Make Stonehand duration scale with STR

[fossil stump]

The problem
Being a 1v1 BP is kind off bad at lower levels. The grind is a pain. You use a ton of food if you dont have stonehand active. But as 1v1 stonehand has a duration of 1 to 2 minutes. This way you either have to cast it a lot or spend a lot of food. Same issue with STR based Aoe BPs. While not game breaking, it does end up being frustrating and could use some QoL.

The solution
Make stonehands duration scale with both STR and INT. Skills like burst crack already incorporate a scaling system based on the formula (STR * 4.4 + INT * 1.4). Therefore, it would be beneficial to implement a similar scaling mechanism for stonehand. Currently, stonehand's formula relies solely on INT, but a suggestion would be to modify it to (INT * 2 + STR * 1.5) for a more balanced effect. This way INT still provides the highest duration of stonehand, however 1v1 BP's and STR AoE BP can level with lower food costs and 1v1 BP's in dungeons can also AOE and provide stun without having to recast stonehand mid AOE's

[strong ice]

+1, it's just annoying, nothing else

[pastel saffron]

Also prevention, so str aoe can use it

[slate lake]

Maybe make both stonehand and prev last 10mins without any scaling

[gloomy night]

And also make prevention castable (is it a word?) using knuckles.

[gloomy night]

This would be a great buff but some kids would cry about it being op for pvp. Despite Prevention already being super bad in pvp anyway

[fossil stump]

personally think every self buff could just auto cast and last 1 hour until they introduce a "passive skill" system. Don't see any reason to recast something every couple minutes

[earnest vector]

Making prevention auto cast and last an hour is the worst recommendation I’ve heard in a while

[fossil stump]

well that one might be the exception. but things like perfect block. Or if you have a selection, make them a toggle (things like rage and the enchant buffs from jesters)

[strong ice]

ah yes, prevention, the skill known for not being active at all times
functionally 0 difference
But in typical brandon fashion only a thinly veiled insult with zero substance as to how, why or what would be better

the mild inconvenience of pressing the button must be preserved at all costs

[earnest vector]

Proc’ing a prevention in pvp and it auto casting again would be a game destroying mechanic. You have a weird obsession with commenting on everything I say like it’s some sort of attack on your livelihood, some fan behavior if I’ve ever seen it.

[gloomy night]

Might aswell give rms shield, you can’t just have it all.

[sleek sail]

prevention gets forgotten like all the time lmao. it's crazy how short prev's cooldown is considering cheat death abilities generally have very long CDs.

[worldly socket]

makes bps broken in pvp

[slate lake]

The thread is about Stonehand though so please don’t make it a PvP balance topic.

[fossil stump]

exactly. And balancing in PvP and PvE can be handled differently. Spells do work that way. Mostly it's just a QoL change for BPs

[gloomy night]

Nope you can’t ask the game to make it a different set-up for pvp and pve. It’s meant as a high heal skill which isn’t really meant for a none-tank support class in general. Don’t you even realize how unfair that’s gonna be for other damage dealing class? Next time if you want balance make sure that applies for the overall balance within each classes.

[fossil stump]

This isn't a thread about prevention. This is a thread about stone hand and it's not a balance change, it's a QoL change. It won't break the class. The prevention thing is a different argument.
Personally I think you could give it a CD of a couple seconds and make that 1+ minutes in PvP, then it doesn't matter if it's casted using a knuckle. But this isn't what this thread is about. BPs can get hate for all their flaws somewhere else.

[gloomy night]

? Bye

[fossil stump]

@gloomy night and literally the post underneath so uh.. yeah bye?

[crude moss]

Great idea! Also I would add that would be extremely nice if we could cast Prevention with Knuckle, not Stick… when we have a element stone on we simply can’t use Prevention because if we switch to the Stick we loose the element stone… it would be amazing and fair to cast prevention with knuckle @fossil stump

[earnest vector]

Pvp castable prevention with knuckle makes almost no down time with prevention virtually unplayable for any character that’s not a bp

[fossil stump]

which is why you can add CDs.. but again, not what this thread is about.

[earnest vector]

Changing skills effects both pve and pvp so pvp is always apart of the convo

[formal meteor]

passive prevention will destroy every mechanics and allow to cast on knuckle. think about this wear shield w/ reflect and knuckle then AOE monster in lower area to annoy lower player then after gather all monster, AFK and now no monster in that area and that monster reset timer because of reflect shield and because prevention is auto cast, you can AFK and annoy everyone you like. happy recommendation LOL