Exploding Penguin
Moderator
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To this day forward, I still don't understand why they gave BloodMages Intimidate. Energy Shield and Reflex Boost are already avaiable on the class which pretty much do the same as Intimidate except it reduces incoming damage of all types and not just Str a % damage reduction from weapons would be good. Are Robots included in these ' weapons ' or just Primary, Gun and Aux? It was good synergy at the time (can't say for now, but at the time it was). Considering you strike while using intimidate, that 3-5 damage reduction on strength-based attacks mixed in with added rage and lifesteal from blood lust made intimidate very useful in delta. It also had a low energy cost causing BM focus to overall be ridiculously effective in the endgame where only energy in small amounts existed in the players' energy pools. The thing that BM had going for it was that it could handle fights very well where both the opponent and the BM had little to no energy. One way the BM did this was by using its low-costing skills like intimidate and energy shield to waste energy of the opponent by tanking them out, and then pulling out the deadly aim + blood lust combo for an easy win in the endgame, especially with bludgeon's low energy cost and strong damage as well.
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