Report 1345

Report #1345
Skillset: Artisan Skill: Rockers
 Org: Sentinels Status: Rejected Nov 2015
Furies' Decision:
While we appreciate there may be a raw number disparity between easily
achievable buff types, this does not in and of itself imply there is an issue.
In this instance, we do not think an open 1/8 mana vitals buff is needed.
Problem: With willpower costs and drains now removed, so too is the use of
artisan rocking chairs for increased willpower regeneration. While there is a
wide range of commonly accessible health buffs available to casters, with the
result that casters may easily achieve 10/8/8 type vitals, the sparse
availablility of mana vitals buffs for physical classes leads to a discrepancy
where physical classes struggle to get above 4/5 points in mana/ego vitals.
Solution #1: Introduce a mana vitals buff on ROCK CHAIR, that lasts an IG day.
 Suggested strength: 1/8.
Solution #2: Introduce a mana vitals buff on ROCK CHAIR, that lasts until
 logout/death. Suggested strength: 1/8.
Player Comments:
---[Enyalida on 11/10 @ 23:16 writes]:
Sure, whatever.
---[Shedrin on 11/11 @ 00:10 writes]:
Supported.
---[Lerad on 11/11 @ 08:51 writes]:
Just out of curiosity, what gives casters access to */10 on health?
---[Shedrin on 11/11 @ 19:44 writes]:
He was probably using me as a reference point, with Skull astro sphere. */10
isn't otherwise readily attainable.
---[Shuyin on 11/13 @ 02:38 writes]:
Is this really necessary? I didn't think all classes deserved 10/10/10 stats.
Further, the example used needed unreliable astrospheres to achieve, which isn't
something that easily happens. Not sure this is needed because of that
---[Ushaara on 11/13 @ 12:37 writes]:
In my view, parity in available blessing between physical/caster classes is
needed, yes. Caster classes have commonly available health buffs through things
like life karma blessings, con platters, (often on top of strong
healing/defensive skills) with no counterpart for physical classes to mitigate
their own low mana base. Physical classes base mana vital starts at 2
(contemplation + analytics), and only minor/regular mana blessings exist to
boost it to 4. Alternatively to this report, I was considering envoying the
Knowledge karma blessing, which boosts equilibrium recovery, again favouring
caster classes disproportionally.
---[Xenthos on 11/20 @ 03:25 writes]:
As a note, at level 4 mana / ego, I have 7875 mana and 7875 ego. This is more
mana than I had under the old system (I always had Surge up, so tended to be
around 5k mana) and similar on ego to where I was. I really don't see this as
being "problematic". Health buffs are more generally useful, and we've had
numerous discussions on this subject already where it was argued that warriors
having health buffs was too much. I disagreed, because we were limited on easy
access to the other buffs-- but this report seeks to undermine that. Warriors
really do not need Everything.
---[Xenthos on 11/20 @ 03:30 writes]:
That said, I agree with the disparity on the +equilibrium bonuses vs. the
+balance bonuses. That is something that needs to be addressed.
---[Tanin on 11/20 @ 16:14 writes]:
Perhaps a better solution to the removal of wp need for rockers would be to give
it a h/m/e regeneration boost or a bal/eq boost instead. I don't see the need to
give a mana boost either. As a mage I have a hard enough timing using a great
deal of mana and people already have a hard enough time getting off mana kills
as it is.