I don't feel it's fair at all. It feels like cheating to me. -pray already exists and it's more than enough. I'd hate to see rods of 1 use/rest mindblank, but I agree it would be better than this.Aelryn Bloodmoon wrote: ↑Sun Jul 08, 2018 5:02 amI believe a lot of good points and ideas are coming of this thread, although I echo the sentiment that we could all probably be a little nicer. I am, for my part, attempting to convey my points as related to mechanics in an atmosphere of "logically, if this, then shouldn't it be this?" and not be combative.
Coming at this from another angle, I still think the ability to drink a clarity potion while under the effects of conditions that should render you actionless steps into -pray territory, which is basically divine intervention.
I would rather vendors sell rods of lesser mind blank (1/rest) that anyone could use than have clarity potions exist at all.
1: Breachable
2: Lasts longer and can be worn pre-emptively for combat, PvE or PvP.
3: Costs more than 100 gold, but doesn't break the bank for most at midrange levels, either.
You can already pray out of whatever you want, why does there need to be a weak potion that you can drink when you shouldn't be able to? Why does it need to be unbreachable?
I haven't seen any argument for it except that 'it invalidates my build' otherwise. Why isn't that build a bad build then? My build is called bad if it has a weakness, why not yours? I don't have disc and so I have a bad build. You don't have will and so you have a bad build? No. You don't have will and so now everyone can drink clarity potions while incapacitated. What!
I don't feel it belongs or makes any sense. You're not being 'insta-killed' as a melee (or whatever build has low will) you have a bunch of HP, you can wait until you're low hp and pray (like everyone does). The clarity thing is totally unnecessary. A mage can't -pray out of KD and generally has less HP so the -pray is much more catering to those who would be at risk of being stopped by a single spell.
It's like there are two mechanics in place to remedy the same issue. -pray already solves any problem I've heard come up with the removal of this clarity nonsense. The potions should be breachable and not usable after the fact, because -pray exists.
My solution.
It becomes breachable.
It cannot be drank while under the effects of a spell that incapacitate your character (duh).