Shattered Kingdoms

Give them an energy hide, or scale their water hide to have AC comparable with the other elementals, and we'll be in business.

Are you directing that at myself or Chem? I think they should be able to purchase store-bought pets for the reason I listed, a benefit that all other classes sans scouts enjoy.

Make warlocks a cloth class, give a slight concentration penalty to holding elementals then perhaps a store bought pet can be justified.

Warlocks are fine as they are. Just make sure you create a good combo and there you go. There are other classes in the game that need more tweaking than warlocks.

It was directed to you. I hoped you might realize that the lack of store-bought pets isn't the problem, the fact that any shaman or sorc can cast a fairly quick spell and make them completely vulnerable is.

I agree that is a problem, I'm also stating that until that is fixed giving them a store bought pet would save them more times than not when such a scenario does occur.

Just give them a master lvl skill of innate mp penetration that only applies to their spells (not staves/wands). Then they will be useful in PK again. Also, make the elementals all scale with lvl. So you can actually make a choice on which elemental to use.

They already scale with level, at GM all your elementals have the same HP/ME/PE, the only difference is their hides/immunities and in the water elementals case, reach. The reason water elementals suck is because they have a water hide, not because they have less HP.

Although I'm not sure if this is possible, if you wanted magma cling damage to do "less damage per burn but the same damage over time," then you'd have to make the burns factor -less- of the target's MP than it used to.

For example, if burns now occur say, 10 times per tick as opposed to one burn on the tick, then the burn should only factor in 1/10 of the target's MP. Otherwise, the damage will never be the same unless the target is not wearing any pieces with magical protection on them.

I'm not sure if this sort of change is possible to implement (In fact, I doubt it) but it seems like the only way to make cling work "correctly" with its current mechanics. It seems that the original idea for magma to do "less damage per burn but the same damage over time" didn't work.

See this thread. http://www.shatteredkingdoms.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16682


Also, in a separate thread