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It isn't an interesting mechanic.
I'm not as annoyed about the telepathy as Frederich is, but I don't disagree with him. Telepathy is pretty much the last thing that has remained area-wide when every other type of range has been limited to a set distance from the origin or line of sight only.
There should be more counters to it other than "Hope we have a monk or this is just gonna suck." Either by limiting the range of certain telepathy skills to INT/2 rooms away, or by simply not allowing mind locks to be started/maintained easily from 18+ rooms away. Radiance, while hillariously effective at it's job, shouldn't be usable whenever you can just sit behind a locked door and go "NEENER NEENER!"
The forestal one bypasses monolith (but is slowed by it), but that requires being in a forest and is faction-locked. I think ether displace will still complete if you drop the monolith after it's started, but it can't be started on a target who is on a monolith unless they're a mutual ally.
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If you're going to allow cross-map shit, at least make it more costly than it is. As of right now you can just batter > blackout > Disrupt and they won't get anywhere until they concentrate to get back on eq. It's a bit silly to just do this as harassment. Lord have mercy if the person is actually being attacked.
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From a risk vs reward scenario, there is very little risk to a smart monk using radiance vs the reward of actually getting a kill. They can easily fortify themselves in a room in the city, click the button, then sip some tea while eating a biscuit and watch the screen to see if it worked. If they are with a group, it is even more effective as they likely wont be interrupted by someone entering.
It isnt just raids either, where a monk could just as easily slip a radiance in during a skirmish in the area to either kill off another target or force that person to abandon their group, but also smart monks that sneak in and attempt to pop someone for X reasons. Pray they are paying attention..
I dont mind the ability in itself, I just wish there were more forms of counterplay to it.. or at the least more risk for the reward.
Not harassment in the "imma issue u" sense. More the "Being a god damn annoying pest" sense.
Personally, I don't mind area-wide telepathy. I know the huge push as been to small-contained areas for group fights/city raids, but at that point, it really does come down to "which group is larger/more artefacted/able to pump out more damage". I always found the ability to use ranged attacks as an extra strategy for smaller, more capable groups. If the larger defenders/attackers get you into the room with them, you die. If you can keep them at ranged, you may be able to pick them off or pull them apart. With everything basically becoming LoS, the idea of strategy feels like it boils down to either beckon into a totem, or get all your Dragons/Serpents/Knights/artie-bow owners together and pick people off with arrows. Which then it boils down to "which side has the more ability to LoS, or bring in a DW to prevent it" and then we revert to strategy A.
I understand that long skirmishes are not fun, and raiding is all about room control due to tanks. I am biased, though, as I have never enjoyed either digging in and waiting for the rush, or choosing the most opportune time to rush.
It's the fact that the only way to counter said long-range-across-the-map harassment, is by having your own monk. There is no skill, or prowess there. It is, quite literally, a "Leave or die." effect. In an offensive raid against the defending monk. They can turtle and split the group. If the offenders don't have a monk, whoever the defending monk targets has to Duanathar/use some other method to leave (raido, etc). Then they have to get a way back in. If they Duanathar, they can get cloud ganked. So, the real tactic here is to just have a monk to stop it. If you don't, you lose. If you cannot fast travel out of a city (ala unartied folk), you lose.
There is no way you can attack them or get retribution on them in the midst of the raid. Because you cannot touch them. This isn't a fun, nor fair, mechanic. This issue lies alone with Radiance, and just seeing it changed would be more than enough to deal with the bull that it provides.
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Everything you said, the defending side can experience, too. So, yes, changing Radiance is a good way to go. Maybe limit its range to X number of rooms rather than whole area. But calling it "harassment" when used by defenders is a little over the top, and quite frankly, mildly offensive.
Using INT as a basis for room range isn't viable. If you do Int/2, you're looking at 6+ rooms away. While not a crossroads, persay, still close enough if the group decides to mount an offensive. If the defending/attacking group goes for a rush, then the range of 6-8 rooms (most people having 12-16 int) would make the still useless as the ONLY time the group would be in range would be when they are rushing or attempting to use their own LoS, in which case a monk off-eq trying to radiance is a hindrance to be left behind. If you do INT*2, 24-36 room range is a city, anyhow, so nothing changes.
If Telepathy is changed to LoS only (like doppleganger) then at that point, its true utility comes in spamming mind paralyse when the group is in the room with you. Unless you can still mind lock from anywhere in the area and only use certain abilities LoS, but unless a group is attacking, they are not going to sit in your LoS to let you use your ranged abilities.
So, at that point, why even keep radiance? It is a cool thematic insta-kill, but if it requires LoS or for your target to be less than 10 rooms away, its only application will be ganking afk people in cities.
Require the monk to be standing outside (rather than inside)
There are a lot of ways to go about it, that still keeps its general use whilst hampering it's ability to do it without any ability of recourse.
I agree entirely that being closer doesn't make it less effective. My point is this: If you have to be within six rooms, the defending party will stand seven rooms out while they strategise and decide when to rush. If you make it more, then nothing is changed as the monk who is using radiance will still be behind a locked room or in a group, doing nothing but making the monk's laughter easier to hear. If you combine the 'closer with no monolith' approach, then everyone will still stay out of range until someone with a ranged movement ability joins, or just stay out of range until they are ready to rush. And you still have the same problem of walls/large groups/doors. The only change in annoyance is that the defending group can choose to stand one room more than your range. In which case - radiance will never be used as no one (competent) will ever keep their group in range. All you're doing, then, is shrinking your area, not removing its ability to annoy everyone in that area. So instead of 'duanathar' we go 'e' instead.
It would be kind of cool if it was an actual combat within combat. Radiance has a certain length before it completes, and it has stages. So adding an active way to reduce the stage of radiance would be neat. Steel mind or compose or something. So you could stand there and combat it the entire time, leave area to break lock, or have someone else lock you. If you choose to actively fight it, the command would obviously take eq, and would be just fast enough to beat radiance but slow enough to make the person completely occupied with that.
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