Report 102

Report #102
Skillset: Bonecrusher Skill: Pulp
 Org: Ur'Guard Status: Completed Dec 2008
Furies' Decision:
Pulp will be very slightly improved.
Problem: After significant upgrades to Crush, Pulp has fallen behind and become
obselete. Two crushes cost 4p and go through rebounding, parry, and stance, and
give a 60% boost to wounding; Pulp costs 8p, hits all those things, and gives
only a 30% boost to wounding. In fact, if you pulp rebounding it still costs 8p
to hit yourself. While Pulp has some unique advantages like a 20% damage boost
and being a swing class attack, the huge power cost and other limitations ensure
that it is never worth it.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Drop the power cost of pulp to 5p and imbue it with a
 cleave-like effect that would raze shield,
 rebounding, and speed beforehand and fit with the
 theme of beating your opponent to a pulp
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Give pulp the aforementioned cleave effect and
 significantly increase its wounding bonus to 100%
 (double wounds), but keep the prohibitive power cost.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Make Pulp a skill similar to Execute in that it
 requires a certain wound state to get a certain
 effect. Costs 5p; if chest is critical, Pulp will do
 a good chunk of burst vessels (4 - 6); if chest is
 below critical, Pulp will just do two swings to the
 chest that go through parry/stance/rebound (like
 Execute). This may sound odd for Bonecrusher, but you
 can justify it with something like "Murphy heaves his
 weapons into your chest with staggering force, and
 you feel vessels snap and burst as the blow ripples
 over your body."
Player Comments:
---[Xenthos on 12/22 @ 00:58 writes]:
Does Pulp still allow for a Bashbrains? I know it did for quite a while at
least even after Behead was removed from Haymaker.
---[Ceren on 12/22 @ 01:56 writes]:
Sure does. That's why none of the solutions allow Pulp to go through parry or
stance
---[Ceren on 12/22 @ 01:57 writes]:
Well, except for the last one, but in that case you obviously can't bashbrain
with it
---[Shuyin on 12/23 @ 08:51 writes]:
No strong feelings, but I personally like 1 or 2