Good Versus Evil

[subanark]

It would be nice if B2P was useful on its own, so I would vote to keep it preferring to find glyphs first, but past that only focus on walls and no-pass areas (say 1 glyph percast revealed until all are revealed).

I think that there needs to be less syngery between using a health potion and burning it off with B2P (not an issue with Bloodmage, since he gets all his mana back from mana pots). Maybe add a side effect of "absorbs up to your level*2 in healing received, removed on level up".

[Sidestepper]

Agree that B2P should have some sort of innate functionality beyond its meta-magic uses. It was always an annoying dud if you found it without also finding a repeatable glyph. Even the Bloodmage himself would sometimes convert it out of frustration after finding WONFAYT, WEYTWUT, BYSEPS, CYDSTEP, and then finally fireball tucked away in the last corner of the map.

What if instead of making B2P weaker, we made LEMISI stronger? Specifically, what if LEMISI granted (Level +1) health per tile? That would fill the regen-enhancer slot, and also make the dichotomy between the two glyphs stronger.

[fall_ark]

Also, now that Lifesteal+B2P synergy got thrown out, is there any plans to make B2P more....hm, flexible/versatile?

You know what, it'd be hilarious if B2P absorbs bloodpools on the ground...I can't see the idea fit in the current paradigm, mainly because Bloodmage already get Mana from bloodpools and the difficulty in targeting sequence, but it's a reasonable thought.

Wait, how about this: if you stand on a bloodpool and use B2P, it will absorb the bloodpool thus lowering the health cost in this cast.

WHOA.

[Darvin]

[The Avatar]

That does sound cool. What if it didn't give mp for the squares? Then it'd be even more of a contrast.

[Sidestepper]

[The Avatar]

But you'd be getting double health regen, while they wouldn't. It makes you basically a monk.

[Sidestepper]

[booooooze]

It appears that, at least as an assassin, poisoning an enemy that has full health causes some sort of infinite loop.

Devs, would you prefer that such reports go in bug reports or the thread for the update that seems to have caused them?

[The Avatar]

Ah, that changes things. Wouldn't be nearly so good unless it was +1 hp per level, per tile.