>>Make it so that the roundtime for charging cambrinth goes up with more mana

This is more or less what I was going to end up doing - Charging cambrinth with little bits of mana isn't going to take too long, but pumping it full of a lot of mana is going to take time. Additionally, it should always be faster to pump X mana into a cambrinth than pump X/N mana into a cambrinth N times. The times where the difference between harnessed, raw, and cambrinth mana are important are times when you're talking about big numbers of mana streams.

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>I know people can be lazy/impatient/whatever, but the only RT difference between using cambrinth and harness, at least with higher ranks of arcana, is the 2 second RT to focus on the item at the end.

Same at the low end. Right now, for me at just under 200 ranks, any cambrinth charge is 2 seconds, the focus is 2 seconds, and any harness is 3 seconds.

Yeah, a 1 second difference really wasn't on my mind. I am more concerned about it going back to 5 or more, but the scaling that's mentioned sounds like it might work alright, assuming that RT can be trained down with skill. That gives a hook to the underutilized arcana skill anyway. Guess we'll see.

>>The need to carry cambrinth to use cambrinth was mentioned, here, and it is a cost.

Only if you consider that in order to use armor, you need to wear armor, and thus armor has a cost.

>>For every piece of camb you wear or hold, you can't wear or hold an alternative enhancive, and that, in it self, might become a significant cost.

Once again, this seems like a stretch. I can't use a crossbow if I'm holding a sword, too, but that seems like a bizarre thing to consider as a tradeoff/limitation.

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>>IMO getting cambrinth to minimum RT should be a spell feat. Also getting the max efficiency should also cost a spell feat. Boom, cambrinth gets to be awesome and has an actual valuable cost besides possessing the cambrinth object.

Of course, then you just reduce the purpose of arcana, which generally revolves around "how well you can use cambrinth" as it is.

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>>Of course, then you just reduce the purpose of arcana

No, I meant that the feat would allow you to use arcana to reduce the RT to the minimum. You'd still have to have the skill to do it. Without the feat, the minimum you could get to via skill would just be a good deal higher.

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>>No, I meant that the feat would allow you to use arcana to reduce the RT to the minimum. You'd still have to have the skill to do it. Without the feat, the minimum you could get to via skill would just be a good deal higher.

Unless the feat changes my RT from 2 to 1, I feel like that horse is already out of the barn and I don't want to lose ground that I already have.

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