Exploding Penguin -> RE: Energy steal BM? (11/26/2012 0:10:30)
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Pretty sure that everyone knows this, but assim used to be on BM at the beginning. Giving BM assimilation would be similar to giving merc a defensive buff, as they both seem like vital skills that the classes should have but lack. I think the energy steal part of assim would work, but then there's the energy that's given back to the user. If you used assimilation 2 times, which can most often be done considering BM focus builds last around 8 turns or so (from my experience, that's typically when someone loses a fight with focus BM), a strong assimilation of high level can EASILY give the user enough energy to reuse a defensive buff, intimidate, OR bludgeon. I wouldn't disagree with this if assm on BM took more energy, but didn't return any, but with it returning energy to the user, it becomes a huge problem instantly. BMs already have a pretty strong resilience to str BHs anyways (Intimidate + reflex boost/resistance shield), so energy removal isn't necessary to make BM a strong class (I doubt anyone here can deny that BM is pretty strong as an individual class right now). Adding assimilation in replace of other skills would totally crush strength builds when playing against BMs. If you'd want assimilation on BM, you'd have to either remove intimidate or reflex, so that a balance when fighting strength builds still remains. @Trans I think you got the skill replacements wrong... but that may just be me. This is how I remember it: Assimilation gets replaced with reflex boost Technician gets replaced with energy shield (funny how all evolved classes started off with technician, and now none of them do) Zerker gets replaced with bludgeon I don't ever remember BM having matrix... @Mysterion From what I've heard (this may not be accurate), diamond blades was a passive ability for BH back in alpha that was similar to deadly aim, except it was for strikes instead.
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