Report 175

Report #175
Skillset: Skill: Sensitivity
 Org: Nihilists Status: Completed Apr 2009
Furies' Decision:
Approved.
Problem: The sensitivity affliction is currently blocked by deafness, which is a
good countermeasure to stop warriors from abusing it for the bonus damage, but
it makes it nigh-unusable for guardians, as in order to land the affliction we
are forced to put our angel/demon on sensitivity/sensitivity. Making us use both
attacks just to land sensitivity seems a little extreme and limits potential
tactics.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make sensitivity bypass deafness if delivered by an
 angel or demon.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2:
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3:
Player Comments:
---[Gregori on 4/22 @ 01:06 writes]:
This has been the way Sensitivity has always worked. It's not stripping deafness
and failing to give the affliction. It is stripping deafness if it is up, and
giving sensitivity if not. It is doing exactly what it has always done, for as
long as sensitivity has been in IRE. Otherwise people using sensitivity would be
able to get mass amounts of damage with little hindrance.
---[Vathael on 4/22 @ 20:02 writes]:
I agree with Gregori on this, sensitivity bypassing deafness is a terrible idea
especially for Nihilists and being able to stack Omen with it as well.
---[Xenthos on 4/23 @ 00:10 writes]:
Not just Nihilists. It'd very strong for anyone with the ability to afflict
with sensitivy-on-demand via venoms along with their other offense.
---[Ethelon on 4/23 @ 03:09 writes]:
The solution is asking for Demons/Angels only to bypass, not every. Considering
the tick on demons/angels this seems like a good change to make sensitivity
useable by them
---[Ethelon on 4/23 @ 19:20 writes]:
Shamarah has asked me to respond: "The report only applies to angels and demons,
and other ways of giving sensitivity (venoms, hexes, symbols, etc) will still be
blocked by deafness. Angels and demons only tick every eight seconds, and it
isn't very hard to notice and cure sensitivity on such an infrequent tick,
especially considering that it's the only Methrenton affliction worth using and
is one of only two Nifilhema afflictions worth using (the other being shackles)
and so you can pretty easily guess that when the ent hits you with one of those
attacks, it's giving sensitivity. I don't think this change is especially
drastic, it just means we don't have to waste our entire ent's attack in order
to give one affliction - it's really not worth using sensitivity at the moment
because the cost is just too high.