This was made for Clunk, yes?

Clunk

(Buy your swords at CBD weapons in Zul Logoth.)

My understanding was that we could still eat herbs for injuries and scars.



Cryheart

<My understanding was that we could still eat herbs for injuries and scars. >

This is what NIR said when I asked after it was announced KS was going on the test server.

Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

Finally, you gain access to two additional abilities:
Absorb Magic: Absorb the next harmful spell cast at you and revitalize yourself.
Dispel Magic: Dispel all negative magic affecting you.

These two additional abilities, how are they activated? Are they additional cman skills or something else? Thanks!

Is there any lore release going out with this mechanics update? Seems like really fertile ground.

<<Did some experimentation on the test server. If there's one change I'd recommend, it would be to work on a reduction of maneuver penalties due to wounds. The implementation of them has always had unforeseen consequences (far less work for empaths), and it's an even bigger problem with Kroderine Soul. With no spell protection, you get far more wounds, and at the same time you rely more heavily on maneuvers. Kroderine Soul takes us back to an age when redux was much better, but maneuvers didn't exist back then, and it was common to come back to town bleeding severely. You just can't do that today, unless you want to give up on both spells AND maneuvers.

Wouldn't this be a great opportunity to team up with an empath and have them use their IMPRINT ability on you before you head out hunting?


~Aulis
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>>Sounds like a great idea. Maybe that sort of thing needs a bit of promotion, as I'm unsure how it works. Maybe I'll see if I can drag one into the test server.

https://gswiki.play.net/IMPRINT_(verb)


~Aulis
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My experience as a rogue with 21M experience using Kroderine Soul has been mostly positive. Going from 70 spells to 0 along with open combat to stealth was a huge change, but I really like CMAN DISPEL and CMAN ABSORB. There are two areas, however, where Kroderine Soul is clearly not working for me.

The first is spell damage. While it's great that concussion damage is significantly lower with KS running, even the lowest endroll on warding spells is resulting in minor/major wounds. This has significant impact on both the ability to use combat maneuvers and the need to be constantly munching herbs in dangerous hunting grounds. Here are a couple examples:

A grizzled fetish master claps its palms together, momentarily uniting its glowing tattoos before forcefully thrusting its hands forward toward you!
Dozens of long thorns suddenly grow out from the ground underneath your feet! One of the thorns jabs into you!
... hits for 5 points of damage!
Your vultite disc armor seems to deflect some of the thorns.
... 1 point of damage!
Nice shot to the head gouges your cheek!
You are stunned for 2 rounds!

Rank 2 head wound from a spike thorn on 47% nature resistant plate armor.

A fallen crusader gestures sharply toward you!
A fallen crusader's eyes glow with silvery grey light, and then everything around you shimmers to match the argentine color.
CS: +405 - TD: +348 + CvA: -25 + d100: +70 - -5 == +107
Warding failed!
Your spirit quails beneath the onslaught of power as waves of sacred energy tear through your body!
... 11 points of damage!
... 1 point of damage!
Flash burns to your eye momentarily blind you.
You are stunned for 1 round!
You are driven to your knees!
Roundtime: 10 sec.

Rank 1 eye wound from a 107 endroll cast of 1615.

Kroderine Soul should have the same impact on spells that Redux has on physical damage: reduce the concussion damage and reduce/negate the wound. That it doesn't do this is really, really shortsighted in my opinion. You're all aware how huge an impact wounds have on squares, especially ones who rely on maneuvers and stealth. Please give this another look.

The second issue is around locksmithing. My rogue has a 55 bonus to dexterity and 303 ranks of picking/disarm/perception. I can't open a lot of the boxes from plane four and plane five of the rift now due to 403/404 being inaccessible. A master locksmith should not need to rely on magic to pick their own boxes. I know that, thematically, you don't want to let kroderine soul users have access to any spells. Fine, I get it.

So how about if a rogue has kroderine soul active, their ranks in Lock Mastery contribute a bonus to pick/disarm that match or exceed 403/404? Give me a way to open these boxes without having to dump them in the pool. This is a nontrivial amount of training points being committed to locksmithing; making someone choose between opening their own boxes and using Kroderine Soul is not good design.

All things considered, Kroderine Soul is a very interesting and challenging addition to the game. It's right up my alley, in fact, so I'll be sticking with it for a bit longer. But I really hope staff considers my feedback and makes some additional adjustments. Thank you for your consideration.

First let me state that I believe the underlying concept of Kroderine Soul is a good one.

Issues (in my opinion):

1. Perhaps there should be the ability to turn it off / on, perhaps with a long cool down (hours?)when alternating on/off.
2. Spiritual assistance, unstun for example, perhaps should be able to touch even the hardest souls.
3. The parallel to "shield mind" is noted. Short duration, manually triggered, abilities are simply ineffective. People can't react fast enough.


Crime

<Give me a way to open these boxes without having to dump them in the pool.>

Won't help with all boxes, but don't forget you can wedge boxes that are too hard to pick. Can even be safely used on some boxes that are trapped (needles, jaws, some vials...)


Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

>drink ale
You take a drink from your Bearded Ladies' ale.
The magic from your Bearded Ladies' ale withers and disperses without effect.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
(Forcing stance down to guarded)
That was the last drop.
You set the ale aside.

Gentle reminder. Herbal Ales from Teras still aren't working. I have bugged it
~Aaysia

Curse typically cannot be dispelled by any means. It's a very peculiar spell/effect in that way.

Just another request to please review locksmithing under kroderine soul. It's really cruddy not being able to open your own boxes with a 303 pick, 303 disarm, 303 perception build. I'm having to craft an absurd amount of wedges. Lock and Trap Lore should not be necessary for a master locksmith.

Blink weapon is not working with kroderine soul. It attempts to flare, but gets stopped. This in itself is an issue, but it causes another issue, when my blink weapon attempts to flare during a multistrike, it will quit the multistrike. I bugged this, but it's a huge pain and hindering my hunting. Are there any plans to fix this?

>>>Sounds like a great idea. Maybe that sort of thing needs a bit of promotion, as I'm unsure how it works. Maybe I'll see if I can drag one into the test server.
>https://gswiki.play.net/IMPRINT_(verb)

Reviving an older topic: could there be an exemption made for Solace (1140) to bypass Kroderine Soul? KS does not block imprinting so for consistency it should not block Solace either.

(I've also heard mention that it would be nice if the muscle relief aspect of Adrenal Surge (1107) would work, at least if activated using potions.)

Do potions work? You can make an adrenal surge potion with Alchemy. I have several.

--David

"At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder, 'What would Jimmy Buffett do?'"