Report 1765

Report #1765
Skillset: Paradigmatics Skill: Gnosis
 Org: Gaudiguch Status: Completed Jul 2017
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1.
Problem: Gnosis has a chance to protect from a pool of spiritual affs, some of
which are no longer affs, given by so few sources they might as well not be
affs, or are now incureable affs. - Healthleech, justice, peace, pacifism,
punctured aura, succumb.
[A: 6 R: 6] Solution #1: Change the spiritual affs gnosis has a chance to
 protect from to this pool - manabarbs, warpedaura,
 healthleech, pacifism, disloyalty, slickness (if
 succumb can no longer be blocked. Else leave as
 succumb)
[A:11 R: 0] Solution #2: Change Gnosis from Spiritual affs to Mental affs on
 this pool - anorexia, clumsiness, stupidity,
 sensitivity, confusion, epilepsy
Player Comments:
---[Danquik on 7/4 @ 14:16 sets as pending]
---[Shedrin on 7/13 @ 03:06 writes]:
Either sounds fine, though with a slight reservation about manabarbs. Could be
pretty annoying for Bards, especially if there's no 3p line. (I'm assuming
there's not as most similar skills don't have one).
---[Falaeron on 7/13 @ 04:13 writes]:
Would also like to bring up warpedaura as another aff to consider. It'd possibly
make Gnosis too effective as a straight up counter to the entire Healing
skillset as a whole.
---[Danquik on 7/16 @ 21:50 writes]:
It's easy enough to test for manabarbs being on as a bard and Gnosis isn't 100%
immunity, just a small chance to shrug it. I specifically stayed away from
multiple bard affs because it seemed like it would be to much on them,
unfortunately there is not alot of Spiritual affs that make sense (they are
either all bard affs, luminosity which nobody cares about, Aeon, or one of the
two stacking afflictions). I had considered Aeon instead of Warped Aura though,
so there is that alternative if people are fine with it.
---[Falaeron on 7/16 @ 22:09 writes]:
It is true that the spiritual aff pool is very small and that's a problem that
does come up when trying to come up with affs to give classes that try to use
the steam balance. However, I want to point out that the aff pool has shrunk
since the overhaul, so in my opinion it's actually not really a problem if
skills like this also blocked less affs. Definite no to aeon either given that
mindclock was changed to not just be a chance of protecting against aeon for
balance reasons.
---[Iytha on 7/18 @ 10:28 writes]:
I am skeptical of the need to include manabarbs and warpedaura. Sol 2 makes more
sense.
---[Veyils on 7/18 @ 19:16 writes]:
Solution two sounds good also what with illumanti being the "master of mentals."