Shattered Kingdoms

A few ideas Ive had. Make it only hurt every second lyric tick do double current damage.
Or
I wouldnt mind the damage being focused in the first half of the cling. So double damage for the first 1/4 of it then normal damage for the next half (almost negated by mp). Then half damage for the last half of the spell (will almost always be negated by PM. Should not be too over powering early because there is still a lot of damage left in the remained of the spell.
Makes it more effective in combat and less effective after combat is over. With out the numbers I cant say this is a good idea but it seems reasonable based on what I have seen percentage wise (might be to powerful vs casters)

Changing the way the spell tick damage works fundamentally seems like shooting pigeons with cannons to me... Just make the tick damage, and only the tick damage...ignore MP...

I doubt the tick damage is so much that it will immensely overpowered...if it is, then lower the tick damage slightly, and make it ignore mp... Seems to me (no coding experience though, so what do I know...) to be a much easier solution...

Probably will be shot for saying this but...

Why not make it an "I win spell." Just like petrification and finger of death can instantly kill you, throwing a huge glob of magma (unless your sprite) should also be able to kill stuff. I mean even immortals die to magma (Not magma spray just magma). It is a high enough spell for it to be an "I win spell" Also much like finger if you 1/2 fail the spell you know the target it pretty hurt. This way there is not secondary damage.

And I know petrification has a counter so its not truly an "I win spell" but it can kill you.

that would be called magma blast, I think. Magma spray never struck me as an oncoming wave of molten rock, just something like a garden hose filled with lava squirted at you for maybe half a second. Hence magma Spray, not magma blast or magma rocket or magma bomb or magma *ssf*cker.

I have an idea. Make magma spray lower your magical protection since there's magma all over your goddamned armor. Just make it so it can't go below 0, because 0 would be when you're armorless.

Problem solved?

Not really. You are going to see more DoT spells eventually. The solution should be something that works for all of them, not just magma spray.

DoT? Death on touch?

My suggestion would be have DoT spells immune to mp (the DoT portion) and lower the damage slightly. If someone gets hit by something. MP should only affect the first portion of the damage.

I dont think MP immunity is a fair call. Reason being some people have 50 MP suits should they be hurt the same as someone with 10 mp suit. Have ones MP dropped by expected duration. DoT spell = 15 hits. Then the first one hits you at -14 Mp second one at -13 third at -12 ... last at full MP. (This is a concept numbers may need to be tweaked depending on what actual numbers are). Or the reverse of this causing a spell to drain away your MP as it lingers (ie starts at no mod each hit MP is reduced by one). I dont like the second idea because it will prove much less useful in combat.

DoT = Damage over Time is I am not mistaken.