Report 966

Report #966
Skillset: Celestialism Skill: Powersink
 Org: Celestines Status: Completed Mar 2013
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1.
Problem: Currently, Powersink is a faux-affliction that randomly drains between
350-500 mana, regardless of the target's total mana. While this works very well
against targets with small pools of mana, it is not very effective against those
with large pools of mana. The purpose of this report is to make powersink a
viable angel single investment while making sure a Celestine cannot double
invest powersink and try to outpace a target's curing with other mana draining
abilities.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Change Powersink to drain a fixed amount of mana plus
 a certain percentage of the target's maximum mana.
 Current proposed amount: 6% + 200
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: New Skill: For 3 power, an angel will drain 3%+150 in
 addition to the angel affliction for 1 minute.
Player Comments:
---[Celina on 2/26 @ 04:34 writes]:
The proposed drain would outpace wiccan drains when double invested. Can't say
that makes sense and support it when you consider how powerful their alternative
kill methods are. I don't see a need to make absolve viable 1v1. I think it has
a niche in group combat.
---[Llandros on 2/26 @ 19:17 writes]:
If you want to make it a viable investment without making your mana kill easier
then changing it to drain additional mana does not make any sense. Change it to
something else altogether. Something reasonable though please.
---[Dynami on 2/27 @ 02:40 writes]:
Sorry, I should have made it clearer: My intention is to make powersink viable
when it is invested once but not turn it into something that can outpace curing
when it's double invested along with amissio and any other mana drain effects.
---[Dynami on 2/27 @ 02:41 writes]:
I changed the Problem section to reflect what I just said.
---[Llandros on 2/28 @ 15:32 writes]:
So no reasoning for this beyond it not being a very stong aff?
---[Thoros on 3/4 @ 00:21 writes]:
Powersink is useless in its current form. Solution 1 will be a perfect change to
fix this current investment. Therefore, I strongly support solution 1.
---[Shuyin on 3/4 @ 04:02 writes]:
My only concern is double investments. Solution 1 is okay, but I'd like accurate
numbers to make sure it doesn't go crazy. Don't want angels double invested +
amissio spamming to be an easy absolve.
---[Dynami on 3/4 @ 17:17 writes]:
The reason for this report is because Absolve/Wrack is not viable as a 1v1 kill
tactic and this investment, which seems to be intended to help with
Absolve/Wrack, is completely ineffective. And yes, Shuyin, you and I share the
same concerns (as I mentioned in the last part of the problem section) but I
would still like to make sure Powersink doesn't up in a weaker state that it is
right now.
---[Dynami on 3/4 @ 21:45 writes]:
*end up in a
---[Morbo on 3/8 @ 15:54 writes]:
As I've spoken about on envoys, any change to power sink can have an exponential
change on mana drain due to changing power sink can easily lead to two
celestines doubling power sink investments. I think power sink should be made
more powerful, but do not allow it to be invested twice.