I recently reopened by Barb's account. Weapons seemed to be slowing in Grypons so I took him to dragonpriest purifiers. I started the form Piranha, for the balance boost to counter their spell.

My character has 410 in Evasion, 399 in Shield and 400 in Parry. He got smacked around like a weak sissy. I didn't notice the boost doing much of anything.

I know that critters changed, and perhaps purifiers' ranged of teaching changed, but the boost itself did (or seemed to do) next to nothing.

I liked all the choices. His roars did affect gryphons (didn't try them of Purifiers, but is this (Dance seeming lackluster) because his agumentation is sub 200? (that's where he was grandfathered in at), and it'll get better?

Eh, I need to update that ability. The balance boost was removed when we adjusted down the slot cost.

The dance is likely not capping out with that much Augmentation, but you should try using Python, meditation Contemplation and Piranha in tandem for a really good defense. If the spell is the problem then swap Python for Tornado berserk.

I don't know where Purifiers are off hand. They may be more a 500-skill level of critter.

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"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

>>I just tested, and it costs 2 slots. I'll be the first to admit, I've only briefly glanced over the cost rules, but isn't 2 slots a lot for a simple evasion boost?

Off the top of my head, Instinct costs 1 and Major Physical Protection 2, though MaPP does defending as well.

>>Is there a way to forget abilities during the test period?

Ask <guildleader> and unlearning <whatever>

Looks like piranha should cost 1 slot, or have the balance boost added back.

Balance is pretty easy to maintain. Really I'd rather Monkey form be rolled into it and the slot costed kept at 2 (or even 3 if necessary) and something else made to replace Monkey.

nbd really draw isnt too bad cept for it implies the ability to think at the time lol

Hmm, well it is two slots. I could probably add it back in. Let me give it some thought.

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"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

>Contemplation and Piranha currently do the same thing and don't stack.

>Throwing away our ability to buff Evasion completely

Something is not adding up here.

Currently Piranha and Contemplation both boost Evasion, through a mistake when I originally coded them up. The code lied to me, and Contemplation never ended up boosting overall defense score like I thought it would. I'd like for Contemplation to boost defense score (in essence boosting all 3 defenses, though by 1/3rd the amount than 1 singly). That may be difficult to code, however.

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"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

Well that explains why stance parry/shield wasn't working as well for me when I had contemplation up.

If / when you update contemplation, I think it would be great if it boosted defenses proportional to how they're stanced. So if you're stanced parry 100 / shield 80, then parry would get 55.6% of the boost and shield would get 44.4%. That way you're not penalized for using two defenses.

Yeah, I got caught up on the 1/3 part. If it's a buff to the final DF, then it all works out.