<<It could logically follow from the way we disrupt area-affect spells. Instead, we disrupt area mana. You're right about right now its unconcious, but that doesn't mean from an purely IC standpoint that its impossible. Just hasn't been done yet.>>Well, Barbarians will resist area-affect spells with their MR already.
<<Can we get something that would allow us to either turn off friendly spells or use our magic restance to stop them?>>If you are in a group and someone is casting a spell that can affect the group, you can leave the group.
<<No, not with people in the room, but with the room mana itself. So it stays that way a while even after I've left or new people wander in.>><<Still, its more or less workable. How about a way to make the streams even more static while we're in the room? Basically we start disrupting patterns for all spells, personal, area and targetted? We don't just kick down the damns in our local area but we join an ecoterrorism group with a global network!>>I don't think just standing in a room should disrupt mana for game balance reasons. Resisting mana is another different issue.
Besides the mana bomb, you can also change the mana type of the room with some item. Ex-SCC Pitmaster Raellia had a few mana bombs from a previous war and I managed to test a few out after I killed her and took some of her items. Good stuff. The difference between disrupting the mana streams from within is that there really isn't any balance for that available. It'll end up causing more harm than good because there's an endless supply of you being alive (favors), so you'll always be around to disrupt every room. Think of all the streaming code that would have to change as every single Barbarian shifts from room to room, thus changing each separate mana levels per each room -- that makes it a possible resource hog. Mana bombs are not endless in supply, they are finite. That makes them more easily balanced in the overall perspective of the game. Even though there is history of Barbarians using mana bombs, if they ever were live and usable again in DR, I think Thieves and Traders should also know how to make a mana bomb besides Barbarians.
It would be nice if it were possible to make mana bombs for all three of those guilds and possibly be sold in Vishlan's shop eventually.
<<I could see mana disruption becoming the effect of a meditation.>>Depends on the direction the Barbarian Team wants to go with meditations. I see meditations mostly as affecting the Barbarian from within, instead of affecting his/her outward presence (which is what intimidation roars do).
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