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Classleads News Post #84

Classleads

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Monday, July 12th, 2021
Addressed to: Everyone


More combat updates for you all:

Apostasy
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* SHADOWSTRIKE has had its equilibrium increased to increase the offensive downtime given its potent hinder. We may also add a cooldown here depending, but we'll monitor how this looks first.

Charnel
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* ARISE now bypasses the monolith on the target's end under two conditions that must both be true: the target is outdoors and you have their blood upon your knife.

Domination
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* LYCANTHA's hounds will no longer have moments of crisis: the PRIMEBOND effect should now always work correctly.
* LYCANTHA's primebond effect now has a third person message when it succeeds in doing something.

Enchantment
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* STAR SIGILS now are slightly faster to throw and their glow lasts longer.

Emulation
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* DESTRUCTION damage has been toned back - this was never balanced around the assumption everyone could go int psion without a drawback, which is now the case.
* DESTRUCTION now correctly checks all intermediate rooms for walls, not just the initial room.

Striking
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* DEATHSTRIKE now can be initiated against a shielded/prismaticed target.

Vision
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* SQUINT now has an internal cooldown when trying to squint in multiple directions rapidly. For example, if you SQUINT EAST, you can keep squinting east but there will be a short delay before you can SQUINT NORTH. This also applies to WHO <direction>.

Voicecraft
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* You can no longer THROW things while off voice balance. You can still throw then sing since I'm fine with most of the use cases here, but the ability to have super fast afflicting through rebounding is no more.

Weaponmastery
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* (Dual Blunt): momentum decay is now extended by one second when using purely flails.

Woodlore
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* Adjusted the THROW bonus accuracy formula sentinel's receive - I don't anticipate any major changes at the lower end, but it should no longer beat maxed out dodge bonuses in all cases at the upper end all of the time. I'll be monitoring this.

Misc
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* Having either the CHARGESHIELD or CIRCULATE defence will cause the confusion eq penalty to be reduced from 50% to 30%.
* Added FORAGER DISMISS. Note: you may not dismiss foragers out on deployment.
* The BELL TATTOO defence now warns you when a phased serpent places a whisperstone in your location, though it does not tell you who did it. Unphased does not warn you, as there is already a message for when this occurs.
* PREVAIL is now more like DRAGONFORM in terms of what it preserves: vibes, chaos entities, etc. If you discover anything that now preserves that clearly shouldn't or find a way to gain access to these preserved lesserform defences/resources/etc, let me know ASAP.
* The lognote to cities when someone claims a bounty no longer indicates who claimed it.
* The more specific information concerning bounties is now appended to the military log instead, so designated individuals still can quickly refer to it.

Enjoy!

Penned by My hand on the 14th of Valnuary, in the year 863 AF.


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Classleads News Post #84

Classleads

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Monday, July 12th, 2021
Addressed to: Everyone


More combat updates for you all:

Apostasy
--------
* SHADOWSTRIKE has had its equilibrium increased to increase the offensive downtime given its potent hinder. We may also add a cooldown here depending, but we'll monitor how this looks first.

Charnel
-------
* ARISE now bypasses the monolith on the target's end under two conditions that must both be true: the target is outdoors and you have their blood upon your knife.

Domination
----------
* LYCANTHA's hounds will no longer have moments of crisis: the PRIMEBOND effect should now always work correctly.
* LYCANTHA's primebond effect now has a third person message when it succeeds in doing something.

Enchantment
-----------
* STAR SIGILS now are slightly faster to throw and their glow lasts longer.

Emulation
---------
* DESTRUCTION damage has been toned back - this was never balanced around the assumption everyone could go int psion without a drawback, which is now the case.
* DESTRUCTION now correctly checks all intermediate rooms for walls, not just the initial room.

Striking
--------
* DEATHSTRIKE now can be initiated against a shielded/prismaticed target.

Vision
------
* SQUINT now has an internal cooldown when trying to squint in multiple directions rapidly. For example, if you SQUINT EAST, you can keep squinting east but there will be a short delay before you can SQUINT NORTH. This also applies to WHO <direction>.

Voicecraft
----------
* You can no longer THROW things while off voice balance. You can still throw then sing since I'm fine with most of the use cases here, but the ability to have super fast afflicting through rebounding is no more.

Weaponmastery
-------------
* (Dual Blunt): momentum decay is now extended by one second when using purely flails.

Woodlore
--------
* Adjusted the THROW bonus accuracy formula sentinel's receive - I don't anticipate any major changes at the lower end, but it should no longer beat maxed out dodge bonuses in all cases at the upper end all of the time. I'll be monitoring this.

Misc
----
* Having either the CHARGESHIELD or CIRCULATE defence will cause the confusion eq penalty to be reduced from 50% to 30%.
* Added FORAGER DISMISS. Note: you may not dismiss foragers out on deployment.
* The BELL TATTOO defence now warns you when a phased serpent places a whisperstone in your location, though it does not tell you who did it. Unphased does not warn you, as there is already a message for when this occurs.
* PREVAIL is now more like DRAGONFORM in terms of what it preserves: vibes, chaos entities, etc. If you discover anything that now preserves that clearly shouldn't or find a way to gain access to these preserved lesserform defences/resources/etc, let me know ASAP.
* The lognote to cities when someone claims a bounty no longer indicates who claimed it.
* The more specific information concerning bounties is now appended to the military log instead, so designated individuals still can quickly refer to it.

Enjoy!

Penned by My hand on the 14th of Valnuary, in the year 863 AF.


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