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[hellison]

(This will only be relevant to mudders)

Go me! It's only taken... 9 years! Tho that was partly because of the pointlessness of advancing ring/amulet ;p



======SKILLS======================================================================
magic.............. 281/ 50 mastered | | | enchanting... 322/ 50 mastered
| spells........... 334/ 50 mastered | | | evoking...... 119/ 50 mastered
| | offensive...... 322/300 mastered | | | healing...... 52/ 50 mastered
| | defensive...... 400/300 mastered | | | scrying...... 64/ 50 mastered
| | misc........... 300/300 mastered | | spiritual...... 148/ 50 mastered
| | special........ 314/300 mastered | | | abjuring..... 80/ 50 mastered
| methods.......... 183/ 50 mastered | | | banishing.... 84/ 50 mastered
| | elemental...... 130/ 50 mastered | | | conjuring.... 133/ 50 mastered
| | | air.......... 173/ 50 mastered | | | divining..... 117/ 50 mastered
| | | earth........ 76/ 50 mastered | | | summoning.... 330/ 50 mastered
| | | fire......... 152/ 50 mastered | items............ 198/ 50 mastered
| | | water........ 122/ 50 mastered | | held........... 112/ 50 mastered
| | mental......... 240/ 50 mastered | | | wand......... 50/ 50 mastered
| | | animating.... 120/ 50 mastered | | | rod.......... 50/ 50 mastered
| | | channeling... 306/300 mastered | | | staff........ 50/ 50 mastered
| | | charming..... 340/300 mastered | | | broom........ 300/300 mastered
| | | convoking.... 95/ 50 mastered | | worn........... 300/ 50 mastered
| | | cursing...... 340/300 mastered | | | amulet....... 300/300 mastered
| | physical....... 214/ 50 mastered | | | ring......... 300/300 mastered
| | | binding...... 254/ 50 mastered | | scroll......... 80/ 50 mastered
| | | brewing...... 300/300 mastered | | talisman....... 300/300 mastered
| | | chanting..... 304/300 mastered | points........... 412/300 mastered
| | | dancing...... 300/300 mastered



Now what?

Comments

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

I remember several very long conversations with Woom and others, trying to brainstorm for anything useful ring could do for witches. Making or repairing other rings would seem to override people like the Silver Star, and trying to find something headological that was useful didn't fly very well etc. The best that anyone could really suggest at the time was rings that used a ring check when you used them, that was hard (so you needed mad sk1llz), but which suited witches for some reason. And, uh, yeah. That was about it.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember having similar discussions with Tilly a long long time ago, and the problem is that ring just doesn't fit with witch magic, as far as we could see. There's very little in disc-style you could apply it to.

Summoning would make a *much* better witch primary, or even earth, which oddly is more used in wizardry than witching despite the 'magic out of the ground, not the sky' thing.

I'm not sure why it was ever made a witch primary. Hmm. Maybe Gruper might know, since he seems to be Back now.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

I imagine that, once people realized ring was poo, there was a reticence to change the primaries because that would give witches 3 of the 5 needed for DKDD, and I have vague memories that people hated the time when witches were better at casting DKDD than the whinging bags of flesh and frocks.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously we can't go round upsetting the fatboys, the sheer weight of the whines could crash the disc...

But having summoning, or enchanting, or even one of the elementals would seem to make so much more *sense*, rather than one that is never used at all. Of course expecting sense is silly anyway ;p