New Balance Update: more adjustments and a new spell (phase 7)

[Gideon_Slack]

Originally Posted by Froste

While I'm really looking forward to this, there is one huge problem with it: Under the new mobile stalker, a gem carrier should not be affected by stalker.

Reveal is nice but it is insufficient to reveal a stalkered gem carrier; Every single hunter would have to stay close to the gate and shoot off overlapping reveals (which presents a minor issue with mana aswell), but the biggest problem comes when a reorganized attack force appears outside the gate, causing chaos and confusion, a stalkered gem carrier could easily sneak out that way. And a gem should never ever be that easy to get out.

It can easily be justified from a roleplaying aspect too, the gems being far too radiant and shiny thus being seen even if they tried to hide it.

Every defending realm should have the opportunity to retrieve their gems and I think if stalker affected gem carriers there would be feelings of utter hopelessness, that they didn't even get the chance to hit the gem carrier if he or she snuck out in that manner.

The problem with the gem carrier and Stalker seems to be the same problem with hunter pet and Stalker.

Maybe if Stalker is cast, the gem carrier, and all Pets would stay visible.

(Though maybe the Pet should just be dismissed under Stalker as it is with the new Camo. On the otherhand, perhaps the new Camo could conceal hunters, but leave their Pets visible without dismissing them).

[Froste]

That's not a problem exactly, that's is its intended function, even the pet being intended according to chilko's words. But whether it's intended or unintended that a gem carrier should be stalkered is irrelevant, because it simply shouldn't happen. You can stalker a gem carrier as long as they can't move, but once you add mobility into the mix then you can escape under it, and that just should not happen. Ever.