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@Depressed Void: You have to remember that as the fight gets longer the skill becomes more useful. It may only get you rage 1 turn sooner the first time, but then your next rage is 2 turns sooner (1 turn sooner the first time, then another turn for the 2nd), and then 3 turns sooner, and so on. It isn't nearly as beneficial to quick kill builds as it is to tanks who have battles that often last 10-20 turns where it can compound on itself. Of course, the numbers can always be adjusted if it is seen to be too strong or too weak.

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@Depressed Void: I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Rage always raises your damage by more than 1 damage since it ignores 45% of defense, unless they only have 1-2 defense. Or are you saying that in a 5 turn battle both players would rage anyways and the merc wouldn't get to their 2nd rage so the passive is essentially useless? In that case, yes it is somewhat useless as it didn't benefit you in a direct way. But mercs weren't really too far behind, most of the battles that I lost I just barely lost, and having rage a little sooner could have won it for me. We didn't want to buff mercenaries too much since they really weren't extremely under powered, we don't want to make another class crazy overpowered. And like I said, we can always adjust the numbers if needed.

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The slayer's Reign in Blood mission is a bit borked, he asks you to "kill" a long list of dudes but really all you need to do is fight negawraith 25 times and that's equally acceptable...which is a bit idiotic. :/