Report 201

Report #201
Skillset: Artisan Skill: Prized
 Org: Ninjakari Status: Completed Jun 2009
Furies' Decision:
Will adjust power requirement depending on plane. Amount to be determined.
Problem: Prized is the Transcendant skill in Artisan. For a one time fee of
10,000 gold, a transcentant artisan may place their seal upon a single piece,
keeping it from decay. The artisan may then spend 5 power and 20 seconds to
return to that piece from any known plane. Though this may seem like a decent
skill, when you put this next to tierstones, splendours, masterplate, herofetes
and more, the skill pales in comparison. There are too many restrictions, and
too much of a power cost to merely return to your manse from a plane. It is
obviously not combat viable, because of the 20 second wait on the skill.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Base the power requirement for Prized upon the plane
 you are on. Perhaps 5 power for astral, 3 for cosmic,
 2 for elemental or ethereal. Keep the rest of the
 skill as-is.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Keep the skill as-is, but allow travel from
 aetherbubbles and unknown planes (Muud) for either a
 slightly higher wait, or an ever so slightly higher
 power cost. Or just allow these in general.
Player Comments:
---[Nienla on 6/3 @ 18:01 writes]:
Solution #1 sounds good.
---[Alban on 6/9 @ 23:42 writes]:
I think that Solution #2 may go a lot further towards making Prized on par with
other trans trade skill abilities. The first solution only reduces how much of a
virtually infinite resource you have to spend.
---[Viynain on 6/11 @ 17:42 writes]:
I wouldn't mind if Artisans can use their trans skill to get home from the more
problematic places like Muud and the Aetherbubbles. My question though - do
Artisan Prized furniture stay Prized even if the Artisans forget their skill?
Just curious.
---[Sarrasri on 6/14 @ 18:44 writes]:
Prized furniture stays prized even if you forget the skill. Prized already used
to get you back from aetherbubbles and the unusual planes, like Muud, and was
changed to not do so.
---[Krellan on 6/25 @ 22:40 writes]:
Either solution works for me. It's not even on a combat/utility level close to
splendors, extra sparkleberry bonus, philosopher stone, magi crown. Neither of
these solutions are imbalancing, so I am okay with either
---[Ceren on 6/29 @ 19:09 writes]:
Solution 1 doesn't make a whole lot of sense since the prize isn't necessarily
going to be on prime; it can be on a ship docked on outer planes. The only
things I can think of that would give a unique value to prize are Solution 2 or
greatly speeding up the teleport time on prize (to 4 seconds or so) so it
becomes a valid escape skill.