Report 1288

Report #1288
Skillset: Necroscream Skill: Sickeningplague
 Org: Cacophony Status: Completed Mar 2015
Furies' Decision:
Sol. 2
Problem: Two issues 1, hunger needs replacing. 2, internal aff overhaul resulted
in significant changes for plague affs that need to be addressed. Sneaky is no
longer an option for stacking plague affs. You don't need to wait for the
secondary message to know what cure you need to use. This means that stacking
unknown internal afflictions isn't going to happen and that the affs are being
cured before they can have any effect. We need to get to where overwhelming
someone with plague affs is possible but not unavoidable. Without a hunger
attrition crutch, Necroscream needs a boost to stand on its own. Changes to
sickeningplague and dyscrasia will directly affect each other so I'm doing them
together.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Replace hunger attrition with ego drain. Hunger could
 result in unconsciousness so the ego drain should be
 pretty decent. For comparison NightFade, a low stanza
 power, does around 10% ego drain a tick.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: In addition to solution 1, change dyscrasia to give a
 random plague affliction and then after that pox. Pox
 is the weakest of the group and if it set so it is
 always given then it won't stack to ridiculous levels
 with multiple bards. It will also always have a 20%
 chance of doing nothing on a double pox roll and an
 additional 20% chance of doing nothing for each
 plague aff the person has. This gives us a good
 starting foothold that becomes progressively less
 significant as the fight goes on. *Dyscrasia would
 not include the ego drain from sickeningplague.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Same as solution 2 but give pox before the random
 plague affliction. This would eliminate the chance of
 the pox being wasted on someone with no plague
 afflictions.
Player Comments:
---[Maligorn on 3/13 @ 21:47 writes]:
Needs a caveat that Dyscrasia will replace the ego drain as it does hunger when
activated. I don't think the ego drain should be too far off the handle, because
you yourself admit that hunger -> unconsciousness can either be devastating...or
completely moot. Otherwise, I think I like the sound of solution 2.
---[Lerad on 3/14 @ 07:13 writes]:
I agree with the premise, that plague afflictions are no longer as effective
even when "hidden". Giving the song a chance (that progressively gets lesser)
for double plague afflictions per tick seems reasonable to me. On the hunger ->
ego drain thing, I suggest you might want to consider keeping the drain low but
also make it drain mana as well. That will make up for the drains being low by
also giving additional ability to track manabarbs on top of egovice (this is
assuming necroscream doesn't already have a mana drain elsewhere, of course)
---[Llandros on 3/15 @ 05:39 writes]:
Caveat added. Carillonknell drains HME already. A minor ME drain is largely
ignorable so it would only help with aurics where a decent E drain could
pressure bromide sipping (with minimal kill method synergy) which would be more
helpful to a damage kill guild. Also, it is fairly thematic considering you are
being hit with something quite foul. Getting a target to zero ego is
counterproductive for bards since the target becomes immune to further ego
attacks and having zero ego, unlike hunger, has no secondary effects. So I ask
for something decent and noticeable but not massive since, balance aside, that
would actually work against me.
---[Shuyin on 3/17 @ 02:32 writes]:
Solution 2
---[Raeri on 3/30 @ 19:32 writes]:
Solution 2 supported.
---[Kaimanahi on 3/31 @ 04:02 writes]:
Support Solution 2