[Ranylyn]

"Don't even start this? People will still play WT even if you don't?" WT is already one of my favorite races purely for the higher chance to get Str/Wil with my luck and the benefits to poison, even before you get into the potentially interesting RP that can stem from the fact that poison still hurts them and people expect them to cure their own afflictions by taking it on themselves. It has nothing to do with me not playing them. If anything, WT is my most played Serpentkin, and Serpentkin are my most played category of races almost entirely due to WT.

My reason to not support this has to do with literally every single poison gimmick build I ever come up with getting nerfed into the ground because people get butthurt. (For example: Before Wraithguard and Drowned Woman had people clamoring for their nerfs, I used a Ghost/GS to mitigate damage taken, to always keep the poison/rising game benefits.) And...? I'm tired of it. From a balance perspective, all these changes make sense; WG and DW install were simply OP if built for correctly. But from an RP perspective, why do they suddenly suck? Why do they suddenly need to abandon their existing skillset to cultivate a new one? As someone who RPs every aspect of my characters, this destroys characters and is why I have 15 keys.

So, simply put... I'm scared. Scared that allowing any form of poison resistance gear will make people clamor for WT racial poison resist to be nerfed.