Report 1190

Report #1190
Skillset: Nihilism Skill: Amnesia
 Org: Nihilists Status: Completed Jun 2013
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1.
Problem: The amnesia affliction is an affliction in the Luciphage pact. Amnesia
will block one command, randomly, and with a given message. The affliction is
rather useless due to the fact that because the command that is blocked is
random, you can't rely on this affliction to block the correct command you want
blocked, and secondly, this affliction is easily bypassable by throwing in
random commands on the luciphage pact affliction line (like stand, sip,
meditate, etc) This report aims to correct the amnesia affliction by making it
useful, or completely removing the amnesia affliction from this pact and
replacing it with another that is in line with Luciphage themed afflictions.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Allow amnesia to always block the first command being
 sent.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: If solution 1 will make amnesia too poweful in
 certain situations (like group combat, being struck
 with aeon and then anorexia/amnesia, or custom pets
 that passively afflict with amnesia constantly,) then
 completely remove amnesia from this pact and replace
 with Deadening. It is thematically based because
 being the Lord of Domination, one of Luciphage's
 afflictions is paralysis. Deadening fits in line with
 paralysis because it will increase the focus balance
 time of paralysis. (Themeatically, by dominating one
 to lock their limbs and freeze up, one can also
 deaden their minds to resist curing such a state.)
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: If solutions 1 or 2 seem too powerful, amnesia could
 be replaced by Kneel (the celestine equivilent.)
 Themeatically, this fits because being the Lord of
 Domination, those who stand in his presense are
 forced to bow and kneel to the Lord Luciphage. If
 this solution is chosen and goes through, I'm going
 to ask for the stun on kneel to be increased by 1
 second (as currently, the stun is very weak). Do this
 for the Celestine equivilent as well, please.
Player Comments:
---[Dynami on 6/1 @ 23:38 writes]:
Solutions 1 and 2 supported. Solution 3 seems fine but increasing the stun time
by 1 second is a bit too much. Currently, the kneel pledge causes prone and a
stun time between 0.5-1.5 seconds. I would rather see the stun time just be a
flat 1.5 seconds instead of having the possibility of it stunning for 2.5
seconds.
---[Dynami on 6/1 @ 23:40 writes]:
Also, I'm not sure if this is an issue or not but the Celestines can also invest
amnesia through Japhiel.
---[Thoros on 6/2 @ 04:27 writes]:
I'm in favor of solution 2.
---[Synkarin on 6/4 @ 21:13 writes]:
Solution 1 doesn't seem to fix the problem, if I see luciphage hit, I can just
send a jibberish command to eat it right away. I don't really see a need to
replace amnesia with deadening or kneel, both of which would be a lot more
powerful than just amnesia. I don't really support any of these solutions
---[Wobou on 6/6 @ 05:42 writes]:
@Synkarin: I think the idea of this report is to make aeonlocks slightly more
potent for them by timing aeon with amnesia and then guaranteeing that their
first command gets eaten, which is a guaranteed extra second of aeon. That said
solution 1 sounds fine with me. Just know that thanks to amnesia cloud that all
users of aeon will have access to this.
---[Shuyin on 6/11 @ 05:36 writes]:
Solution 1
---[Nihta on 6/13 @ 10:28 writes]:
Solution 1. Also note that hexes also has amnesia.