Report 1351

Report #1351
Skillset: Psychometabolism Skill: New
 Org: Nekotai Status: Completed Jun 2015
Furies' Decision:
Sol. 1
Problem: As the resistance overhaul has gone in, psychometabolism's traditional
benefits have become diluted without much compensation in the disadvantages
inherent in the skillset. Previously, psychometabolism offered to monks a glut
of dmp that ensured they had large resistances in every damage type except
excorable/divinus. After the overhaul, however, magical and psychic resistances
suffered a drop in coverage due to the conversion to a tier system. This report
seeks to either return to the status quo by increasing coverage for these damage
types, or to compensate for the drop in resistances by moving psychometabolism
toward a more PVP orientated skillset.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Attach to energycontainment and mindfield in psymet
 the following effects: Each locked channel provides
 1/8 of magic resist if energycontainment is active,
 and 1/8 of psychic resist if mindfield is active.
 This allows a psymet user to choose to lock effects
 for more resists, or to leave them open to use
 suspendedanimation/celladjustment etc at the cost of
 less resistances.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Add a new ability near trans in Psychometabolism
 (proposed name: Synchronicity) which will allow the
 following specific active psionic/psymet abilities to
 be used while off-balance: Egowhip, Amnesia,
 Hyperhidrosis and Celladjustment. Naturally, balance
 abilities will remain unusable until all psionic
 balances are recovered. The abilities listed were
 chosen as they had an appropriate effect for the cost
 they would impose - the slower hit rate due to the
 longer balances used by the psionic abilities, as
 well as forcing the psymet user to have unlocked
 channels to use the abilities in the first place,
 giving up their defensive bonuses. Unbalancing
 abilities like bodyfuel or alteraura were not
 included for that reason.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Both solution 1 and 2, as the effects they provide
 are mutually exclusive, and having both actually
 forces the psymet user to think more carefully about
 how he uses his channels, bringing a strategic aspect
 to the use of psymet beyond "lock all the channels".
Player Comments:
---[Lerad on 6/2 @ 03:33 writes]:
I've changed solution 1's numbers from 1/10 each to 1/8, based on feedback.
---[Jaamil on 6/8 @ 17:23 writes]:
Solution 1 sounds ideal
---[Vivet on 6/13 @ 03:40 writes]:
Solution 1
---[Viynain on 6/13 @ 04:37 writes]:
Solution 1 is my preference. Very straightforward.
---[Enyalida on 6/25 @ 21:03 writes]:
Solution 1 is probably fine.
---[Shuyin on 6/25 @ 21:29 writes]:
Solution 1