Report 22

Report #22
Skillset: Knighthood Skill: Assay
 Org: Serenguard Status: Completed Aug 2008
Furies' Decision:
We will lower the balance time slightly for assay. Letting assay work without
balance would render parrying and stancing useless as a warrior could trigger
the assay lines and attack accordingly.
Problem: Assay currently does not synergize well with a knight's fighting style.
The nature of warrior combat entails chasing balance, therefore, taking a moment
to stop fighting to assay the opponent may ruin whatever setup he or she may
have been working on. I.e. Taking the time to assay someone makes the ability
useless since you can do other things which don't waste time like lunge, etc.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Allow assay to be used off-balance, letting people
 swing/swing/assay as needed. To balance it out if
 needed, increase the balance loss by a bit (.25s?) if
 you do assay offbalance
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Have assay require but not consume balance, like
 Discernment discerning