Shattered Kingdoms

Not sure how often it happens nowadays, but in the past certain combinations of events could conspire to dump loads of ME on a magic user and they'd have say, 150%, instead of being properly capped at 100%. For those who need numbers as an example: Mage X gives 50 mana to Mage Y, who now has 150 of a possible 100 mana points.

Now whilst in the past / current code the very next game tick will 'fix' this anomally and return mage Y to 100%, I'd propose that such temporary highs could be allowable and potentially encouraged as part of PVP or PVE tactics. Essentially it becomes a temporary increase to the targets 'current' mana only.

Discuss:
- risks (I'd be concerned about an uber-voodoo off the top of my head)
- names for the skill
- in theme ways it could be added to the game (one or more classes? in-game group(s)?)

Just a random idea.

First thing I can see is shamans getting overcharged mana pools and using them to annoy the [REDACTED] out of people. I'd vote this down for that reason alone.

Risks can be mitigated: e.g. if this idea is confined to a theme that excludes shamans (religious spell?).

Or more simply a mana cap for voodoo. I'm in favor of keeping things simple and avoiding 'you can't do that.'

Skill name - channel.

I played around with the thesaurus and could come up with other examples, but none so simple and recognizable.

There's absolutely no good reason (aside from trying to use old broken scripts that require too much mana) For someone to be need over 100% mana at any point in time except voodoo'ing people, which is one of the lamest skills in the game.

This encroaches on a skill already in game.

Cool idea, although I'm not sure if it would work as well as it sounds.

And there are bug abuses such as removing items to go over the 100%, use the new skill, and a tick later, rinse/wash/repeating. Unless it is also time sensitive and there's sort of an internal recharge ticker happening to prevent this.

Isn't this already a skill in a certain cabal, and somewhat related to a spell for a certain religion?