Shattered Kingdoms

I do not think you know this but the overworld map is divided into many, many areas. The easiest way to check if you have moved into a different area (as a pc) is to use the weather command. It's sort of funny that the weather can be so drastically different from one room to another.

I specifically addressed this because I know any character needed to use it. Poltergeist sucks down whatever you have available. It splits ME and PE to start and then just uses more of the other once you run out of the first.

Update: We did something about it.

Yes, it is a bit harder to parry with massive weapons. Did I forget to mention that earlier? My bad. It's not nearly as bad a penalty though as your target gets to try to parry a massive weapon.

We'll probably tweak it again tonight and on-going if necessary.

Awesomeness. My only tweak that takes it from like "meh/potentially abusable" to "win" would be adding a "you start to concentrate"-like pause on the pointing at the item and then it moving. Make it along the lines of a delay equal to a resurrection. Something that is a longer cast time than spirit sight + exorcism, so exorcism can be used to counter it in a pvp-situation. Like, "You point at %" (x seconds later) "% starts floatingblahblah" - and don't even let the concentration start until combat ends. This would prevent the major abuses I can think of.

This isn't really true, since afaik you can keep recalling and each time you recall you will have the opportunity to save against the spell. If you have ten recall vials on you, you will have ten attempts to save against the spell. Plus, any class with access to scrolls can teleport away. Other classes have access to dispel (though admittedly I remember my max art sorcerer blowing through his -entire- mana pool trying to dispel that spell).

Code update looks pretty good. My initial reaction to poltergeist was similar to reader's. I would recommend putting a very large lag on this ability, possibly a lag that precedes the use of the ability instead of following it.

Since IMMs are reading this thread, I guess I'll take this opportunity to point out that the save for charm person is still broken. It's the hardest spell in the game to save against, and also the most devastating spell in the game when it lands. Why should these two priveleges be held by the same spell? I think the save for it is broken because of the part of the code that makes charisma of the caster affect its success rate. I don't understand why charm person is 10x easier to land than petrification. Could an IMM please take a look at this spell and verify/deny my assertion that the save is out of line with other spells?

I really dislike the change to inn rooms and I am wondering what the Immortals are trying to accomplish with it. Maybe then it would make more sense.

I don't see what makes the capital inns superior to any other inn. An inn is an inn. I'd think it would be a good thing for players to be able to find a place to rest and recover while they are scattered throughout the realms instead of having to stay anchored to the capital.

Also, I don't know about the others but the Hart and Rose used to have multiple rooms with the regen bonus. Now there is one. That room is already annoying with how crowded it is and now it is going to get worse.

Yeah, you made WoF completely useless now.

As D said, tweaking is still going on in relation to the latest changes - give it a day or two.