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And, while I have no way of telling if that's the case, you should probably realize that specifically excluding DELIVER, which is essentially a guaranteed triggered auto-teleport in Targossas, is probably not going to make you look impartial here, even if your true motives are just.
On a completely different note, and accepting the fact that shrines are already kindof a hated combat mechanic, but a shrine power alternative is an option as well, which would extend the use of such concepts outside of cities (for better or worse) but would also allow raid groups to eliminate the effect by destroying the shrine. Would of course affect everyone, not just the shrine members/enemies etc.
Would make skirmishes a little more "king of the hill" type battles, which I'm not sure is a good thing, but just throwing it out there as a thought.
Personally, I think Font Isolation (stops everything but deliver/empress/portal into/out of city for all players, including citizens) would be fine.
I'm trying to be impartial here... Deliver and Empress are identical, and are available (in one form or another) to every organization in the game (usable by 4 classes). As are portals.
A method to enter/exit cities through whatever mechanism being discussed has to exist though, otherwise walking through gates would be the only option, and would give raiders a massive advantage over defending cities (ie. they control access to the entire game, we are stuck inside cities). Anyone outside of the city when a gate raid began wouldn't even be able to join the raid defense.
Doesn't have to be deliver/empress, but some means has to be available. Portals only would be fine, but would totally break down without a magi. Would also make getting more raiders into cities relatively cumbersome.
The key is that the abilities aren't instant, aren't self-initiated, require a 3rd party at the location you intend to go to, only move a single person at a time, and are generally only usable outside of combat, or are preventable in combat.
For clarification, Deliver does not summon a group, only the individual person.
Just tested to be 100% sure. Fairly certain that Empress is the same, but can't test.
Portalling a group in/out of a city is fine, and used to be the standard method of beginning/retreating from raids back when orb of confinement was still useful (before earring networks. See: Shallam).
Portals have a significant delay and are stopped by monoliths either before or after the delay, on either side. This would be totally fine for "troop movement" but wouldn't be a viable way to instantly fast-travel mid-combat, which I think is the issue needing addressed. At a price, portals are also available to every player, and only one portaler would really be necessary for an entire raid group.
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I would definitely discourage a 'toggleable' defense of this nature. Should either have a set duration, or have a significant font use to enable, with an associated drain, to discourage/prevent such use.
Font Isolate
Prevent most forms of fast travel into/out of cities. Cannot be used at the same time as other font powers (namely, weaken).
Cost:
10% Font power to enable.
1% Font power per minute used.
Alternatively, just have it as a fixed 10% drain for 10 minutes of use, cannot be disabled.
Failed deliver cost something (devotion) while empress doesn't. That's a pretty big difference IMO.
Targossas/Cyrene have Devotion, Eleusis has Sylvan (portals), everyone else has access to Occultist. Everyone has access to Jester, Magi, and wand of portals. Seems fair. Empress pulling a group really isn't a game-breaking mechanic, but can always be addressed if need be.
@Addama
ETA: Note how they didn't call me a newb or tell me I'm just a dumb non-comm and instead explained rather easily, calmly, and respectfully why that is not something you can do? Three cheers for Xer and Achilles here. Solid work, chaps.
Alchemist DISRUPT: When used, begins a channel. After one minute, all contact between the area and the outside world is cut off. Communication cannot come in our out and fast-travel abilities will not allow anyone to enter or leave the area (communication between individuals within the area remains possible, as does fast-travel between locations within the area). This effect will continue until the channel is broken and almost all action will interrupt the channel (says/tells/channel communication excluded). Alchemists cannot begin a channel while another alchemist is already disrupting an area (thus there is always at least one minute of freedom whenever the channel is broken).
And probably slap a PHASE-like willpower drain on maintaining it.
It's maybe worth pointing out that I think this was actually sort of the intention of DISRUPT originally, it's just that the disruption of communication alone is so easily circumvented in the game that it just ends up being more annoying than impactful, so no one really bothers with it.
(Radiance could just flat-out be removed. No great loss there I think and it's not like there isn't plenty of good stuff in telepathy. Or, if we don't want to remove it, just add some way for non-monks to meaningfully do something about it, perhaps by having to concentrate over and over to prevent dying from it as long as the monk is still trying and is able to maintain the mindlock, so it's still debilitating and useful during raids?)
