Spell Runes

[HousePet]

How about change it completely to Freeze then, so it does no damage?

[darkgod]

In svn:
Taint of telepathy: haved cooldown; gives a big mindpower boost
Wild growth infusion: halved cooldown; huge damage boost; grants armour & hardiness
Lightning rune: grants a 2 turns effects after use that makes you shrug off one attack per turn by moving you around (like the Elemental Surge: lighning prodigy)
Heat beam rune: removes one random detrimental physical effect from the caster
Frozen spear rune: removes one random detrimental mental effect from the caster
Insidious Poison infusion: removes one random detrimental magical effect from the caster
Acid wave rune: corrodes
Vision rune: now prodives ESP to one of: "humanoid","demon","dragon","horror","undead","animal"
Invisibility rune: healing penalty removed
Phase door rune: provides big amounts of resists all, defense and effects duration reduction

I believe all runes & infusions should now have some good use, at least good niches

[phantomglider]

In svn:
Heat beam rune: removes one random detrimental physical effect from the caster
Frozen spear rune: removes one random detrimental mental effect from the caster

What a godsend for undead. Suddenly if you miss the Wintertide Phial you have a way to deal with confuse and silence.

[Mewtarthio]

Wild growth infusion: halved cooldown; huge damage boost

Did you intend to change the damage from 40% of your mindpower to 360% of your mindpower? That's not a typo?

...I think might actually start caring about finishing the Brotherhood quests.

[darkgod]

not a typo the damage was pitifully low

[SageAcrin]

Vision's still a little flaky, but since one of the types is Humanoid, I could see a swap in for the Prides if nothing else. So it has a niche.

Lightning...is now probably the weakest. Not because of the effect, but the fact that it already had the worst damage combined with the fact that it's more of a general defensive effect.

I'm not sure it's actually bad, though, and that's more of an oddity of lightning in general. So that seems okay.

(Really, lightning damage range should be damage/2 to damage, not damage/3, given the power range of lightning talents. And, since enemies can pull out the top end, you don't even get the fun of having lightning talents be non-threatening for enemies, either...)

So yeah, it's definitely far better now.

[darkgod]

Well the full avoidance of damage can be great when you can predict huge spikes
Also, all lightning damage, while they can range from dam/3 to dam are weighted toward the middle; you have less chance to get a very low (or high) damage.
However usualy lightning talents have a higher max than most other talents .. I just checked the rune and it has a LOWER max .. whoops
Fixed!

[SageAcrin]

That explains a lot-I thought the damage seemed surprisingly low on them, when I was looking at them for Golem reasons.

The weighting towards the middle helps, but that still means they average damage in the same spot-66% of the listed value. 75% feels more right given the spellpower/talent values of lightning talents, for me.

But it's not a big deal, obviously-the only lightning talents that don't see much use right now are Wyrmic's, and only one of those has the damage variance anyways.

[wobbly]

Could we have blinded foes not prevent stealth? Would give rogues some extra mileage on sun infusions. Nice for stealth shadowblades too.

[lukep]

Could we have blinded foes not prevent stealth? Would give rogues some extra mileage on sun infusions. Nice for stealth shadowblades too.

I would actually want to see this expanded to include everything that can not see you, so invisibility would work as well.

[CaptainTrips]

Wild growth infusion: halved cooldown; huge damage boost

Did you intend to change the damage from 40% of your mindpower to 360% of your mindpower? That's not a typo?

...I think might actually start caring about finishing the Brotherhood quests.

It's always nice to see some aspect of the game you've learned to ignore suddenly become interesting again.

Attack runes that remove status effects? Yes, please.