New ability suggestions
Balancing on the battlefield seems to be a big subject lately so I wanted to throw out some ideas for abilities to bring things up to pace with some of the lacking classes.
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@AWMaxSterling wrote:
@xcrimsonlegendx wrote:
@AWMaxSterling wrote:
@CabbageheadPHD wrote:
@xcrimsonlegendx wrote:
Just got the idea for a "vampire heal beam" for the scientist that would replace his heal station with a beam that attaches to ENEMIES and leeches their health to heal him. Would be fun to get in close, latch on with a beam and drain someone of their life force right?
@This needs to be a thing! suggest it to @JA_Weibe on Twitter. If you can't I'll do it for you. And I'll give credit where it's due.
also just think of chemist with that.
No it shouldn't be a thing. Scientists are already arguably one of the most overpowered characters... allowing them to shoot you and drain your life while healing themself would basically ruin the game.
Actually it would probably be pretty well balanced, just as the Vampire Sunflower has only 75 health to compensate for her health stealing I'm sure a vampire scientist could be balanced the same. Possibly by giving it less health or reduced damage.
I thought this thread was about adding abilities. Now you're talking about a new scientist variant, which is a different discussion and belongs in your other thread. Slapping a vampire beam on any scientist will not work. You can't treat it like the Vampire Sunflower because that is their primary attack and not an ability... and you can adjust health on one specific unique variant... but you can't handicap all scientists because not everyone may use that vampire beam.
Just as the Unicorn chomper has a unique ability, a scientist could also. Variants/Abilities are kind of a thing, I was just kind of feeding off your comment about wanting a vampire character so I adapted the conversation to reflect that. Still talking about abilities.
The vampire sunflower works because it is one character variant with that ability... not the entire class. You can adjust the health because he is the only one with that vampire ability.
I'm fine with a vampire scientist with health handicap as long as that attack stays on one scientist variant. I don't want all my scientist's health handicapped because of one ability.
