Let all realms have access to same charges.

There are two main charges that some realms have access to and some don't. I feel like a good change would be to normalise and let every realm have access to the same charges. Let's start by comparing the two big ones.

1. Power charges
- Currently each realm has a 20% power charge use able by their main healers/armor of main healers
- Hib has a 50power charge for everyone else
- Mid has a 70power charge for everyone else
-Alb does not have a power charge for everyone else

2. AOE dd charge
- Currently every realm has access to a pbae dd charge through DF
- Mid has access to a 350 radius rechargeable aoe dd charge
- Hib has access to a one time use 350radius dd charge dropped from an SI boss
- Alb does not have an aoe dd charge.

I think these two effect rvr the most and my suggestion would be to give everyone access to the same thing. Let hib mid alb get 70power charge, and let hib mid alb all get a 350radius aoe dd charge that's rechargeable.

Solution: Add these items through bits and pieces at the very least so people can craft them similar to the current reactive procs (heal,ablative, dmg add)

There are other items that are not the same either by looking at the list (some heal charges) but I want to start off the discussion with the two big high impact ones that effect rvr the most. I would like people to comment if they agree, disagree, and why.

Fri 1 Mar 2019 6:20 AM by Mesmer

Per the released official broadsword item DB, there's no such thing as an AOE DD charge from pre-TOA. The necklace on Phoenix that's currently set to AE DD is supposed to be a PBAE effect.

Fri 1 Mar 2019 6:35 AM by jelzinga_EU

While I'm not against normalizing this I'm going to play devils advocate for a minute. Whenever insta AoE amnesia comes around, celerity, bolt-range AoE-mezz, insta mezz, stun and root the discussion almost always boils down to: The realms are not supposed to be the same.

Once you start tinkering around by balancing charges (which is a part of the balance albeit a small one) you open up debate about other stuff too. Why does the realm with the highest AF (Albion) have access to AF-debuffs, widening the gap even more? While Albion might not have a power-charge (besides alchemy pots) for their casters, they do have access to a necromancer power-transfer. I'm sure similar cases can be made for a lot of balancing which aren't related to charges (no shield-spec on Mid light-tanks, no insta off-evade stuns for Mid stealthers, baseline castable dmg-add/haste on Albion).

The charges are a small change, but at the same time it doesn't make sense to tweak around with small changes when even the big lines aren't balanced. If anything, they add variety and spice up the fights. It is highly doubtful a single item in here makes that much of a difference that they decide the outcome of a fight or a reason to migrate to another realm.

Fri 1 Mar 2019 7:15 AM by defiasbandit

Can anyone link the AoE DD charge.

Fri 1 Mar 2019 8:01 AM by Sepplord

just to clarify a few points:
Midgard does not have access to the AOE charge, only healers do since it is an offensive charge (needs to be equipped) on a healer only item. It's not like we can build fullgroups AOE-charging down zergs.

It is also on a Necklace, meaning to have it in temp you forfeit the free high UT SI necklace

Can'T link though, sorry defias, i don't remember the itemname. You can find it on the feathermerchants though if you want to search for it

PS: this is just adding information, not gonna delve into the balance discussion as it is too big of a scope to only look at individual availabilities when the balance across all realms is incredibly asymmetrical anyways