(04-16-2015, 12:57 PM)Tiergan Wrote: Haha, well - I meant more "how does the bright flashy thing" happen as opposed to how it suddenly makes every enemy in the surrounding area instantaneously upset with you while not doing the same with your friends.
Aether in the hand makes sense to me. I suppose that means characters who can't control aether worth a lick might not be able to do it. I've RPing Tiergan as 'just a gladiator' with no real talent with aether -- though I've been getting tempted to have him trot on over to the Sultansworn for free paladin training.
I'd have to peg him as 'not-totally-incompetent-with-aether' if I do that.
I view it as something of tool of a necessity. If you're a gladiator, you probably don't have much ability with aether.
Not enough to heal someone, to hurt them, to slow them, etc.
However if you use it just right... *flash*
It's the perfect sort of dirty trick a Gladiator would use, the aetherial equivalent of throwing sand in someone's eyes.
As for the aggro, think of it like this. A team kicks down the door of the smokey tavern, rushes in. While the enemy is still trying to figure out what happens, the lead person hold out his hand, and everyone who was looking is suddenly blinking the tears from their eyes and trying to see.
"That mother fucker" they think, "He's dead."
Now not everyone might attack that guy, but it would certainly make an impression, and people would notice him more than his compatriots dashing to the sides and fanning out around the room.
