Report 267

Report #267
Skillset: Bookbinding Skill: MagicTome
 Org: Geomancers Status: Completed Oct 2009
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1
Problem: Magic tome is considered one of the more lacking trans trade items.
While it provides 5 dmp to 5 damage types, which is decent enough, it will do
this only so long as it is not fully charged (each time it reduces damage, it
absorbs a charge, and holds up to 50 of each scroll type). This means that if
you want to benefit from the dmp, you must quite regularly dump the charges,
which can only be done by reading, and in the cases of protection, disruption,
and curses, the ~4s eq for each charge makes this extremely tedious, as well as
requiring a second person to stand there and take it for curses and disruption.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make the magic tome reduce damage regardless of
 whether it's fully charged or not. Just change the
 firing message from 'Your magic tome warms as it
 absorbs a charge.' to 'Your magic tome warms as it
 absorbs damage.'
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Change the damage type for charging healing scroll to
 blunt/cutting. While this doesn't solve the given
 problem, it makes up for it by giving magictome a new
 function of acting as an unlimited, free healing
 scroll in bashing.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Add a command, MAGICTOME RELEASE #
 <PROTECTION|CURSES|DISRUPTION|HEALING>, which will
 burn off the amount of charges you specify for the
 scroll type you specify, without consuming any
 balance or equilibrium.
Player Comments:
---[Ilyarin on 10/17 @ 12:44 writes]:
I'm fine with solution 1 or 3. Solution 1 seems like less work - is there any
reason you would dump charges except to allow it to absorb more?
---[Nienla on 10/17 @ 13:19 writes]:
Solution #1 is preferable
---[Mirami on 10/18 @ 00:25 writes]:
A note about solution #2, there are magic-damage-giving denizens, too (Gorgogs).
Solutions 1 and 3 are both fine, though.