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Makes sense, I'll go post it.donkatsu wrote:A new thread for a new proposal seems reasonable, provided the proposal is well-thought out. Some people are just shotgunning out random ideas without taking more than a minute to think about the obvious ramifications.
In reality you wouldn't really go into combat with most of your abilities unavailable. Like I said earlier, most battles are close enough that your bars never reset to minimum anyway.Red wrote:Fair enough. I can't argue that I'm not a fan of starting with most my abilities unavailable, but you like the concept, so we'll have to agree to disagree on that.
Thematically, though, I think the Luminosity system is better. Anorithils are supposed to be about the balance between light and dark, but as it stands currently, Anorithils are about abusing light to get to the dark power. Not exactly a healthy balance there. And while Luminosity does let you work entirely on light and use dark to power it or vice versa, it's also got a better balance mechanic that encourages people to try to balance the two elements instead of treating one like a charger for their actual spells. I personally think the changed resource system would work better than your skill changes to restore Anorithils to what they're supposed to be, since it actually grants significant bonuses for balancing your spells out, whereas yours is still use light to charge dark. A better light, but it's still just a charger against the real powerful foes.
If you think the class, crunchwise, should stay as a use light to charge dark and doesn't need to reflect the balance that they're supposed to have according to lore, then I guess there's no reason for you to want the system changed. Plenty of other people do, though, so I suppose we'll just have to see who Darkgod ends up listening to.
I also have several runes and infusions for defense, but that is irrelevant as the target of this discussion is Anorithil, not me.donkatsu wrote:There are serious mechanics issues though, and Housepet's only defense is... play another class? Okay, I'll play a Brawler instead, ie a class with an actually sensible "charging up" mechanic.
If anything allows you to build both resources at the same time, under the rules outlined under luminosity you would sit at max or close to max positive and negative energy the majority of the time, which is the exact problem the luminosity mechanic was meant to solve.HousePet wrote:Its not completely redundant. Depending on the bonuses given it might be possible to get a bonus from high positive energy and high negative energy at the same time. Which would be useful for reinforcing the use of both light and darkness, as then you wouldn't get stuck in the middle with no bonuses.
It also allows you to do interesting things with talents that cost or build both resources.
To elaborate, full dark should be a viable choice but it comes at the cost of a half power Bathe in Light, half duration Providence, and zero Coronas, among other things. It's far from an obvious optimal choice.donkatsu wrote:Final comments:
Ultimately, you have three choices. 1.) Specialize in darkness damage, setting your Twilight level to its minimum and only using Sun spells to keep your darkness spells powered up. This also gives you better utility from the Eclipse tree. 2.) Specialize in light damage, in which case you don't need to sustain Twilight at all (but you can still benefit from its passive effects). Only use Star fury spells to keep your light spells powered up. This has the utility benefit of powering up your Light tree. 3.) Specialize in a balance, setting your Twilight level to 0, bouncing back and forth between positive and negative, allowing your light and dark spells to power each other up. This choice is supported by Corona, which only works within a certain range centered at 0.