The Spirit Realm

Gonna go ahead and put up some numbers, in Lucy format for lack of anything better please feel free to comment on suggested tweaks here and there.

Tygyr's Insects

2: Decrease attack speed by 75%
3: Increase Disease Counter by 24

Mana: 450
Skill: Alteration
Casting Time: 1.5
Recast Time: 2.25
Fizzle Time: 2.25
Resist: Magic
Resist Adjust: -60
Range: 200
Location: Any
Time of Day: Any
Dispellable: No
Deletable: No
Dot Stacking: Yes
Interruptable: Yes
Short Buff Box: No
Target Type: Single
Spell Type: Detrimental
Category: Slow [Single]

Classes: SHM/75
Duration: 6.5 mins
Items with spell: Spell: Tygyr's Insects

Cast on you: You feel drowsy.
Cast on other: Soandso yawns.
Wears off: You feel less drowsy.



Thoughts? Suggested Tweaks?

This looks good with me. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

I have a TA, and I have to agree with Aruman -- at least on the cast time. Pure speculation, of course, but the idea might go over better with The Powers That Be if it were a 3-second cast.

The resist mod is the same as Balance of Discord, so I am unsure as to why it would be too high. That could also be because it is past my bedtime for Sunday night. Perhaps another post tomorrow, post-coffee.

The way I see it, about the only way to obsolete the TA is to make an AA that accomplishes all the same things a TA can -- chain-castable, no spell gem, mana-free, long-lasting.

Since this thread is about consolidating SPELL slows, I'd suggest keeping references to the TA separate. They are different issues.

Consolidating Balance and Turgur's into one line results in a different spell that still won't completely obsolete the TA. Close, but not completely.

It's pretty simple what we're suggesting here; there aren't very many variations. And the Devs are and have been fully aware of this request for awhile. Post the proposal and make a wish, but don't hold your breath. And get on with the game. This topic brings "beating a dead horse" to a whole new level.

I have 7 upgrades from PoTime so far (including the TA), out of four clears. Obviously many in my guild alliance already have much better items than will drop in Time (even I have a couple of slots that nothing in Time would upgrade and several where a time drop would only be minor upgrade), or else I would not have been able to get so many items in so short a time. Some of those folks (many of whom are also raiding Qvic and just got into Tacvi) are still hoping for time_drop_01, though, and a few have been able to get the item they were wanting. Some of you may think that Time is old and outdated, but it's still a fun zone to raid and Time is still candyland for the casual player (even thought it might not be for the hard-core player).