Thoughts on skill interactions in MMOs?
I'm talking stuff like Spellbreak; in that game, spells have interactions based on their elements.
e.g. I can't exactly remember every interaction, but stuff like Player 1 casts a tornado, sucking people in and damaging them. Player 2 (could be an enemy) casts a water spell on it, it turns into a waterspout. Someone casts an ice spell on it and it gets frozen along with any player in the aoe. If someone casted a lightning spell instead, it would electrocute anyone in the aoe.
Stuff like that. For me it was the coolest thing ever and RIP Spellbreak.
It would be cool to have an MMO with skill interactions as the focus. You're a Mechanic and I'm a Sorcerer? Drop a turret, I'll enchant it to do elemental damage (bonus if the VFX changes). Bard drops by and now the turret is shooting musical bullets at a faster rate (bonus if it plays an actual tune). Druid casts Entangling Vines, which normally just slow down enemies; someone hits it with Metal Coat, and it gets a boost to the slowness effect. Afterwards someone hits it with a Sharpen Weapon, normally a melee character buff to increase damage for a time, and it loses the extra slow effect and gains damage.
Boss casts a lingering ground aoe fire attack. You cast Rainstorm on yourself to nullify it in a small radius, and your party gathers so they don't die. WRONG MOVE, boss casts Thunderbolt at your tank and since your entire party is wet, it chains and wipes the party. You should have cast a Resist Fire and an aoe healing spell instead. Or maybe Earth Pillar on yourself and your teammates to avoid the ground. Or your berserker uses Ground Pound to make you Airborne so you dodge the fire (he dies and gets rez'd by the priest after). Meanwhile, one of your DPSes, who picked Smithing as his life skill, steps to the side and starts upgrading one of his spare swords (the fire attack boosts forging success rate).
The possibilities are literally endless and I'm surprised no one has made one like this yet (that I've heard of)