"Krayden_Phogg;c-1205397" wrote:
"zombiwan_kenobi;c-1205340" wrote:
Too bad he's loosing the evasion up since he's taunting now... Since his damage output is terrible he could have kept this buff tbh. Loosing a turn to hit with his ridiculous basic before he uses mind trick is suicidal and uninteresting tactics especially since you need another turn to taunt...
Design around this rework doesn't feel smooth nor quite logical to me.
Buffing his potency and making him automatically taunt upon X situation on his unique or on another would have been way better than another uninspired taunt skill.
Using a zeta on him feels like a theft and locking the 5% TM gain behind it is utterly frustrating. Old ben could have been awesome but in the end he's a really awkward, better but still bad overall. Ok more TM means faster mind trick but (1) his basic is worthless and even worse with potency up (only his special needs it, seriously) (2) Mind trick CD is too long anyway, everyone will be dead before he'll be able to use it (3) his speed his still totally bad and i can assure you he'll still be the last who will be killed, ever.
Mission failed...
Plus I don't get much the new obsession around putting zetas everywhere, especially on terrible toons.
You should probably re-read his kit & think about what his abilities do. For starters you don't want him avoiding attacks so removing evasion up and adding evasion down works. Also anytime a Jedi or rebel is attacked he gains 5% tm so no, everyone else will not die before he gets a chance to go because the more they get hit the closer he is to going. Also why would you use his basic before mind tricks? Mindtricks can't be evaded and if they're resisted under CLS leads it's 80% tm gain for everyone.
Read what, everything has been changed to allow a faster mind tricks cast, not make him die. Anyway he still won't die cause his taunt is quite terrible and no one will care about him and still not kill him until he's the last one. Ability block, stun or buff immunity, he won't have much opportunity to die.
You won't make him gain 5% TM unless he gets a zeta (or 7% tooltip isn't much clear yet) but even with that much Old ben is so slow he still will be last to play. Once he uses mind trick he's still pretty much worthless for what... 5 turns.
So you think Old ben kit works because a worthless toon gives 80% TM to everyone (how much wasted) once every 5 turns ? Rex alone is far better than that and doesn't need a zeta nor Luke lead.
Anyway if ben purpose is to fail at anything and buff TM, why does he have potency up on his basic then ?
As i said, nothing is consistent in his kit.
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