Report 1820

Report #1820
Skillset: Harmony Skill: Akhlum
 Org: Celest Status: Completed Oct 2017
Furies' Decision:
Solution 2
Problem: Akhlum is a mantra chant that when you chant the three Water mantra's
you receive an icy aura which has the % chance to chill an attacker reactively.
This ability on its own has never seen much use due to the ease of curing such a
reactive as well as their being much stronger chants to use during combat. The
below suggestion seeks to give the skillset a bit more utility outside of combat
and hopefully give Akhlum itself a bit more use.
[A: 9 R: 0] Solution #1: Change Akhlum to gift the monk with the Waterbourne
 defence, due to their harmony with the element of
 Water they can now avoid waves and breathe underwater.
[A:12 R: 0] Solution #2: Change Akhlum to gift the monk with a % chance to
 avoid waves. Should the monk reside within New
 Celest, greatly increase the chance of avoidance.
 Perhaps 50% avoidance for non-Celestians, 100% chance
 for Celestians.
Player Comments:
---[Auriella on 9/28 @ 08:34 sets as pending]
---[Ciaran on 9/28 @ 08:39 writes]:
I like thisss. Seems like pure utility. Replacing an unused skill with utility
seems like a good way to go!
---[Ejderha on 10/14 @ 15:34 writes]:
I like the idea of this a lot, but I'd like to suggest something to consider
alongside it. Right now, Akhlum has a stronger effect for those attuned to the
Pool of Stars (just as Akhchu does for Moonhart attuning). I think keeping that
effect is desirable, both so that Akhchu has a balanced effect for New Celest,
and because it is cool. On the same hand, avoiding waves is a VERY strong
effect. An effect I think should be much easier to access in-org than cross org.
Thus, I suggest the base effect give some percent chance of resisting waves, and
then have attuning to Pool of Stars give a 'greatly increased' effect. 50%/100%
would keep it in line with the current proposal, basically only reducing the
powerful wave avoidance to any non-Celest org with access to Harmony.
---[Auriella on 10/14 @ 16:40 writes]:
Added Ejderha's idea as solution 2.
---[Minkahmet on 10/18 @ 18:13 writes]:
Both are fine to me, and as a Shofangi user, the second solution benefits both
harmonic monks
---[Moi on 10/18 @ 21:41 writes]:
Ejderha's idea/Sol 2 is the best one.
---[Danquik on 10/28 @ 01:50 writes]:
Ok