Report 1212

Report #1212
Skillset: Harmonics Skill: Malefactgem
 Org: Institute Status: Completed May 2015
Furies' Decision:
Sol. 1.
Problem: The standard kill method for Researchers previously involved setting up
aeonfield with shatterplex, then applying anorexia with shatterplex detonating
around the aeonfield tic, such that curing would be slowed enough to prevent the
healing of timewarp before a quake can be performed. This was based on anorexia
blocking the healing of aeon. Instead, aeon is now cured via steam (smoking),
making the necessary blocking affliction asthma. Asthma can be delivered via
beast poison, allowing for a shot at the blocking affliction without using the
Researcher's own bal/eq, but has a chance to be shrugged. Having more
reliability in the standard kill method would be desirable, and if asthma ends
up with its cure blocked by anorexia in kind, that might add an undesirable
layer of stopping power. Additionally, as impatience is slated for removal, this
will need to be replaced within maelfactgem's list of options as well.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Replace malefactgem's anorexia option with asthma.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Replace malefactgem's impatience with slickness.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Replace malefactgem's impatience with disloyalty.
Player Comments:
---[Shuyin on 4/28 @ 17:25 writes]:
Okay.
---[Raeri on 4/29 @ 11:22 writes]:
Sure, Sol 1.
---[Elanorwen on 4/29 @ 15:36 writes]:
Reasonable suggestion. Supported.
---[Maligorn on 4/29 @ 19:10 writes]:
Supported.
---[Vivet on 5/1 @ 03:09 writes]:
I want to mention for the administrators that up until this point, this report
only covered anorexia being replaced with asthma. Since I now know impatience is
slated for deletion, and impatience is also a malefactgem affliction, I will be
expanding this report to cover that as well. The prior comments are related to
only anorexia -> asthma.
---[Vivet on 5/1 @ 06:22 writes]:
New solutions for impatience included after gathering input. For any who might
wish to make other suggestions based off of the limited flavour, here is the
attack message, "Vivet smashes a chunk of dark rock at her feet and red and
black smoke roils about her. Tendrils of red and black smoke wrap around you,
covering your skin in a sticky film."
---[Maligorn on 5/1 @ 22:20 writes]:
Considering the new solutions, I support 1+3. If we're considering slickness
(sol 2) as a way to perpetuate the aeon lock -- right now asthma is cured by
melancholic, but when all is said and done, it'll be cured by purity dust,
making slickness useless in that regard. At the same time. You'd want asthma and
anorexia for your end-result aeon lock, but I think that might be too powerful
to hand to malefactgem. Disloyalty, on the other hand, isn't very common in
Lusternia reliably (read: not hadrudin spitting). I think it would be a thematic
and strategic addition, especially versus the Institute's diametrically opposed
guardian guild.
---[Jaamil on 5/1 @ 22:26 writes]:
I support both solutions
---[Shuyin on 5/2 @ 02:18 writes]:
No to solution 2. Solution 1 only. We can revisit impatience after we figure out
what will block lucidity affs in the future.
---[Lerad on 5/4 @ 05:11 writes]:
Support solution 1. Solution 3 seems fine at this time as well. I don't think
solution 2 is a good idea, though, since it would change impatience (a one time
block of focus) into a full cure-blocking aff (slickness).
---[Kaimanahi on 5/4 @ 05:42 writes]:
I'm not sure that you really want to give up anorexia, considering that timewarp
is still an herb-based cure (and focus mind is being projected to go away) and
asthma can already be delivered by poison as stated. Just something to consider,
but maybe timewarp will need to be changed too anyway. I don't support solution
2 for reasons already stated, but solutions 1 and 3 are okay, assuming that you
indeed want to trade anorexia for asthma.
---[Ryboi on 5/10 @ 16:29 writes]:
Support solutions 1 and 3. No to solution 2.
---[Celina on 5/27 @ 15:01 writes]:
Solution 1 only. I don't understand the need for masked disloyalty with all of
their aeon potential. Seems like a backdoor buff which I don't support.
---[Celina on 5/27 @ 15:02 writes]:
For the record, Maligorn's comment does demonstrate how this is a backdoor buff.
Not okay, especially for guild as powerful and mostly unaffected by the overhaul
as the institute.