How Would You NERF Ursan?

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1) Add "While under the effect of a blessing, you cannot be enchanted."

2) Change "Your base energy degeneration rate of -2 cannot be modified in any way" to "Your base energy degeneration rate of -2 can only be modified negatively" (with zealous weapons, +15/-1 inscriptions, Malaise, and the like).

Do both of these, and things will change.

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Delete the skill, problem solved.

What would be interesting is doing a [spirit burn] on Ursan.
Reduce the damage output of the skills and make them cause conditions - stuff like deep wound, bleeding, cracked armour would totally fit the skill.
This way - the skills still do the same amount of damage they did before (just instead of doing 100 damage - they causes a DW which lowers the hp by 100! Or it causes bleeding which over time causes the same amount of damage as the skill did with one attack) - which means that it's not worse for a single user (where let's be honest - Ursan is quite out-shined by good skillbars!) and it nerfs the real problem - 6 Ursans. Heck the skills could actually be buffed (in terms of doing more damage when you calculate the DW and the degen conditions in!) - but since the conditions don't stack it would lower the damage output of an Ursan team!

Ohh and Ursan itself should be more costly - it should have an activation time (possibly something like 2/3 secs!) AND it shouldn't raise the energy back to max - which favors casters who have a bigger energy pool BUT they do have a lover armour rating. And possibly add a "blackout" on the whole "gains energy when attacking" (but keep the whole "gains energy when taking damage"! Since that wouldn't change anything if you only have ONE Ursan - since the guy will "tank" and gain back energy that way - but if you have 6 Ursans - that means that they ALL NEED to be taking damage to gain back some energy, especially if the skill is more costly and doesn't return the energy back to max!) for a number of seconds after you morph into the bear.

Seriously - a change to Ursan should focus on killing off the fact that the skill gets exponentially better when you have 6 Ursans - and try to not make it worse for a single user - because good builds already outshine it as it is!

That's just throwing out ideas really - since the skill shouldn't be killed! In a dying game it IS needed to keep people playing together - but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be balanced a bit.

Edit - changed the "blackout" idea since it makes more sense now.

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