp, but two warps are noticeable, three warps extremely painful, and more than that deadly. The result would hopefully still allow freedom to raid but offer a way to retaliate (even if a noncombatant) and prevent hours long camping/raiding/relentless hit-and-run schemes, etc.

What's the power cost for a Nexus Guardian these days, anyways? I've never seen one summoned or used either for or against a raid since they were implemented. It still seems more effective to actually go out and fight than to summon a guardian, to me.

I'm not sure why everyone assumes we'd do anything that makes it more hard for newbies. We could easily curve it so it won't be noticeable until a mob is level 50. I mean, level 80 mobs should be at least a little bit challenging for a level 80 player but they're getting mowed down by half that level!

I like this, but again, the power cost for nexus guardians has been prohibitive enough that they're never really used for small-scale defense. Also, I'm pretty sure only Protectors and Security can use them as it stands, which is somewhat silly, as they're typically the ones who'd be more useful fighting without them anyway.

400 power for 30 game days (unless it dies).

Ok, let me take a stab at an idea for a new mechanic to help curb raiding. As I said, I'd like nexus guardians to be used more, so let's try to incorporate that as well!

What if nexus guardians have a special attack that warps a target's aura. Someone can only be hit with this attack once per game day. At the end of a game month, all aura warps clear. Each warp of an aura will cause a health drain (because the energies of the plane are now inimical to the aura). The health drain rises exponentially depending on the number of aura warps. Thus, someone may easily handle one warp, but two warps are noticeable, three warps extremely painful, and more than that deadly. The result would hopefully still allow freedom to raid but offer a way to retaliate (even if a noncombatant) and prevent hours long camping/raiding/relentless hit-and-run schemes, etc.

It's a start, I guess. The real message I wanted to convey was, if you think this is a problem, please do not assume that the fix will be some simple idea you can pluck out of this thread and implement tonight. The reason this keeps coming up is because the right solution is NOT a quick fix.

Ok, let me take a stab at an idea for a new mechanic to help curb raiding. As I said, I'd like nexus guardians to be used more, so let's try to incorporate that as well!

What if nexus guardians have a special attack that warps a target's aura. Someone can only be hit with this attack once per game day. At the end of a game month, all aura warps clear. Each warp of an aura will cause a health drain (because the energies of the plane are now inimical to the aura). The health drain rises exponentially depending on the number of aura warps. Thus, someone may easily handle one warp, but two warps are noticeable, three warps extremely painful, and more than that deadly. The result would hopefully still allow freedom to raid but offer a way to retaliate (even if a noncombatant) and prevent hours long camping/raiding/relentless hit-and-run schemes, etc.

Then guilds should open up protector positions to take advantage of them!

Yeah. Way too much still, I think. Even with this aura warp thing... but without it, they just don't make a difference in a fight, it seems.

Well can any guardian use them? Or do you have to be the right rank to use any nexus plane commands? I would love to do something in face of raids on Nil but as it stands now I am just easy xp to people

Then guilds should open up protector positions to take advantage of them!

And your proposal to make it worth it would be....?

50 - 100 power per 30 days?

And your proposal to make it worth it would be....?

That is asking just to let anyone be a protector and they can't do anything until the next step up as we do screen people for postions like that

1) Make them cost 25 power or less

I was also going to suggest an AoE attack, but then you just get into the old TClap issue if you have enough protectors, so eh. I'll withdraw that suggestion.

Edit: You could also make them last 30 RL days for the power cost instead of IC days, I guess. And keep the cost the same. So if you die with it you're losing a large chunk of power plus defenses (incentive not to let it die).