Report 1545

Report #1545
Skillset: Wicca Skill: Maiden
 Org: Moondancers Status: Completed Feb 2017
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1, potentially solution 2 if we have time.
Problem: Wicca's Maiden, available to Moondancers, is a fae that presents the
one it's following with a variety of blessings similar to sacraments -
bendiction. The fae costs 1 power to summon and will continue to bestow
blessings upon the user for an varying amount of time. This fae is a little
outdated and this report aims to address up to three problems with this fae: For
one, remove outdated blessings from the blessing pool, for two reduce the amount
of text that is produced while this fae is active and for three possibly improve
the reliability and usefulness of this fae.
[A:15 R: 0] Solution #1: Remove the endurance and willpower blessing from the
 pool of the maidens effects, as they do nothing
 anymore. Reduce the amount of output generated and do
 not give duplicate blessings. Adjust the timer
 accordingly.
[A:13 R: 0] Solution #2: Solution 1 and make maidens blessings be
 deterministic as in always the same, giving what she
 now gives out randomly before she disappears.
[A: 2 R: 6] Solution #3: Solution 1 and Make maiden a permanent fae that will
 provide her blessings while she follows someone.
Player Comments:
---[Aeldra on 2/8 @ 12:37 writes]:
For clarity of understanding, I see solution 3 merely an alternative to solution
2 to deal with how maiden currently effectively spams people. (I've created a
pastebin, http://pastebin.com/P20w4SM7, for people to understand just how much
output maiden generates within a very short amount of time, maybe a minute or
two on that there). Both have their merits and I put them up for discussion.
---[Falmiis on 2/9 @ 01:04 writes]:
Maiden is just really meh in general. These solutions are definitely
improvements but I doubt they're enough to really improve it in any meaningful
way
---[Auriella on 2/9 @ 06:34 writes]:
I think the Maiden is not too bad, her downside really being her unreliable and
random timer. Perhaps you could just give her a static timer alongside also
removing will/endurance.
---[Aeldra on 2/9 @ 08:22 writes]:
I have changed Solution 1 to include the quality of life of solution 2 ( lines
output reduction, do not give duplicate blessings ) and have changed Solution 2
to Auriella's suggestion. Also, regarding maiden being really meh, I partially
agree, but I think a large part of this is coming through her unpredictable and
repeated blessings. Some of the blessing are sure useful, as maiden is one of
the few sources of resistances that we have available. Though it is certainly
true that several people have commented to me that they do not bother with
maiden as they can not really tell any difference of having or not having her (
which may also be from her unreliance )
---[Falmiis on 2/9 @ 20:42 writes]:
It's more because blessings are very minor compared to the ability to afflict
that the Night fae have. This is compounded by the fact that Moon is already a
much more defensive skillset than Night. I think if you want to make Wicca more
useful for Moondancers in particular, it's probably not a bad idea to change the
focus of maiden/mother to become offensive rather than defensive. One of the
biggest issues with succumb is that outside of that, Moondancers really have no
offence. Up to you if this is what you want though.
---[Xenthos on 2/13 @ 01:09 writes]:
I think you might be operating under an old / outdated view of these skillsets
now, Falmiis. Moon is definitely still more defensive than Night, but
especially with things that have been thrown at Night to weaken it I can't
really agree that Moon is lacking on offense these days in comparison. Last I
heard Moon still had Wane, Dark, etc. So let's not get this report /diverted
into an argument about something that's not related to it, shall we? These
solutions are fine.
---[Shuyin on 2/16 @ 02:10 writes]:
1 and 2 only are fine
---[Gero on 2/16 @ 05:26 writes]:
Sol 1 or 2
---[Kaimanahi on 2/16 @ 17:20 writes]:
Admin: Since Sacraments Benediction is a (near?) replica of Wicca Maiden, please
apply the solution of this report to Benediction so we don't have to envoy that
separately (obviously unless Solution 3 is the result).
---[Ixion on 2/16 @ 20:25 writes]:
Sol 1 or 2