I rarely use it, but I'll put Seers, CoL, and Teleport.

I tend to load it up with Shear (maybe a PSY) during spars. I don't bother the rest of the time.

-Artificer Nilassa

>Moon Blade has two purposes for me, 1) A weapon I can use that doesn't kill things quickly so its good for ambush training and 2)slivers to use for TKT/TKS ammo.

It's also nice if you're worried about dying and dropping a weapon.

-Artificer Nilassa

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Prolly a good idea even if you have contingency, as a light stun will put you in a very bad position but won't necessarily trigger contingency. Though oddly enough the deadlier creatures get the less useful contingency is. Irony at its best.
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I just use it if a date starts going downhill. Foots her with the bill too!

I used to love contingency until I started hunting armadillo. Since their webs trigger contingency, it kind of ruins the hunting experience.

Moonblade is currently slated to wind up an Esoteric Utility spell. I might bump that down to Advanced, but only if I spin out the spell-holding stuff into yet another metaspell.

On the plus side, Moonblade and the Warrior Mage weapon creation spells will be updated to use the new weapon templates (which did not happen as automatically as I thought it would). So it'll be comparable to lower end forging or the kind of stuff at the festival. Still far less than a good forged weapon, but should look a bit better than now.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

>>Moonblade is currently slated to wind up an Esoteric Utility spell. I might bump that down to Advanced, but only if I spin out the spell-holding stuff into yet another metaspell.

>>On the plus side, Moonblade and the Warrior Mage weapon creation spells will be updated to use the new weapon templates (which did not happen as automatically as I thought it would). So it'll be comparable to lower end forging or the kind of stuff at the festival. Still far less than a good forged weapon, but should look a bit better than now.

First, I would also like to say thankyou for all the work you've done. Seeing a moonblade in action was one of the first things that attracted me to the guild when I was new to the game, and it has only gotten better and better over the years. I'm certain that whatever you decide is going to be good. Thanks for the consideration with bumping it down to advanced from esoteric.

-While were on the subject-

Is it possible for lunar shards to be used with the moonblade spell like they work for IOE in the future?

-And secondly-

Is it possible for a light thrown version of a moonblade to re-appear? The steelstar spell was maybe the coolest spell the guild ever had imho. It might have been too powerful with the dazzle combination, but it was just incredibly awesome and stylish. It was removed from the game before I was a high enough circle to learn it and I have always felt I missed out. Any sort of reincarnation for the spell would be amazing. Either way, with a meta spell for moonblade or with a spell all on its own, I would bet every moon mage who uses combat would go for it.

>>(this is my answer to Invocation of the Spheres as well).

Invocation of the Spheres?

>>This reminds me...might there be any spell and/or rune/scroll/device in magic 3.0 that allows a MM to resist frostbite?

Part of the system overhaul solves the long standing problem that led to us making AoEs immune to being shut down by barriers. In Brave New Magic Shear works just fine to protect you from Frostbite (but it will still affect anyone else in the room that didn't bring their own mittens and wards).

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

>>There's no plans for that at the moment, and I'm moving away from lunar shards working as a moon substitute in general.

I like this. I've never been a huge fan of carrying around components for a spell. It typically just means I will never cast the spell.

>>The moons are supposed to be a Big Deal, and if this is problematic I'd rather look at tweaking the orbits than circumventing the system

Wow, fascinating. I've always thought the orbits were pretty good for the use of moonbeams to get around. But I can't say I've been that happy with them for IOE.

I imagine if this were to happen, it would take the form of something like Xibar speeding way up? Or would you consider allowing us to make use of moons sometime before/after they've actually risen/set? (I.e., stretching the "up" time and shrinking the "down" time.)

I'm guessing the chance of either of these happening is slim. I was just curious.


-- Player of Eyuve

>>I imagine if this were to happen, it would take the form of something like Xibar speeding way up? Or would you consider allowing us to make use of moons sometime before/after they've actually risen/set? (I.e., stretching the "up" time and shrinking the "down" time.)

I don't have any serious plans yet, though the one time I discussed this with some people with better math skills than I, the thought was to slow one moon way down and speed another up.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

>>I don't have any serious plans yet, though the one time I discussed this with some people with better math skills than I, the thought was to slow one moon way down and speed another up.

Yeah, that is precisely what I was thinking would work best.

Also, it would help to incorporate the sun/planets more too, which I think you mentioned was on the table for IOS.

I would love a sunblade. Just saying.


-- Player of Eyuve

>However, this is exactly the sort of thing that is not my forte, so the going will be slow on it.

... Armfer is human?

LIES!

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>>I wouldn't alter planetary orbits, but the current logic for determining if planets are "up" visually is insane and bears no relationship to... well, anything.

As someone who has painstakingly tracked the planets for the past 3-4 months to update elanthipedia... I am painfully aware.

>>Something passingly more realistic would open up a lot more planets to observation / IOTS reliably.

You have won my heart.


-- Player of Eyuve

>>I tried a year ago and it ended up making me weep.

Yeah, it's tough. Thankfully I just have a script that I fire off whenever I log in, and whenever I notice a change from day to night (or vice versa). It got a bit tough there for a while during the fest though, so there's going to be a little gap there...

>>(Now lets watch Armifer change and fix everything so we have to remeasure).

I have ZERO problem with Armifer making things better. :)


-- Player of Eyuve

MB and Rend are both battle spells, so they are actually silly choices since it takes such of a short amount of time to prepare. I just hate empower moonblade since it doesn't store spell power, even if it helped out 50% or something it would be nice.