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BALANCE

Static Grenade
Static Grenade is currently draining a bit too much energy at once. The energy gain effect felt about right, so we increased the percentage to keep it about even.
Lowered base energy drain to 95-220 from 100-250
Energy gain increased to 35% from 30%

Toxic Grenade
Toxic Grenade was a little too spammable in the case of the opponent cleansing the poison, so we’re increasing the cooldown; we also want the initial damage to feel meaningful so we increased the damage there.
Increase initial damage to 85% from 70%
Increase cooldown to 2 from 1

Venom Strike
Poison damage increased by 10 at all levels

Assimilation
Lowered base energy drain to 70-150 from 70-170

Battery Backup
Lowered base energy gain to 190-325 from 200-350

Plasma Bolt
Tech Mages are outperforming the other classes at every level; we want to bring them more in line across the board by lowering the damage on their main spell.
Lowered damage by 15 at all levels

Blood Commander
Blood Commander feels a bit lackluster in general, so we’re giving it a bit of a boost, especially to the amount of lifesteal.
Increased Strength by 2 at all levels
Increase lifesteal percent to 60% of Strength gain from 40%

Intimidate
Intimidate is another skill that feels a bit underpowered, so we’re giving it a lowered Energy cost and nudging up the effect.
Lowered Energy cost to 95-230 from 100-280
Increased Strength debuff by 2 at all levels

Hybrid Armor
Increased buff by 10% at all levels

Field Commander
Along with Blood Commander, we felt this skill needed to be a bit stronger to justify its use.
Increased Strength gain by 5 at all levels

Blood Shield
Blood Shield has long been a skill that is hard to justify using in most cases. A flat Health cost at all levels keeps the cost reasonable, and we've increased the effect to make it more useful in general.
Change to flat health cost
Increase base Resistance gain to 50-150 from 40-130
Now improves by +1 every 4 Support

Frenzy
Frenzy wasn't quite granting enough Health to feel as satisfying as we wanted, and Tactical Mercenaries were lacking in tools to ignore a target’s defense.
Added 10% defense ignore
Removed Club requirement

Fireball
Blood Mages are currently under-performing at most levels, this should give them a general boost in power.
Increased damage by 10 at all levels

Smoke Screen
We wanted to pull some of the free high level power from Smoke Screen given how well Bounty Hunters scale with this skill.
Slowed stat scaling to +1 every 5 Tech from every 4 Tech

Adrenaline Rush
Strike, consuming all of your current rage;
Ignores a % of 45% of defences ignored based on consumed rage;
Increases accuracy by a % of consumed rage points;

(For example: if you have 50% of your rage bar, you will ignore 22.5% defences)


1  - 2.50% (35% Increased Accuracy @ Level 40 w/ full Rage Bar of 1400 Points)
2  - 2.85%
3  - 3.20%
4  - 3.55%
5  - 3.90%
6  - 4.25%
7  - 4.60%
8  - 4.95%
9  - 5.30%
10 - 5.65% (79% Increased Accuracy @ level 40 w/ full Rage Bar of 1400 Points)

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Energy Parasite
Blood Mages have a poor energy return skill, while it can force opponents to use or lose energy, the overall returns are very low when the opponent uses their energy.
So to improve initial drain, keep the ability to stop opponent from replenishing energy by using their drains (which are stronger) and have an improvement at higher levels the changes proposed are in red!

Drains a % of target's Maximum Energy for 3 turns. Caster gains 1.5x the amount drained. (Capped at opponents energy pool)

Skill Details:
Level 1: 3% Max Energy
Level 2: 4% Max Energy
Level 3: 5% Max Energy
Level 4: 6% Max Energy
Level 5: 7% Max Energy
Level 6: 8% Max Energy
Level 7: 9% Max Energy
Level 8: 10% Max Energy
Level 9: 11% Max Energy
Level 10: 12% Max Energy

Improves with: Character Level
Level 15: +1%
Level 20: +1%
Level 25: +1%
Level 30: +1%
Level 35: +1%
Level 40: +1%

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Atom Smasher and EMP
These skill can be rendered unusable when your opponent drains enough energy. While both classes Tac Merc and CH can regain energy it's a losing battle. I'd remove the energy cost for use, skill points are valuable enough or give them a flat very low value energy cost! Say 50 energy for Atom Smasher since it is blockable and requires a club and 80 energy for EMP since it is unblockable, but does less damage.

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Field Commander
Not a match for Blood Commander, energy cost should be dropped to 60-150

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Stun Grenade and Plasma Grenade
Discrepancy between damage compared to Overload. Buff damage from 170-320 base to 170-380 so that damage matches Overload. This will be slight buff to TIM, BH and CH and may increase use a bit!

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Field Commander
Not a match for Blood Commander, energy cost should be dropped to 60-150

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All AOE versus 2 opponents
Been playing 2v2 a bit and these skills are now underused in 2v2... I would try increasing damage to 90%, but have a modification so that they have no chance to critical!

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Assimilation
In the main Tech Mages are avoiding training support as they can have a very effective build that uses health, strength and some dexterity. So, I'd put a support requirement on this skill 18-42. Would be a slight nerf, but overall not big enough to kill the class!

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All Ultimate Skills
Use has fallen away due to energy drains, possibly rescale energy costs to 300+25 per level to see if use increases!

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Hatchling Rush
Core is now used more than Azrael Will, increase energy cost to 220 energy

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Not sure how to deal with robot cores. The way Necrosis and Armor Annihilator stack can be devastating especially when combined with smoke/malf and hatchling rush... Perhaps new cores that worked opposite to the debuffs or a massive buff to assault bot from 65% restore to 80% restore as the bot is seldomly used due to how effective Infernal Android is...