Report 554

Report #554
Skillset: Bookbinding Skill: MagicTome
 Org: Cantors Status: Rejected Feb 2011
Furies' Decision:
We do not find this to be necessary.
Problem: Magic tomes can only be recharged by taking the specific type of damage
for that scroll type, or through an enchanter specifically recharging it, but
not directly from cubes. It doesn't make sense that a skill at near-trans in the
Enchanting specializations which can charge every single other kind of
enchantable item can't charge a magic tome, but a skill at Apprentice in
Enchanting can. It's also often hard to find the right types of damage, and
recharging will often cost a lot of time (and often health potion). It also
can't be recharged from a personal cube for longer hunting trips, while magic
scrolls can. As MagicTome is intended to be sort of the "ultimate" magic scroll,
a bookbinder shouldn't ever have to use a magic scroll instead because it's more
advantageous.
Solution #1: Let us recharge magic tomes from cubes, with RECHARGE <magictome>
 HEALING|PROTECTION|CURSES|DISRUPTION FROM <cube> or some similar
 syntax.
Solution #2: Change healing scroll charges on a magictome to be recharged by
 (and offer DMP to) physical damage. This wouldn't really solve
 the problem, but it would be at least make it a lot easier to
 keep your healing scroll charged.
Player Comments:
---[Viynain on 2/10 @ 22:09 writes]:
Solution 1 would be nice.
---[Iasmos on 2/11 @ 02:16 writes]:
It wouldn't be so bad, if we could find more than a small handful of things that
did magic damage. Seems silly asking someone to hit you with some magic damage
over and over just to build back the charges.
---[Raeri on 2/11 @ 07:52 writes]:
Agreed, solution 1. (Or an alternate that makes it even easier)
---[Senna on 2/11 @ 20:54 writes]:
Another solution (#2) added... it's not preferable, but would be better than
nothing.
---[Nydekion on 2/12 @ 14:10 writes]:
Solution 1 would be great, rather surprised it wasn't the case to begin with.
---[Prav on 2/15 @ 03:43 writes]:
Solution 1 sounds great, agree with the logic.
---[Janalon on 2/15 @ 22:24 writes]:
Agreed. Solution #1
---[Inagin on 2/21 @ 12:59 writes]:
Instead of Solution #2, can also just switch around the current protections.
Curses, can be magical damage, for example.
---[Inagin on 2/21 @ 13:01 writes]:
Oh. Can the magic tome also not be aliased to the word 'book'? It sucks when
questing!