Report 41

Report #41
Skillset: Poisons Skill: Mantakaya
 Org: Ebonguard Status: Completed Sept 2008
Furies' Decision:
We will add mantakaya to adoraths.
Problem: Currently, Mantakaya is a very important poison. It is also extremely
limited (there are 5 mantas in the Inner Sea, which are notoriously difficult to
find all of without a tracking dog due to waves, multiple levels, parts of those
levels not being connected to one another, etc.) At the same time, Adoraths in
the Illwater Lake already have an affliction akin to Mantakaya (A slimy,
amphibious adorath hisses and plunges one of his barbed tentacles deep into your
chest as the pain drains swiftly away.) This does not actually fire a poison
check, but as it sounds much like mantakaya ("A prickly stinging overcomes your
body, fading away into numbness"), it looks like pretty much the same thing
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Allow Mantakaya to be extracted from Adoraths as well
 (these are much more difficult mobs to hunt than
 mantas in the Seas)
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: As it is mantakaya, allow it to be harvested from the
 shadow mantas in the Reservoir at the bottom of the
 Illithoid Prison (though this would likely also
 involve giving them an attack which uses it). Again,
 these are more difficult and have the aggressive
 sharks "guarding" them.
Player Comments:
---[Xiel on 9/16 @ 06:01 writes]:
I've done some researching and I've found that most all of the gar'dead in the
Catacombs all secrete poisons to attack, but can't actually be harvested for any
poison. I've IDEA'd that garghouls to start secreting charybdon while garghasts
started secreting mantakaya since a) both of these consistently produce the
random/paralysis affliction, and b) both of them do indeed secrete poison to
some degree so it would make sense for these to be extractable. Would garghasts
suffice as an option since they're fairly hard to get to and are actually
poison-secreters unlike the shadow mantas?
---[Synl on 9/16 @ 13:55 writes]:
Garghasts do not have a poison-based attack. At least, their paralysis attack is
as 'poisonous' as the adoraths.