While were on the subject, why don't we go ahead and make a Dispel Pixie power for spellweavers. Or a command that will allow us to release all of our pixies at once rather then individually typing in each RANDOM NAME and RELEASE. Right now the only people that you will probly see using spellweaving ARE MAGES because they can mass dispel the damn pixies. There needs to be some kind of command that will allow you to release all your summons or something. Release Fey or something. It's very one dimensional right now where any other class except a mage has to drag ass in the middle of a fight for pixies to even keep up.
As for the focus disapearing when players soulstone there skills back on... BAD Idea because those out there who may ONLY have 81 spellweaving to say cast summon Fey 100% of the time will never get a focus past circle 2. I mean really, what are the chances of someone with I don't know, 50-80 skill coming across 5 other people with that. We don't all login to UO and have a rally to discuss who's template we're playing this week... Ok maybe some of us do, but a lot of us play the template we want. I do agree with tossing out the requirement to even NEED Random players for a focus. Make it skill based so if you have 20 skill and cast arcane focus you get a lvl 1... If you have 40 you get a level 2 and so on. After all, all you need is a lvl 4 focus to summon all 5 pixies anyway (80 skill for a lvl 4) if you went that route.
There needs to be a command to release pixies though, summons or a group of pets in general. Personally I would make one ONLY for summoned creatures, because it's ridiculous right now how a mage is the only class that can dispel. Chivalry you get dispel evil but it doesn't even work towards YOUR OWN... It randomly dispels around you if the targets fame is to low.
So make the arcane circle skill based for a focus rather then requiring random players to get together. Not that I never minded having to have a brief hug/chat and get together with the enemy guild that I fight in fel yew. It's ridiculous because I don't know how it is for the rest of you on Atlantic. For me it was for the majority of the time getting together with the EXACT SAME PLAYERS. There's not enough people out there to give a damn about helping somebody get a focus, even if they have a spellweaver alt they coudl easily logon. I was standing in brit a few days ago with players running right past me. I spammed in General chat as well as OVER MY CHARACTER. I stood there for 15 minutes until a few friends from an old guild I was in came and helped me. It's fukin ridiculous. I can understand how YEARS AGO spellweaving should have been like this. But there's a LOT LESS players now. Do something about it, the player population has been declining rapitdly over the years. Hypathetical situation, do you really think in 4 years when there are only at most 10 active players some random japan shard (take your pick). Do you think those 10 players will all be on at the same time to have a gathering for a god dam focus? No, because we don't all schedule our lives around one another. That being said, we shouldn't be forced to run to the same dam players because the game is losing more and more people over the years and you guys have stood by and never took action about this Arcane Focus crap.
Years down the road from now, there will be probably 10-30% less players ATLEAST playing the game right now. My point is, if you keep arcane focus working the way it does. Eventually some players on different shards won't have anybody to even get with. Forcing them to change there template even though they pay to play and pay to play a Spellwaver class. It doesn't make it any easier for us Spellweavers when we have to rely on people that JUST AREN'T THERE, and i'm not refering to that select *FEW* that are there. I'm refering to the ones that just aren't. Do something about this arcane circle crap, it has been LONG OVERDUE. I for one would like to enjoy playing a spellweaver class on a mage, OR a dexer given that I can actually RELEASE SUMMONS all at once, like a mage can mass dispel. OR Given that I can get a freaking focus to improve my spellweaving powers. After all, isn't that what an arcane focus is for? To benefit the majority of the players that play with Spellweaving? It really makes it sucky when you can't get a good focus to play with. All that being said, I can't force a "developer" or even an "Associate Producer" to listen to what i'm saying. They have to choose to listen to the positive feedback from the community, for the good of the game. I'm done, i've said my peace in many threads... Chow.
