World Alternate Soul Point Use

Right now, soul points are great. They stop you from dropping everything at the cost of two of them, you can use one to go someplace with a Teleportaion scroll, and you get one every in game morning. But that's all they do. Wouldn't it be great if they did more? Say, if you could buff your character with them? Well that my friends is what I am suggesting here!

The main idea: What if you the ability to temporarily buff yourself by using one or more soul points?

Function: for the cost of one liquified emerald, (Subject to change) the player can buy an item from an NPC that would allow them to "destroy" a soul point to give themselves a huge buff which can stack if multiple Soul Points are used.
What is the buff?: If one Soul point is used, for ten seconds, the player will get ten skill points put into each skill, a number of positive potion effects, such as speed boost, jump boost, strength, and saturation (and possibly night vision), along with the attack speed f their weapon lowering by one tier. For each Soul Point used after, five seconds are added to the clock, another ten Skill Points are added to each skill, and a level is added to the potion effects (possibly with jump and speed boost capping out so that it doesn't become uncontrollable.), along with the attack speed tier being lowered.
Added buff: Once Five soul points are used, the player will gain a low damaging aura starting at 3x3 blocks, and growing two blocks every two Soul points used, with the player always being at the center.

Debuffs: (for balance) when a Soul Point is "destroyed" the player gets a weak poison, not enough to kill them, but enough for it to be a risk. The poison increases the more Soul Points the player uses as it increases in level along side the other potion effects. Also, one the time is up, the soul points used to 2-4x (subject to change) longer to regenerate, this also applies to off line time. On top of all that. If the player dies while buffed by this, they will drop their inventory. No matter how many Soul Points Are remaining.

Thank you for reading my suggestion, feel free to comment, critisize, and leave suggestion as to how this can be improved!

 

I feel like the whole point of soul points is a death tracker. Making them actually do stuff kind of ruins the point. In my opinion its enough that they are used for tp scrolls and making guilds (actually the guild one is fine)

I personally find it annoying when I have to tp all over and end up with like 4 points remaining.

 

I'm not completely sure, if i should like this suggetion or not, give me some time ;)
Beside this, I think, it is kinda too OP. U are talking about a debuff, thats a good balance, but still, +10 on ever skill is especially at the beginning way to much, so hard bosses would become easy as hell.

 

The debuff with poison is decent but lose all ur items if u die is a giant no on my part. Besides 10 seconds of stuff for 1 le + a soul point, i'd rather use that 1 le to fix my skill points or buy stuff that i can get a better use out of.

The idea was cool and all, but i don't like it, it's not balanced at all (there are way to many debuffs in this)

 

Also, do you get the soul point back after the time runs out? And you said you need an NPC to do it. By the time you get into battle the time is already up.

 

Well, he said, that u need a NPC to buy the item which then allows u do do this stuff.

 

oops I missed that

 

I somewhat meant it to help with bosses. It's meant to be a last resort, though you can start a battle with it. It's kind of a gamble, you'll either succeed and beat the boss, or you'll die and loose everything (this second chance increases if you rush in blind). Plus, if you do succeed, you aren't getting those soul points back for quite some time, furthering the risk of using it if in a very difficult area.

Like a stated above, it's a gamble, a risk and reward option. And you wouldn't have to use it either if you wish to spend the money on something else. I do see where your coming from, as this would definitly not be an item for everyone.

I meant as in you buy an item from an NPC. You would buy the item from an NPC, and carry it with you, allowing the player to use it when they wish.

(Got ninja'd while writing this part)

 

Dang, moved three pages back in less than a day. Bump.

 

10 seconds for 1 LE?!

 

This I totally agree with :/
I got into a fight with amadel yesterday not realizing i had 3 sp
If it was 2......*shudder*
I hope they could make it to a chance, like 20% of not using sp when teleporting with scrolls

 

With ten points to all skills, increased speed, jump height, attack strength, and a faster attack speed that stacks if more are used, yes.

 

And to make this under powered, add the thing where for the next amount of days in wc, (same amount of soul points you used) you do not gain a soul point, so you have to wait 2x the time

 

I'm lost. The idea was that for each SP you use you have to wait longer than you normally would be to get it back. So instead of waiting 30 minutes, you'd wait an hour or less to get back the Soul Point you use. If you lose any after the buff, it would take the average time for those to regen. That way the delay would only effect those that where used the buff.

Are you saying the extended time makes it underpowered, or that a further time extension should be added to balance it?

 

Not the best idea ...