09-30-2022, 02:28 PM
About necromancers... To frank? They are doing quite well nowadays, now that they have multiple undead to draw essence from.
Here's the gist- Most people are willing to go with just danger 0 against freshly made skellies. I say 'just danger 0' on purpose, because that is the bare minimum they need to harvest essence win or lose, with only a 1/6 chance of getting perm.
Even if the skeleton ends up too permed to continue fighting? So long as they get 5 essence from 5 dangers, they can at least go even with their value, and then they can keep going to go over the the inital cost of making them for their necromancers.
In fact, I may go so far as to say that gathering essence is too easy for undead, as the amount can rack up quickly as you keep making more and more undead to throw in for danger 0s
Witches though? Yeah, they don't have as much growth potential in comparison. Perhaps intended truthfully, given they get essence from aggro as well.
Still, having more cool stuff to do with the essence as a witch could be nice. Witches are supposed to work as a group, so maybe let them have high-cost options that require a lot of essence gathered from multiple witches to use like summoning demons as you mentioned (The exact details as to how and what the EC will mechanically will need to be ironed out).
Another option for witches perhaps, is the ability to heal up perms with enough essence with maybe some visual twists: Lost an arm? Here is an arm made out of shadows for you to use courtesy of witches!
How much will they be able to heal the perm can be variable (arcanium kit level, scarring all the way to -1 vit, or even fully perming it). Can also have it so that the perm heals will have IC visuals striking enough for others to notice and react to, like a witch's mark that can't be hidden away.
P.S: I believe the mark can be visibly hidden with so that people won't be able to exploit it to expose witches.
Here's the gist- Most people are willing to go with just danger 0 against freshly made skellies. I say 'just danger 0' on purpose, because that is the bare minimum they need to harvest essence win or lose, with only a 1/6 chance of getting perm.
Even if the skeleton ends up too permed to continue fighting? So long as they get 5 essence from 5 dangers, they can at least go even with their value, and then they can keep going to go over the the inital cost of making them for their necromancers.
In fact, I may go so far as to say that gathering essence is too easy for undead, as the amount can rack up quickly as you keep making more and more undead to throw in for danger 0s
Witches though? Yeah, they don't have as much growth potential in comparison. Perhaps intended truthfully, given they get essence from aggro as well.
Still, having more cool stuff to do with the essence as a witch could be nice. Witches are supposed to work as a group, so maybe let them have high-cost options that require a lot of essence gathered from multiple witches to use like summoning demons as you mentioned (The exact details as to how and what the EC will mechanically will need to be ironed out).
Another option for witches perhaps, is the ability to heal up perms with enough essence with maybe some visual twists: Lost an arm? Here is an arm made out of shadows for you to use courtesy of witches!
How much will they be able to heal the perm can be variable (arcanium kit level, scarring all the way to -1 vit, or even fully perming it). Can also have it so that the perm heals will have IC visuals striking enough for others to notice and react to, like a witch's mark that can't be hidden away.
P.S: I believe the mark can be visibly hidden with so that people won't be able to exploit it to expose witches.