Blackfog Wrote:Maka i think you over-read my post. So here the important part of it:
"Maka, if you are changing healing FINALLY! Can you also change the Fs like it was back in the days (i am talking about a spellbook fs), because it did 50 damage back in the days. People used it sometimes as first fs to trick ppl and more.."
Well first off all I think that doing that would cause some huge damage to the ganking on the server, but there's ways to fix that if we really want to add this back, read below:
There will always be players sitting on ventrilo, skype, teamspeak or whatever, perhaps even next to each other, counting down before they FS to get perfect timing. If spellbook FS takes 50 damage then these people will do a massive 100 damage when they hit somebody with 2 exact timed FS. This will result in that person dieing instantly, without a chance to heal up, unless he's got a magic reflect on himself. I think that would upset a lot of players since people tend to want to have at least a small chance to still be alive after being hit by perfect timed FS, to drink a gheal pot fast, hit a gheal scroll or whatever, before the lightning or 2 more FS hits their head.
Back in the days there was a way to survive this however, even without having magic reflect on yourself. Back then people could drink a gheal potion while at 100 HP, to get 120 HP temporary. If they healed themselves again while still at 120 HP they'd go back to 100 HP again though. The HP also counted back down to 100 HP slowly by itself if you didn't do anything to it. However if somebody would drink a gheal potion when getting 2 perfect timed FS in his ass, he'd go to 120 hp, then hit gheal spell (or scroll), and by the time the two (slow) normal spellbook FS would hit, he would most likely be at 62 hp again (20 hp left from his life, plus the gheal spell which gives 42 hp), and perhaps even be able to cast a magic reflect / recall / gheal scroll again or whatever, and still have a shot of surviving.
Anyways what I just described above was a good way to survive spellbook vs X 2 back at sphere, I doubt we'll have that future here since I think it might interfear with our balanced PvP in a bad way, but I dunno for sure what Maka is planning when it comes to this.
Regards,
Hate
. But anyways, i have pvp'ed yesterday evening abit and it did not even come up that the mana has changed. I did see there was a kind of touch on the pvp, but i couldn't think what it was. But it's cool, finally back to our old pvp! 
