Suggestion Board

On Sun Oct 21 16:18:52 2018, Mshopguy wrote: > The fact that you dont take hp damage but use a lot of sp should be > considered an offset. Which was the point I was trying to make. > > If you dont want downtime, carry orbs, you can stack them in barovia for > extra effectiveness. Also, there is a jar out there you can get from > Zatan's castle which stacks to hold I think 10,000 hp or sp that you fill > by quickhealing and then banking for later. Used to be usable in combat > but now it is only useful outside of combat. This should help you > mitigate your downtime then in the style of which you choose to play. > > On second thought, it might just be an action heal, so usable in combat but you cant perform another action that round. Either way, for a spider this shouldnt slow you down as much as it would a caster type that doesnt bounce because again, you take very little hp damage. > You are right. If you buy heals or orbs beyond what you can collect in a play session then its fine. A lot of classes don’t have to do that to have a decent single target time to kill though. Typically, I approach these things from “the class needs to be viable with its own skills and the money it makes during an xp session.” You can xp anything pulling a ton from your bank but that shouldn’t be considered as necessary to have a reasonable play experience. My vision may not align with yours (or the wizards) and that’s fine but balance is already murky enough but when the method of overcoming play obstacles is “just buy more heals from my shop” or “orbs from my other shop” then you don’t have a viable class. The cocoon change definitely brings it closer to this and I’ll admit I just ran through book 4 a couple of times but I still tended to run out of resources despite juggling 3 cocoons at once and have to wait for quickheal/second round of feeding but it was a noticeable improvement. I feel like anytime you hit the ‘classic EQ’ hurdle of sometimes needing to stare at your hp readout for a while until you can do your next kill something is lacking. Classic Tsunami was definitely like this with monsters (before all the heal/consume changes) so its much better now. Spider, because their cocoon was pre-all-those-changes, I think is still missing *something*. But that’s just my opinion. :)