Super Booster V - Secondary Mutation Power: Feedback

Tap into the incredible potential locked within your DNA. Secondary Mutation allows your character to mutate itself for amazing, unexpected results. Charge into battle with new abilities. Be careful, they may help your foes more than you.

Objective Feedback: From what I've seen so far, the buffs granted are large enough to make a slight difference, yet small enough to be nowhere near overpowering. Furthermore, the effects of the mutations are such that this is not a "must-have" power that will separate the Haves from the Have-Nots. I've yet to come across any mutations that might benefit my enemies more, as per the warning.

Subjective Feedback: I've used the power on like 6 or 7 characters now, and I always get either Tough Hide, Quick Reflexes, or Acute Senses. Are there any other effects?

The icon of the power that you click and the one that shows that it's active don't match.

When using Secondary Mutation, the "temp power" you get (like [Mutation: Pain Tolerance] for instance) plays its start up animation and FX with every cycle. I doubt this is intended. At least I hope it's not.

Oops this should have gone in the bug thread. Apologies.

Subjective Feedback: The Tough Hide secondary mutation provides typed defense but not positional. I realize that this is thematically appropriate but it means that the mutation is essentially doing nothing for characters who already have good positional defenses. Acute Senses provides positional defense but it also provides accuracy and perception so it is at least giving some bonus to characters who have high typed defenses.

Just dropping in to share the list of mutations I've come up with thusfar. I've not seen ANY negative mutations.

Mutation: Pain Tolerance

• End Disc -56.51%
• +Regen .54%/sec (6.34 hp/sec)
• Stun, Sleep, Immob, Hold, Terror Res -33.33% duration

• +5% Def(All) - Typed

• +30% rech

• +15% Movement

• +3.3% Acc
• +60% Perception
• +3% Def(All) - Positional

Given the randomness of this, perhaps we should be told what powers there are, or at least how many and if it's weighted to give us more "common" ones more often?

Subjective Feedback: The toggle for this looks exactly like Mystic Fortune. I believe this is going to cause much confusion-perhaps tinting or giving the toggle a slight glow would be good to differentiate it from the fortune?
Just a thought.

While I'm disappointed that I only managed to correctly predict the name of this power, I feel like I should point out that "Secondary Mutation" is what the Mutation SOs are called. Maybe it should be changed to "Tertiary Mutation"? And maybe later down the line we'll add quaternary mutations, too.

Also, same icon as Mystic Fortune? That's NO GOOD!

The icon should have a DNA triple helix on it.

I don't know if an exploit that makes you less effective should count as an exploit.

I think it comes from my brief stint in genetics. When I think, "mutation," I'm thinking of "Oh no, there was a transcription error with the RNA, and the wrong amino group was used--now the entire protein will code differently!"

Not, "Double helix? HAH! I have a septuple helix!" whilst waltzing with King Kong.

I wouldn't mind say a 5% RES for one, 2.5% DEF for one, something like that. I just don't like +DEF (positional only) for one of the buffs and +DEF (typed only) for another.

I noticed these buffs apply AT modifiers unlike the tarot.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.