DOL Elemental Ward abilities

[Airget]

Not sure if anyone has suggested this before, but why not make these abilities stances that cost 400 to activate. Can only have one up at a time, maybe have it where it wears off when zoning and you can't combo it with King's Yield.

A simple change like this would make the ability more worthwhile to use compared to what it is now which is pretty much 1 node=3 nodes for 400 GP.

[Sibyll]

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You can do this with Cordials. This is probably the only real use for Cordials to be honest.

If they were going to do something I'd rather them change the Traits for wards so that instead of:

Ward of the Twelve I (Miner): Extends gathering ward increases to crystals.
Ward of the Twelve II (Miner): Extends gathering ward increases to clusters.

it was something like this:

Ward of the Twelve I (Miner): Extends gathering ward increases to crystals and increases shard yield by 4.
Ward of the Twelve II (Miner): Extends gathering ward increases to clusters and increases shard yield by 6 and crystal yield by 4.

So a level 50 miner/botanist would get 7 Shards, 5 Crystals and 3 Clusters from their Wards.

Come to think of it, making Perception a useful stat for non-HQable materials would be nice. Perhaps a chance to yield an additional 3 or 4 of the crystal. Then I'd have a reason to use something other than the Ward.