Report 1069

Special Report #1069
Skillset: Wildewood Skill: Spores(lesser)
 Org: Hartstone Status: Completed Dec 2007
Furies' Decision:
Small instant mana drain for bluehorn.
Problem: The Bluehorn and Hartpine spores each consume two flowers
(bluebell/hornedlily for bluehorn, bluebell/moontear for Hartpine), 5p, and
standard balance to start a 10 second spore timer. Once they hit, they appear to
do the base damage for Glinshari with different typing, and one affliction.
Bluehorn afflicts with Succumb, Hartpine afflicts with Manabarbs. Both of these
afflictions are customarily given by guilds that base their entire combat
strategy around trying to stick either to any impact. Without the entire combat
apparatus of these guilds (other aurics and octave, or sleeplocks), Wildewoods
cannot make use of these afflictions. Even if the effects were made somehow
incurable for a time, or via other wildewood skills (a bad idea), mana draining
offers little to no benefit for the lone Wildewood.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Change Hartpine to afflict with a burst of allergies,
 approximatly 7 levels.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Change Bluehorn to do manadamage, equivalent to its
 current health damage (around 2k).
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Change Flowerpower to use up hornedlily and moontear
 flowers only.
Player Comments:
---[Enyalida on 2/15 @ 20:48 writes]:
Remember, that in my tests, having mana drained to 0 added only a few percentile
points of the base damage. Manadraining has little impact!