I personally don't think anything's wrong with Radiance, outside of the fact that it's frequently used to kill AFK people (But that's on them, and can this logic can technically be applied to any attack).
In general, Radiance should never actually kill anyone, ever. It exists as a way to force movement, in both 1v1 and group combat. Whether this be forcing someone to stop implanting, forcing someone to leave a subdivision house, forcing someone to leave a guard stack or move into LoS, etc.
I'd see it as a lack of a cool mechanic if it were deleted, but in the end, it isn't exactly pivotal to monk in any way, and Displace kindof fills that niche as well.
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@Kuy Props for interrupting an otherwise mature and constructive conversation with what was quite literally exactly what you are bitching about.
Whoa, so the Alchemist would be completely taken out of combat entirely to do this? Yeeesh. That seems pretty unnecessary and harsh.
It could be limited more easily by requiring more alchemists to focus disrupting together, and with a per-area cooldown (lest the ether be torn in the area). I had actually thought that the original intent for displace was something to do with cutting off Telepathy from a single room, like grove screen, huh.
I agree that Radiance is not very fun. To my ears, the method suggested for ending it (Alchemist displace) wouldn't work against anyone planning to radiance, they'll just stand on a monolith. The real problem with it (in my opinion) is that it is area wide, and it is easy to put yourself somewhere effectively immune to reprisals before beginning Radiance, and the enemy is forced to move a potentially long distance to avoid the kill. In many circumstances, that may be effectively impossible, especially if your class lacks any of the long-distance travel abilities (or any travel abilities at all).
Requiring more people to do it is not a useful way to balance it. All that means is that raid groups/defender groups with more people are even more valuable than they already were.
The original intent of DISRUPT (what it does right now) is to cut off all communication going between the inside and outside of an area. The idea was pretty clearly to allow for the sort of strategies I was talking about (prevent people from calling for defenders, etc.), but because it's so easily circumvented (with messages or with OOC communication), I have literally never seen it used.
Please stop focusing on how much you hate me, and focus on reading what I actually said.
First of all, Evade is fine, because it isn't a fast-travel ability. It moves a single room (and uses balance), therefore simply moving one room is sufficient to "chase". This is completely different than abilities that let you poof back to guard stacks, instantly, from anywhere in the world, where you cannot be chased, and combat is immediately paused, to resume only when the person using the ability decides to allow it.
Secondly, note that I don't, and haven't for a long time, have a serpent character. I frequently change classes on both of my character (Shecks/Ernam have been 7 classes between them in the last 3-4 months). My ideas are never biased in favor of any classes, intentionally or otherwise, because I'm not loyal to any of them.
Also, to respond to the brief bit of your post that was on topic: "Ernam. Literally almost all of those you listed are stopped by limb breaks".
As I clearly explained, not all classes have ways to incorporate limb breaks into their prepping, momentum-building, or even kill sequences. This is particularly true of affliction classes. I would love to see how you suggest stopping Raido, Pathfinder, or Puppet Travel, at any point before a complete, total truelock is achieved, as a serpent. Same argument could be applied for alchemist, priest, priests, bard, occultist, and so on. Limb preps/breaks also aren't always a solution either, as most classes aren't able to keep an opponent prone for an entire kill sequence. Basically only knights, and monks fighting against low-health targets.
Regarding the general tone and content of your post. I don't even understand what you're suggesting. I'm not suggesting an "easy mode". I'm suggesting exactly the opposite. Classes that are able to instantly teleport out of combat, ignoring hindrance, at virtually any time before a kill sequence is initiated, completely control who gets momentum, and how much. At any time, if they are losing a momentum race, than can instantly reset this using fast-travel. At any time, if they notice they have 3-4 limbs prepped, they can instantly reset this, using fast travel. At any time, if they get BBT'd or DSB'd etc and are low enough on health to die to a follow-up attack after standing, instead of running, which can be countered, they can just fast travel. (see: Jinsun slow-prepping Death with Pathfinder, and having people at Ramparts reset limbs in between comng back to clouds in 1v1 combat, or Vrass/Daje/Omi doing the exact same thing with puppet fashion). All of this is the "easy mode" which is why I've been supporting making fast-travel far more preventable in 1v1 combat.
If you're going to respond some more, please actually try to see things more objectively, and stop keg-standing the Ernam hate kool-aid. You have every right to have irrational hatred for anyone you like, but you don't need to bring it to class balance discussions.