- Proposal
- Create a new 'carbonite injection' ability that lets you freeze the duration of certain buffs(and fill) for a limited duration, until combat is entered, or a craft is performed.
- Justification
- People buff up for different events: instance runs, pvp, crafting, etc. Then they waste buff time going to that location, waiting on other people, talking strategy, etc. This aims to remove that wasted buff time.
- Motivation
- A limited duration pause on certain buffs will allow players to buff up, and then take their time getting ready for the action still. If someone DCs landing on mustafar, you're not out 3 minutes waiting for them to load back in. You don't need a buffhouse for pvp.
This proposal is very light on the details, those are something the developers and senate should decide on with restrictions, duration, etc. If you can see any form of this idea that would work, please upvote. Below are a few possible restrictions to address the common concerns I could think of:
What buffs? A couple rules could help here. The buff has to have a duration >= 5 minutes to qualify(so no wafer/cob/etc). Pups are excluded. Could just exclude 'non-biological' buffs, so no power up items(pups or otherwise).
People could just chain carbonite injection to keep buffs ready forever. If this is a concern, a carbonite withdrawl could be added as a debuff for an equal duration to the freeze upon the freeze ending so its not chainable.
The real situation I see this helping with is pvp. Get your inspiration, your doc buffs, pop your long foods, let your fill decay to optimal point, then freeze your buffs there. Get a X time to wait for content without depleting your buff/having to rebuff.
What buffs? A couple rules could help here. The buff has to have a duration >= 5 minutes to qualify(so no wafer/cob/etc). Pups are excluded. Could just exclude 'non-biological' buffs, so no power up items(pups or otherwise).
People could just chain carbonite injection to keep buffs ready forever. If this is a concern, a carbonite withdrawl could be added as a debuff for an equal duration to the freeze upon the freeze ending so its not chainable.
The real situation I see this helping with is pvp. Get your inspiration, your doc buffs, pop your long foods, let your fill decay to optimal point, then freeze your buffs there. Get a X time to wait for content without depleting your buff/having to rebuff.
