Report 840

Report #840
Skillset: Music Skill: Aurics
 Org: Harbingers Status: Completed May 2012
Furies' Decision:
Solution 3. We don't want to set a precedent with fiddling with cure order
(which is always meant to be random).
Problem: Currently, bards have difficulty in tracking what auric affliction
their target has cured due to the random order in which aurics are cured. This
is before you even consider other factors: passive curing means the bard has
very little chance to keep up tracking what's been cured - achromatic aura does
not show coloured smoke like the others - it is easy to produce
manabarbs/egovice smoke but not so simple to induce power spikes. As such this
report would like to make it more realistic for bards to track their target's
auric afflictions.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Have aurics cure in order of their casting.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Have aurics cure in a set order regardless of cast
 order.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Have power spikes always cure after all other aurics.
Player Comments:
---[Tacita on 4/24 @ 20:24 writes]:
I would very much welcome comments on the given solutions - however it should be
kept in mind that a previous report (286) attempted to address this issue with
very different solutions and was rejected. It's my hope that approaching this
with a different take on solutions will be more beneficial to all.
---[Raeri on 4/25 @ 03:58 writes]:
Alternatively, an active skill that acts like old assess, but for aurics. i.e.
fast eq consumption, allowing you to check what aurics are on the person?
---[Raeri on 4/26 @ 07:30 writes]:
A combination of solutions 2 and 3 would be nice.
---[Draylor on 4/29 @ 09:59 writes]:
Solution 1 or 2.
---[Shedrin on 4/30 @ 09:01 writes]:
Solution 2 is fine.
---[Shuyin on 5/2 @ 21:16 writes]:
Solution 1 or 2 is fine
---[Mirami on 5/5 @ 00:25 writes]:
Solution 1 supported.
---[Xynthin on 5/5 @ 20:02 writes]:
Not solution 2, simply because dropping the first-cured affliction on the target
again would prevent getting at the other aurics. Solution 1 would be ideal, it
would be up to the bard to remember what order they cast the aurics in. I'm on
the fence with solution 3 as powerspikes does take power to cast, but I know
that it's the one I want to cure -first-. Thus I'd say: Implement solution 1,
and consider / discuss 3.
---[Valistrielle on 5/10 @ 18:37 writes]:
Solution 1.
---[Ushaara on 5/11 @ 17:41 writes]:
Solution 1 supported.
---[Viynain on 5/11 @ 23:39 writes]:
I quite like the proposal, and am fond of solution 2 or 3 more, especially after
considering the amount of things which bypass Octave.
---[Enyalida on 5/16 @ 00:29 writes]:
Solution 3 supported. Solution 2 can be problematic depending on that order, no
to solution 1.
---[Llandros on 5/18 @ 17:31 writes]:
The bard in me loves it, the envoy in me worries about harder to cure
powerbarbs. I think 2 or 3 would be ok if the cure order only applied to curing
with horehound.
---[Tacita on 5/21 @ 16:09 writes]:
Part of the purpose of the report is to give the bard a chance to track passive
curing in octave - so limiting it only to those cured with horehound would
defeat that purpose entirely.
---[Llandros on 5/22 @ 00:49 writes]:
Going from guesswork to absolute certainty is quite the buff. I think some form
of improvement here would be warranted but discordantchord aside, auric affs are
quite powerful. I think reducing, not eliminating, the margin of error would be
best. Maybe give ego vice and power barbs a high chance of curing before
achromatic aura and powerspikes?
---[Enyalida on 5/22 @ 14:34 writes]:
And with absolute certainty, the ability to permanently keep up to three of the
aurics by spamming the top auric on the target...
---[Tacita on 5/22 @ 15:45 writes]:
It's not absolute certainty, there's still the issue of silent passive curing.
Just becuase you know - for example - ego vice is going to be cured next doesn't
mean that you can tell when/if it is passively cured. You can't even be certain
of allheale sipping. I'm not averse to changing the percentage chance to cure
one over another as part of solution 3, however. I don't want to make it easy
mode or anything - it should still rely on the bard's skill at knowing what to
use when (otherwise it'd be mega boring to play) - I just want to make it more
viable.
---[Shedrin on 5/25 @ 08:38 writes]:
What if they cured in a 'first on, first off' manner. So for example, if the
bard did powerspikes then manabarbs, powerspikes would cure first. If they then
did powerspikes again, then manabarbs would cure first. In this way, they
couldn't protect a specific auric by spamming the top auric. But overall, I
don't think it's too much of an issue. Out of octave, aurics are fairly easily
cured. Inside octave, this change seems to me that it would just lessen a
frustration in dealing with allheale and passive cures.
---[Tacita on 5/28 @ 18:05 writes]:
That 'first on/first off' concept is the same as solution 1, if I'm
understanding you correctly.
---[Shedrin on 5/29 @ 23:04 writes]:
I interpreted Sol. 1 as 'first on, last off'. My mistake!