>>please consider making your voices heard--before changes happen rather than after!

But. . . but. . .

"That is not the way."

Doug

<Casting 111 sets the web on fire (and burns up any insects created by 615).>

Gold wands and fire flares will do this as well... so will heat flares from energy weapons (I'm not sure if those are just fire flares with special messaging or a thing of their own).

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.

I think the the spiritual bolts are great but I'd also like to see access to elemental Fire, Ice, Lightning and Earth bolts, they're supposed to be hybrids. I've always wanted to play a proper spiritual/elemental hybrid in GS like the D&D witch that access to both. Current Sorcerer spells and lore are too heavily focused towards evil for my liking, if Necromancy and Demonology is your thing then fine but I'd like too see different viable paths with spiritual and elemental lore.

Heh, war clerics are nowhere near the level of warpaths. The boosting spells are:

Sorcerers: +50 from 425
50 total

Clerics: +15 from 211, +25 from 215 (before Blessing lore), +15 from 307
55 total, but likely Blessings lore takes it to 61 or 63 for respectively the full chrism or group 219 breakpoints
(realistic lore amount

Wizards: +50 from 425, +15 from 509 (before Earth lore), +10 from 902
75 total, but likely Earth lore takes it to 83 for two 950 casts per minute

Empaths: +15 from 211, +25 from 215 (before Blessing lore), +15 from 1109, +55 from 1130
110 total, but likely Blessings lore takes it to 116, 118, or 122 for respectively the 1107 full stamina restore, group 219 and ability to auto-heal any rank 2 scar, or the ability to auto-heal any rank 3 scar




All of this just to say that I'm always fascinated by how often clerics and empaths are looked at as if they're basically the same thing. Even a good chunk of my document has somehow turned into a battlefield over that very issue. (And I didn't even start it this time!)

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Lack of survivability?

Bah, just wear brig! My capped warcerer(my term of choice ) in plat does, although I haven't played him in 5 years.

And I admit, that's not really a realistic choice.

I'm 2x in PF on my warpath and went over that to around 2.5x in the past, and didn't notice much difference in maneuver defense. Actually took it back down to 2x in the end. Due to the recent SMRv2 update for combat maneuvers, I tested out the effect of going from 2x to 3x PF on the test server, and found out it adds only an extra 4 to 4.5 points worth of defense to my maneuver defense rolls. Since my warpath is also currently only .5x in perception, the bonus from going 3x PF might end up even lower when I raise my perception up to 1x due to the way diminishing returns is calculated in this new system (all defensive skills being combined in a single bucket when it comes to how DR is applied).

The defensive benefit of 3x PF has always felt like something that's way overblown to me, and at least in this new system I've managed to confirm it for myself through testing.

To get back on topic, dev should look at the issue of melee pure builds. There's clearly a demand for them from a fair sized part of the player base looking at the feedback in the document, and considering there's no plans for new classes in the future, letting the existing classes being more flexible and having more alternative builds is a good way to add a lot of longevity to the game.

>he defensive benefit of 3x PF has always felt like something that's way overblown to me, and at least in this new system I've managed to confirm it for myself through testing.

Still beats the heck out of the 1x other pures have.

>Don't forget that 902 scales with EL:E, just like 509 does.

*stares at the wiki page*

Every time. Every single time I think I can't love wizards any more than I do, I learn something like this.

Thanks for the heads up!

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It's stupid to include 902. Anyone can max enhancives.