The new tree spirits in the Red Forest cast Powersink, and holy cow is it an annoying spell. Can it be looked at on creatures?

The wiki says it's "difficult to defend against", and there's no roll shown. I haven't yet seen my like-level empath actually resist it, although I could have missed it in the scroll. I'd imagine that 1109, 1119, or 1130 has to give some mental defense that'd help.

An extra 3 seconds of prep time is not a major hit, but it's an incredibly annoying inconvenience. Every spell turns into two steps rather than one: INCANT once to PREP, and INCANT again to CAST, like it's 1995 all over again. And once you're hit with no obvious chance to ward, it's a flat 2 minute duration.

It's not an unfair spell, it's not a deadly spell, it's just an incredibly unfun spell. If the duration was shorter on PCs, or it dropped when the caster was killed, or it faded after hindering 10 spells (that you could burn off between combats), or something else that hindered you for the current combat but not really beyond, then I wouldn't mind. But 2 minutes is an eternity when hunting.

AFAIK its like Sounds (level vs. level comparison). It might use exactly the same formula, or the note that its hard to defend against may mean you need 25 rather than 20 levels on the caster in order to bounce it. Its supposed to work for players uphunting somewhat, which means when critter cast its always going to hit like level hunters.

Powersink (1203) will now only last 60 seconds against player targets. It'll continue to last 120 seconds against creature targets.

GameMaster Estild

well heck, can we have damaging spells from other circles be more player friendly? less damaging, less stunning, etc...I mean getting hurt, webbed, stunned...that's all very annoying and such as well, but I don't see them becoming more player friendly so why make the monks spell more friendly towards players?

Caerwich