General Voidal Amendments
The purpose of this submission is to address some issues/clarifications that exist within several different void magic pieces. The reason why this is all within one post rather than three or four separate posts is because some of the changes (being only to one spell or addition to a redline) felt so tiny that it would be an honest waste of a post (and that it should just be brought up to an LT manager instead).
Fire Evocation
The changes to fire evocation come into the three spells: Flame Trail, Blue Flame, and Combustion. One of the amendments comes from the fact that I simply asked myself the question and saw there was no answer, while the other two are for balance/improvements to the spell due to it’s under use.
Blue Fire
Combustion
Flametrail
Air Evocation
The only spell that will be changed within Air Evocation is the spell Redirect. Having read over basic arminates I noticed that there is a specific weapon (hand crossbows/small crossbows- whatever you wish to call them) have the same emote count as bows/longbows, yet the spell redirect by it’s mechanics can not deficit them. This means that (in the imperfect world we leave in), any wise ‘range bow user’ would default to this weapon. Thus this change acts as a way to balance out the spell against this counter. ((screen shots to show the mechanics between a short bow and the hand crossbow are provided below)).
Redirect
Water Evocation
The change to water evocation is the same as mentioned above in the changes to Air Evocation. Simply adding that hand crossbows and other armaments that take 3 emotes or less to use can be affected by the spell for simple balance purposes.
Water Shield
Translocation
My favorite magic, because teleportation cheese is funny. However, this sweet baby has it’s flaws. This change comes SADLY after a funny discussion in the mage’s guild chat where I point out to Kalheart that after you place your anchor, you can move out of it’s placement range and then teleport to it (to which he then sends me a screen shot of me saying ‘if it is stupid, the answer is no). So it is with a heavy heart, and love for kalheart that I suggest this amendment to the holy grail of General Redlines for Translocation.
Ending Notes
Overall, this piece is once again, my attempt to try and fix existing issues that I have personally noticed within evocations. A lot of small things really that I am sure I could just mention in the dms of an ST, but considering that such could be seen as rude, I decided this approach was a better way to go about it. Thus this piece exists as a method to balance.