We're pleased to bring you the first batch of classleads for the second quarter of 2018. There are some pretty significant ones in this batch, so we will be closely monitoring them to ensure no problems arise. Here are the changes:

Aeonics
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* The balance knock of DISTORTION has been reduced.
* DISTORTION while the caster is not aged has the standard room hinder fire rate instead of the slightly reduced one of previously.
* AEON now has a delay on the speed being stripped. This should always happen before you recover balance if you are the one doing the stripping of the speed.

Crystalism
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* HARMONY's passive curing aspect now has a less consistent tick rate (it will fire less often).

Formulation
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* INCENDIARY ticks will no longer trigger deliverance.
* CONCUSSIVE now diminishes in potency for each person it throws from a location. So each subsequent person has a less likely chance of being thrown, essentially.
* MAYOLOGY now extends your herb and elixir balance when it is active.

Healing
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* SPIRITLASH has been sped up.

Metamorphosis
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* MIGHT has been sped up.
* AMBUSH has been slightly sped up.

Necromancy
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* The windup period of BLACKWIND has been increased slightly.

Occultism
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* The windup period of ASTRALFORM has been increased slightly.
* PINCHAURA SPEED now has a delay on the speed being stripped. This should always happen before you recover balance if you are the one doing the stripping of the speed.

Propagation
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* PROPAGATE is no longer an aggressive action.
* PROPAGATE has had its cooldown reduced.
* When in VIRIDIAN form, Sylvan's gain access to ENVENOM natively.

Puppetry
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* SLOW now has a delay on the speed being stripped. This should always happen before you recover balance if you are the one doing the stripping of the speed.

Shadowmancy
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* TIMELOOP will only boost instills if the instill user was the one to deliver the timeloop affliction.
* REDEEM now only wipes the shadow some of the time. If you possess the artefact phylactery, this chance is reduced to 0.
* ARTEFACT PHYLACTERIES now add a chance for the shadow not to fade when utilising SHADOW STEP.

Subterfuge
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* PINSHOT has had its fire rate increased slightly, to bring it in line with other room hinders.

Spirituality
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* Afflictions from allies no longer have reduced scaling for the purposes of ANGEL SAP.

Swashbuckling
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* HEARTSFURY is no longer strippable.

Tarot
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* AEON now has a delay on the speed being stripped. This should always happen before you recover balance if you are the one doing the stripping of the speed.
* You may now ACTIVATE HERMIT <tag> to tag a hermit card with a specific tag. You may then FLING HERMIT AT GROUND <tag> to specify that hermit in particular. This does not interfere with the old hermit syntax/useage - that still works the same.
* ACTIVATE HERMIT will now pick an unset hermit in your inventory if possible. If all of the hermits in your inventory are set already, it will pick the first one it finds as previously.
* The HERMITS output now shows the tag for a hermit if set.

Voicecraft
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* LIMERICK and EPIC have been removed from the list of songs that SONGBIRD can cause to happen passively.

Vodun
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* SLOW now has a delay on the speed being stripped. This should always happen before you recover balance if you are the one doing the stripping of the speed.

Misc
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* Various room hinders now fire less aggressively if the caster is out of the effect's room. Those affected are: AEONICS DISTORTION, DEVOTION PIETY, NECROMANCY GRAVEHANDS, and SUBTERFUGE PINSHOT.
* In light of the delay on speed being stripped, speeds time to come up as been halved to maintain the status quo for these mechanics. This does have some consequences, but they're positive ones.
* Improved how serverside curing handles the speed defence.
* DIVE no longer acts as a bypass method for the TENSION affliction.

Enjoy!

Penned by My hand on the 1st of Ero, in the year 769 AF.