Report 1662

Report #1662
Skillset: Pyrochemantics Skill: Thermalpumps
 Org: Serenguard Status: Rejected Dec 2007
Furies' Decision:
This was submitted erroneously. Feel free to resubmit if the report has merit.
Problem: Currently Thermal pumps require you to have the affliction Ablaze in
order to work. This causes problems with the fact that Ablaze is cured often
without meaning to. Crossing water, sipping allheale, rubbing cleanse to cure
another affliction, sipping frost (though this may be unintentional), applying
Ice(intended). The aim of this report is to change how Thermal Pumps work in
order to remove the clunkiness of it.
Solution #1: Thermal Pumps becomes an activated defense (as long as you have
 them created) that tics every 10 seconds (same as Ablaze) and
 deals 200 fire damage (modified by fire proof) as it burns off an
 affliction. Have the damage appear as a maintenance cost similar
 to mana/ego effects, where it is just drained instead of creating
 a spammy line every 10 seconds.
Solution #2: Create a Thermal Pump On/Off toggle that makes Ablaze affliction
 uncureable so long as Thermal Pumps are in the 'on' state
Player Comments:
---[Shedrin on 4/2 @ 02:43 writes]:
Sure
---[Xenthos on 4/2 @ 04:03 writes]:
Solution 2 seems to be the cleanest to me. When thermal pumps are on, it just
ignores it as an affliction / removes it from the cure pool.
---[Falaeron on 4/2 @ 19:22 writes]:
I think a permanent, passive aff cure should have a drawback so I'd prefer
something like solution 1 even we keep it as using the ablaze aff.
---[Xenthos on 4/2 @ 20:16 writes]:
Am I missing where solution 2 says "make it Ablaze stop ticking for damage"?
Isn't that meant to be the drawback? Sol2 just makes ablaze incureable as I
read it.
---[Falaeron on 4/2 @ 21:38 writes]:
Ah, I forgot that it does 10% ticking damage still. My point is that I think
that this is a very poewrful buff if it is made permanent, so I think the
drawback should be larger to reflect that. I think the current situation where
ablaze can be removed makes it a good trade-off.
---[Shuyin on 4/3 @ 04:35 writes]:
Sure. There's no need to add further restriction on something that essentially
is just a request to make the skill more useable.
---[Wobou on 4/3 @ 13:41 writes]:
Either one is fine.
---[Aeldra on 4/7 @ 07:31 writes]:
Solution 1 sounds alright.