Kalthariam wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2023 5:35 am
Still waiting on non-warlocks, and non-palemasters to get some form of protection for their Conjurations, because it's blatantly unfair that a skill that literally anyone can access completely invalidates an entire play style of Casters, and it's super fun that anyone can scroll dozens of WOF scrolls and use them super easily to completely eliminate a 1/day cast spell without any repercussions.
Skills that literally anyone can achieve with almost zero effort should not invalidate epic feats.
Warlocks and Palemasters should not be the only two classes that get some form of protection against a level 30 commoner completely deleting your epic feats for the rest of the day.
Lionheart is a useless Sequencer spell for divine sequencers.
The Sequencer experiment as a whole is nothing but a massive waste of time and resources, there literally was nothing wrong with people being able to just buff their own conjurations, and conjurations having the lower floor of power due to it.
I couldn't agree more.
I think not being able to cast your own spells on your own summons is just, a huge mistake that should have been undone by now. Just the very basic idea of .. I have <spell>. I cast <spell> on me, it works. I cast <spell> on my friend, it works. I cast <spell> on my summon, game says no. I have the spell in my spell book, my summon needs the spell, I cannot cast my spell.
If I were a new player, I would just log out immediately after noticing that my spells don't work properly on this server and that I'm expected to step outside of my class, character and the setting to buff them with Arelith Specific Crafted Devices, but I'm not, I'm a very old player with a lot of sunk-cost fallacy and so I'd like to convince myself that we'll get through these crazy times and it will go back to normal. Much like when we experimented with "personal loot" and could all loot gold from the same corpse individually, multiplying gold generation from corpses by however many people you brought along. GODS we were all so rich, lol.
Sequencers as an idea/item themselves, not that bad alone, because they can bridge the gap between what buffs we can and can't put on summons, but not being able to use your own abilities/spells properly is just not a very fun approach to game design and balance. It's just sort of forced all summoners into being artificers, crafting, collecting and using little magic tube devices to cast spells they already know how to cast, but can't cast, because of very immersion breaking mechanics slapping us in the face.
Still to this day I don't use sequencers 90% of the time. I don't find it enjoyable, I don't want to use consumables that I have to craft/buy on my summons, that's why I made a caster in the first place .. so that I will know those spells and be able to cast them myself on my own summons. The lesser sequencers? They're fine. Easy to craft, decent buffs. If I wasn't being FORCED to use them to cast spells that I already can cast but can't cast, then instead of being little RESENT WIDGETS I might actually be able to see them for what they are, an item that buffs. But with them comes the inability to play my character properly, so I hate them.
Sorry. I know this is harsh, but it is what it is.