[Zakizo]

Let me try to break this into parts.

Rendar » Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:55 pm[/url]"]I like the alternative actually. How would it work with multiple evokers? Would they be capable of benefiting one another? Would they be capable of breaking the other's Elemental Break?

I'm not sure how to answer this one. There are pros and cons to both, but I personally think it would be best if their Elemental Breaks were separate, like how Claret Call was changed to be.

Would it still allow for a person to knock someone into negative Elemental Resistance?

No.

I'm for it, but it raises a few issues considering where a Spell Tank falls (myself being one). I build resistance and RES to be tanky. If their first 3 spells of a category don't hurt me too much, then it progressively gets worse and worse, what exactly am I supposed to do? I'm in a permanently locked down state where them spamming spells on me reduces my elemental resistance down by 5 for that specific element. Possibly even making me WEAK to the element (which really starts wracking high damage because hello 5% extra damage before RES is applied).

Potentially you could be hitting 0 in the spell resistance, but you'd be far from locked down. It does nothing to your RES as a stat, any passive damage reduction you may have that isn't elemental resistance, and if you're a mage and having trouble damaging them back by the time they power up the status to that degree, you probably weren't going to win anyway. Creating a situation where they're encouraged to use another element could also be to your advantage.

What about multi hits like Sear?

How about making it only able to activate once per round? The cinders may raise the level on the new round, but any further hits from Fire that round won't. It should also ease the pain of elemental resistance dropping, since it won't be happening a bunch of times in one round at all (and really doesn't need to).

Sorry that I have a lot of questions Zakizo. I just want to get a full grasp of this and help it evolve into something that works for everyone involved.

It's helpful, so it's nothing to apologize for. I appreciate your input.