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[Twinwolf]

Speaking of actions, can someone find the actions for my plot? They kind of got lost in all the HERO plot posts.

And speaking of actions, something about capital-A Actions: There needs to be some kind of default cooldown, I think, to stop people from spamming high-damage actions or many-hit actions with no variation. As is, it'd be completely possible to make a character with one or two good attack actions, which they level up to hell and then have the rest of their actions be passives.

[TheBiggerFish]

Speaking of actions, can someone find the actions for my plot? They kind of got lost in all the HERO plot posts.

And speaking of actions, something about capital-A Actions: There needs to be some kind of default cooldown, I think, to stop people from spamming high-damage actions or many-hit actions with no variation. As is, it'd be completely possible to make a character with one or two good attack actions, which they level up to hell and then have the rest of their actions be passives.

Uh...Yeah, that's a thing.  It sacrifices versatility for power.

[Powder Miner]

and clearly it is a thing that is not working out for the current game balance

[Twinwolf]

The action isn't actually the only thing. Spamming levels on passives can be broken too.

[Shadestyle]

I think adding levels should add effects instead of just direct power.

Stats are supposed to add power.

[Twinwolf]

And then you have an action that simultaneously poisons, paralyses, magic-binds, strength-binds, and damages the target.

[Shadestyle]

And it still isn't as bad as if it just did 5 Times more damage than the level 1 version.

Besides, Hopefully people are intelligent enough to not just ignore their character theming.

It would be more like some people are doing, with levels being listed under the skill as additional effects.

[Twinwolf]

*glances at Emp*

[Shadestyle]

Meh, This is the sort of thing that is solved with Genuine reasonable discussion between GM and player rather than Stricter rules that end up ruining other balanced things.

[Chevaleresse]

^^^so much this

a freeform system like this will never be inherently balanced, by virtue of being freeform. It's up to the players to not game the fuck out of it.

[Shadestyle]

Hey Emp/Elf, I want to put forth a suggestion for Dackly's next level that I talked over with San, due to what seems to be overwhelming hatred of the skill

Petrify Level 4: Anytime a Unique enemy resists or otherwise is immune to this skill, Dackly gains a "Grudge", every 10 Grudges, Dackly gains 2 skillpoints as though she leveled up, these cannot be put in Petrify, or a skill that is directly related to petrify.

Considering Nothing should be resistant to it balance or fluffwise, especially balancewise, it is ultimately a useless level in it, but one i feel is neccecary, and after discussion, it was clear SOMETHING needed to be done.

It is balanced, since Ideally, this would only really happen once or twice per plot, on the final bosses that get a second wind, and by extension, normal killing would not work against either, and against Plot immune enemies that aren't supposed to be killed yet.

[Twinwolf]

Fluff-wise, I don't hate the skill. It makes sense.

Game-wise, it's insta-death that literally cannot be avoided in any way other than arbitrary immunity or high HP.

[Shadestyle]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


It ONLY petrifies them once the hate stacks exeed their health, it is literaly a normal attack with pure damage that gives a special item drop mechanically.

Let me show you.

-Level 3 Petrify: Dackly floods a target with her hateful glare, dealing 2d4x(Int/4)[+5 from Dackly's Amazing Armor] pure damage which bypass all immunities, if this skill has been used on them, when they die, they are petrified, and their soul becomes a statue worth their level in statue points.

This is the exact same skill, but it does not use hatred stacks.

San examined it and deemed it mechanically sound for being literally normal pure damage with a special mechanic.

It deals a maximum of 16 damage, and a minimum of 4 for gods sake (Ignoring the armor that buffs it by a flat 5 damage)  How is that insta-death without arbitrary immunity?

[Sanure]

Shade, Change the Bypasses all immunities to all General Immunities. Other than that, I did approve it.

[Twinwolf]

Good god I misread that skill badly and I apologize for that. I generally assume that multiplication=a lot of damage, and didn't even notice the small dice it used.