Meant to post this a long time ago. Forgot. Never saw anything about it in the update notes. Assuming it's unchanged.


Hot Potato is actually more useful for grinding than you might think, for the following reasons.

- Constantly re-stealing common spells to make up for the three you just lost.
- Emptying a hand for either Empty Palm or Two-Handed after that burst.

But the downside, besides the obvious "It breaks?" It STAYS unequipped after the battle. Some party leaders won't want to wait and start moving right away - and if you go into the menu to equip it, they bitch at you for getting the party back attacked because it restricted the party's movement. Nobody is happy with that.

Could it just be re-equipped automatically?

This skill alone doesn't have any special interactions with Nachbeben.
This skill doesn't ignore Evasion. This skill doesn't ignore Wraithguard. This skill doesn't ignore Guard. (all should count as 'methods of protection'.)
This skill doesn't give any extra Schwarz Sturm points, and 'needs' it stacked to actually do more than 16 damage.
This skill's damage, alone, is tops 16 Physical Damage.

Why does it have such gigantic costs, when it does nothing special but a few jabs that ignore DEF, but in the end is just Matador food or Green Tunic FP leeching straw?

Now look at these FP costs from Asura Fist:


Damage is Weapon and Elemental ATK dependant, not a flat.
It gives 2 Schwarz Sturm points per use, can be double tapped for a free 4 Schwarz Sturm stacks if the enemy doesn't resist Dark.
Costs are minimal.
Ranged blast.
Magic damage.
Activates Nachbeben.
Damage increases a LOT the more stacks of Shwarz Sturm it has, which is easy to obtain due to the 'bonus' this has.
???

Can we have Regenshauer's base cost reduced by 10, and Asura Fist's base cost increased by 10? FP costs are also a method of ensuring balance, remember!

Could the FP cost for resizing Create Shade be relaxed a little? It's not an attack spell hitting more targets, and it's even costless at 5 ranks.

Why does it suddenly go from 0 FP for placing illusory spectres at arm's length, to 20+ FP for placing illusory spectres around the battlefield?

When at max rank, Create Shade costs 0 FP.

However, despite it being a costless skill, increasing the size of the triangle shape still seems to add an FP cost! It doesn't seem intended for a costless skill to suddenly not be costless because you want to create your illusions a little farther apart than usual.

Isn't each increase in area size supposed to be a percentage increase in FP cost, anyway? Percentages of 0 are still 0.

Bai Kai prayer buff does not apply it's FP reduction to Invite Insanity and Aposemagika, despite those both being staple illusion spells for papilions, is it possible they could?

So, in a previous post,

"Neus"' Wrote:Time is a game mechanic and shouldn't really be dragged into this considering I've said several times it's okay to outright ignore the passage of it and trying to play it straight can be confusing for everyone involved.

I know my walls of text can be annoying to some, so let me break it down point by point and make it fast.

- Human used to be a VA
- Was persuaded to give it up because of the dangers
- Eventually became an illusionist after corruption into a Papillion.
- Still has those 35 levels in VA.
- I realized, "Theoretically, the teleports and detogates could represent altered perception of the battlefield...."

If I decided to simply have him give the illusion of the void arts and only use them mechanically (ICly concealing his position before appearing behind them as if from a voidgate, making people think they're in a different place than they really are, as if Detogating, etc,) would people get butthurt about "godmodding ways to avoid void poisoning" like some people did with Blair? Or were those people outliers and this is generally not frowned too hard upon? I honestly need to ask since public opinion shifts over time and I haven't been back all that long after a long absence outside my control.

I mean, as is, the only mechanical representations of Illusion magic are three Spellthief spells and Papillion racials, so....

Long story short, I (and a few less notable others) use macros extensively.

There are two major issues with this:

First, the 'examine' verb we have access to seems to be a separate one from the player right click menu (it asks for text, instead of a mob), and as far as I could tell, it does nothing at all.

Can we have this (apparently) useless verb removed or renamed? If not, can we at least have the player examine verb renamed so it can be macro'd?


Second, ci-close-new doesn't work on all menus, requiring a .click Close for some things (character info) and manual closing for others (examine).

Can we have ci-close-new close all open interfaces? The ones I can recall staying open are the newer displays (character info, talents, examine, etc) and the quest log thing.

After the recent change to where Chaotic Key can be placed, the menu type also seems to have been updated to the same system pvp requests use. Like pvp requests, the menu does not have layer priority over your inventory, so activating it from your inventory makes you unable to interact with the core consumption menu. Unlike pvp requests, the core consumption menu does not time out, so you have to log out to escape this lock. Doing -that- will spawn a BDP with no core, which is likely not what you wanted in the first place.

In case this is unclear, reproduce as follows:

1. Open your inventory.
2. Right click the Chaotic Key, then use it.
3. You can not interface with the menu, and are stuck until you relog staring at your inventory.

Given that this issue happens with everything involving these menus, I'd ask if it's possible for them to pop-up over inventory/character stats/laplace/etc, like the old windows used to.

EDIT: In the mean time, type use-item Chaotic-Key to get around this issue for now. Without the inventory blocking your screen, the key should function fine.