Report 441

Report #441
Skillset: Stag Skill: Bellow
 Org: Serenguard Status: Completed Aug 2010
Furies' Decision:
Very small stun added when bellow strips deafness targetted, very slight
increase to stun time if already deaf.
Problem: Bellow provides a brief stun on either a single not-deaf person
(targetted version) or all non-deaf personal enemies in the location
(untargetted). When untargetted, Bellow does nothing to deaf targets. When
targetted at a deaf person, it strips the truehearing defence, but does nothing
to stop the target from immediately putting it back up, and leaves the Stag user
off balance for several seconds. Essentially, Bellow is unusable against deaf
targets, and Stag users have no reliable way of keeping truehearing down. In
the few cases I can think that it would even be possible to give a stun in solo
combat (eg. beast spit ibululu + bellow), Bellow gives a shorter stun times to
either shieldstun (for druids) or headslam (for warriors), neither of which
require any prep, and the latter of which may additionally sprawl the target.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Add a short earache effect when Bellow strips
 deafness (~5 seconds, long enough to recover and
 Bellow again).
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Have a targetted bellow against a deaf target strip
 deafness and give the target a short stun.
Player Comments:
---[Raeri on 8/11 @ 08:21 writes]:
What if a targetted bellow both stripped deafness as well as stunned?
---[Eamon on 8/12 @ 17:01 writes]:
Was considering that, maybe with a reduced stun time compared to what a not-deaf
target receives. Added as solution 2.
---[Narynth on 8/13 @ 01:28 writes]:
Solution two seems fine.
---[Fillin on 8/26 @ 17:43 writes]:
Targetted bellow gives a shorter stun time than headslam? Are you sure?
---[Xenthos on 8/31 @ 02:36 writes]:
Have to echo that question-- seems unlikely, headslam is a -very- short stun
time.