Report 986

Report #986
Skillset: Skill: Writhing
 Org: Ebonguard Status: Completed Dec 2012
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1.
Problem: Writhing is an ability that does not require balance, but consumes it.
Further, when you start writhing again, it completely resets your current writhe
timer (starting all over). Above and beyond that, some writhing allows you to
writhe from multiple things (ie pinleg, you can writhe from multiple pins at
once), but other things only allow you to one writhe at a time (ie Hoist & Web
on someone, if they WRITHE HOIST and WRITHE ENTANGLED at the same time, only the
second goes through, but it gives you 2x the balance loss...). It would be nice
to make Writhing more robust and less frustrating to deal with.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: If you writhe multiple times, instead of stopping the
 writhe that's already going and starting a new one,
 just inform you that you are already writhing and
 stop there.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Expand writhing to function consistently, like Pinleg
 writhing does. If you WRITHE again, instead of
 restarting your current writhe it starts writhing
 another thing that you are afflicted with. If you do
 WRITHE ENTANGLE and WRITHE HOIST, it will do both
 writhes at once (though obviously still with the
 balance use). Writhing something that you are
 already writhing would fail.
Player Comments:
---[Enyalida on 12/13 @ 21:02 writes]:
Solution 2 should not work for thornlashes. You should be writhing one or the
other, not both at once, especially as the thornlashes are tracked as 5 separate
afflictions.
---[Rivius on 12/14 @ 02:24 writes]:
Solution 1 is my preference, though I think part of the reason it functions this
way is to discourage spam.
---[Shuyin on 12/14 @ 19:59 writes]:
My vote is for solution 1, but I'd prefer that spamming writhe will still
consume balance. The only change would be to not let it cancel current writhing.
We'll also need to consider the effects of summer and related skills with these
changes.
---[Llandros on 12/25 @ 00:13 writes]:
You can magic away all entanglements and then writhe whatever is left without
having to wait for eq. I'm not sure this is needed. Not having writhe cancel
previous writhes is fine i guess.