Damocles | Damocles

[OldTrees]

Damocles was designed to be anti passive healing. It is also cheaper but more risky. In your opinion though, is it balanced?

Probably. The only question is:
Is this mechanic the right choice for the purpose?

[furballdn]

Damocles was designed to be anti passive healing. It is also cheaper but more risky. In your opinion though, is it balanced?

Probably. The only question is:
Is this mechanic the right choice for the purpose?

Hm. Well to counter passive healing, there are 4 ways:

PC
Permanent damage
Nullify/mitigate opponent's healing
Build up damage for one burst

I don't see nullifying healing or doing permanent damage, so I went for the build up damage. I feel it fits gravity thematically (for the sword) and mechanically (Gravity is the most defensive element, so it can stall). On the other hand, it also gives gravity (unupped especially) some speed for offense.

[OldTrees]

Damocles was designed to be anti passive healing. It is also cheaper but more risky. In your opinion though, is it balanced?

Probably. The only question is:
Is this mechanic the right choice for the purpose?

Hm. Well to counter passive healing, there are 4 ways:

PC
Permanent damage
Nullify/mitigate opponent's healing
Build up damage for one burst

I don't see nullifying healing or doing permanent damage, so I went for the build up damage. I feel it fits gravity thematically (for the sword) and mechanically (Gravity is the most defensive element, so it can stall). On the other hand, it also gives gravity (unupped especially) some speed for offense.

Why did you stop there? The question I asked applied to at least 1 layer deeper.

Purpose: More damage in fewer bursts
Method: Weapon that saves damage for a burst attack
Alternative methods:

[OdinVanguard]

It seems relatively balanced to me, with 2 possible exceptions:

1) with PU, you could do an OTK more easily than with titan since stored damage would get copied (if it doesn't then this isn't a problem though)

2) What happens when a flying version gets lobotomized? Does it never attack? Otherwise you could just wait a few turns and lobo one of these... then BOOM you have a creature with 21 attack.

Concept is cool. It reminds me of an idea I put into the pre-smithy a while back, but never finished up.
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,40349.0.html
Your idea is fairly distinct (mine only released a portion of stored damage upon use rather than all at once), but there are enough similarities that maybe the discussion might help here.

Hope you can work all the kinks out. This would make a very fun weapon to have in game I think.

On a somewhat tangent, this would have been a cool entry for the Card Design category of the Forum Brawl this round (round 3) ... We're making mythological weapons.

-On that note... A shameless plug -> Hey everyone, don't forget to vote in the Forum Brawl this week! http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,483.0.html

[ddevans96]

Finally, an excuse to make sword art