11-17-2016, 06:44 AM
While it's good to know exactly what's effected, that comprehensive list doesn't reflect reality very well. Enemies won't flatfoot you then skip to remove the debuff, so unless someone is intentionally harming themselves the statuses listed here that actually have this issue currently are:
Black Wind
Quick Draw
Snatch Spell
Shaded
Swaying
Geist Schritt
And that's why I assume the original suggestion leaned towards hardcoding the change to some things in particular, not a large sweeping change to all until next turn statuses. Because I (and likely many others) certainly didn't know about all of these. But if the ones I listed above were changed to behave similarly to Guard, it would fix this specific exploitative behavior of Skip and allow us to focus on Skip in general later. If, however, the time to axe the trait is now, the least we can do is make sure it doesn't come back equally -- or even more -- oppressive.
Black Wind
Quick Draw
Snatch Spell
Shaded
Swaying
Geist Schritt
And that's why I assume the original suggestion leaned towards hardcoding the change to some things in particular, not a large sweeping change to all until next turn statuses. Because I (and likely many others) certainly didn't know about all of these. But if the ones I listed above were changed to behave similarly to Guard, it would fix this specific exploitative behavior of Skip and allow us to focus on Skip in general later. If, however, the time to axe the trait is now, the least we can do is make sure it doesn't come back equally -- or even more -- oppressive.
