Hello! I had a brainstorm recently, and wondered if something like this might fit into the upcoming paladin rewrite. Paladins often have some serious problems at-level doing damage at range because we lack a native ranged buff spell. Grapple helps a lot, but there are plenty of spells and abilities available to every guild that break grapple with no skill/stat contest at all (halo, suplex, etc), and also some abilties granted by items or moon mage and thief guildmasters that break grapple and instantly teleport the user to range. Khri vanish does this instantly while both whole displacement and khri intimidate pulse this effect. In a game where advancing to melee takes 12 seconds or so while retreating to range is instant, and in the name of balance, I would like to propose a paladin ability that instantly teleports to melee, and pulses this effect. We could call it "Enrage" and it could be a debil spell or glyph with the contest of, say, charm or fear vs will. A glyph would take away a long prep time in favor of a cooldown or something, though a spell could work as well.

While we're at it, how about making smite ignore shield and evasion, lol?

I love the enrage concept. This is a constant issue in PVP, hadn't really thought about how it takes time to engage but no time to retreat. Definitely a disadvantage for our guild in particular because of the lack of range buffs, perception tert, etc... And yeah, when one finally manages to wrangle an elusive player into grapple, a simple suplex (that I've never seen fail) breaks the lock and provides the opportunity to escape. Pulsing direct to melee and/or pole would be great, perhaps the distance you close could depend some sort of logic, so it isn't always one or the other. Perhaps whatever the formula is thats used to affect if CRC prevents retreating?