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Lol, @Mithridates we can't kill everyone with unavoidable setups while hindering them beyond any hope of escape. Clearly not balanced. We need viridian at a minimum.
and @Kyrton if they mess with my elementalism or retardation I'll stonefist punch you to death.
I'd love some cool flavor stuff though, as enchantment doesn't seem like it will ever make me money, and I'm awful at it. And it's boring.
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A viable alternative to retardation would be nice
Everyone seems to gripe about retardation, so instead of getting rid of it, why not break it down into its own thing? Take retardation out of crystalism entirely, and form a whole skillset around it, called Aeonweaving or Timebending or somesuch. Have abilities that slow down/speed up specific balances, specific events (like casting a spell, cursing, physical hits, arrows, etc), along with room-wide retardation (that could be the trans skill). Have the ability to create sigil-like objects for crafters to make crafting, forging, enchanting, etc go faster. Maybe have some time-rewinding abilities that would erase the last bit of damage done on someone, or the last limb strike, or the last elixir drunk/herb eaten, etc...or time repeat effects, where whatever is done, is done again. To balance it, maybe playing with time can have unpredictable side effects, like giving random afflictions, stripping defences, destroying vibes, making elemental entities go crazy/run away/attack you, other spells fizzle, etc...the more powerful the effect, that more likely it is to backfire in some way on the caster.
This (obviously) has the potential to be way overpowered, and might be impossible to code into the game as it exists anyway. What little knowledge of magi combat I have is from 300 years ago, game time
Delaying herb/mineral balance is doable, a lot of abilities already do it.
As for the replacement skill, I imagine either:
- more elemental control
- more physical staff combat (battlemage), less likely
- other room/area control
- an additional balance
The only thing that really lacks (and the reason people only have retardation to complain about/look forward to) is closing ability outside retardation. The only way to outdamage someone high level is by using retardation or a lucky holocaust bomb, which happens to equally damage the mage. Crystalism itself does nearly nothing outside retardation except some damage points, which is intended of course, since meaningful ongoing afflictions would be silly.
For example, while geyser is great for hindering, it can't be used in a damage strategy because people have their levitation up constantly. By creating something that 'negates' mass temporarily, and adding something that sends unmassed enemies into the sky, you give geyser and gravity that purpose, if only for one strategy.
Making as many classes self-containing as possible is probably the next step. Except they did say Forestals would be getting skills that are part shared and part unique.
Anyway this ties back into Magi because whatever elemental skills do or don't go to Sylvan will come to Magi. On the other hand, Elementalism might be replaced for Magi if it's deemed more nature-suited than 'Arcane' or whatever magic Magi are supposed to be.
On the third hand, I'm tired and overthinking things.
Shaman's new skill included SOULSCOURGE, which lets you destroy a puppet in order to activate one of its abilities in tandem with a curse.
People have mentioned being able to actively proc a vibe. What if you could destroy a vibe and cause a greater version of its passive effects? Like a forced adduction, a triple amnesia, etc. Technically Energise already works this way when you absorb it.
Honestly, magi is already one of the only classes that makes me seriously concerned about the outcome of 1v1 combat. Upgrades just seem... unnecessary.
Full vibes + retardation is already RNG victory 100% of the time, some of the time (ie. sometimes). That, on top of some of the best damage mitigation, passive/active curing, and DPS output...
I think it's fine, honestly. Reducing some of the ridiculous RNG unstoppable kill tactics in favor of some more "difficult" but more complicated setups would be great IMO, but the only way I'd ever see Magi getting even more abilities (aka buffs) is at the expense of something else.