Antimagic for melee classes

[Laerte]

I don't like the way Antimagic currently works to non WIL and CUN classes, and I would like to propose some changes:

- Make antimagic talents use the higher of WIL, STR and DEX to unlock the skills;
- Resolve and Antimagic shield could use combatTalentStatDamage picking the higher of WIL, STR and DEX;
- Aura of Silence could be based on the higher of Mindpower or Physicalpower (and may be Accuracy), or better, just make it irresistible;
- Mana Clash could be a ranged melee attack, like weapons of projection, doing manaburn damage, or simply keep it as a cast and change it to use combatTalentStatDamage. It should also afflict the target with either the "burns latent spell energy" (like inquisitor's weapons) or "disrupts spell-casting" (weapons of disruption).

My general sentiment is that all non magic melee classes, like warrior and rogues, should be viable and strong when taking the Antimagic. Antimagic should be a neutral tree, that everyone can take without sacrificing the main stats.

[Micbran]

One idea that's been tossed around is make antimagic scale with spell save if it's higher than your mindpower.

[Laerte]

That could work too. The way things are now, only a few classes, most non melee, can fully use Antimagic.

[anonymous000]

You and I are feeling exactly the same about the antimagic tree

Here's my post in the "Ideas" board. Don't think changing the scaling alone would help much though, even if you stack wil/cun and take Superpower, the Antimagic tree itself does not really do much good to a melee class. The talents themselves need to change as well

http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=46176

[OrionJAnderson]

What does "burns latent spell energy" do, anyway?

[Danton]

What does "burns latent spell energy" do, anyway?

Puts random spell talents on cooldown.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Aura of silence should NOT be irresistable. Picture that from the other side of the scale. You'd be causing crazy numbers of rares to suddenly instantly screw a mage player character.

[Laerte]

You'd be causing crazy numbers of rares to suddenly instantly screw a mage player character.

And how THAT could be a bad thing?

[Strongpoint]

Rather off-topic, but I would prefer less severe variant of silence . Penally to spellpower and\or spellcasting speed would be less deadly but still interesting.