Clarifying Recent Dev Statement

I think what its saying is that if you call Shaak Ti to assist, and then again, and again, while a unit still hasn't taken a turn, he will have 4 stacks of offense up, but it will only display one since its not additive and doesn't really matter

I'm curious if Spy will hit 4x harder on that toon as oppose to how we were previously assuming that the unit has one offense up buff

"Ultra;c-2269424" wrote:
I think what its saying is that if you call Shaak Ti to assist, and then again, and again, while a unit still hasn't taken a turn, he will have 4 stacks of offense up, but it will only display one since its not additive and doesn't really matter

I'm curious if Spy will hit 4x harder on that toon as oppose to how we were previously assuming that the unit has one offense up buff

That particular one doesn’t work (although I agree with your general premise), since Shaak’s basic specifically says it only gives offense up to allies that didn’t already have it.

To me it sounds like we don't actually 'refresh' buff duration unless it's specifically stated in the ability description. Every time you get a buff it creates a new instance of the buff that we don't always see and that doesn't always directly affect the character.

BB-8 uses Covert Data Transfer every turn: Secret Intel for 3 turns -> Secret Intel (2 turns) + Secret Intel (3 turns) -> Secret Intel (1 turn) + Secret Intel (2 turns) + Secret Intel (3 turns) -> Secret Intel (1 turn) + Secret Intel (2 turns) + Secret Intel (3 turns) -> etc.

At least that's how I understand it. And a really good question was brought up by Ultra - how does it affect characters/ships whose abilities somehow work with the number of buffs - Geonosian Spy, Asajj Ventress, Sith Assassin, Ahsoka Tano's Jedi Starfighter etc.?

"Konju;c-2269495" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2269424" wrote:
I think what its saying is that if you call Shaak Ti to assist, and then again, and again, while a unit still hasn't taken a turn, he will have 4 stacks of offense up, but it will only display one since its not additive and doesn't really matter

I'm curious if Spy will hit 4x harder on that toon as oppose to how we were previously assuming that the unit has one offense up buff

Shaak Ti has in her kit that Offense Up only applies to allies who don’t already have it. If this Offense Up is stacking in the code, then that’s not exactly WAI IMO.

Yeah Shaak Ti was a bad example to use, but you get my point

"Scuttlebutt;c-2269422" wrote:
You’ll notice it in places like conquest with the Massively Overpowered disk. My sith empire trooper would get an overpowered attack each of his turns despite only have 3 buffs. Each time another sith would use a special, he would stack those buffs and quickly get to 10 buffs.

That may be why Cooling Systems were so 'broken', stacking buffs somehow. The certainly were far more effective that advertised in descriptions .

"Rokaryn_Mazel;c-2269547" wrote:

"Scuttlebutt;c-2269422" wrote:
You’ll notice it in places like conquest with the Massively Overpowered disk. My sith empire trooper would get an overpowered attack each of his turns despite only have 3 buffs. Each time another sith would use a special, he would stack those buffs and quickly get to 10 buffs.

That may be why Cooling Systems were so 'broken', stacking buffs somehow. The certainly were far more effective that advertised in descriptions .

Those data disks would grant a buff for 1 turn, so they would expire and not give an invisible stack

Things like having Vader and Kylo Ren (Unmasked) in the same team means, that everytime KRU counters and applies tenacity down on the same target before they take a turn, Vader can cull for higher damage

"Rokaryn_Mazel;c-2269547" wrote:

"Scuttlebutt;c-2269422" wrote:
You’ll notice it in places like conquest with the Massively Overpowered disk. My sith empire trooper would get an overpowered attack each of his turns despite only have 3 buffs. Each time another sith would use a special, he would stack those buffs and quickly get to 10 buffs.

That may be why Cooling Systems were so 'broken', stacking buffs somehow. The certainly were far more effective that advertised in descriptions .

Deployable Cooling Systems triggered only when gaining a buff. SET gets a buff every time Sith ally uses a Special Ability. Since the buffs don't 'refresh' but create a 'new' buff every time then it counts towards Massively Overpowered.

"Ultra;c-2269550" wrote:

"Rokaryn_Mazel;c-2269547" wrote:

"Scuttlebutt;c-2269422" wrote:
You’ll notice it in places like conquest with the Massively Overpowered disk. My sith empire trooper would get an overpowered attack each of his turns despite only have 3 buffs. Each time another sith would use a special, he would stack those buffs and quickly get to 10 buffs.

That may be why Cooling Systems were so 'broken', stacking buffs somehow. The certainly were far more effective that advertised in descriptions .

Those data disks would grant a buff for 1 turn, so they would expire and not give an invisible stack

Things like having Vader and Kylo Ren (Unmasked) in the same team means, that everytime KRU counters and applies tenacity down on the same target before they take a turn, Vader can cull for higher damage

Deployable Cooling Systems did not grant buffs. If you are talking about Offensive/Defensive Buffs then those do grant buffs for only 1 turn.
The dev comment only mentions buffs - not debuffs.

You’ll notice it in places like conquest with the Massively Overpowered disk. My sith empire trooper would get an overpowered attack each of his turns despite only have 3 buffs. Each time another sith would use a special, he would stack those buffs and quickly get to 10 buffs.

I’m pretty sure Spy does hit that much harder. This is just the first time (or first that I can remember, and I have a good memory for semi-useless video game details) that it’s confirmed that it’s supposed to work that way and officially explained why.

"Ultra;c-2269424" wrote:
I think what its saying is that if you call Shaak Ti to assist, and then again, and again, while a unit still hasn't taken a turn, he will have 4 stacks of offense up, but it will only display one since its not additive and doesn't really matter

I'm curious if Spy will hit 4x harder on that toon as oppose to how we were previously assuming that the unit has one offense up buff

I feel like that would explain how sometimes with 8 status effects I hit for fifty thousand and with 7 I hit for over 300 thousand