LeonidasKing's NcSoft Rants: Price of Summon

Price of Summoning: P.Def is intentionally decreased as a price for summoning a lion

1. Decreases P.Def

(Approximately -500 P.def for me for 2mins then it resets and debuffs again)

2. Debuff when it wears off unless resisted it is reapplied. It it does resist it will debuff again within a minute.

(If I have a penalty for summoning a Lion it should be a one time penalty, not continous)

3. Result is a continous decrease in approximately 25% of P.def

Question:

1. Do other classes have the same type of continous penalty for summoning. If so this stat debuff issue would apply to them also, and I argue in thier behalf also. If the summoning cost is not a stat debuff then you are not being consistant.

2. Dark Panther cost C crystals, with that what is your reasoning for changing it from a physical item cost to a stat penalty cost?

3. Logically in a real world scenario, go to Spock pure logic mode. Does summoning a Lion cause a decrease in a characters ability to defend himself after the distraction of the initial summoning process? I wouldn't think so. So why does it repeat.

Fix:

1. Change it back to a physical item cost.
2. Or change it to a one time p.def penalty of 2mins.

Strenght and Honor
LeonidasKing

Woudnt call that a rant. Seems fair to me, they are quite strong :p

I'm not up to date on the Lineage 2 meta game, so I may be mistaken, but from what I understand they're trying to differentiate between a tank and a DD. If you wanna tank, you do it without the summon, if you wanna DD, you do it with it.

I'd assume it's an attempt to balance OLY. Tanks were OP, especially PK's with their **** birds, but the cancel on the panther was also a game balance issue. Of course if it is an Oly balance, then having it just a one time debuff would defeat the purpose.