Pick Your Poison Removal
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Hello, it's Nerina here! In this blog post, we're gonna talk about the changes in the poison curing abilities I've been working with this week. Previously, we've had remove poison and poison immunity at the same level, but after discussing it among the staff, we decided it'd be more fitting to have remove poison slightly lower level (available in secondaries) while poison immunity would be available only in the primary guilds. Thus, it was decided to lower the level of remove poison to 10, while poison immunity would become a lvl 15 ability, to reflect its position in the biomancer guild. We then had to adjust the level of weaken poison, which logically was dropped to lvl 5. The next task was to go through all the other poison curing abilities and adjust them to match.

The New Groupings

  • low level weakens
    • chi relaxation
    • distant weaken poison
    • slow poison
    • weaken poison
    • leeching
  • moderate level removals
    • ablution
    • cleansing earth
    • neutralize poison
    • remove poison
    • cautery
    • cure poison
  • high level immunities
    • moxibustion
    • poison immunity
    • resist poison

Poison Ability Changes

Ability costs shifted to reflect their new relative power levels. We also made sure to take into account the impact of component requirements, alignment and similar mechanics that impact spell cost. The mechanics of a few abilities were changed slightly to match better with other members of the category. For example chi relaxation was upgraded to the same effect as weaken poison, cautery got upgraded to a remove poison effect and cleansing earth traded its 'rocky terrains' restriction to 'outdoors'.

  • ablution
    • spell point cost reduced to 65 from 75
    • spell level reduced from 16 to 9
  • chi relaxation
    • spell point cost reduced to 10 from 50
    • endurance point cost reduced from 25 to 5
    • spell level reduced to 5 from 7
  • cleansing earth
    • spell point cost reduced from 100 to 60
    • spell level reduced from 14 to 9
    • rounds to cast reduced to 3 from 6
  • distant weaken poison
    • spell point cost reduced to 100 from 25
    • spell level reduced to 13 from 10
  • moxibustion
    • spell point cost reduced to 130 to 200
    • endurance point cost reduced to 65 from 100
  • neutralize poison
    • spell point cost reduced to 65 from 100
    • spell level reduced to 9 from 14
  • poison immunity
    • spell level increased to 15 from 14
  • remove poison
    • spell level decreased to 9 from 14
  • resist poison
    • spell level increased to 15 from 13
  • slow poison
    • spell point cost reduced to 16 from 86
  • weaken poison
    • spell point cost reduced to 25 from 86
  • cautery
    • endurance point cost increased to 45 from 10
    • rounds to cast increased to 3 from 2
  • cure poison
    • endurance point cost increased to 38 from 30
    • rounds to cast decreased to 3 from 5
  • leeching
    • endurance point cost reduced to 9 from 43
    • skill level reduced to 5 from 7

Non-Poison Abilities with Changes

While looking through the guilds to shift down the newly lower level poison abilities, I came across a prime guild spell that, for some reason, had too low a level marked for it. I fixed it while I was at it.

  • minor phlegm
    • spell level increased to 15 from 13

Shifts within Guilds

  • Assassin
    • cure poison drops to 15 from 16
  • Bard
    • cure poison drops to 12 from 16
  • Biomancer
    • mana save drops to 4 from 6
    • cautery rises to 10 from 9
    • anatomy drops to 9 from 13
    • weaken poison drops to 6 from 11
    • solidity drops to 7 from 8
    • shelter drops to 8 from 10
    • remove poison drops to 11 from 14
  • Center Chi Master
    • spirit eye drops to 7 from 12
    • chi relaxation drops to 5 from 7
  • Dakini
    • leeching drops to 5 from 9
  • Necromancer
    • remove poison drops to 11 from 14
  • Psionicist
    • gains resist poison at 15
  • Ranger
    • cure poison drops to 15 from 17
  • Templar
    • ablution drops to 15 from 16
  • Toximancer
    • weaken poison drops to 6 from 7
    • distant weaken poison rises to 12 from 9
    • loses poison immunity
  • Witch
    • weaken poison drops to 5 from 11
  • Yamabushi
    • cleansing earth drops to 10 from 14

Isn't there something missing?

Is there something that escapes your notice? That's right: there is a single poison curing ability that didn't get an update this time. Brew milk drink is standing by, patiently waiting for the promised Druid updates. Don't worry folks, the druid changes are on their way, and brew milk drink will be updated as a part of them. Meanwhile, everything else concerning curing poison or poison immunity should now have their levels and costs comparable to other abilities with the same effect. I'm hoping this will make some of the less appreciated spells more useful. Until next time!