[Loki]

I've been in there a bit, and I would like to say thank you for working so hard on this. These sort of changes take a lot of thought and time to get right, and I appreciate it. However, be ready for the negativity that is always associated with change, as I'm sure you are well aware of.

I do have a question though. How exactly does Chain Lightning work? It seems that it get's weaker with the more people that are hit by it. For example, if it hits one person it does 60+ damage (I'm not in-game so the numbers are just fabricated), but if it hits 3 people it does 20+ damage. So is the entire spell damage dispersed between all those that are hit by it? Is this intended? It seems that CL to a single target did some massive damage.

CL is actually not changed, so it works exactly how it works already. It does 47(ish) damage on a single target, and reduces as it hits more targets, it can also hit the caster. The same applies to Meteor Strike as well. But as I said, this is not new, this is how it has always worked here. Happy to change it if someone has a better idea, I really ignored these spells.

Also, FS is nuts. It might just take some getting used to, but it definitely hits like a train. Regular FS is slow, but it packs a serious enough punch to make it viable.

The passive mana seems to do well. Although its hard to be sure when people are going to have enough mana for that final FS dump. For those of us that have dueled enough, you can almost tell when someone can or cannot FS you. This mana regen is making that assessment tough.

Yes FS does hit hard, but it's the cornerstone of making PvP a bit pacier. You'll find various ways to heal have been improved also though, so there is a more rapid to-and-fro of health in PvP.

As for the mana thing, definitely it's a complicating factor but that judgement you speak of comes with experience. I hope experience in the new system would also give players similar insight.

I like the poison changes. Makes the skill actually useful, and is a serious aid when trying to take someone out.

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the lightning and harm changes. Harm seems over powered, but I wanted to start up a discussion here. I'm sure there is a good reason for those changes, and I would like to hear what that is.

Harm is in fact the old "book" lightning now, with a slight damage increase. It hits for 21 which may seem a lot but it actually takes 2.1s to cast. This means in the time you could throw an FS scroll you actually did less than half of the damage. So as you can see despite seeming powerful it's actually quite a poor nuke. But it is cheap (11 mana) so it is decent for a bit of damage when mana is low or when you want to apply pressure without going into a mana-costly nuke. I tried to make it so all spells have a unique purpose, each spell has some advantage that other spells do not and no one spell is the best of everything.

Also, a few request for the test area:

Can we get some poison pots added to our equipment? (If they are already there, I must be blind and I am sorry)

Working on this right now! Just have to find a way around the fact that it spawns lots of empty bottles... expect this fixed soon and poison pots included.

Could something be added that would allow us to edit our stats while in the test area? It would be nice to be able to test what str/dex/int combo works best. Since some of these changes are dex based, I think this would be a nice option.

*Edit - Most of my testing was 1v1 with a few other people. I did little to no group testing, so I cannot chime in there.*

Can't really provide such a feature for stats without adding a script, which needs a server restart (not until Sunday). If you are testing when I am present and not AFKing as I have been mostly doing then I would be willing to .set your stats and .set them back afterwards. No permanent .set though because that would be a bit cheaty