Report 752

Report #752
Skillset: Psionics Skill: Various
 Org: Tahtetso Status: Rejected Jan 2012
Furies' Decision:
We disagree with the premise that monks should have more damage types in this
manner. They are an archetype that uses physical based attacks.
Problem: With the addition of damage type resistances and vulnerabilities to
denizens, some guilds/archetypes are put at the disadvantage of being restricted
to essentially one, while others are flexible enough to at least, typically,
avoid in part the worst of a denizen's resistance. This report's purpose is to
attempt to address a small part of that through the skill Psiblade.
Solution #1: Allow psiblade to strike denizens as psychic damage.
Solution #2: Allow biocurrents/lifedrain to convert a portion of the monk's
 damage to electrical/psychic respectively.
Solution #3: A bit more awkward, but more targetted towards the guilds
 impacted by the problem- allow Krakphet (harmony) to convert a
 portion of the monk's damage to fire, and let barbs in Ninjakari
 convert some of the damage to cutting.
Player Comments:
---[Akui on 1/2 @ 16:35 writes]:
I can't imagine people would find a case where they would go out bashing with
psiblade, but it would be nice to have as a last resort for, well, psymet monks
really, as mages can tune their staves, when a denizen is highly resistant to
cutting or blunt.
---[Iytha on 1/6 @ 01:55 writes]:
Sol. 1 is highly unlikely to go through. The furies have never accepted any
reports to add bashing skills to tertiary skillsets. I recomend coming up with
an alternative solution.
---[Ushaara on 1/7 @ 17:50 writes]:
I think this is a neater and less impacting attempt of providing monks with an
alternative attack to account for resistances than previous reports. It does
also seem fitting with the psionic attacks of the illithoid/kephera denizens of
the Undervault. I can however see Iytha's point, and would also be somewhat
envious that it would provide mages with yet another choice of damage type
should it be approved.
---[Neos on 1/7 @ 18:58 writes]:
Even if this change were to go through, and I stumbled upon a denizen with
complete resistance to my staff damage types, I wouldn't use this. Having to
wait 6 seconds between attacks would be horrible in hunting. I already hate it
in combat.
---[Janalon on 1/9 @ 04:13 writes]:
Like Neos, I agree that a 6s psi recovery per attack seems weak (even far weaker
than a kata form against full resistances). Pre "harmonic gem" P-blade did
something like 300 damage in PVP before resistances. Not sure what it does now.
Remember, Shofangi & Nekotai can always punch to convert half of our damage from
sharp to blunt. It's Tahtetso and Ninjakari who have blunt weapons and could
stand to gain some form of minor damage tuning, and not along acro/psymet lines.
As such, I refute this report.
---[Shuyin on 1/11 @ 20:23 writes]:
It's fine, but seems a bit useless
---[Enyalida on 1/13 @ 19:30 writes]:
I agree with the above on a few counts. If it's a monk/Tahtetso problem it
should be solved for all monks/Tahtetso. I also don't think this will solve
much. It's also harmless, be my guest.
---[Akui on 1/14 @ 06:04 writes]:
Solutions 2 and 3 added as of this comment with the goal being to provide a
viable solution to the stated problem.
---[Iytha on 1/14 @ 06:21 writes]:
I prefer Solution 2. Solution 3 Introduces disparity between Shofangi and
Nekotai.
---[Wobou on 1/24 @ 16:10 writes]:
Solution 1 is fine but I also don't think it'll be used much. You could make the
damage proportionally larger against denizens for its balance time.
---[Neos on 1/25 @ 22:21 writes]:
Solution 2 or 3. Six second attacks in hunting seems like such a bad idea to me.
---[Talan on 1/31 @ 23:43 writes]:
I agree that this is an issue, but I think the solution still lies in ensuring
the mob resistances/weaknesses are more equally represented among the common
(non-cosmic) damage types. It would take a dozen fixes like this to correct the
problems for all classes. Also, I don't think blunt is really so hard off in
terms of things that are weak to it anyway, at least, not nearly so bad as some
other types.