Abyss Ambulator
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Joined: Friday, 18th April 2014, 01:41
Buff Sif a little
1. Channeling is kind of bad (except maybe on the very first few floors of the dungeon once you get Sif) when compared to other methods of MP recovery like CBoE or Vehumet. It's a little more reliable, sure, but unfortunately you have to waste turns doing it, unlike how you can cast spells for positive MP with Veh. A low-moderate evo CBoE is probably better. It's not the most exciting use of invo ever, but to me that sort of thing is forgivable if it's a good enough effect. It's also not great because almost all characters should train evo a good amount so it's sort of more "natural" to use something like a CBoE than it would be to train invo.
2. Book gifts are too slow.
3. Piety gain is sort of awkward because you need to train spell schools a lot to start getting gifts when you should probably be training fighting and evasion instead, this is related to (2.)
Here are some ways in which I think this could be improved:
1. Add a double channeling ability at 6* that channels with 2d( 2 + invo/4) or whatever the formula is with a cost of 1-2 piety. This should put it on par with other sources of MP regain at least and give you something to do with your piety besides forget spells.
2. Instead of 1., make Sif not use invocations at all and just scale channeling with piety.
3. Sif gives you a boost to INT that can be invoked for piety, sort of like vitalize. This is sort of stepping on Zin's toes I guess but I don't think a whole lot of people go with Zin to be able to boost their INT.
4. Instead of 3. just make it passive depending on piety, this steps on Chei's toes but I don't care because Chei sucks.
5. You could probably sort of improve the gifting system by doing away with book gifts and having a "spell library" system, where sif adds spells to your library, and one may also pray over books in LoS to add the spells in that book to their library, destroying the book. You will get all spells in the game available much sooner this way so it's quite a buff. But I think it's also neat and less clunky than the book thing especially if you walk around with a full inventory and don't want to drop stuff to pick up a book gift repeatedly.
6. At max piety allow the player to receive a single staff of their choice as a gift (excluding energy maybe). People will probably just choose their elemental staff or |conj, but there are some times where they may want |wiz I guess.
Hopefully this improves sif's powers a bit while avoiding the "Sif's design space is that of a simple magic god so we don't want anything complicated" problem.
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