I think that the extreme rarity of time crystals has made timestop useless for normal play.
I understand the reasoning behind it. However, I believe that instead of letting the spell retire into the ways of Knock and Gust of wind (which after several tests I believe do nothing these days) - I suggest that the problem, the spell itself, should be modified a final time.
In other pvp servers I've played on, Timestop was not a win button. It simply mobilized all pc's and npcs in its radius with a cutscene & gave them all complete spell & damage immunity, making them invulnerable to harm for the duration. The 9th level spell compensated the caster by making them invisible to see invis, and give them the ability to move - mostly used to run away as fast as they can, as far as they can, while the rest of us stand still. Since the mage has technically moved outside time, he or she cannot harm anyone still in it. Like being in a skin-tight bubble, the mage can only affect himself.
In exchange, I think that the timestop crystals could be restored to their old drop-rate. The spell would no longer be an I win button only worthwhile to use in the thunderdome, but would become a part of a cautious mages spellbook in case they needed to run away - like the spell was intended to be all along.
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Knock should be almost useless... at least I hope it is.
Gust of Wind... well, it's a low level spell so its not really that great. Should be able to remove Grease and Stonehold a few other spell AoE cast by PCs.
Interesting idea on Timestop though...
Gust of Wind... well, it's a low level spell so its not really that great. Should be able to remove Grease and Stonehold a few other spell AoE cast by PCs.
Interesting idea on Timestop though...
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Damage Die on Damage spells adjusted for the maxed HP players take at every level.
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Funny...on my personal mule alone I have entire coffers of time crystals.
I'll trade them, 1 crystal for 1 +4 book.

I'll trade them, 1 crystal for 1 +4 book.

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I would say {CLAD} in general has a decent stockpile of time crystals. I would consider trades for them as well.
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i have a couple mules full as well...seems like all the cool people just dont use timestop in the first place 

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