Report 1811

Report #1811
Skillset: Zarakido Skill: HiddenFlux
 Org: Hallifax Status: Finalised
Problem: Zarakido HiddenFlux completely hides the aff messages of afflictions
(not turning them to unknown affliction message, but completely suppressing the
aff message). Set to harmonic, 100% affecting the next affliction (not poisons,
on a 5s cool down, cost 20% of enigmaticflow) or 33% change to hide any
affliction at 10% flow cost per attempt (not poisons, chaotic effect). This
ability does not work well at all with the main monk skill, Kata, as the Kata
strikes are 100% telegraphed in flavour text which attack hit which body part.
That means the target has perfect knowledge of the afflictions, regardless of
aff messages, and is only fooled due to lack of coding knowledge or lack of
effort to gather the lines. This fact renders the skill useless in most
situations a monk would want it (i.e. kata strikes and poisons) while putting a
defensive coding burden back on the player, which seems counterproductive to the
goal of projects like Autocuring.
[A: 5 R: 1] Solution #1: If HiddenFlux triggers on a kata strike, it will
 replace the kata strike with a generic attack message
 telegraphing that the attack and limb are unknown, or
 a single line blackout, to actually hide the
 affliction. Aff message would be completely
 suppressed as current functionality. Other uses
 remain unaffected.
[A: 7 R: 0] Solution #2: HiddenFlux will no longer trigger on kata strikes at
 all. Instead, it will trigger on successful poison
 applications, suppressing the aff messages
 altogether. Other uses remain unaffected.
Player Comments:
---[Ejderha on 3/8 @ 03:50 sets as pending]
---[Danquik on 3/8 @ 14:32 writes]:
Either solution is fine
---[Moi on 3/9 @ 00:03 writes]:
Love this report, agree with either solutions.
---[Maligorn on 3/10 @ 11:51 writes]:
Supported.
---[Yarith on 3/12 @ 02:01 writes]:
Sure, support for 1 or 2.
---[Aeldra on 3/14 @ 08:39 writes]:
Sounds fine to me
---[Deichtine on 3/21 @ 14:59 writes]:
Prefer sol2, not a big fan of monks being able to deliver hidden combo attacks.
---[Ejderha on 3/21 @ 18:31 writes]:
The status quo skill is intended to hide combo attacks - it just fails due to
the way monk attacks are choreographed. The only real reason I suggest solution
2 is if solution 1 is difficult to make work programatically. Solution 1 would
only make the intended use of the skill actually work, whether you like it or
not is a separate question.