Water Breathing Spell

[FunkeyMonkey]

What are the thoughts on it being a single applicable spell rather than at mass?

It's level three which is reasonably low, comparing it to Omniscient Eye which is single use and required in more situations vs water breathing which you only really need in two dungeons.

[Swan]

Feels like an unnecessary change to address a problem that doesn't exist.
The fact that it's uses on are quite limited is exactly why it should remain a mass spell.

Vision of the Omniscient Eye is not required for any dungeon, in my experience; it's simply a convenience.
Water Breathing, on the other hand, is a literal requirement for...two dungeons? And a convenience for another.

Changing it from a mass spell to a single application adds absolutely nothing to the server experience.
The only change it provides is added difficulty in entry to the dungeon by forcing people to cut down in party size,
and thus pigeonholing people into obeying a specific party range in terms of how many people a party can bring.

[McDuck]

I agree with Swan here.

Water breathing is fine wher it is and should not change at all.

Though no doubt people have bracers with them for the just in case

[SardineTheAncestor]

I guess a single target version of the spell could be useful on 2nd circle if you just want the drown immunity, but not sure if it's common enough to matter, or if it appears in the source books like that.

[Lion El'Jonson]

Just seems like a negative quality of life change. Why?

[Anarcoplayba]

Any spell is more useful than water breathing except when wb is mandatory.

Making the caster to memorize four wb's seems almost evil.

[Zyemeth]

Agreed that making waterbreathing a single target cast seems to have no merit.

[TacticalFerret]

In the source books I believe the duration is 2h/level split between any number of targets touched. It is not a single-target spell in the source material, nor does the NWN engine supports the manner in which multiple targets are selected. The current implementation is a fair compromise, so I doubt any change is warranted sans perhaps an adjustment to the duration.

[Knight of Rhodes]

This is an extremely niche thing. I see no issue here, and recommend against the modification.    Special emphasis to swan and anarcoplayba's responses. 

[noah25]

Feels like an unnecessary change to address a problem that doesn't exist.
The fact that it's uses on are quite limited is exactly why it should remain a mass spell.

Vision of the Omniscient Eye is not required for any dungeon, in my experience; it's simply a convenience.
Water Breathing, on the other hand, is a literal requirement for...two dungeons? And a convenience for another.

Changing it from a mass spell to a single application adds absolutely nothing to the server experience.
The only change it provides is added difficulty in entry to the dungeon by forcing people to cut down in party size,
and thus pigeonholing people into obeying a specific party range in terms of how many people a party can bring.

I would argue vision of the omniscient eye is a requirement in several dungeons but thats a debate for a separate thread.

I am not necessarily against water breathing being cast in mass, however, the current dynamic between water breathing and breathe like a fish seems out of balance to me. Might make sense to rethink that feat and exchange it for something like additional movement speed underwater or something. I also wouldnt mind one of the water dungeons having dispel to make relying on water breathing a bit riskier.