Meridian59/Meridian59 — pull request #156 by M59Gar (2013-04-21 19:20:20+00:00)
Title: Blind & Dazzle fix

There is a widespread cheat to ignore the visual component of these
flagship spells. This commit therefore largely eliminates those effects,
reducing the visual components to one second (retained as a way to
succinctly inform players they have been cast upon).

This necessitated a few text changes in dazzle, re-explaining the dazzle
effect as a pacification effect due to Shal'ille's light.

Blind was more complicated. I renamed it "Bind" and increased the
stumbling effect from 30% to 70% to compensate for the loss of blinding.
This should affect the movement of normal players and cheaters alike in
the manner blind was originally intended to.

These lore edits keep the spells properly themed while removing the see-through-blind cheat entirely and actually enhancing Blind's effects. In testing, the 70% chance to change direction every second is highly disorienting - and if cheaters do manage to bypass the effect, it will be **very** obvious, unlike the current see-through bypass, which is totally unobservable by other players.