Great update!

Thank you!

What about making them resistant to that trick where your weapon is turned into a banana or a rattlesnake?

What about kroderine shields? Can I dispell 3 things when I shield bash/trample/whatever now? Can I upgrade this further through the cert in he hess or did the shield update screw me out of this upgrade and they are stuck at the same old one? Also since kroderine shields have spell absorbing when any type of spell was cast at you and then spell stripping on an attack with the shield what did that change do to kroderine shields?

Fyrentennimar


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Fyrentennimar

What about kroderine shields? Can I dispell 3 things when I shield bash/trample/whatever now? Can I upgrade this further through the cert in he hess or did the shield update screw me out of this upgrade and they are stuck at the same old one? Also since kroderine shields have spell absorbing when any type of spell was cast at you and then spell stripping on an attack with the shield what did that change do to kroderine shields?

Kroderine weapons and shields default to 3 dispel attempts. Kroderine armor defaults to 5 dispel attempts. That's the maximum for normal items, so you cannot add more dispel attempts to kroderine since it starts at the maximum.

JL177

Does the SMRv2 disruption flare use the same 1x MIU baseline as the sigil staff?

No, it's based upon level only for the normal weapon dispel flares.

GameMaster Estild

Is it the case that "dispel against something with NO spells now automatically comes with SMRv2/disruption"?
If so, that means that the damaging crit could happen at Tier2 sigil staff (which is when dispel starts happening), so the Tier3 benefit no longer is a new addition.

Or is that the base ability of the anti-magic materials? (And then the sigil staff builds it up in stages.)

Anyone using a ranged or hurled weapon should be immune to these as well: out of range

Veil iron is also 'immune' to ranger resistance (620) as of right now, not sure about the upcoming changes though.

I've been posting my issues with the Sigil Staff over in Paid Events/Duskruin, since that was where he announced that they would be gaining these effects.

To lower your expectations:
- on the staff, it is a regular flare, so "not every swing/cast" (more like about one-in-7);
- I do see the dispels happening, now that I have shifted over to Reim where the creatures have spells, since the Arena closed (nothing in the Arena wore spells);
- and per his announcement (emphasis mine), "At tier 3, the dispel flare can affect up to 2 spells (1d2) and if no spells are active on the target, triggers a SMRv2 (using MIU ranks at 1x for baseline) and subjects the target to disruption damage if they fail.

So the disruption portion of the Sigil Staff--which comes from the script, and no the inherent Dispel flares of any material property (such as kroderine has)--kick in at the Tier after what you purchased. (And it would also have a chance to dispel two [2] spells. Tier after that would have a chance to dispel three [3] spells. Tier after that would have the chance to double-cast whatever spell you did.)

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The SMR damage is a long thing about tendrils flashing out and caging the target, like this:

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[SMR result: 163 (Open d100: 78, Bonus: 84)]
Tendrils of pale energy lash out from your fireleaf staff toward a haggard snow witch and cage him within bands of concentric geometry that constrict as one, shattering upon impact!
... 25 points of damage!
Minor muscle tearing on the snow witch's left leg.

That does not seem to work.
Sing Roundtime 3 Seconds.

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Don't get your hopes up about them being anything spectacular.
(Note that I'm trying to have THAT looked into as well, because when I see an SMR final result over 200 against me, I get broken in half. Against the Arena creatures, I was seeing 15-25 HP damage.)

<When using APPRAISE COMBATANT and I'm up against ones that are like level and higher, they don't appear to crit as well with 917. Combatants that are lower level than my wizard tend to crit better and take higher damage.>

<I'd like to think it's one of the small hidden aspects of SMRv2 players aren't told about....kind of like how they finally admitted CS based damage is also impacted by the crit divisor of armors. Then again, maybe I'm just paranoid and imagining things.>


You're not imagining things. Level difference was mentioned as a factor in the release post for SMRv2 and players began discussing how much of a difference it made shortly after they began encountering it IG.

Starchitin, the OG

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While I appreciate the advice to lower my expectations as well as the quoted material from one of the dozens of discord channel, I made the sigil staff purchase mostly due to an announcement put on the home page linking me to this official posting on the boards which is why I reached out to Estild here.

Therefore, I repeat my request that this be reviewed.

Thanks.

Thanks, Krakii. I do appreciate the input and understand what you are providing. I will clarify that I was looking for a staff response so I will email staff separately instead.

From Discord:

Estild - Today at 11:07 AM
Dispel flares should be working again.

Nothing from category B (including TD, DB, flares etc), it already has dispel flares there.

It can have appropriate Cat D scripts and banes.