Arcane Mimic Bugs -> Features

[Firemind]

Notice: Bugs are possible, report if found. Spells and abilities  themselves should not be changed and are to be considered as they are  usually in efu, such as spell targeting. Self-only spells are self-only,  and so on. Failure to report bugs such as these and intentional  self-benefitting abuse of said bugs , is a valid reason for imminent  retirement of the character.

This is only going to make people less likely to take advantage of what is one of the most brilliant perks out there in the NWN experience.  There are -two- spells bugged that allow non-self-only castings, and one of them is a fairly useless spell.  Let them do it.

It doesn't break the game.  Does it make Arcane Mimics better?  Yes.  So what?  They're awesome custom content and everyone should be encouraged to take advantage of the hard work likely put into scripting them.

Arcane Mimics are situational anyway.  Great support over a long event, but reliant on spending -a lot- of gold/supplies just to reach the level of a vanilla sorcerer.  They're good at support, but terrible at PvP and spur-of-the-moment combat, which seems to be the norm in EfU:M.

Also, their main survival tool: the sequencer, works about 40% of the time.  Maybe less.  Lag makes it fail, inputting or having any commands on your queue other than activating it makes it fail, sometimes getting attacked in certain ways makes it fail too.  If it worked, I'd say it balanced Arcane Mimics survivability with vanilla sorcerers, but it doesn't work in any reliable way.

[Random_White_Guy]

Currently playing a mimic myself and I don't think there's too much of a trouble with it as it is.

If anything the largest issue is having to reset the playertools every reset.

[Paha]

You are free to make bug reports and suggestions about the flaws in it, and we'll look into them as we possibly can. However I don't think we're going to be allowing use of specific self-only spells to be used as buffs for others. Who knows in future, might change my mind, but for now it certainly is not going to be allowed until further notice.