Shattered Kingdoms

Dumb idea.

I think the movement lag is a good enough "penalty". If you feel something must be changed, perhaps just add to this lag?

This would remove a nice, and valid tactic to from the game with no gains that I can see.

I don't understand what the goal of this. The only spells that benefit from moving while casting are final strike and Holy Word. As many have pointed out, final strike itself needs to be fixed. Holy Word, this is a valid tactic. What point can serve in annoying players in that every time they need to cast a spell to save time, they have to sit around and wait for it? Buffing/Refreshing while on the run is helpful in every situation, and hardly detracts from the game.

On the note of changing the game so it isn't stagnant and people leave; why not add new features to classes/races/etc. instead of changing mechanics of innocuous things, or even fix existing issues? Changing things that work properly isn't the same as "making the game new and fresh", it has the exact opposite affect by changing miniscule things that do nothing but add an annoyance.

Just so it's clear that you're actually just being a toolbag, I've never used the spell FS, and on most sorcs I roll I don't even train it.

Oh really, I remember a character griffon sorx that happened to final strike the entire MC during the Garazul opening RP, even though you had more than enough to handle us.

Rikka never final struck. You're mistaken.

If you haven't seen me fixing existing issues, you haven't been paying attention. This topic came up specifically due to me fixing an existing issue. Making this change, if I were to make it, would take 30-seconds and one-line of code, which is why I bothered to bring it up. Adding even one new skill or spell usually consumes between 1-3 days of coding time. That's not to say I don't do it, but especially when a skill/spell is only used by one new class, it's usually not the best bang for your buck.

I didn't mean to imply you weren't doing any of those things. I apologizing for coming off this way. This just seems like a ridiculous change, and I suppose I wrote that post thinking you were intent to do it instead of merely feeling how the pbase felt if it were to happen.

If I was intent on doing it, I wouldn't bother to ask. Everyone who has been around here awhile knows that too.

Yes, but:

1. Let combat casters not only keep cast-move, like Ain said, and also let them move around on their own while casting.
2. Give hellions the fear spell to make them less useless in group combat and to even out the advantage given to paladins.
3. Make it so that a non combat caster who is following someone and while casting a spell automatically aborts the spell to follow their target, at the loss of some mana.
4. Script the 'stop' command to cease spellcasting in the middle of a spell at the loss of some mana.

Allow the mana lost in situations 3 and 4 to = (X/100)Y where X is the percentage completion of the spell and Y is the mana cost of the spell in the event of a failed casting.