June Liaison Changes, part 1 (plus a changelog)

Daskalos

Our first batch of Liaison changes is ready to go! Please be sure to
report any bugs you might experience.

General
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- All emote responses have been removed from the pool of potential
Stupidity actions. There is now a small chance to simply prone yourself
with a room message (and a Combat Message). All other circumstances
under which a Stupid person would usually emote will now consist of a
simple first-person failure message. Non-emote responses (moving,
sipping, etc) remain unchanged. [1315]
 
- Confusion will now impose a 50% equilibrium penalty, down from 100%.
[1302]
 
Battlefury
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- Flare was in kind of a strange place. While active on a target, it
would force that target to appear visible in the room while phased and
shrouded. Interesting, and thematically neat, but not incredibly useful.

Flare is now a mechanic for the prevention of plane-shifting and hiding
skills such as phase, mistform, lightform, hide, stalking, cloak, shroud
and blackwind. The duration of the effect remains unchanged, but the
immunity period afterward has been lengthened. [1311]
   
- Resonance is now a timed affliction rather than one cured by regular
curatives. The Resonance effect will last 30 seconds, after which the
target is immune for 60 further seconds. During the Resonance period,
the giver may DIAGNOSE and WOUNDS the target without the use of balance
using the RESONANCE command. [1312]
 
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- Added a bunch of communication commands to Wolf Form's whitelist. Let
me know if I missed anything. Hopefully also significantly sped up the
checking process. [1284]
 
Devotion
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- You may now PERFORM INSPIRATION
<STRENGTH/DEXTERITY/CONSTITUTION/INTELLIGENCE> to receive a +1 bump to
that stat. There is no longer a fading timer associated with this boon,
but the Devotion cost has been slightly increaed to compensate. While
only one stat may be boosted at any time, it's possible to switch at
will. [1280]
 
- New skill: Dampening. Actively destroys a random vibration in the
room. There is a small Devotion bonus associated with a successful
dampening.
 
Hematurgy
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  - Astralblur will no longer scramble mana. [1270]
 
- Wisp anxiety afflictions will no longer be hidden and will be
displayed to the room upon application. The anxiety cured upon
affliction in the round-robin fashion will remain hidden to all but the
target, to prevent flawless tracking. [1272]
 
  - Moved INVOKE down in the skillset.
 
- New Transcendent skill: Mindburrow. Does mana damage to the target
based on the number of active Mentis afflictions, to a cap of 40% of max
mana. Stuns for 2 seconds and employs a 90 second cooldown. [1275]
 
Illumination
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- Flare will no longer require the target to be ablaze, reverting an
earlier liaison change. There is now a 15 second cooldown between uses
of Flare. [1290]
 
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  - You may no longer Direcall within cities. [1251]
 
Righteousness
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  - Mana loss for aura maintenance removed. [1292]
- PROTECT no longer requires a channel when the target is out-of-room.
[1310]
 
Spirituality
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- SHIELD CRASH now takes 3 seconds of neutral balance, down from 4. It
is also subject to the standard six-second disruption cooldown. [1282]
 
- Wearing a purity necklace or amulet of cleansing will prevent Angel
Care from ticking. [1300]
 
Tarot
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- You may now CLOSE MAP to counteract Tarot Universe. Requires balance
and equilibrium and counts as an aggressive action, unlike making use of
the map. [1222]
 
- It is now possible to 'pause' the effects of Devil Tarot for a brief
equilibrium cost. Pausing Devil will allow you to FLICK a bonedagger
after the use of a tarot card that would otherwise proc Devil. AB TAROT
DEVIL for details. While the flick, by nature, does not require balance
in this combo, it will consume equilibrium instead of balance at a
slightly longer cost. [1274]

 

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|  Entered by: Oleis                               Date: 2013/06/24 21:13:54  |
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You may now view the relevant AB files for any class.

 

 

Ezrax

what i see in the post: buff buff buff buff buff buff [cabalist nerf] buff buff buff

Daskalos

Blame Calipso, she was direcalling people into Spinesreach guards repeatedly.

Alistaire

I don't really see how that was a nerf to direcall anyway. Oh no! You can't do exactly what Dask just mentioned! Woe! WOE!

Ilyon

I'll just note that we're most likely pushing through some further BB changes (1385 and 1386) to make up for the Anxiety/Mindburrow upgrades (which are huge).

Ezrax

Daskalos said:

Blame Calipso, she was direcalling people into Spinesreach guards repeatedly.

There was a gentleman's agreement to not do that for years and years, ever since the class' formation. Nobody broke this sacred observance. Until Calipso.

Daskalos

Mindburrow scares me with Bloodborn's afflicting power, but maybe now that absolve is back on the table with them it won't be so bad. We'll see!

Ezrax

I actually want to develop my BB offense stuff now (I neglected it as I was happier with the brainlessness involved with cabalist/scio combat). Mindburrow tactics really excite my theoretical combatant brain now! I really should be going to work but am instead thinking about mindburrow's potential awesomeness.

Alistaire

Out of curiosity. Does Mindburrow gain power off of afflictions given by -other- vampires, or just you?

Daskalos

That would be very scary in team combat, with whispers already delivering mana damage...

Alistaire

That is why I'm concerned/curious. I'm really hoping it only works off of the BB doing mindburrow's affs.

Ezalor

Yeah. We just got our own version of 2 Templar Retri. Eat it lifers!

Mindburrow is completely and utterly OP as is, and a huge buff from what I had suggested in my liaison report. We just spent like 2 hours talking with Ilyon about how to change the class accordingly to make it not super broken, we'll see what changes make it through.

Preliminary it looks like scythe bleeding will be cut down by quite a bit and the Wise + Crown Bloodborn statpack choice made obsolete, which saddens me, but also moves the class further away from Praenomen.

Lin

  - You may no longer Direcall within cities. [1251]

Outrageous. I'm never playing an IRE again.

Daskalos

If I'm reading that report right, if you go for affliction speed to setup mindburrow (which is like a supercharged overwhelm with no prone req but a CD) you lose hidden whispers and\or the mana drain that comes with whispers?

Ezalor

Daskalos said:

If I'm reading that report right, if you go for affliction speed to setup mindburrow (which is like a supercharged overwhelm with no prone req but a CD) you lose hidden whispers and\or the mana drain that comes with whispers?

It basically means you can no longer do Wise + Crown and use a non-scythe weapon (what I've been doing) for increased affliction speed and mindsurge speed at the expense of scythe bleeding. Understandably you can see why Mindburrow was completely broken with this route.

So the choices become either nerf Mindburrow or force the Wise Crown route out of the game. It looks like the latter will be done, which isn't necessarily a bad thing since it differentiates Bloodborn from Praenomen further.

Just a note, if we are forcing scythes to become the only route, report 1296 should be seriously looked at. The scythe as is requires a L3 weapon rune or it's just awfully bad.

Oh and as far as numbers go, Mindburrow is 8% base + 3% per Mentis aff, on 3.5 seconds neutral eq, and stuns for 2 seconds.

Malok

Speaking of Praenomen...did anyone bother to submit anything useful to fix the fact that Sanguis ents can be 1-2 shotted by most people, or did we just not bother again?(I haven't been playing much with my new 40-45 hour a week job).

Draiman

It was submitted for Ghasts, and approved.