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Classleads News Post #139

Classleads.

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2025
Addressed to: Everyone


The first batch of classleads from this round are here! As always if you notice anything odd or behaving out of the ordinary, just drop me a message and I'll look into it. More to come soon, but:

Aeonics
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* The DISTORTION falloff in affectiveness now respects max age, so higher age will have it kick in later.

Anathema
--------
* HORROR is now a lobelia cure rather than a goldenseal one.

Bladedance
----------
* EARWORM's 3p cure line has changed, as it was overlapping with RETRIBUTION's one.

Devotion
--------
* PIETY has had its eq cost reduced.
* You can now RECLAIM the rites of mutual allies.
* Rites of CONVOCATION no longer have the increased decay aspect of rites when the caster is out of room.

Domination
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* DANAEUS now actively gives clumsiness on command instead of vertigo.

Duress
------
* PRESSURE now hinders SHINDO BOUNDING similar to other leap style abilities.

Formulation
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* You can no longer throw phials into indoors rooms while flying, you fiends.

Metamorphosis
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* Augmented WYVERN MAULs will now bypass shield of absorption style effects against prone targets.

Necromancy
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* GRAVEHANDS now has a 3p message when it stops someone leaving.

Physiology
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* TORSO now fires on elevation changes such as flight along with standard movement attempts.

Shindo
------
* BURST now does more damage/bleed against someone with a damaged head. This does stack with the prone bonus but has diminishing returns.

Spirituality
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* SMITE limb damage has been increased.

Tarot
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* RUINATE has been sped up.
* RUINATE CREATOR is no longer a channel, but still has a delay.
* The dreaded RUINATE WHEEL AEON is no more. It now blacks out instead. This might be fairly lackluster now, but I think will have some more value once the other reports go in this round (note: message change on wheel final stage, just be aware).

Telepathy
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* Custom emotes are now suppressed to witnessers under MIND ISOLATE.

Twoarts
-------
* DRAWSLASH limb damage no longer scales to max health.

Weaponmastery
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* (Dual Cutting): RAZESLASH now has a negative speed modifier (so its slower, still scales with weapon speed but worse than other attacks).
* (Two Handed): OVERWHELM's window of opportunity has been made slightly longer.

Zeal
----
* New ability: ORATION.

Misc
----
* You now see when (and how much) limb damage you have taken, if it is not hidden in some manner (i.e. blackout for example).
* Denizen shields now have a line when they drop through various hidden means.
* Nausea passive damage reduced pretty significantly. This actually received a stealth buff (not by design) when the unblockable damage changes went in, so the overcorrection here was a little more significant than I anticipated. I've increased the tick rate slightly (ten seconds to nine), but overall dps is down somewhat and burst is down significantly. Nutrition damage is unchanged for now, but I'll keep an eye on it.
* Applying salves while afflicted with slickness now doesn't show a 3p message.
* Removing TANKS via DISARM or CAPTURE mechanics now respect more safe commands during their mandatory channel actions.
* Passive curing messaging has been rewritten, so please let me know if you see anything odd as a result. As a consequence, there is now a message when generosity cures someone of an affliction:
- When generosity cures someone of something, they see a special 1p message and everyone else sees the 3p message of the passive curing source (so no new 3p lines), but you'll know it was generosity that cured you).
- If it only has a 1p (we don't have many of these left, but there are some), you only get a 1p when generosity cures you - the room sees nothing.
- There is now a 2p message to the person afflicted with generosity when that generosity causes them to passively heal someone else.
- All generosity lines are only shown if a heal actually takes place. To minimise spam, if generosity blocks your passive cure but does not heal anyone, no lines are shown.

Enjoy!

Penned by My hand on the 5th of Daedalan, in the year 970 AF.


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Classleads News Post #139

Classleads.

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2025
Addressed to: Everyone


The first batch of classleads from this round are here! As always if you notice anything odd or behaving out of the ordinary, just drop me a message and I'll look into it. More to come soon, but:

Aeonics
-------
* The DISTORTION falloff in affectiveness now respects max age, so higher age will have it kick in later.

Anathema
--------
* HORROR is now a lobelia cure rather than a goldenseal one.

Bladedance
----------
* EARWORM's 3p cure line has changed, as it was overlapping with RETRIBUTION's one.

Devotion
--------
* PIETY has had its eq cost reduced.
* You can now RECLAIM the rites of mutual allies.
* Rites of CONVOCATION no longer have the increased decay aspect of rites when the caster is out of room.

Domination
----------
* DANAEUS now actively gives clumsiness on command instead of vertigo.

Duress
------
* PRESSURE now hinders SHINDO BOUNDING similar to other leap style abilities.

Formulation
-----------
* You can no longer throw phials into indoors rooms while flying, you fiends.

Metamorphosis
-------------
* Augmented WYVERN MAULs will now bypass shield of absorption style effects against prone targets.

Necromancy
----------
* GRAVEHANDS now has a 3p message when it stops someone leaving.

Physiology
----------
* TORSO now fires on elevation changes such as flight along with standard movement attempts.

Shindo
------
* BURST now does more damage/bleed against someone with a damaged head. This does stack with the prone bonus but has diminishing returns.

Spirituality
------------
* SMITE limb damage has been increased.

Tarot
-----
* RUINATE has been sped up.
* RUINATE CREATOR is no longer a channel, but still has a delay.
* The dreaded RUINATE WHEEL AEON is no more. It now blacks out instead. This might be fairly lackluster now, but I think will have some more value once the other reports go in this round (note: message change on wheel final stage, just be aware).

Telepathy
---------
* Custom emotes are now suppressed to witnessers under MIND ISOLATE.

Twoarts
-------
* DRAWSLASH limb damage no longer scales to max health.

Weaponmastery
------------
* (Dual Cutting): RAZESLASH now has a negative speed modifier (so its slower, still scales with weapon speed but worse than other attacks).
* (Two Handed): OVERWHELM's window of opportunity has been made slightly longer.

Zeal
----
* New ability: ORATION.

Misc
----
* You now see when (and how much) limb damage you have taken, if it is not hidden in some manner (i.e. blackout for example).
* Denizen shields now have a line when they drop through various hidden means.
* Nausea passive damage reduced pretty significantly. This actually received a stealth buff (not by design) when the unblockable damage changes went in, so the overcorrection here was a little more significant than I anticipated. I've increased the tick rate slightly (ten seconds to nine), but overall dps is down somewhat and burst is down significantly. Nutrition damage is unchanged for now, but I'll keep an eye on it.
* Applying salves while afflicted with slickness now doesn't show a 3p message.
* Removing TANKS via DISARM or CAPTURE mechanics now respect more safe commands during their mandatory channel actions.
* Passive curing messaging has been rewritten, so please let me know if you see anything odd as a result. As a consequence, there is now a message when generosity cures someone of an affliction:
- When generosity cures someone of something, they see a special 1p message and everyone else sees the 3p message of the passive curing source (so no new 3p lines), but you'll know it was generosity that cured you).
- If it only has a 1p (we don't have many of these left, but there are some), you only get a 1p when generosity cures you - the room sees nothing.
- There is now a 2p message to the person afflicted with generosity when that generosity causes them to passively heal someone else.
- All generosity lines are only shown if a heal actually takes place. To minimise spam, if generosity blocks your passive cure but does not heal anyone, no lines are shown.

Enjoy!

Penned by My hand on the 5th of Daedalan, in the year 970 AF.


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