Staph Fighting: What a letdown
Not all new malaise sets can be as powerful as Tight End Weapons.
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It's not as good as Strep Justice.
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Its still beating the damage of Kung Flu Fighting, though. I haven't checked in a while but it might even be more survivable.
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Better then Nice melee tho
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additional theoretical green dots for typhus weapons, would not have thought of that one.
Most sets like this are pretty worthless. Marital Arts does surprisingly little to keep the spouse happy.
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But at least it still compares favorably to Bees Mastery.
No idea why they styled a powerset after the Red Bee. What a maroon he was to begin with.
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I still prefer it to scythelis. I found that melee set to be sorely disappointing.
If you think Staph Fighting is bad, wait till u try out the new powerset 'Polio Assault', and 'Gangrenous Infection'.
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This is not what I wanted in a Flux Capacitor ...
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You know, when I first heard about Staph Fighting, it sounded like so much fun. It had a lot of promise - I'd be helping people, possibly helping myself, and I got to do it in cool ways. Sure, it involved some unconventional tools and possibly a new approach to fighting, but it still looked a lot of fun.
But it turns out it's just a disappointment.
See, Staph Fighting just fails to do decent damage all too often. Penicilin, the bread-and-butter power of the set, just doesn't seem to do anything because almost all of my enemies seem to resist it these days. I guess I could slot it for more recharge, but that doesn't really seem to help.
Well, OK, I lied. The set does occasionally deal decent damage... To my kidneys! A lot of my enemies seem to be weak to Gentamicin, but I just don't like using that. I know it's a decent power, but the self-damage component just isn't worth it. Yeah, I know what you're thinking - if I could regenerate, the self-damage component would matter. Well, if I could regenerate, I wouldn't need Staph Fighting, now would I?
Of course, it's not all bad, though. There is one power I actually really like - Methicillin. Sure, it costs a lot and, yeah, there is the occasional boss that's resistant to it, but it works most of the time. But this thing is just balanced by annoyance. I mean, it works most of the time, but using it is so unpleasant it just makes me sick. Literally sick. Whoever designed this really dropped the ball.
Overall, Staph Fighting just seems like a missed opportunity. It could have been so much more, but instead it's unpleasant. Maybe in the right hands it could be potent, but it just needs such clinical precision to use right that it feels like I need to have, like a degree in medicine to use it or something.
So, yeah, wasted money there. I'm going back to Typhus Weapons. That thing was just so much more deadly.