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"The smell of dusty fur, sweet smoke, waiting and patience, a thing that time cannot kill. The moth that candles won't burn."
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(The Front Line): Daskalos says, "<-- artifacts."
But wait, I thought luring people into defendable territory was against the rules? So, what's the deal?
The problem as I see it is with Lure. Nearly every beckon ability in the game is limited to a range of one rooms. Every other ability that pulls a victim over a long-distance, such as brazier tattoo, requires that cloak is stripped, empress tarot requires the victim to be lusted, and mind wrench requires a mind lock. Lure is an ability that exists as a psuedo entangle/beckon. The victim is unable to sit or perform any action while being lured and can be beckoned over a long-distance if clarity is stripped or not up. I believe the distance that lure can be initiated without clarity is about 20+ rooms . With clarity, the range is five rooms. Lure is the only "beckon" ability that exceeds the adjacent room condition while simultaneously acting as an entangle. While I'm all for originality in terms of mechanics, it's become increasingly evident that it is not possible for vampires to be able to tell when a victim of their lure is not in line of sight and therefore they're performing an illegal action by pulling them from outside of line of sight and into Bloodloch. I recommended a long time ago that Lure be changed to the same exact mechanics as beckon, but it was rejected because of the administration's policy at the time seeking "originality" in class design.
You cannot lure an enemy into your city unless they are line-of-sight from you!
That said, I've been on the other side of lure before and have been extremely frustrated with it myself. I definitely understand the desire to have it looked at again.