Originally Posted by
Sotek
Change it to an ability you use before casting and completely remove the idiotic stacking aspect. In this day and age the only real way to have multiple instances of Modus is if they drop it to a subjob ability along with Helices, which they probably plan on doing. If you plan on imposing the previous accuracy penalty on cumulative uses then the stacking aspect is once again worthless. SE were really short sighted with this ability, the stacking exploit shouldn't have been hard to anticipate, six Scholars are never going to be in the same party, why the hell didn't they just cap it at two or three cumulative uses? Braining is hard for the developers it seems.
But I digress, have it work like a Stratagem while remaining independent from them. Use it. Cast Helix. Helix deals double damage and has halved duration, or less depending on Merits. Extend its use to other spells too. Light Arts it works with Adloquium and Regens. Dark Arts it works with Helices and that planned -TP/tic enfeeble. Perfect dichotomy.
I'll get tired of reposting this idea one day, I promise.