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Ultra Rare Token Ideas 5 years 2 weeks ago #457
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With the Lenses of Sage Speed doing basically the same thing, and Shield of the Scholar being gone for five years now, I'm coming around to the idea that offhand would be a decent spot for something like this as long as it still offers an AC bonus of some sort. Honestly I'd prefer gloves with no AC bonus since the Cabal gloves have been OOP for longer than the Shield and don't offer much bang for a scroll build when there are more AoE/multiple target scrolls being produced of late. I really like the idea of a glove that uses stones to power stuff... not sure where that idea could have possibly come from... certainly not anything like a superhero plot device or anything...  (Sidenote: Gloves that use Ioun Stones could be used for a variety of other effects and potentially provide a new transmute path to combine the effects much like the Supreme Ring of Elemental Command and Boots of the Four Winds. Maybe even add in the ability to equip a third ring in its final form in addition to its boosts. Hmmm...)If it goes into the ranged offhand, then it wouldn't hurt sets for Clerics and Paladins, who would have to stop attacking to use a scroll in combat anyway and wouldn't matter much for healing when not in combat. If it were gloves, there's no worry at all other than competing with other gloves, which to me seems like a slot that is meant to support different build options anyway. I just don't think Gloves of the Cabal are worth it to equip for a scroll build, much less force the other casters to do so when they have better build options for their class features. Whereas the Bard with its jack-of-all-trades support approach and ability to cast all scrolls makes their choice of what gloves to equip a sort of compass that points to and supports their build. I'd definitely give up my Gloves of the Cutpurse for potentially +7 damage/healing per scroll cast. But offhand is fine too. Needs the AC bonus in that case. Avatar Image by Graven, 2015. Thanks, Graven!
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Heck, I'd be fine with it as an enhanced 4pt or Relic if people think it's too powerful for a UR. 
Ultra Rare Token Ideas 5 years 2 weeks ago #458
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Ultra Rare Token Ideas 5 years 2 weeks ago #460
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Tokens that are not usable with Staffs of Focus are not must have for Wizards.
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Ultra Rare Token Ideas 5 years 2 weeks ago #461
Staff of Focus has no impact on scrolls, so for someone going down the path of a scroll-based build, why would Staff of Focus matter? Cranston's
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Ultra Rare Token Ideas 5 years 2 weeks ago #464
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To use this you would need to spend a free action to drop your staff and equip it. Then you would need to spend another free action to drop this and pick up the staff before casting again. “Scroll based builds” are still going to be casting a good amount of stuff from the charachter card. Or - at least I would like a single wizard player to state the contrary. To make an analogy, this would be like putting a retribution boosting token in the melee mainhand slot. Yes - people want to boost retribution - but they still want to make attack slides.
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Ultra Rare Token Ideas 5 years 2 weeks ago #465
Your retribution analogy is somewhat flawed. Retribution happens on the monster's turn, you still need something to do on your turn (like attack with your weapon). Whereas, in the theoretical scroll build, you are changing the focus of what you do on your turn from "cast spell from card action" for "cast spell from scroll". And most suggestions I've seen for retribution boosting have indeed been offset by reductions in melee capability (giving up slots that currently have melee boosts in them). That is similar to the tradeoff of not equipping something that boosts your normal spellcasting in order to improve your ability to cast spells from scrolls. I at least get the impression that there are some people interested in trying to get to the point where a scroll-only build is viable at Nightmare (I'll admit I think it is interesting). I think we're pretty far from there, which is why I keep suggesting that if that is what people are trying to get to that they shouldn't put new scroll boosters in the same slots as existing tokens that boost scrolls (whether they are out of print or not). I may be reading too much intent into what people are aiming for though. I totally understand that scrolls are so far behind the boosts available to card spells that few (any?) are likely to make the trade of a Staff of Focus right now. My comment of "must-have" was in the context of a scroll-focused build, which was my interpretation of what Hawk was aiming towards (which admittedly may not be the case). Cranston's
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Ultra Rare Token Ideas 5 years 2 weeks ago #467
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