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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
New(ish) Terentia order members that I can annoy and discuss lore with? Yes please
Lawrence
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A Plea of Purity - Lantra Order RP
Lantra's Order receives a prayer from a sick young merian, upon Daeiv ma'Mornhai, and goes to her aid. (Symone is precious, and so we keep her.)
Avaris
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Crimson Lotus
We begin with an entree of light sparring at the healing mound with Ashnezharr, and then move on to the main course;
Lantra slam dunking on Magnagorans, just, endlessly. Poetry in motion. Also she murders Uzriel for blatant slander, as is right and proper.
Crimson Lotus
Lantra slam dunking on Magnagorans, just, endlessly. Poetry in motion. Also she murders Uzriel for blatant slander, as is right and proper.
For dessert we have a small gift of imparted suffering, rich with notes of grief and exhaustion. Delicious.
Avaris
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Re: Upcoming Celestine Rework
It feels like newer skills all have instakill mechanics that reward failure. For example, failing an aoe timequake (10 power) will apply timeechoes (normally 3 power on a single target) to all affected enemies. In that sense, if there are more than 3 enemies in a room it is actually preferable to start with a failed timequake in order to put a 3 power 2 minute affliction on all personal enemies within the room, as it would take more power (and balances) to put timeechoes on each person individually.
It is the same with this skill. 26-35 Holy Fire does 40% current ego damage while 36-50 holyfire does 55% current ego damage. This means that if the target has less than 83% max ego, then 26 holy fire (a third of maximum, ostensibly an easy threshold to reach based on existing leveled afflictions) will put them in ego kill range for mindburst, climax, and eternalsleep.
If ego damage must be a part of HolyFire, then HolyFire must be treated the same as Timewarp and Tempinsaity for instakill purposes with middling ego damage before 50 and exponentially increased ego damage above 50. Something like:
- 0 HolyFire 2% current ego damage
- 15-25 HolyFire 5% current ego damage
- 26-35 HolyFire 10% current ego damage
- 36-50 HolyFire 25% current ego damage
- 51-70 HolyFire: 65% current ego damage
- 75 HolyFire: 100% current ego damage
Sulwh
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Re: Mudlet Packages by Ashira
New File: Grimkeep
- GRIMHELP for a pop-up with commands.
- Will assist in killing denizens of Grimkeep
- Has a myriad of customizable settings. Suggestions for additional settings welcome!
Re: Vigilance and Gratitude
What's not mentioned here is Avaris being an absolute gem about my unstable internet and me disconnecting about 15 times during our talk. I had a good time just chatting, and look forward to getting to teach a little about Carakhan!
Vigilance and Gratitude
The healing mound is the gift that keeps on giving This time a lovely, unexpected session with @Calioliahali ! It's nice to have gotten the chance to RP with a Hallifaxian like this, thank you for indulging me.
Also, Avaris and @Misericorde talk about companions via tells and are slowly inching their way towards being buddies!
(Feat. cameo from a certain very overworked best Goddess 
)
)Avaris
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Re: Upcoming Celestine Rework
As previously explained, what we are trying to do is bring something with synergy to Celest. The idea behind the new skillset is that it will be strong enough to have a viable 1v1 route and also be able to participate in group combat with a number of possible options for synergy. Another thing we would like to rehash again is that this, at this stage, is just an idea which we are getting feedback for. A number of the responses in this thread sound like they are been made assuming this is 100% how it is going to be upon release. We would like to reaffirm that this is not necessarily the case, and this rework will likely go through a number of iterations between now and its release.
A number of you have raised concerns that failing the Inquisition kill method takes a large portion of ego and will be a bit on the strong side. We can work around this once we begin the testing phase of the proposed rework, and if it does indeed turn out to be too strong in terms of enabling other instakills, we can look at options to mitigate that strength, and we can revisit that in the future if we need to execute a plan to change this.
In relation to the points raised about Tertiary kill paths; While tertiary kill paths are skill counted as viable kill paths for a certain class, we are not of the belief that this should be reliant or tied to a skill in your primary skills or skill path. Celestines in recent times are quite capable of conducting meteor and judgement kills quite easily without the need for Inquisition. As such, there should be little to no impact on these tertiary kill paths by removing the long stun from Inquisition.
