+casting mods
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Cyzaine
Staff Emeritus
We've actually discussed this at great length in the past. It is a useless stat and we've had a desire to make it not useless. We haven't acted upon it up to this point (last serious discussion on it was over 8 months ago), but the facts are these:
1) Int Casters already never fizzle due to AA's
2) +25 to a casting skill is currently not enough to avoid all fizzling
The best thought we had to make those actually useful was:
1) Make it so +25 IS enough to avoid all fizzling
2) Re-itemize + caster skills for Int and Wis casters
3) Replace the no Fizzle AA with something else worth 21 AA's total that scales.
As is quite obvious, it would be quite alot of work to implement that, with little to no change in overall gameplay if done right. So atm, there is little use in the +casting skills for int casters, and probably won't be for awhile.
1) Int Casters already never fizzle due to AA's
2) +25 to a casting skill is currently not enough to avoid all fizzling
The best thought we had to make those actually useful was:
1) Make it so +25 IS enough to avoid all fizzling
2) Re-itemize + caster skills for Int and Wis casters
3) Replace the no Fizzle AA with something else worth 21 AA's total that scales.
As is quite obvious, it would be quite alot of work to implement that, with little to no change in overall gameplay if done right. So atm, there is little use in the +casting skills for int casters, and probably won't be for awhile.
darksabbath
Dalayan Master
Well, I have two ideas for over-cap casting skills.
1) Have Anything over the 250 cap make a negative resist mod on spells of this type. Would help nukers to hit more often, and root/slow/blind to land a little easier. Wouldn't mean much for abjurations though.
2) Have over-cap points lower the mana cost of all spells of that type. Not as exciting, but useful across the board, and probably fairly easy to implement.
1) Have Anything over the 250 cap make a negative resist mod on spells of this type. Would help nukers to hit more often, and root/slow/blind to land a little easier. Wouldn't mean much for abjurations though.
2) Have over-cap points lower the mana cost of all spells of that type. Not as exciting, but useful across the board, and probably fairly easy to implement.
