Post:Empath 3.1 Spell Changes - 11/14/2013 - 21:42

Empath 3.1 Spell Changes · on 11/14/2013 9:42 PM CST	1245
Are as follows! Subject to tweaking based on testing and player feedback, as always. Spell Name Changes Gift of Life No longer signature. Non-Empaths only get a stamina boost. Aggressive Stance Slots changing from 2 to 3 Aesandry Darlaeth Slots changing from 2 to 3. Changed to signature. Lethargy Slots changing from 2 to 3 Compel Slots changing from 2 to 1. No longer signature. Regenerate Slots changing from 1 to 2 Innocence No longer signature. Circle of Sympathy Slots changing from 2 to 1. Iron Constitution Slots changing from 1 to 2. Tranquility Slots changing from 2 to 3. Paralysis Removed undead enrage effect. Nissa's Binding Made signature. In short, Empaths had too many signature spells, and some spells that really needed to be signature due to being esoteric or just being a really signature Empath thing (NB). So some stuff was juggled around. Things that have stopped being signature also no longer (hopefully obviously?) have a shock check, if they had one before. I feel a little sad about unsignaturing some of these, but we really are past the days of Empath spells being largely uncastable by others, and since we have so many healing spells that simply have to be signature, we really have to be picky about what else can be included in the signature pool. As far as slot costs goes, we (dev team) tried to assign a "cost" to most of the generic things a spell does, and recalculate how much it should cost based on that. Most spells ended up costing a little more, some a little less. There was also a lot of under the hood standardizing that went on, so min and max preps may have moved around a little, but probably not too much. None of this is live yet, it'll all be chucked into the test instance for testing with the rest of the 3.1 stuff.
This message was originally posted in The Empaths \ Magic and Empath Spells, by DR-MELETE on the play.net forums.