Report 1658

Special Report #1658
Skillset: Kata Skill: None
 Org: Serenguard Status: Approved Dec 2007
Furies' Decision:
Tentatively solution 3 (though we will look into other solutions), though with
the caveat that ascending to the domoth will put you in a random room rather
than a specific box.
Problem: Currently relapsing is a dust affliction and as such becomes a priority
affliction against monks, meaning almost the entire Dust pool is priority and
easily overwhelmed.
Solution #1: Move relapsing to the Steam pool, which is noted as a weak pool
 for affs by envoys and players alike.
Player Comments:
---[Lerad on 3/30 @ 16:01 writes]:
I actually have an idea for relapsing, that will remove it as a cured
affliction, and at the same time, make its effect more reliable. Currently, it
is both a filler affliction, as well as has the potential to repeatedly re-apply
dust afflictions on the target again and again (assuming it is used in a dust
stack)... or it has the potential to do nothing and keep getting shrugged even
if it stuck for long periods of time. I want to remove it as an unreliable,
filler affliction that can be either unreasonably impactful or be negligible.
Right now it features into strategies as just-another-dust-affliction to be
stacked as much as possible. Give me some time to develop my idea a little more,
and see if we can do something more interesting than just moving it to another
cure table.
---[Wobou on 3/31 @ 00:28 writes]:
I like the idea of bolstering the steam aff pool, which I think relapsing would
help support.
---[Shedrin on 3/31 @ 19:21 writes]:
I think if any monk or warrior is gonna make use of relapsing it needs to be on
dust, or perhaps whatever Lerad comes up with. I wonder if we shouldn't just
make dust a 1s balance. There's a lot of high priority afflictions there and
it's more than just monks that can cause issues.
---[Lerad on 4/8 @ 02:46 writes]:
So, to follow up on my previous comment, the ideas I had, when I mulled over
them, all turned out to be fairly OP'd. I think moving relapsing to steam and
leaving a relapsing rework for a non-special-report cycle (when there's more
time and more logs to vet how it works as a steam aff, and wheter or not changes
are still needed) will be a better choice.
---[Aeldra on 4/10 @ 11:51 writes]:
Support for moving it to steam
---[Shuyin on 4/18 @ 04:17 writes]:
Ok
---[Shedrin on 4/19 @ 02:32 writes]:
I don't like it on steam as I think that'd make it too weak. Dust stacking is
very strong but I'd rather address it in other ways. I'm not totally opposed,
though.