Report 464

Report #464
Skillset: Skill: Surfboard
 Org: Paladins Status: Rejected Sept 2010
Furies' Decision:
We do not find this to be necessary.
Problem: Currently, the Surfboard dingbat artifact gives the user innate
Waterwalking. While a utility such as Waterwalk is fine, the fact that it is
innate causes certain balance concerns. Aquamancers who have to fight against
those with this artifact are disadvantaged, mainly because they cannot strip
Waterwalk. As Aquamancers rely on stripping Waterwalk to hinder instead of a
special form of wall, being able to Waterwalk in an Aquamancer's meld makes
getting out of the meld even easier than it already is.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make it so that TOUCHing the Surfboard grants the
 user the Waterwalk defense. It will no longer be
 innately given.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Add innate Levitate to Surfboard so it would be more
 balanced against other melders as well. (Maybe
 slightly up the cost.)
Player Comments:
---[Viynain on 9/16 @ 20:40 writes]:
I have no problem with evening the artifact out to either be something that
actively gives waterwalk and levitate, or passively gives waterwalk and
levitate. I can see the disparity it would cause against one meld over any
other.
---[Talan on 9/19 @ 22:11 writes]:
More likely we would see a new different artifact that gives passive levitate
coupled with a passive 'sprint' like effect while flying! How about it?
---[Talan on 9/19 @ 22:12 writes]:
Er, not a passive sprint. Same thing like surf, only flying. Meh.
---[Fillin on 9/24 @ 08:10 writes]:
I agree this sucks for aquamancers and agree with making the board just grant
SURF and no innate waterwalk. Gotta laugh at the suggestion of unstrippable
levitate though, cause I know we are all well aware that that has a much worse
effect on geo melds than unstrippable waterwalk does on aquas.
---[Raeri on 9/24 @ 09:40 writes]:
Solution 1.