Impact Pump | Impact Buckler [Legacy - Crucible]

[eaglgenes101]

NAME: Impact Pump ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce physical damage by 1. Each hit is used to remove 1 quanta from 3 types cycled on each hit.	NAME: Impact Buckler ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce physical damage by 1. Each hit is used to remove 1 quanta from 6 types cycled on each hit.

ART: eaglgenes101 IDEA: eaglgenes101 NOTES: Gravity denial tool. When this shield blocks damage, it drains 1 quantum from each type of the state that it is in, then it goes to the next state. If a quanta pool is empty, nothing happens to the pool, but the other ones are still drained. For Impact Pump, it cycles between draining , , , and . For Impact Pump, it alternates between draining and . SERIES: Series: Denial

[eaglgenes101]

People? Opinion?

[thispersonisagenius]

Seems pretty balanced to me. What's the incentive to use it over Titanium Shield or Gravity Shield? Both of those usually block more damage (with Gravity Shield being slightly less reliable), albeit they don't get that nifty 2 quanta drainage (which may be slightly too little).

[cjackdc]

Very original idea, I approve!  (Though my opinion doesn't matter that much...)
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One question though, just to make this clearer, with an adrenalined creature it would mean that if it had 3 attack and you were using the upped version you would drain 16 Quanta right? (4x2x2) Because it would attack 4 times, each time 2 damage would be blocked and for each 1 damage blocked 2 quanta would be drained; So that's a total of 8 damage blocked so 16 quanta drained. (Do you like my maths skills?)
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I must say this would be extremely powerful against    decks because of mitosis and adrenaline, I would DEFINITELY use this card if it were ever put into the game, just so if I was ever against a life rush I could make them RAGE.  (I'ld do it for the lolz)

[Zaealix]

If you're using a  rush vs.  , I feel like Oty's would make you rage alot faster than that shield...
But yea, considering the existance of Gravity shield, it makes sense that the second  shield would be made for dealing with lots of little attacks.

[OdinVanguard]

Seems pretty balanced to me. What's the incentive to use it over Titanium Shield or Gravity Shield? Both of those usually block more damage (with Gravity Shield being slightly less reliable), albeit they don't get that nifty 2 quanta drainage (which may be slightly too little).

Difficult to tell without running through testing I think.
For instance, consider its use in combination with malignant cell. It could end up being twice as bad as devourers. Its a little weaker than devourer vs a mono since it is not an assured drain chance, but once the cells build up, it will still be pretty nasty.
23*2* 1/12 ~ 4 for a mon, 23 * 2 * 1 / 6 ~ 8 for a duo... vs rainbow - 23*2 ~ 46, more powerful than black hole!
Now throw in a discord (granted thats a trio now) ... and you have something thats quite probably OP...

I think the 2 pt drain is fine where it is, but will need play testing to know for sure.

[eaglgenes101]

Changed the draining to be more consistent and less random.