For the purposes of SLO genjutsu will likely be nothing more then a support tree. Allowing you to stall stop or confuse opponents to get a tactical advantage...in naruto there is no Limet to what a advanced genjutsu user could do... There only limited by there imagination... SLO is a virtual world and there for has inherent limitations. If a strength/ weekeness system is developed for clans it should be how sepseptable to Jutsu you are... So some one from one clan will be effected by a genjutsu longer then another clan that is stronger at the same caster skill level.
Interesting thought on the matter.
In my own opinion, Genjutsu is incredibly underrated. True, it can't do any semblance of physical damage...but I believe a host of players tend to forget *why* Genjutsu users are typically seen as top-priority; that being, they don't 'have' to fight you head on. With the ability to distract and disorient
--and believe me when I say, having your screen be screwed with is EXTREMELY difficult to combat, I should know given I run on the lowest resolution where the UI is super-sized-- one's foes, you can simply wait them out. For certain objectives, you won't even have to specifically *engage* the enemy -- as in the case of a retrieval mission, or a scouting mission in which you need to fool sensory ninjas in order to get past enemy lines.
...and that's without even counting the Genjutsu users who *will* utilize it in normal combat. A genjutsu user who chooses to ambush opponents would be extremely deadly, and could possibly take on shinobi with faaaaarrr and away greater jutsu and chakra reserves simply by disorienting them before using --and I believe a lot of these said clans forget this-- *regular weapons* as their actual devices of damage. Even if, say, that opponent ran about the blue-screen illusion spewing fire-breath, the bushwacker could simply wait him out until he'd exhausted himself, before once more finishing him off.
To take a quote from the Star Wars EU: "A fight is never truly a fight in itself, merely a distraction from the ultimate goal, and best countered with another distraction."
Genjutsu is *all about* distraction -- don't underestimate it so highly when you're creating a character, clan, org, et cetera...it may well cost you dearly.
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