mps wrote:I'm a bit puzzled by this post. You claim not to have used it, with the rationale being that you didn't see any value in it on characters who could've gotten it easily and thought it was too costly on characters for whom a real investment would be necessary. In the very next sentence, you suggest that you'd need to nerf it (and how would you nerf darkness? make it reduce LoS only by 1? decrease its duration?) to reduce the level.
No. The experience you report suggests that the level is too high for a niche effect. Please use the spell before suggesting that it be nerfed.
Bleh, it was stupid for me to say it should be nerfed. I've never used it, and I only know about its effect from the description and the wiki. I just thought that it was made a level 7 spell for a good reason that I wasn't seeing. After all, the devs are players too, and they're better at this than I am. If it's too weak, it's too weak, and should be changed to a level 6 spell. I'll try to pick it up the next time I play a stabber.
I also should have added that I don't bother with it because I have access to a Lantern, cBlink, and/or Dithmenos when I find it. To me, these make the effect redundant. Reworking it so that it's useful and castable to a player who doesn't have those things when it's found would make me more likely to use it at some point.