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ReplyWhat's the layout, as it was, for this barrier? I remember reading that more mana means it'll protect larger blows, but as my empath can only funnel maybe 40 mana into it, I think the only time I've ever seen it fire off is on a deathblow. Is the spell doing anything if it doesn't fire off? If no, can we get some means of making this useful to lower range players as well? It seems a crappy catch-22, our physical barrier catches huge blows but only when they're really huge, and only if you pump a non-trivial amount of mana into them.
Iron constitution caps the amount of damage that a blow can do. At the low end the cap is 1/2 max, and the high end is 1/4 max.
So if you cast IC at the min prep, it will cap any damage that comes through to 1/2 of the max. Anything bigger gets rounded down.
I honestly really enjoy this spell, but I can see how it'd be kind of lackluster to lower empaths. We're supposed to be revisiting barriers soon, I'd want to see how that shakes out before making any changes to IC. I'm not opposed to a metaspell that lets you change how the barrier is applied, but I can't even really speculate as to the merit of that idea until after we have a better handle on how barriers are going to work.
Melete
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So if you cast IC at the min prep, it will cap any damage that comes through to 1/2 of the max. Anything bigger gets rounded down.
I honestly really enjoy this spell, but I can see how it'd be kind of lackluster to lower empaths. We're supposed to be revisiting barriers soon, I'd want to see how that shakes out before making any changes to IC. I'm not opposed to a metaspell that lets you change how the barrier is applied, but I can't even really speculate as to the merit of that idea until after we have a better handle on how barriers are going to work.
Melete
Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.
