Lastly, and this one is purely my own perspective, a strength 1 effect in water. I thought of this because, since EVERY other race is land based, combat on land can be a bit worrying for a Maiar since their food, and as a result regeneration, goes down very quickly. Having strength 1 in water would give a reason to actually almost fear the Maiar, as it would give other races a 'rule' if you will, which is to never take on a Maiar in the water. If this seems too O.P, maybe consider adding a weakness 1 effect while on land. I want to make it clear this last one is just a stab in the dark, and isn't something I'd expect everyone to take with open arms....or fins.
First off, is a very good first post in terms of organization, good job. As well I really like the aqua affinity idea, though I must admit, if you have ever tried to download Optifine, it is ridiculously easy, it takes 3 clicks and helps everyone on the server, someone getting blurry vision is a great way for them to download it if they care that much.
Now, my only criticism of your post was the strength idea. Have you ever fought a Maiar in the water? Sure they are underpowered on land, but they are fish, that is a given. Anyways if you have ever fought a equally armored and armed Maiar or even one that is very poorly armed but has been Maiar for a while, it is insane. Around 5 months ago I was by a large river in Daendroc when XVW a member of my faction attacked on his alt account for fun. I had diamond armor on and a sharpness 3 training sword. He had similar arms the only difference being he had iron armor. He easily threw me out of the water, nearly dead. I waited outside, and he could have easily killed me if he did not want me to try again.
This time however I brought along 2 other people, senorworkman and magicalwettoast once again with diamond armor and training swords. We countinued to fight him into the water and use bows to try and attack him however he could be everywhere at once, remember that Maiar swimming is much faster then speed 2 on land even if it is flat land. Eventually though just because of the fact that he needed to land 3 and a bit blows for every one landed on him he was almost dead. This was the time to strike however we quickly noticed a problem. He simply swam around up river, regened and came back at us fresher than ever, any arrow we shot falling uselessly behind or to the side of him. This pattern continued with one or two deaths on our side when he decided to make a rush onto the land until we dug a hole under the water he came into it and we smothered him with lava via dispensers.
So what does this story show? It shows that Maiar already have an insane advantage in water, and their opponents a large disadvantage. For when we land dwellers go into the water, we become slower to move, to fall, to rise, and we need to rise in order to breathe. At the same time a Maiar becomes quicker than the fastest runner on land with the added ability to rise and fall without damage and with incredible speeds. All this combined makes the Maiar nearly impossible to corner or kill from a range, meaning a Maiar only engages when he decides to engage, and he retreats when he wants to retreat all the while when he always has a advantage of no breath and the ability to use a third dimension to kill you. So, lets look over the advantages of Maiar.
1. Maiar already are practically unkillable as they can retreat when they desire to almost like if you had the ability to fly when you became injured on the surface.
2. Maiar bring an additional dimension to the two dimensional water battle, they can use this to attack without being attacked back.
3. Splash potions are useless for land dwellers in water but are still an option for maiars in water, this means even among god PVPers the Maiar still have a distinct advantage to counter them.
4. Maiar have gills, while a land lubber that attempts to go underwater to hit the Maiar will quickly find themselves out of breath.
So all this granted why would Strength 1 be OP? Well first off, there are skill some nubs that don't have the resources to use strength potions frequently in combat or at all, this causes Maiar to have a first off free and everlasting and secondly potentially rare potion effect for free in noob combat which would easily turn a Maiar combat balance from really good in its habitat and bad outside of it into death destroyer of worlds in its habitat and bad out side of it which would turn any noob war against a single Maiar into a defensive only war as any attack would be instantly destroyed.
But wait, what about the other people this effects, the god PVPers. Well this would be a huge annoyance and unbalance, first off because many PVP factions and noob factions alike that are losing a war will just move into an ugly base in the Ocean and wreck everyone using disarmed as your weapon is now on the Ocean floor and you have creative mode people flying around doing the damage equivalent of a decently enchanted diamond sword to you without losing anything. This would make PVP broken as it will be extremely hard if not impossible to defeat someone that does this, and it will be annoying to even try. So ultimately it will just make PVP less fun for everyone noobs and PVPer alike, so that is why I don't want to support this piece of your addition.
