Curse

[M]agna_[C]arta · May 30, 2007, 11:08 PM // 23:08

I imagined more of the Sweater a Nordish^^!
I'll try to make it sad^^.

nebojats · Jun 06, 2007, 05:04 AM // 05:04

Good God, SC... this is another sweet CC! I'm not really sure why I didn't notice it the first time. Did you mke a lot of changes? The first two posts are pretty impossible to read (I'm still left scratching my head), maybe that had something to do with it.

The weapon! Is godlike! If I'm understanding correctly.

Harbringers have two stats: damage and 'channeling.' The harbringer deals base blunt damage, and the 'channeling' variable adds a % chaos damage on top. This deals extra damage to your target, but you also receive that extra damage. Furthermore, damaging touch spells can replace the next harbringer attack. These spells deal their original damage, and are also affected by the harbringer's 'channeling' attribute.

The Deception attribute is beautiful. To me, fakes could really be overpowered and unfair, but you did a great job with these. A very original skillset that I think would really be fun. Two questions: could you give an example of how Psychological torture would be used? Feverish basically makes the target's allies think he is covered in horrible conditions, no?

Banishment, is also very nice. Shun Existence, Fade Away, and Dipthongize Existence are great. Serious hexes that provide serious benefits. Sort of the opposite of Transcendence, which are serious enchantments with serious setbacks. Partial Banishment is the loser of the skillset I think... it feels more like a copy/paste of other classes.

The problems I see (don't understand):

I'm not sure if I get the inherent damage-reduction. It basically means the Wraith can take small damage attacks, but needs to watch out for big damage spikes, right? If so, I understand that. The argument for changing how aggro is calculated definitely shouldn't matter though, since that works only in PvE and means nothing in PvP. It's kind of a problem that you define this class as manipulating information and aggro calculation. Aggro calculation shouldn't matter at all, as it's inapplicable to PvP. So now you're reduced to having this class simply be defined as an 'information manipulator.'

Fakes... I like them. They're not Mesmer-like, because they're actually 'changing reality,' right? A mesmer just manipulates what the targets 'thinks' is happening. Am I right?

You say that phase-walking adds a third plane beyond default and spirit. It has a 'lesser effect than being a spirit.' What does that mean? What effect does planes-walking have on the Wraith? Oh now I see, it makes him always targeted as moving and every two seconds there's a chance for movement speed change, which ends any maintained enchantments on you. Maybe Transcendence should make the Wraith more stable while planeswalking... maybe it decreases the chance to have a speed change for instance. It also seems like opponents are forcibly being planeswalked. Should they be affected also?

A general question about the harbringer: is the chaos damage armor-ignoring? If so, then extra channeled damage is automatically received by the target. That means the skill description of Compellence is repetitive by saying it channels more damage and the opponent receives that damage. If the harbringer's damage isn't armor-ignoring, then what's the significant difference between Uncontrollable Surge and Sucker Punch?

System_Crush · Jun 06, 2007, 08:34 AM // 08:34

@Magna
That one is much cooler, I like it!

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