Power Set Idea: Martial Prowess (Blaster Secondary)

The idea is that your raw determination and the look in your eye is enough to scare the bejeezus out of some lesser enemies.

The idea is that you're crippling your enemy's mobility with a well-placed throwing knife.

That might be the idea, and I'm not saying it's a bad one, but Im just not seeing the usefulness of a mag 2 PBAoE fear on a power that has as long a recharge as Conserve Power (600s) and lasts 90 seconds. I mean, most mag2 powers have a very short duration, and most bosses (and luits if you're fighting anything above you) would remain unaffected. So every 10 minutes you'd be able to briefly fear any minions in melee range of you for a few seconds. It seems almost pointless as a secondary effect. To me, I'd much rather see it give either a minor +recharge or a +tohit alongside the end reduction. Both fit equally well, conceptually.

I do have SOME concern over your numbers for Battle Meditation, as well. All blaster secondaries except Devices get a +100% damge, +15% Build Up power which lasts for 10 seconds. This has NO negative effects except that it costs 5.2 end to activate. Devices, the one deviation, gets a toggle that offers a permanent 14% Tohit buff and a massive perception increase instead of the damage buff, with no negative effects except a heavy end cost. Your power, which I -love- conceptually by the way, offers the following:

1. Increase your +ToHit (+10%), +DMG (+50%) at the expense of -RES (-20%), -DEF (-10%),
2. Increase your +RES (+10%), +DEF (+10%) at the expense of your -ToHit (-10%), -DMG (-25%)
3. Increase your +Recovery (+50%) at the expense of your -Regen (-50%),
4. Increase your Regen (+50%) at the expense of your recovery (-50%)

In essence, not only would you be expending the endurance of a toggle like Targetting Drone, but you're being gimped in some pretty massive ways for LESS of a damage or accuracy buff than any other blaster secondary set. Sure, you can also boost your defense, etc, but like Build up in other secondaries, In Energy Manipulation, powerboost can increase your defense or resistance based powers MORE than the buff you're getting from Battle Meditation, and without the massive -tohit and -dmg components. Drain Psyche can boost your regen -and- recovery more, etc.

I think the concept is fine, but I think the numbers here are off. The "penalty" is too high for the benefit. You could reduce the penalties to half what they currently are and still avoid what I think you fear: being overpowered. Most blasters would NEVER walk around willing to permanently deal 15% less damage than normal (as opposed to your 25%) just so that they have higher defense and resistance, since they're primarily damage dealers. Most I'm -sure- wouldn't go long term with a 10% defense, resistance, or 50% recovery rate decrease just to get a smaller damage boost than is offered by Build Up. I'd say cut the "penalty" aspects way down, to half what they are now, or I don't know if this power is really "workable" (the same argument people make about targetting drone, even now that it's been buffed.)

If you want to keep the numbers as is, however, what I think would work BEST with this power for playability is to swap it from a toggle to a click, giving it a longer recharge than build up or power boost (say, 90 seconds as opposed to their 60), and then having it last for 25 as opposed to 10. That's long enough to use it in any given pinch long enough to really be useful, which is what this power seems more suited for. That way you avoid the heavy end use of a toggle and the "gimp" factor seems to make more sense. In a pinch you're willing to trade damage and tohit for defense to get out of there, or trade regeneration for recovery fighting these malta, or to snipe that guy from a distance and really hurt him you're willing to trade some defense and resistance for that added second of damage. Even then, I'd either up the benefit or decrease the penalties of this power, though, IMO.


Overall though, I really DO love the concept and think your set sounds really fun.

That would never happen. Way to easy to make it perma unless it only took heal and end mod enhancements and not recharge redux.

Remember: only one type of Battle Meditation can be active at a time. So if you used the recovery buff, you would not be able to use the toggles or the build-up until the 120s recharge is over. And if you got Battle Meditation to recharge in under 60 seconds, and used the build up or a toggle while the recovery buff was active, the recovery buff would be removed, a la Secondary Mutation.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.