Report 1676

Special Report #1676
Skillset: Kata Skill: Assessing
 Org: Moondancers Status: Rejected Dec 2007
Furies' Decision:
We do not feel this is in the scope of the special report, but encourage you to
submit it as a standard report.
Problem: Trying to keep afloat on a targets vitals and bleeding/hemmorraging
will require a monk to technically use both discern and assess. This is
something that makes things a lot more complicated then they need to be system
wise. This small report tries to improve the management for monks in regards to
this ( in regards to other vials, harmony - deathtouch ) needs to see all three
vitals.
Solution #1: Show mana on assessing a target if person has contemplate in
 discernment. Show mana and ego if target has discern in
 discernment. Increase mana drain on use to discerns level. Allow
 assess to work on oneself.
Solution #2: Show bleeding/hemmoraging on discern.
Solution #3: Additional solutions welcome
Player Comments:
---[Wobou on 4/15 @ 21:18 writes]:
I like the idea of making assess non-free (it's part of why it's spammed so
much) and simplifying things without requiring two commands. I think if we're
going to make assess essentially super discern that it may be worth just
collapsing verbs and making it so as you level up in discernment you get access
to more modifiers on a base command (maybe discern itself). Ex: DISCERN WOBOU
MENTAL (for current contemplate), DISCERN WOBOU BODY (for current ASSESS),
DISCERN WOBOU VITALS (for current discern), DISCERN WOBOU FULL (for all the
modifiers you have access to). You could optionally make it cost more or less
mana based on how much information is given, for example contemplate if I recall
correctly costs 75 mana and discern costs 250. FULL would cost the sum of all
the modifiers you have access to. That way people can ask for (and pay for) only
the information they are interested in rather than having to gag things like
wounds.
---[Shuyin on 4/18 @ 04:31 writes]:
This is fine, listen to Wobou's suggestion.
---[Xenthos on 4/18 @ 21:44 writes]:
Wobou's suggestion seems like a better way to go with this.