Report 38

Report #38
Skillset: Discipline Skill: FocusBody
 Org: Aquamancers Status: Completed Sept 2008
Furies' Decision:
We'll go with either #1 or #3.
Problem: Majority of combat is balanced on focusbody being 1 second long.
Otherwise, there will be great difficulty in fighting against classes like
warriors and telepaths who can use paralysis often and fairly quickly. The
problem with focusbody is that without having focusbody down to at least 2
seconds, combat becomes almost unviable against these classes because you will
face permanent paralysis issues along with things such as stun and deaden. A two
second focusbody comes at around fabled in disicipline. For someone just trying
to start out in combat, this almost becomes more necessary to learn even before
some guild skills. The solutions suggested are not meant to overshadow the need
to learn trans discipline but make not having it a little more viable for people
starting in combat. They will help with the situation and serious combatants
will still find a need to learn to trans eventually
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: The time for focusbody decreases as more lessons are
 learned in discipline with the limit being 1 second
 at trans. Instead of a linear regression of focusbody
 time, at the master skillrank, allow the time to be
 reduced to 2 seconds. Then from master to
 transcendant, allow futher reduction of the time to 1
 second upon reaching transcendant.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Allow extra mana to be used with focusbody to reduce
 focus time. Have it cost 250 mana per second you want
 your focustime reduced plus 250 mana for your regular
 focusbody time. For example, at inept, which is 4
 second focusbody time, if you wanted to reduce it to
 1 second, it would cost 250 mana + 3 x 250 mana which
 is 1000 mana. At fabled it would cost 500 mana to
 reduce it to 1 second. This of course would be
 limited at a minimum time of 1 second and the amount
 it costs per second could be altered to account for
 tenths of seconds. Deadening would still double the
 time.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Instead of having a set focusbody time, allow it to
 vary between 1-4 seconds at inept, 1-3 seconds at
 master, 1-2 seconds at fabled, and 1 second at trans.
 These times should be adjusted accordingly for
 lessons learned between these ranks.
Player Comments:
---[Shuyin on 10/1 @ 07:10 writes]:
I'd just prefer focusbody time be divorced from discipline rank altogether. That
way, you don't have to spend so many lessons, and in a place like this, it
already is quite costly enough to get into combat more than other places.