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Classleads News Post #140

Psions.

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Addressed to: Everyone


Psion is getting its own post here because there are a few things to unpack. The spoiler is that Psion is now influenced by rebounding, but there were a fair few considerations here which guided implementation:
- Avoiding players from having to collect all new lines for Psion attacks if they just want to carry on mostly as they were. As many of you know, Psion attacks have the strike built into the message.
- Making it clear what attack rebounded for people who care about that at high levels of play.
- Not impacting Psion finishers/late game.
- Making reflections not as powerful vs Psion.

To that end:
- The following Psion weapons now all hit and reflect off of aura of rebounding:
* Backhand
* Overhand
* Deathblow
* Lightsteal
* Exsanguinate
* Hamstring
* Puncture
* Sever
Note: unweaves and flurry do not rebound. This is by design. Miriads do not rebound (we could add this, but I feel this is fine to keep the ability strong as its not overperforming at all currently). Attacks that rebound do not fire the prepare (we could, but again: I feel that would be too punishing at an initial pass).

The lines for all these attacks remain unchanged, but there are new lines for each of them when they rebound. If you don't care, no new lines required here. If you do, they're there. The line for sever and hamstring is the same currently, just differentiated on the limb (arms for sever, legs for hamstring).

Additional changes:
* Cleave now strips rebounding alongside shield. It does not prone when it only strips rebounding, but does whenever a shield is stripped (whether in isolation or alongside the rebounding).
* Small cleave message change when it strips something. The miss message remains as-is.
* New prepare: INSUBSTANTIAL. This bypasses auras of rebounding and reflections at the cost of the prepare hit.


Let me know if anything looks off!

Penned by My hand on the 20th of Ero, in the year 970 AF.


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Classleads News Post #140

Psions.

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Addressed to: Everyone


Psion is getting its own post here because there are a few things to unpack. The spoiler is that Psion is now influenced by rebounding, but there were a fair few considerations here which guided implementation:
- Avoiding players from having to collect all new lines for Psion attacks if they just want to carry on mostly as they were. As many of you know, Psion attacks have the strike built into the message.
- Making it clear what attack rebounded for people who care about that at high levels of play.
- Not impacting Psion finishers/late game.
- Making reflections not as powerful vs Psion.

To that end:
- The following Psion weapons now all hit and reflect off of aura of rebounding:
* Backhand
* Overhand
* Deathblow
* Lightsteal
* Exsanguinate
* Hamstring
* Puncture
* Sever
Note: unweaves and flurry do not rebound. This is by design. Miriads do not rebound (we could add this, but I feel this is fine to keep the ability strong as its not overperforming at all currently). Attacks that rebound do not fire the prepare (we could, but again: I feel that would be too punishing at an initial pass).

The lines for all these attacks remain unchanged, but there are new lines for each of them when they rebound. If you don't care, no new lines required here. If you do, they're there. The line for sever and hamstring is the same currently, just differentiated on the limb (arms for sever, legs for hamstring).

Additional changes:
* Cleave now strips rebounding alongside shield. It does not prone when it only strips rebounding, but does whenever a shield is stripped (whether in isolation or alongside the rebounding).
* Small cleave message change when it strips something. The miss message remains as-is.
* New prepare: INSUBSTANTIAL. This bypasses auras of rebounding and reflections at the cost of the prepare hit.


Let me know if anything looks off!

Penned by My hand on the 20th of Ero, in the year 970 AF.


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