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There is still a lot of use for those crafts. All other UO system do not even have mana potions and nobody says Alch is useless. I think this is pretty faulty logic. Also mana potions are still required to optimise your spell casting. Furthermore, Sphere 51a is again the only system where scrolls cast the spell faster or with less mana and again in other system nobody says scribe is pointless - scribe is used to cast 8th circle without fails (as it is here, among other reasons) and also there are still a wealth of scrolls that are useful (EV, FS, GH, MR, Curse, Bless, MA, Tele, Wall, Dispel/field, Para, Summon Daemon etc.). I'm afraid I just do not agree with your assessment here.



It's about pacing yourself, there is no random (luck) element whatsoever. Aggressive play is favoured as is continued use of good spell selection through the fight not just with the final dump. I hope to see more diversity in spell use and builds and potion drinking, I see all of these as good things. Yet again, Sphere is the only system that relies solely on mana potions and that was because it was broken and it was a temporary solution to the problem. Now, I am not saying we veer away from Sphere, the regen here is relatively slow and mana potions still exist, but mana regen is a proven system that works well for all other forms of UO and for the most part appeared to be working well in the testing as well.



The need is to prevent PvP being nothing more than naked wars. Since it is too late for us to implement the (frankly excellent) AoS resists system this is the best alternative. I am in total agreement with you about not favouring rich people, as I have iterated to ElvenBane above.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree I don't see how you can say it's faulty logic as it is based very much on luck. You can't really rely on regen or depend on it being there it's mana gained over time rather than using skill and judgement of your enemy's mana pool. it's all about luck and nothing else really with the choice of using a "small mana potion" I guess is what I can call it now. Potions and mana intakes are much more accurate in PvP and much more dependable.

You know what i mean by what I said mana potions are pretty much not needed at all anymore when hunting and crafting skills just became 10x easier with the access of easyuo scripts we have in the palm of our hands. Time wise and resource wise.

Nobody would ever duel naked we have explosion and energy bolt still, you don't need to recreate every spell because nobody ever will use all 64 spells in the spell book. Better armor gives slight advantages over weapon hits that's all it's way too inconsistant with spell damages it's like learning two different PvP styles because the numbers and health points you need are always different depending on the scenario.