1. Melee and Missile Mastery give a massive advantage to the lower skilled player if they train a lot of weapons. I ended up with around 606 weapons and 750 melee mastery when my opponent had around 500 weapons and 550 mastery.

I'm not sure how much their skills changed. mine changed about 3x.

This ended up in a situation where I was dominating the fight.

They were a not very combat oriented and only trained 1 weapon.

I also had 700 evasion.

2. when your magics are boosted or lowered you have no idea what to cast your spells at. One fight I had 900 PM next 500 PM.

3. Stats don't visually change. From getting 3 shot I don't think my Stamina was boosted.

I really enjoyed my time with the challenges. Once this has been tweeked more and the balancing worked out I see this offering a lot of fun in the future.

Hope I can get on the test server with more people and I can give more feedback.

I love this idea, and getting it right would be epic. I remember a lot of good times during the era of spars and tournaments in the cemetery with fun battles and people coming around to watch the fights or help triage.

Thoughts on the current version:
1. Overall it was great. The speed felt good, and I enjoyed the spars I had. There were some pretty exciting moments of back and forth from stuns and abilities!
2. I like the SvS contests (though I'm sure they need some tweaking), as they act a bit of a leveler and can definitely give the lower character a fighting chance (and a way to be helpful in a bigger fight).
3. OTOH, a few of the spars vs people lower than me that I won were pretty onesided. Not sure why... I have pretty high stats relative to ranks, or maybe below some threshold people don't have enough stamina to recover from being disabled.
4. I actually like that stats don't level up. In addition to having more abilities, this feels like a nice edge for the better trained character. However some small stamina bonus at the lowest end might be good.
5. I like that scaling responded to how I trained my character (rather then some skillset template). Felt very DR-like.
6. In spars, DFA felt super strong even snapcasting, probably as a combination of solo defense + poor evasion + defense penalty. Still fun, though.

>>My experience was pretty one sided as I was the highest char in test at the time. It seemed to scale somewhat fine if the lower person didn’t buff. But there was a LOT that was out of whack with that. It took and gave the lower guy 40 circles on me worth of skill.

Was this just one person or more?

>>Also... you can challenge someone and they can go hunting with their massively buffed skills. I could “buff” the other person via challenge and they could then murder someone else standing in the room who they normally would have no chance of touching.

As I mentioned, this will normally be location-restricted, so don't worry about those.

>>However Perception is calculated for boost could use a very strong look. The lower person gained 400 ranks of perc over my stealth.

That means their Perception is much higher among their skills than your Stealth is among yours. I'll keep an eye on it, though. We could possibly lower Perception as we do the defenses.

GM Grejuva