I wouldn't use the in combat version. At all. I see no point in not just retreating twice to make a quick predict over just standing at melee and getting beatdown to do it. Now if you add in some new functionality for it that'd be another story, but in the current system I'd always ret x2 and do my buisness over risking a beatdown for no gain.

<<Fiddling around with playing cards while someone is trying to kill you>>

You look up at a Dragon Priest assassin. Pick a card, any card....


you TKT them with the card they just drew. hmmm...


but i particularly envision the monks coming up with something like this.






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Oh and last one, DR at any given time has a population of weenies that will criticize at the drop of a hat, don't take things personally it happens to everyone.
Leucius

Ponder

"No moon mage here. However some cool concepts have been come up. But since I'm around."

*Pretends to be a moon mage*

*Acts out like he can use magic, then suddenly disappears*

[From some darkness] "So if I were to use this ability from an illusioned space of darkness, something like perhaps invisibility, then?"

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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

>[From some darkness] "So if I were to use this ability from an illusioned space of darkness, something like perhaps invisibility, then?"

Boards.

OOC.

Stop being cute.

What were you trying to communicate? Because all I get is something about inviso which is not remotely relevant.

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Let's save us all some time: I'm a troll who rarely has anything helpful. There.

So if in game:

The moon mage were to use something that gave them an invisibility or hiding stance, then used the predict ability. The problem of the opponent attacking, even if they had an advantage (because the predicting makes you do the whole, 'oh wait, let me see, wait a little bit," while he/she/it is hacking you to pieces).

So I am just suggesting perhaps there are ways to still get at the advantage, even if you have to do some precautions, like hiding or casting an invisibility spell. It'll still be dangerous because they can find you, dispell your invisibility or whatever while your in roundtime of the prediction, but it might make the ability more useful, and therefore used.

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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

>>Retreating with roundtime to get back to missile and then temporarily disabling everything via a snapped cast of Shadow Web (or some such) is still preferable to being completely defenseless at melee with several hungry critters.

Meh, I'd still like the option, because there may be circumstances where I could use it. Most notably when backtraining/mining.


-- Player of Eyuve

>>One thing I'd like to see, without a combat penalty, is the ability to see/observe what the current weather conditions are without having to retreat.

I'm okay with that. Let me see what I can do.

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

>who love bad weather for their spells

Not Pyromancers. They hate bad weather, but yes... It should be so easy to see the weather that it should be doable in RT, IMO.

Elemental Lord Opieus, Master Warrior Mage of Elanthia
"For a bunch of radical empiricists, the Philosophers' system relies on a whole lot of faith." ~Armifer

Not sure prediction is the answer to learning astrology in combat. However, yes I would suffer the penalty to be able to learn astrology in combat at this point I have to step out of combat to learn astrology and I hate it. To me if its a primary skill we have to have we should have the ability to learn it while we are in combat. I have tried the retreat and observe thing its a pain especially when there are alot of creatures in the room.

Jassarian

<<There are LOTS of primary skills in the game, and not all of them can or should be learned in combat. >>

aww, come on, I had such hopes for combat trading. :-)

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Oh and last one, DR at any given time has a population of weenies that will criticize at the drop of a hat, don't take things personally it happens to everyone.
Leucius