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Offline Narissa

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Skill Updates
« on: July 29, 2007, 02:53:22 PM »
Clearly, no guild will want to volunteer out their new skill changes, but generals are fair game and I figure we might as well share them here, eh? Debate/loves/rants, go for it!

(note, these are just the more recent Sebastian updates, not the Genesis initial ones)

Skills Updates:

30-6-2007 - Rituals, Forestry, Spiritualism, Alchemy, Runes

30-6-2007 - Runestaves no longer work if LM is DP/PW

10-7-2007 - Runestaves - Now, only aggressive runes will not work on a runestave when it is owned by a pacifist or a divinely protected person. Tomb runes etc will  still work regardless. Runestaves will again return to normal if either of these two forms of protection are discarded.

10-7-2007 - A problem reported with offerings to the divine has been fixed.

10-7-2007 - A few diverse tweaks have been brought live, including a distinction between the effects of flame runes when on staves, or used via other methods.

15-7-2007  Runes - specifically Flash runes.

15-7-2007 - Songs - two fixes were made today. Alchemy, Candescence

17-7-2007  - Thievery - the daubing ability has been updated.

17-7-2007 - Mysticism, Farsight, Alchemy, Songs, Dramatics

17-7-2007 - Pacifist and divinely protected folk will now no longer be open to attack from farsight bonding, mystic bonding, lightarcs and truearcs.

17-7-2007 - Forging armour has had a major update and should now produce the armour you desire.

17-7-2007 - Blind and deafness potions have been tweaked.

17-7-2007 - Sentinels now behave differently in groups.

25-7-2007 - Trapping,  Scholarship, Farsight, Forging, Runes.

25-7-2007 - There have been  various bug fixes, particularly to do with portals, shieldrushing,
brilliancing non-players and jigging players.

25-7-2007 - A new ability has been added to the itemlore skill.
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Re: Skill Updates
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 11:17:43 AM »
25-7-2007 - Trapping,  Scholarship, Farsight, Forging, Runes.

The changes to Scholarship specifically relate to Runeblades.
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Re: Skill Updates
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2007, 03:22:39 PM »
Narissa, I know you're often privy to reasons behind some of the changes.  What imbalance did the added delay to shirolos address, and is there any worry that it made possession demons too powerful? 

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Re: Skill Updates
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2007, 03:26:35 PM »
Narissa, I know you're often privy to reasons behind some of the changes.  What imbalance did the added delay to shirolos address, and is there any worry that it made possession demons too powerful? 

I'd love to know the reason for the change myself. I believe it might have levelled the playing field of possession demons, but ruined most of the chance of pushing out an order, the more proper use of shirolos.
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Re: Skill Updates
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2007, 12:58:18 AM »
It actually was done to help sorcerers. People would trigger eat shirolos/smoke megillos to possession demon hitting them, and this change is supposed to make spiders easier to use and more likely to get past that.

From a poisoner's point of view, I think it sucks. Not only do we have blank mind, anchor runes and deaf triggers to work around, we've now got shirolos delay. :(
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Re: Skill Updates
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2007, 10:12:27 AM »
I don't trigger - but Ha! no wonder I can never get rid of possessions.
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Re: Skill Updates
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2007, 05:55:00 PM »
Or just because I'm better than you?

Just a thought.....