(03-19-2023, 09:05 AM)Lammy Wrote: I may be talking out my ass but see reason with this:
Right now you cannot easily run out of mana. Even with mana absorb being a thing and null ray being an actively good skill, the rate of gaining mana is very high, making the absorb tree kind of "okay" but not "great." Because of this, Flux isn't so great unless you know cheese tactics.
My suggestions so far that come out of my head is either..
> Increase the range of mana absorb to 6x6 or 8x8
> Make Null Ray take more mana from the target.
> Make Mana take longer to replenish.
> Let Mana Absorb take more mana.
> Make Inverse Charge a rapid mana depleting skill that works as a damage over time heal for the amount of mana taken.
I don't mind regardless and I am admittedly playing Mana Absorb on my current character and would like it to be better, but it's fine if not.
This is intentional and for a damn good reason. I played a character with Mana Absorb (when it was a togglebuff rather than an aura), and it was utterly cracked. It got to the point where a lot of opponents literally couldn't do anything to me because I would just glue myself to them and kill them dead while they could barely cast any of their bad spells, let alone the ones that cost a lot of mana. I could even OOM a cosmic mage.
My build wasn't even a good use of Mana Absorb - I picked it because it was flavourful for my character, since they ate mana and hungered for the flesh of mages - yet it still fit in well. If you build with it in mind, you become mindnumbing and genuinely toxic to fight. To give an example, there was another character running around with Mana Absorb. They were a sustain build. You do the math.
Making mana absorb aura eat more mana and changing mana regeneration in general is a horrible idea. This won't encourage people to use Flux at all, because why give someone their mana back (even with a homing nuke) when you can just whittle them down while they're out of mana and unable to play the game?