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Thread: Focus Thread Force Powers
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_Saevio_
Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:53 pm
#131
I've been going over the entire powers tree for a while now, trying to pick and choose some areas that are in need of some improvement to make this "profession" a bit more desirable and a lot more playable. These changes may not be the BEST way to go, but I'd like to at least think they are a good start. Powers is basicly the darkside of the force, and therefore it should be rather strong, but in a sense, at the moment... it seems rather gimped, does it not? Well... let's just get to it, shall we...
xxx4 Powers :PsychokinesisI &III - Force Throw/Improved Force Throw should be changed to Force Push/Improved Force Push and/or Force Pull/Improved Force Pull. Basicly these skills would literally push/pull your target a calculated distance away from your character, obviously the improved version would push/pull farther and have a higher probability to actually connect and/or cause additional state effects. Perhaps both skills could have a percentage chance to knockdown, slow down, dizzy or even stunyour target which would be a resulting state effect from the initial force push/pull. Force Push would be a very valuable skill for those Jedi that prefer ranged attacks, pure powers Jedi for instance... while Force Pull would be ideal for melee (lightsaber) Jedi, balancing out some of the stuns/roots/electrolyte drain issues that are our nemesis against ranged professions.
x4xx Powers : Subjugate I & III - I honestly don't know how effective Mind Blast really is but in my mind Powers, being of mosty dark jedi nature should have some kind of life siphon skill. So I would replace Mind Blast/Improved Mind Blast with Life Siphon/Improved Life Siphon. Basicly Life Siphon would take health away from the target while it heals you over time, so Life Siphon would almost work like an infusion. Improved Life Siphon would work more like a heal, instead of causing DOT to your target it would just do damage once, but substantially more damage than thebasic Life Siphon skill, and then it would return the damage stolen and heal your character, just like the original Life Siphon, however the improved version would be all at once instead of over time. I imagine the animation for this skill being some kind of RED beam that flows from the Jedi's hands to his target.
Other changes:
- As previously mentioned in another post... If they follow through with snaring cloak, why not break cloak down into 3 seperate skills (force cloak, improved force cloak, and advanced force cloak). Each additional Force Cloak upgrade would decrease the snare effect by a certain percentage, and the Advanced Force Cloak skill would be in the Master Powers skill box and have little or no snare at all.
- Force Lightning: I'd suggest improving the damage to force cost ratio of this skill. And another idea for this, in the movie, Return of the Jedi, when the emporer uses his Force Lightning on Luke, the lightning continues to flow through his body, even after the Emporer had stopped, much like an additional DOT + base damageor maybe a state effect. Just a thought....
- I'm not sure what the currect mitigations of Force Intimidate are, but I have read where they USED to be 30% and 60% and now they are much less, like 10% and 20%... this could use some rethinking, considering Powers have no other defense at all. The 30/60% sounds real nice, but again I am not positive as to the current percentage on this skill, how much damage reduction it causes... if anyone can clarify that would be helpful.
- Force Weaken another good skill, but again I'm not sure on the current stats of this skill.
- Force Breach could definitely use a higher chance to hit, right now it's way to low to be a skill in the master box IMO. It's a good skill that should stay where it's at, but perhaps raise the chance to hit on it and ALSO let it have a chance to take away ANY type of jedi buff/skill INCLUDING Avoid Incap
I'm definitely Pro-Powers, and would love nothing more than to see the entire class get improved to the point that it is as useful as enhancer/defender/lightsabers.
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