Report 298

Report #298
Skillset: Sacraments Skill: Ablution/Lustration
 Org: Celestines Status: Completed Dec 2009
Furies' Decision:
Solution 2
Problem: As a skill set, Sacraments is one of the most power dependant skill
sets out there with 14 out of the 16 skills available requiring power (if you or
another person has a phial when benediction is cast). As the majority of the
Sacrament skills are used in a Celestines or Paladins strategy, Ablution and
Lustration are considered the most useless skills in the skill set. Ablution,
which costs two power, increases the casters health to above maximum by
approximately 850 health and Lustration, which also costs two power, increases
the caster mana to above maximum by approximately 950(edit: after testing a
couple of more times, I am getting 896 mana while below maximum mana). Based on
their cost and benefit, they are very inefficient to use and both guilds have
little incentive to use them. Note: I used Simimi's prompt tracker to provide my
data and have only tested the amount on myself with 4356 health and 4482 mana.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Remove the power cost from Ablution and Lustration
 and make them similar to a "puella" chant, but they
 will no longer be able to bring you to above maximum
 health or maximum mana.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Keep the power cost, but the skills will now give a
 10% boost to your health and mana for one hour.
Player Comments:
---[Llandros on 12/1 @ 15:19 writes]:
So it looks like you are getting a 20% boost over max health for 2 power. I dont
think that is very good and could use a buff. The easiest solutions would be to
lower the power cost or up the boost, or are you more interested in changing the
nature of the skill.
---[Ceren on 12/23 @ 15:44 writes]:
These skills truly are garbage currently. Both of your solutions look good,
though I think I like solution 1 a little more. Alternatively, you could keep
the power cost as is and just buff them into true super puella type skills (they
already are to some extent, but obviously not nearly worth it). It looks like
they're restoring about 20% currently, 30% would be a good number to shoot for I
think (healer/magician tarot restore 25% and are free).