Report 374

Report #374
Skillset: Paradigmatics Skill: Fusion
 Org: Templars Status: Completed May 2010
Furies' Decision:
Mana and ego drains reduced.
Problem: Fusion currently right now is a skill that is mathematically wothrless.
'Wothrless' being even WORSE than worthless. Due to the constant drain of mana
and ego the person using fusion is constantly sipping something and usually to
the extent that when they actually do need to sip health they cannot as their
sip balance has been taken to recover mana or ego drains. Compounded with the
willpower drain this makes the skill very short lived and in practice has
actually been discouraged to being used. With using sip, sparkle, scroll, and
beastheal it is barely manageable and within a very short time you find yourself
with a drained beast and healing scroll. - In case it wasn't clear you are
actually worse off using Fusion than not. - With Fusion up I am hard pressed to
keep my 11k+ possible health over 30% and have come close to death numerous
times from just trying to keep up with sipping on 3 stats.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Remove the passive drain on mana/ego but leave the
 willpower drain so the skill is still short lived
 overall. The skill is deep in the skillset and is not
 eliminating damage it is just shifting where the
 damage is taken (20% of the time) and as such it
 would be suitable to do this without also trying to
 recover from passive mana and ego drains
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Lower the passive drains and change the 20% chance to
 be a straight block of damage not a shift in where
 the damage is taken
Player Comments:
---[Fillin on 5/18 @ 07:51 writes]:
This skill is a lot worse than what I thought it was. Removing the mana/ego
drain is the way to go, imo.