I like being able to cast Shear on my friends.

You're asking to have the spell changed because some few people are abusing it, the change will effect everyone, including the people who like it the way it is now.

I'd rather see other issues regarding Shear be addressed first. (like duration, and effectiveness against certain spells)

Eldrad

Locking out one book would not change how WMs are invinvible with that spell on. Nor does it deal with sheared barbarians.

It's unbalanced.

By the way, ES and aether cloak go WAY beyond any perceived caps as far as protection goes. An ES on a low level WM can so incredibly destroy the strength of my DO and Burn, with 700 PM, 300+ TM and good stats at level 99, it's disgusting.

Man you are sick Fatal. ::drools:: Um anyways heres the thing Eldrad, shear is probably the most powerful anti moonmage spell we hardly benifit from. This is because other guilds can use it without any penalties, but when we use it we have to give up some of our most powerful tools. I have a love/hate relationship with the spell. I just think it should have either a universal adverse effect, or simple be made only selfcastable. Its not a good day when a moon mage hates one of his spells because of how its used in the hands of other guilds. The keyword is unbalanced... You're right though too, its buggy and thats not helping.

~Cyan

Trust me its not rare in TF. You might not care since you play prime how unbalanced it is, but in a world thats pvp orientated this spell, cast even by a weak (in tf terms) pet MM, can single handily shut down any moonmage of any circle. I mean what would you do if you're a moonie and you're fighting a barbarian equal to your circle that now has on him the greatest MR ever to grace the land of DR without any penalties. Or lets use warmages for example. They have ES, but ES isn't the end all be all... You can get around it or get through it. Shear isn't the end all be all for Moonmage either because of its sever disadvantages, but those penalties don't translate onto other guilds, and thus our own spell is now the single best weapon against us. Doesn't seem right to me. And the answer to this problem is so simple. Either make it selfcastable only (which I perfer). Or give it universal penalties.

I don't think its fair one single spell can shut down a guild like this. What are we supposed to do, pull out a sword and try to fight melee then? Thats laughable with the way our guild is set up. I also don't think its right that someones 200pm shear can prevent someone with 500+pms attack, but thats a whole another post.

<< ES isn't the end all be all... You can get around it or get through it. Shear isn't the end all be all for Moonmage either because of its sever disadvantages >>

With an ES 'and' Aether Cloak up (which any PvPing WM will have), Your only chance to hurt a WM with magic is to knock them down (if you're talking about relatively equal ammounts of skill). While this is possible without a Shear on, when a WM has a Shear on, You're stuck.


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Shear has had a few bugs fixed recently it is not possible to get ther 203940234909234 hour monstrosities that never ended and that you couldnt break.

You will find it is possible to wear a shear down with normal spells now.

That depends on which spell you're casting on the sheared person. Calm seems to get through without weakening shear much at all if you use enough mana (I havent tested this in a while) while none of MB will get through unless you give enough to break it down completely.


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Target cuts through shear his point is shear + AC wich negates the target.


Try TV its very good at breaking a shear.

once the shear is gone its just a matter of multiple crs, while they may dodge some of em, multiple snap cast of CRS are more effective when they only strike once as the fient causes them to go off balance after a few fients the rest start pounding em

course they can't keep up AC and continously cast, a weak AC won't deflect alot

but yeah shear+AC+ES makes you pretty much a giant magic absorbing tank