Report 145

Report #145
Skillset: Druidry Skill: Scarab
 Org: Blacktalon Status: Completed Feb 2009
Furies' Decision:
Duration will be increased.
Problem: This ability costs 5 power and does awful damage that barely scales to
health. To Thoros' 10k health range it did 800 damage. When he unsurged it did a
little over 700 damage. The other reason to use this ability is that it prevents
the target from being able to eat/sip. However, the period of time that this
effect actually is working is two seconds and only happens about every 8
seconds. Also, within the duration of this ability, the no eating/sipping effect
only happens about three times.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Because of the 5 power cost, two seconds is hardly
 long enough to stack any extra afflictions,
 especially with the additional power cost to add
 afflictions either via doubleslinging runes,
 empowered punctured motes or fetish attacks. So, a
 solution would be to increase the duration of the
 curse, decrease the power cost, increase the duration
 of the effect where the target is unable to eat/sip,
 increase the frequency of occurance for when the
 target is unable to eat/sip, and increase the passive
 damage given to the target. Obviously, not all of the
 changes are not required, but a mix of them would be
 best to make this ability worth using at all.
Player Comments:
---[Gregori on 2/24 @ 07:40 writes]:
I am ok with this suggestion, keeping in mind that Hartstone's Darkseed costs
more than Scarabs (8 power compared to 5 power) and has the same flaws in it as
Scarabs (negligible damage, sometimes it works 3 times sometimes it works 5). So
if one is changed the other should be too. If nothing else the power costs
should be made equal.