Post by Delfestra Ruinvorn on Feb 17, 2007 3:01:47 GMT
I'd like to suggest that Sunbeam (level 8 wiz.sorc...something druid) be changed from Magic to Divine damage.
The reason for this...is that right now, the spell is totally useless. Its reflex, like everything else so there's no reason to use it to change save types. Also, many of the true-undead in the mod have high reflex saves *AND* evasion/improved evasion (like Ancient Guardians, and the things in the Crypt of the Bone Horde)
There's no reason to use it for magic damage when we have wilting or IGM.
There's no reason to use it for undead pre-pyramid because maxed firebrands do as much or more on true undead (tested in Gaobins)
And in the Pyramid, where the occasional insta-kill would be a cool benefit, the true undead are quite strong against magic, yet weaker against divine/positive.
And plus - themeatically, why in the world did they make it magic anyway? "Sunbeam" for an anti-undead spell has much more of a divine damage or positive damage feel to it than magic.
But I didn't suggest changing it to Positive...because then it may be unbalanced as mages would get all exotic types. If its divine, we already can do that with meteors so there's no major power change. And we wouldn't use it vs non-undead, since we'd get better damage with something else than 15d6 (as it should be).
So I'd suggest changing the damage type to divine. That may make this spell actually a preferred choice someplace, rather than in the 'never use' bin.
The reason for this...is that right now, the spell is totally useless. Its reflex, like everything else so there's no reason to use it to change save types. Also, many of the true-undead in the mod have high reflex saves *AND* evasion/improved evasion (like Ancient Guardians, and the things in the Crypt of the Bone Horde)
There's no reason to use it for magic damage when we have wilting or IGM.
There's no reason to use it for undead pre-pyramid because maxed firebrands do as much or more on true undead (tested in Gaobins)
And in the Pyramid, where the occasional insta-kill would be a cool benefit, the true undead are quite strong against magic, yet weaker against divine/positive.
And plus - themeatically, why in the world did they make it magic anyway? "Sunbeam" for an anti-undead spell has much more of a divine damage or positive damage feel to it than magic.
But I didn't suggest changing it to Positive...because then it may be unbalanced as mages would get all exotic types. If its divine, we already can do that with meteors so there's no major power change. And we wouldn't use it vs non-undead, since we'd get better damage with something else than 15d6 (as it should be).
So I'd suggest changing the damage type to divine. That may make this spell actually a preferred choice someplace, rather than in the 'never use' bin.
