I've reduced Whispers of the Muse to only boost your top crafting skill and to only cost one spell slot. While this isn't a straight nerf (The slot cost reduction is fairly significant), I won't pretend that it isn't mostly a nerf. So why is it being done? Because it was becoming a fairly gnarly design constraint. For example, does this mean Empaths and Traders (the other lore primary guilds) could be able to boost all the crafting skills too? Does that take the form of five different spells where you pick the one you want? Or do they get a "top two" design as well? What happens when all the lore primary guilds all have boosts for all the crafting skills on top of the other lore perks for crafting (More hobbies and careers, primary skill set, skills in their SoI for boosting), is that piling too much on to make non-lore primes viable as crafters?
The answer to many of those questions is unclear, but the fact is that Whispers of the Muse as it stood was setting the baseline too high. This also encourages a Bard to seek out others for their crafting boosts (as those come on line) if they choose to train more than one crafting skill which was a scenario that would essentially never arise before.
(This will be live in once Test is back up, since it seems to be down right now, and I notice long enough to roll in the new version).
-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
