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<p>Created page with &quot;```Originally Posted : Fri Nov 03 12:29:04 2023 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Marisil &lt;br&gt;Title : Herbalist Refactor &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Greetings,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Herbal...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>```Originally Posted : Fri Nov 03 12:29:04 2023 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Marisil &lt;br&gt;Title : Herbalist Refactor &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Greetings,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Herbalist utmahi poison and blowgun functionality has&lt;br&gt;been reworked in an effort to prevent out-of-room DoT&lt;br&gt;cheese, while also removing the hard cap that had been&lt;br&gt;introduced at first for addressing said cheese. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- The hard cap on utmahi poison level has been removed&lt;br&gt; and a diminishing returns curve is now used instead.&lt;br&gt; In the interest of full transparency, the curve can&lt;br&gt; be seen here:&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=log%28x%5E%28x%5E0.48%29%29+from+1+to&lt;br&gt;+1000&lt;br&gt; Each elapsed round of poison damage wil lower the&lt;br&gt; curve slightly. Out-of-room poison damage is still&lt;br&gt; reduced by 33%, just like it used to be.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; ** This formula may be tweaked depending on what we&lt;br&gt; observe as players try it out **&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- The &quot;apply&quot; skill is no longer actively used to &lt;br&gt; poison darts. When the Herbalist uses the&lt;br&gt; &quot;shoot poison at target&quot; syntax, the dart will be&lt;br&gt; automatically poisoned with the chosen herb. The&lt;br&gt; level of the poisoning will be randomized as per the&lt;br&gt; usual Tsu skill-roll logic (i.e. based on the level&lt;br&gt; of the Herbalist's &quot;apply&quot; skill).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- Since darts are now auto-poisoned when fired from&lt;br&gt; the blowgun, the dart indicator in the Herbalist's&lt;br&gt; HP line has been simplified to only show the count&lt;br&gt; of darts.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;- The maximum duration for utmahi poison has been&lt;br&gt; reduced from 10 rounds to 6.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; ** This may be tweaked depending on what we&lt;br&gt; observe as players try it out **&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;- Utmahi dose may now be stacked, deending on the&lt;br&gt; character level of the Herbalist. The formula for&lt;br&gt; maximum doses on a single target is:&lt;br&gt; 2 + (Herbalist_total_level / 10)&lt;br&gt; Stacking doses increases the damage-per-round but&lt;br&gt; also reduces the total duration by one round per &lt;br&gt; stack. Adding another dose to a target resets the&lt;br&gt; &quot;rounds elapsed&quot; counter to one, thus refreshing &lt;br&gt; the countdown even though the max duration is &lt;br&gt; lowered. The idea is that this stacking method can&lt;br&gt; be used to &quot;front-load&quot; the poison damage instead &lt;br&gt; of waiting for a longer period of time for all the&lt;br&gt; damage of individual doses to run their course.&lt;br&gt; Each stack beyond the first is added at 1/2 its &lt;br&gt; actual strength. i.e. if the first dose was 300 &lt;br&gt; and you added another dose of 300, the total poison &lt;br&gt; level on the target would then be 450.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; ** These formulas may be tweaked depending on what &lt;br&gt; we observe as players try it out **&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;- Firing a dart from the blowgun nowimmobilizes the&lt;br&gt; Herbalist for one round while he recovers his breath.&lt;br&gt; Firing two unpoisoned darts in one round will only&lt;br&gt; immobilize for one round, not two, however.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;- Two bugs were fixed in the process of working on&lt;br&gt; this:&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 1. Using the blowgun no longer gives the target&lt;br&gt; a free round of combat hits (this was happening&lt;br&gt; even when the Herbalist was already in combat&lt;br&gt; with the target). Like all other hitback, the&lt;br&gt; target will get one and only one strike *if*&lt;br&gt; the blowgun is used on the target outside of&lt;br&gt; combat.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 2. Using the blowgun no longer checks intimidate&lt;br&gt; against targets that the Herbalist is already&lt;br&gt; fighting. Previously it *always* had to &lt;br&gt; overcome intimidate, thus sometimes preventing &lt;br&gt; the Herbalist from shooting a target that was &lt;br&gt; already attacking him in combat.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; ```&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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