Nute Leadership Isn't Broken! Here is why
After the legendary video of Lando dominating with his AOE ability, many people have seem the power of a proper pairing, centered on synergy. Some players have been crying out at how Nute lead is brok...
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"CPMP;269524" wrote:"Jensxn;269441" wrote:"Qeltar;268936" wrote:"Jensxn;25459" wrote:
Nute's description for his ability is composed of this, and says "Backroom Subterfuge - Stealthed allies gain 55% Critical Chance and gain 25% Turn Meter on a Critical hit." If you switch the clauses order around, you get "Backroom Subterfuge- Gain 25% turn meter on a critical hit, and stealthed allies gain 55% critical chance." This is what the current ability actually is, and it makes sense when worded this way, albeit still worded oddly. The main grammatical error is that the second clause is incomplete, and lacks a subject, specifically a pronoun, or a noun. To fix the wording of the ability, for its current state, it would read: "Backroom Subterfuge - Stealthed allies gain 55% Critical Chance, and all allies 25% Turn Meter on a Critical hit." If this is incorrect and both the description and the ability in action are both wrong, then the description should read "Backroom Subterfuge - Stealthed allies gain 55% Critical Chance, and they gain 25% Turn Meter on a Critical hit," or "Backroom Subterfuge - Stealthed allies gain both 55% Critical Chance, and 25% Turn Meter on a Critical hit." However, probability states that it is more likely only one person that made a mistake. As a result, it is likely the description is the broken factor, not the ability in action. If the ability is bugged, then both the description writer made an error, and the in game ability developer and coder had to have made an error.
I've been a professional writer and editor for almost 20 years and this is the most tortured attempt to deconstruct simple English that I have ever seen. :)
"Stealthed allies gain 55% Critical Chance and gain 25% Turn Meter on a Critical Hit." This is extremely clear. There is only one noun clause, with a single modifying adjective: "stealthed allies". Therefore the rest of the sentence applies only to stealthed allies unless a specific exception is made. It wasn't. There isn't even a comma. The meaning here is beyond obvious.
There is no possible rational interpretation of a sentence of the form "(adjective) (noun) gains X and gains Y" where somehow X is gained when the adjective applies and Y is gained regardless of the adjective.
There are some poorly written abilities in the game. This is not one of them. If they wanted it to be as you say, they could have simply made it two sentences: "Stealthed allies gain 55% Critical Chance. All Allies gain 25% Turn Meter on a Critical Hit."
On top of all that, a leader ability granting 25% turn meter for each critical hit on all allies would be insanely broken anyway.
I'll cede to those more qualified, I'm definitely not an editor. I think Nute Leadership isn't really broken, I think it's a bit low to be actually overpowered. Lando just benefits massively from it due to the nature of his abilities, other characters like clone sergeant, Kylo, and ventress would be murderous if any of them land enough crits, and later with new phasma, they would easily be overpowered. I hope there is a deterrent to phasma AOE teams with the update, AOE auto crit sounds legitimately overpowered
If Nute's Leadership was working as intended, it would be very underpowered. Only ewoks get a benefit from Nute leader and Leia. But as it is now, while people don't believe it's OP yet, i'm sure more combinations would be found to abuse this 100%. First hero that comes to mind that will benefit from this, is GS. He has high crit already and gains 30% turn meter on crit. Another hero is Dooku. Whiners already say he attacks many times because he gains turn meter when attacking outside of his turn, other than his 100% counter + bonus attack. Well, add crits to that and more turn meter. With RNGjesus' help, he won't stop attacking, lol.
I think Nute's leadership needs a rework than a fix.
It should go more like stealthed allies get all those, and all allies gain half these bonuses, that would be quite fair. Also how dare you forget NS Acolyte! Jokes aside, she actually is partially immortal with a Nute lead and stealth, since she gains a quarter of her health on a crit. Outside them, Dathcha can benefit, but only if he is an assist. In the files also,
(SPOILER)
Dark side Barriss has powerful stealth abilities as well, and would actually be broken with a Nute lead
