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I feel obliged to defend Ollie. He's a great guy - screwed me over royally as a Symphonist when Dramaturgy first came out. In fact, I still have a trigger I made specially because of him:
in Tweets VII: Tweet Child of Mine Comment by Lerad March 2017
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(Quote) If you're ending it in april, you won't be able to watch this:
in What are you watching? Comment by Lerad March 2017
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Just take people in manses off the count for off-plane, then. Either that, or re-instate the rule against idling in manses. You can't tell people they shouldn't idle in manses unless you put it in a rule, because if there's not a rule against it, th…
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I think there's some talking over one-another's heads here. Generally speaking, like Wobou said, doing more afflictions than the target can cure off is not unbalanced in itself. That said, there is a line that the current monk affliction rate is pro…
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Dropping the most problematic dust affs from native monk affs (or locking them behind Surge) could be one answer. Nekotai already partly do this as we don't have native paralysis, and blindness requires centre-and-higher stance. I can swap blindness…
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Technically, pending the change to make parrying 100% (there's a report up for it by Wobou, I think), Nekotai already don't have any parry bypass. This is intentional, and traditional to the old Nekotai weakness (in comparison to the other monks, at…
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Just to add: the report in question is also in draft stage. It's also well within the realms of possibility that it will change in the future, if and when Falmiis makes edits. That is, of course, another reason why i wasn't making a big fuss - it's …
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Speaking directly to the stealth balance report. There was an envoy channel discussion on it directly prior to it being put up. The comments in the report summarised the conversation, pretty much.
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Balancing for groups is a must - I'm not sure where people are getting the impression that the admin, or anyone, is working on the concept that group balance should be sacrificed for 1v1 viability.
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That log is very informative, Reylari, thank you. At the tail end of that log, from 17:38:19:062, onwards there was a burst of bleeding. As far as I can tell from Reylari's log, here's what happened:
Reylari stands at 1069 bleeding, surge…(Quote) Right now, blindness is used as one of the higher-priority-than-haemophilia afflictions (at least by Nekotai) in order to stick haemo. That was my intention, at least, for giving it to a center-and-higher arm action I didn't give para…Okay, harmony monks have deathtouch, forgot about that. Sorry.
But uh, I get that soulless has a longer set up than other timed instakills... but to say that you should never use it in a group? What? Timed instakills are generally speaki…The definition of a mana-killer is a class that kills by draining the target of mana. Bleeding doesn't have to kill by mana, but it is currently what most bleeding killers need to do first. If the admin are okay with making the way bleeding kills be…(Quote) As a note, a haemophilia centered bleed strategy doesn't need to drain the target's mana to work - obviously, that's not the way most monks function now, partly because of the way haemophilia has always functioned. But that can change…My comparison was specifically in reply to your comment of "double-dipping" - that phrase literally (not figuratively) raises the issue of monks doing something they're not supposed to do. In context of your sentence:
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Bard songs generally do have at least one affliction and one health damage. Similarly for all mage/druid melds. Guardians generally speaking only have afflictions on their pets (specifically the older Celest/Mag ones), a…(Quote)
I'm... not sure what you mean by double-dipping.
Damage/vitals pressure are on different cure balances from aff cure balances. You cure both simultaneously. Also, all classes in the game do both afflictions as w…The Nekotai sprongma bleeding burst at surge forms and higher is tending on the too-high side. Regardless of unoptimized curing, dropping 1.5k (insta req) bleed from zero is probably not a good idea. I noticed and mentioned this right after my spars…Ok.The categorization that current bleed numbers do not need to be adjusted is not true, either.
Current bleed numbers are based off a paradigm that there is no diminishing returns - in fact, they are supposed to ramp up as time goes on as a…(Quote) That doesn't solve the issue Shedrin raised, but that's an interesting idea for other reasons. I'm not sure if the other monks have it, but Nekotai has something similar in my original idea for sprongma (though that was changed) and c…That's Wobou's suggestion as a tweak to make the bleeding system as a whole better, yes, but I'd just like to point out that it's a good idea only because it solves a mechanical problem, and not because of how logical or illogical it is - which real…The reason wounds wasn't really explored as an option was the fear of warriors+monks becoming too much together.
That said, giving monks wounding is easier now that flat wound numbers have been upped. You could give them less wounds than …Hrm, yes, the fact that a monk has three actions per balance does mean that a rolling multiplier is basically compounded thrice in a single form. That's also part of what makes them viable (without which, monks won't be able to ramp up to hit those …By the way, I totally won't mind if the other monks went for something else and we kept the bleed instakill as the Nekotai niche, as it originally was.
The cat's out of the bag on that one, though. I don't think we're going to move away f…Ciaran's first log is my third log.
I saw a number of big bleeds, all of which were clotted away before I got balance back. My Surge burst from the sprongma is pretty huge. It looks like I'm hitting the at least 4 or 5 of the sprongma poi…(Quote) This is the crux, I think. I'm not sure if I'm the only one supporting the unpopular opinion, but my opinion is simply that multipliers are a far better choice than tweaking flat bleed upwards/downwards etc. Multipliers ensure there i…Also, I'm very happy with this overhaul. One of my offense scripts went from 192 lines to 26 lines. Whoopee. (It'll probably grow a little as I work on it, but I think things are a lot simpler now.)Preliminary thoughts:
Nekotai stacks are very potent. I think Nekotai are well-off enough in that department. Ciaran says he has optimized his dust curing as much as he can, and he still gets haemophilia stuck long enough to get a bleedin…
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