Spell Proposal: Abduction

[tasonir]

Abduction: Pull an enemy closer to you. Translocations, probably level 5-6, but vary it as needed.

Basically a blink other closer to you. Useful for bringing ranged threats up close to a melee character. Not sure just how powerful to make it from a balance standpoint - should the mob always end up in melee range, have a chance to be one space away, etc. How resistible should it be? I'd like to see something that could work all game long, of course, so probably make it HD-resistible rather than MR? It should probably have some chance to fail, but ideally with high translocations skill it would be nearly a sure thing.

Could make it harder to pull heavier mobs (do mobs have weight? if not, use size?) like apportation.


*Yes this is totally based on the abduct spell added to starcraft 2. I think it translates really well to crawl too

[tasonir]

Except it's single target, more reliable, and available to everyone. I mean, Mahkleb has minor destruction but I haven't seen stone arrow and throw frost removed from the game either.

And who would be crazy enough to actually play a god that forbids haste? That would be stupid, really.

[rebthor]

So we had chain lightning, we recently got force push and now we need force pull, is that what you're saying? Jedi class here we come!

[BlackSheep]

Hmm, would force choke be ranged constrict?

[mumra]

Hmm, would force choke be ranged constrict?

Another one for the Crawl fetishists

[twelwe]

Abduction: Pull an enemy closer to you. Translocations, probably level 5-6, but vary it as needed.

Basically a blink other closer to you. Useful for bringing ranged threats up close to a melee character. Not sure just how powerful to make it from a balance standpoint - should the mob always end up in melee range, have a chance to be one space away, etc. How resistible should it be? I'd like to see something that could work all game long, of course, so probably make it HD-resistible rather than MR? It should probably have some chance to fail, but ideally with high translocations skill it would be nearly a sure thing.

Could make it harder to pull heavier mobs (do mobs have weight? if not, use size?) like apportation.


*Yes this is totally based on the abduct spell added to starcraft 2. I think it translates really well to crawl too

a player blink other close spell is already being discussed by the dev team

[sgrunt]

a player blink other close spell is already being discussed by the dev team

It is?

[tasonir]

I certainly hope so, it's a great tool which is kind of oddly missing once you think about the possibilities there. Kind of surprised it took me this long to think about it any links to where they're discussing it, or has it not be written up yet?