I think the gem change is rather a cruel one for jewellers. By all means make gems shatter when one switches tradeskills, and perhaps make the gem work randomly on 2/3rds of enemies rather than all of them, but attaching a power cost to it is really quite excessive.

It is a powerful skill, currentally being or not currentally being a jeweler does not change that fact, but adding a power cost gives it a nice balance. I fully agree with that change.

It isn't powerful though.

This is like saying that trample needs to cost power because it can hit 10 people at once. You get transfixed, you writhe. Neither side has gained. And you have to not be blind to start with, like trample requiring that you be prone. I don't think it warrants a power cost at all.

then i doubt you have been around lon enough to see the gem used in real combat, it is very effective and needed some form of powercost to make it fair

trample however is based off steed level and is in a general skill.
So your looking at the lesson cost + 110,000 gold for the mount + the food to keep the mount alive. or the cost for a mountable pet...

Transfix is more like pinleg than it is like a broken bone or entanglement. Yes, you writhe, but you stop curing. Even single-target transfix costs power. The gem is multi-target transfix with a shorter eq than dazzle.

I am now entirely without a useful combat function.

I was angry over the gem a moment ago, but I'm fine now. You see, it's sort of like paying the last nickel you own to see twenty little kids take a pipe to the shins. Sure, it's the last thing you have, but you weren't going to do anything important with it anyway, and at least you get a good chuckle out of matters before you die of starvation.

...not bitter. I promise.

There needs to be rune changes... RUNES!

QFT.

Great. Give us rune suggestions.

Already denied:
-Lowered supersling power
-Removing othala power cost
-Faster sling/doublesling
-Addition of new runes (old runes may be replaced)

That's certainly not all that's been denied. There are some forms of runic locking and quicker affliction delivery that, while novel, were also rejected.

EDIT: And while you're at it, do remember that you're balancing against recurring stuns, a timed instakill, and sap, depending on the guild.

ANNOUNCE NEWS #614
Date: 8/6/2006 at 20:16
From: Roark Libertas
To : Warriors
Subj: Maneuvers

A new skill is in place for warriors: maneuvers. It does not provide new
attacks or afflictions, but it should dovetail into existing skills by
giving better control over how you execute your existing attacks. Check
the AB file for full details.

Penned by My hand on the 21st of Estar, in the year 154 CE.



Now someone post the maneuvers AB file please.

Wow, that sounds wonderfully complicated I can't wait to have time to play with it.

Hm... I kinda like how maneuvers will let warriors select for their afflicts, but I'm a tad worried about how this'll affect slitlocking (as in making it too scarily OP), but then I don't play a blademaster or pureblade or axelord so I wouldn't know

EDIT and I agree with Daganev. Looks like it'll be a lot of fun, I wonder if we can make custom attack messages for them? :beg:

I might be getting this wrong, but are they like fully-game-supported, highly-controlled, very powerful, combat macros?

You are getting it wrong.


Here's how it works:

NORMALLY - when I hit a bodypart, I can cause several afflictions. Each of them has a wounding requirement. For example, hitting a leg can cause cut arteries (requires light wounds), pinleg (heavy wounds) or severed tendons (critical). There was something else on medium, but I forgot it... nevermind though. NOT every hit on critically wounded leg will result in a tendon, because other afflictions have a chance to "proc" as WoWers say too.

BUT when I create for example a pinleg manouver (spelling), if I hit the enemy with it, it will only attempt to try a pinleg. The chance for a pinleg will be bigger (much bigger, I guess, but I didn't test it) than in a normal hit, but NOT only other afflictions won't happen (even on critical wounds), it STILL requires at least HEAVY wounds on the leg (requirement for pinleg). Basically, it gives warriors what they needed - a bigger control on what afflictions they will deal.

You whisper of a threat to nature, and the foliage around you asks who it is.
You gesture violently at Laysus.


You interlace your fingers together and raise your locked hands above your head.
Screaming out the name of Laysus, you rip your hands apart.
The thorny vines wrapped around Laysus's limbs suddenly tighten and pull in four
different directions, drawing him up in the air screaming.
Laysus is instantly killed as his body is ripped into quarters.

Thornlash is RIDICULOUS. At least in groups, I dunno about solo combat yet.

I was in Serenwilde and I had Zezza vinewhoring me while Shorlen used thornlash. The thing is, you writhe free of vines BEFORE actual webbing, which means I was unable to get free of the web to ignite myself so I had to just writhe from the vines, causing insane amounts of bleeding (I bled for 1800 at one point).

Tiphet.

Oh, and I can't see how it's insane in a group, unless multiple druids can lash the same person. I can see plenty of good tactics to stop it.

Oh, right. Thanks. I know next to nothing about warrior mechanics