Report 1438

Report #1438
Skillset: Skill: Mindfield_Artifact
 Org: Minstrels Status: Completed Feb 2016
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1.
Problem: The circlet of thorns artifact acts like the psymet ability mindfield.
This skill causes eq loss and damage upon being scried, it also causes damage to
anyone that hits you with psychic damage. This causes a bias against Gaudiguch
as Illuminati, Minstrels and Templars through Chaosaura all have damage attacks
that deal part psychic damage, meaning anyone that shells out 100 dingbats for
the circlet will cause anyone from those guilds to damage themselves on their
offensive attacks. It's one thing for a few guilds to have a skill that effects
this. It's quite another for anyone in the game to be able to purchase this
artifact for the same effect.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Remove the reactionary damage upon being attacked by
 psychic damage from the circlet of thorns artifact.
 The damage upon being scried and the mindfield skill
 in general will remain as-is
Player Comments:
---[Lerad on 1/31 @ 05:48 writes]:
As the envoy for one of the classes that have access to this, I agree with the
problem premise - Would be nice to have the psymet version to be inherently
better than the artifact, since psymet is balanced as a part of a whole set of
pros-and-cons. The psychic reactive of mindfield gave the skillset a meaningful
advantage against psychic users that non-psymet users cannot access (until the
advent of the artifact), and is a part of the perks compared to the higher
mobility and combat utility of acrobatics. Now that psymet resistance has been
brought in line with the tiered system, it would be appreciated if the skillset
can retain some unique defensive options not available through an artifact.
---[Xenthos on 1/31 @ 15:38 writes]:
I disagree with the solution as-is. The damage was, in fact, a good portion of
the reason to buy the artifact (it gives a disincentive to people who just spam
Farscout on a regular basis). What I can support is something along the lines
of this: The mindfield -artifact- does not impact psychic *attacks* (only
scries). Note that that is what it was originally billed as and sold as, I
don't think many of us who bought it will care if it doesn't impact actual
fighting. Another option would be to make the -artifact- only impact attacks
that are >50% psychic damage. Both ways, it would do neither the damage nor the
EQ hit, the way I am thinking. Your solution leaves anyone with an EQ-based
psychic attack still at a loss.
---[Xenthos on 1/31 @ 15:40 writes]:
Note that I would expect the mindfield skill to keep functioning the way it
currently does, which would leave it with the more unique effect that (I think)
Lerad is looking for.
---[Synkarin on 1/31 @ 17:48 writes]:
Xenthos - That is exactly what I intend. I am using the term 'reactionary' to
compare it to the -wood/-chem reactionary skills that fire upon being attacked.
I will clarify the solution so it is clear that I'm not intending to change the
damage upon being scried.
---[Shuyin on 2/1 @ 01:46 writes]:
TBH, I don't care if the reactionary damage stays, what bothers me more is the
increased eq loss just because someone bought an artifact. Scries can be left
alone since that's the intent of the skill
---[Raeri on 2/1 @ 09:43 writes]:
Solution 1
---[Tredian on 2/3 @ 02:12 writes]:
Solution 1.
---[Allehnon on 2/3 @ 07:27 writes]:
Support solution 1
---[Wobou on 2/17 @ 06:38 writes]:
Supported.
---[Shedrin on 2/20 @ 03:24 writes]:
Support