Polimathy edit

[Raj]

I witnessed pretty much everybody setting polimathy to (another) Karsus use, while in fact it could be used for the original purpose of giving wizard some flexibility of choice, casting some underused and situational useful PSK.

The issue with how polimathy works (can swap PSK only once every 24h real time) is that you're not going to set it to such situational PSK knowing you can have it full time on a overall useful spell: I can think of psk abj being very nice for asmo fight, but then you're missing karsus for the whole coil so the run takes longer, or layers where there's enough kb to justify ench one but you can't anticipate in advance how much it'll be a life saver and just opt for the simpler choice; in fact, pretty much all arcane psk but karsus are very situational, you don't see many sorcs selecting something that's not karsus not only because of how imbalanced karsus is, but because the alternatives don't justify a feat investment.

Long story short, if polimathy could be changed after every rest, it could give something unique to wizards (hey all of this coming from a sorc player mind you ), and now that the old related exploit is fixed there's no huge gameplay issue allowing so.

Else, back to #nerfkarsus

[Torin]

I like it. Flexibility is fun. To make casters not even more overpowered, this should be implemented with a karsus-nerf.

Edit: I search and found that the "nerf Karsus" thread was on a "wait for limbo" timer.

[FunkySwerve]

I think Limbo, future edits, and other paragon areas will render this a nonissue, but I'll keep it in mind.

Thanks,
Funky

[Yojimbo]

I would also consider blocking Polymathy from being used for Paragon's you have, no double Karsus, or adding a cooldown to Karsus to make setting it to Karsus, when you already have Karsus, a lot less enticing.

[Paradoom]

yeah right, take away the one thing that makes a wizard finally having something to compare to a sorc....

[Lee]

Feb 1, 2014 8:51:59 GMT Raj said:

Long story short, if polimathy could be changed after every rest, it could give something unique to wizards (hey all of this coming from a sorc player mind you ), and now that the old related exploit is fixed there's no huge gameplay issue allowing so.

I like the idea. It will add more flexibility to this class and make wizards more appealing to play if it is implemented.

[drunkenboastor]

Reducinbg the cooldown to 12 hours for polimathy would be much better. If you play during the same time period daily, never have a chance to change it.

[marzian]

I like the idea of being able to change it every rest for more flexibility and usefulness in any given run.

[Mister Pin]

Ditto

[desocupado]

Thumbs up for changing it every rest - Wizard should be adaptable, at least every rest.


(I'd go as far as to suggest allowing them to cast any arcane paragon spell spontaneously)

[FunkySwerve]

I'm not really keen on changing polymathy to swap-on-rest. It was debated to death when we implemented it (in several 9-10 hour long Team meetings), and I don't see that much has changed since.

Feb 3, 2014 13:16:41 GMT Yojimbo said:

I would also consider blocking Polymathy from being used for Paragon's you have, no double Karsus, or adding a cooldown to Karsus to make setting it to Karsus, when you already have Karsus, a lot less enticing.

I also think this is a bad idea. If people are picking one spell exclusively, that's a power balance issue among the spells (and one, in the case of Karsus, that I plan to deal with, as has already been discussed some).

Funky

[jeanhelixü]

I have to agree with Raj's original assessment. Polimathy is going to stay set to whichever spell is least situational. With only being able to change it once a day you can't pick a paragon useful on a particular run. So even if Karsus was removed entirely I expect that Polimathy would be set to the next most non-situational spell and left there.