@Esano
In terms of symbol evoking the respective classes mark, this is definitely something we can do for both during this rework. We are unsure at this stage about what will happen with regards to Nihilists and Necro Warriors, however it is likely to be something that will have to be pushed through in a reporting phase.
A number of you have raised concerns that failing the Inquisition kill method takes a large portion of ego and will be a bit on the strong side. We can work around this once we begin the testing phase of the proposed rework, and if it does indeed turn out to be too strong in terms of enabling other instakills, we can look at options to mitigate that strength, and we can revisit that in the future if we need to execute a plan to change this.
In relation to the points raised about Tertiary kill paths; While tertiary kill paths are skill counted as viable kill paths for a certain class, we are not of the belief that this should be reliant or tied to a skill in your primary skills or skill path. Celestines in recent times are quite capable of conducting meteor and judgement kills quite easily without the need for Inquisition. As such, there should be little to no impact on these tertiary kill paths by removing the long stun from Inquisition.
@Esano
In terms of symbol evoking the respective classes mark, this is definitely something we can do for both during this rework. We are unsure at this stage about what will happen with regards to Nihilists and Necro Warriors, however it is likely to be something that will have to be pushed through in a reporting phase.
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Salt Upon Your Lips
Against all odds, Avaris has found something he never thought he would - Someone as zealous as he is! I had the absolute pleasure of RPing with @Misericorde , and enjoyed myself thoroughly.
This may be the start of a terrible, wonderful friendship 
Avaris
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Re: Upcoming Celestine Rework
Can you....... seriously stop being toxic and a negative nancy? People are addressing real concerns and they have a much stronger knowledge of how the class is -suppose- to work than you do. Offer suggestions-positive ones or just keep it to yourself.Brawrur said:Talkan said:This change would cause Celestines to have one and only reliable method to kill someone: using the Inquisition ego drain/instakill.
In days of yore, before things went insane in combat balance, Celestines relied on Inquisition to stun the target for long enough to start the instakill process (usually Soulless, but I had good results with Meteor as well for the same reasons). Additionally, Celestines relied on afflictions to keep the target from moving after the stun was over. Both stun + afflictions were required to keep a target still to pull the instakill off. Without one or the other, it was pretty much impossible to kill a target. I have experienced that first hand in the last year. With automated curing (a good thing) plus seemingly a bazillion artifacts that reduce the effect of practically every affliction in the game ( a bad thing), it was nearly impossible to keep someone in a room long enough to kill them. Using every ability I had to keep someone from leaving the room was instantly negated by a...pogo stick. And that's assuming they even wanted to stay in the room long enough to finish Inquisition to begin with. Carcer, fall, web, and shield stuns are more or less negligible in keeping a target still without them choosing to not leave. Now, let me punctuate that by saying it shouldn't be possible to keep someone in the room against their will without fail. I'm only saying that it's practically impossible to keep them in a room at all. Which is why Inquisition's stun timer is so critical to achieving any sort of Celestine instakill.
With the proposed change, it doesn't appear Celestines will be any better at adding afflictions (a six power attack does 1-2 afflictions?? They'll be cured before you regain balance, much less regain your power), and Inquisition's stun time is being cut in half - the target will come out of stun at the same time your regain balance. So with no additional affliction production and reduced stun time, any attempt at Soulless or Meteor will automatically result in failure.
I can't begin to guess at how effective the Inquisition instakill will be, but with a requirement of 25% ego, I imagine it won't be very effective at all.
Celestine's definitely need a change, but this doesn't seem to achieve the goal of what the class is supposed to be or make them fun to play. You may as well remove the other instakills from Celestine tertiaries and replace them with something that only supports Inquisition instakills, because they won't be viable afterwards. It seems quite a few people have talked about the group cohesion these changes have, and I won't touch on those because I don't feel like I have an up-to-date knowledgebase. But this certainly does not entice me to play Talkan as a Celestine.
lol.
Oh no, only one instakill method. That's so unusual for a guardian class.
Are you asking for the stun instakill to be increased here?
People escaping the room? Oh no, welcome to every class in the game.
Oh no, afflictions are hard to stack. ...
The six power attack does... 2-3 afflictions and a *large* amount of holyfire. Which could be fatal, honestly no idea, but at six power it's probably a fair bit.
Wild.
Daemel
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