Report 1058

Special Report #1058
Skillset: Wildewood Skill: Flowers
 Org: Hartstone Status: Completed Dec 2007
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1.
Problem: The passive flower afflictions have two purposes: First, to prepare a
target for the glinshari kill, which includes some of the flower afflictions.
Second, they serve as the primary afflicting and hindering for the time between
the start of combat and a finish. However, they fail to accomplish either goal,
for two reasons, which correspond to their purpose: First, the afflictions have
no synergy, so there is no way to stick them for Glinshari. Second, the
afflictions are weak, and do not accomplish any hindering purpose. The first
goal cannot be fixed without changing the base mechanics of flowers, spores, or
both. This report seeks to modify the afflictions to a list that has synergy to
hinder the opponent, to tackle the second goal and both problems.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Change the complete list of flower afflictions to:
 Broken limb, Slickness, Fractured Skill, Blindness.
Player Comments:
---[Enyalida on 2/10 @ 01:31 writes]:
I'm looking for more affliction sets for this. The ones I've chosen are designed
to present a hindering conundrum for the opponent once every 10 seconds, as
outlined in the forum post. Another suggestion was to increase the total number
of flower skills/afflictions. If that's supported by envoys, I'll come up with
alternate lists.
---[Shuyin on 2/12 @ 00:26 writes]:
Fine with the first set. The theme to me seems to be more about mending affs,
for what that's worth
---[Rivius on 2/15 @ 02:15 writes]:
I'm alright with changing the flowers to something more useful, though if we're
going with solution 1, the blindness affliction should be a 50-50 chance of
being given instead of another affliction that boosts Glinshari. Slickness and
assured blindness makes me wary.
---[Enyalida on 2/15 @ 20:37 writes]:
I'm not sure what you mean? Going by the paradigm of other skills, 2-3 of the
Glinshari afflictions would come from flower/mist passives. Regardless, there is
only a limited number of afflictions that can possibly be given out so that they
are 'guaranteed' for Glinshari/finisher, capping out at 4 with no shrugging,
which is not enough to down a target without significant prep work.
---[Enyalida on 2/16 @ 19:03 writes]:
A good order for getting these would be as follows. Bluebell: Blindness,
HornedLily: Broken Limb, Moontear: Fractured Skull, Faeblossom: Slickness.