Report 389

Report #389
Skillset: Aquamancy Skill: Preserve
 Org: Aquamancers Status: Completed Jun 2010
Furies' Decision:
Preserve on a non-frost potion target will throw off purgative balance.
Problem: Preserve currently requires the target be at 50% health, and frozen to
instakill. However, the trouble herein is that both frozen and 50% health is
cured very quickly as an aquamancer has no methods to hinder the sipping of fire
potion nor health (which already has multiple methods of curing via elixir,
scroll, sparkleberry, and passive regen). In the absolute best case scenario of
an aquamancer in their demesne with a beast using mactans poison, it takes a
lucky needlerain to strip fire protection, icefloe to give chills, followed by a
beast spit mactans within 1 second (with a potential 33% shrugging on most
targets without special trade or guild abilities) of the demesne tick. On top of
this, the target is able to sip and regain purgative balance twice before the
aquamancer can regain equilibrium from casting preserve the first time. Because
of these restrictions, it is nigh impossible for an aquamancer to be able to
accomplish a preserve instakill 1v1 on a target with even mediocre curing.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Add a temporary effect to preserve in addition to its
 current effect which throws the target off purgative
 and elixir balance for 1.0 second if the target is
 not chilled and preserve is cast (costing 2 power).
 If the target is chilled already, it will cost 4p
 freeze the target, do damage as well as throwing the
 target off purgative and elixir balance for 2.0
 seconds. If the target is frozen, it will cost 4
 power, greatly damage the target and throw the target
 off purgative balance for 2.0 seconds. This
 additional effect would not stack with itself.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Change preserve to be on balance instead of
 equilibrium. It would function as preserve does now
 except that it will only require and take balance
 instead of equilibrium. It would take and require
 balance but not equilibrium in a method similar to
 how dissolve does now.
Player Comments:
---[Fillin on 6/28 @ 19:30 writes]:
Do you mind giving me a detailed rundown of how exactly preserve works? There've
been so many updates for it I think I've lost track.