Revamping Talents

decino wrote: //Soldier Talents

case TALENT_BASIC_HA: return "Improved H/A";//decino: general talent now, replace Replace with a "decoy-like" talent where it somehow uses a percentage of your damage + weapon. (Eg. 10 str 10 dmg rg level 3 talent [50% damage done] = 180 damage rails from decoy) or replaced by retaliation.

//Poltergeist Talents
case TALENT_MORPHING: return "Morphing";//decino: change to longer slash range for para/mutant/tank/berserker talent? Yes
case TALENT_MORE_AMMO: return "More Ammo";//decino: not sure if this is usefull with polt ammo regen Useful if ammo regen is % based?
case TALENT_SUPERIORITY: return "Superiority";//decino: general talent now, replace Replace with "ghost" in talent form?
case TALENT_RETALIATION: return "Retaliation";//decino: general talent now, replace Remove static +5%damage/level add to talents? level 3 = 3% increase / level ?

//Vampire Talents
case TALENT_IMP_CLOAK: return "Imp. Cloak";//decino: sucks, should cost less cubes Yes - level 3 = 0/0.5 cubes?
case TALENT_SECOND_CHANCE: return "2nd Chance";//decino: sucks, needs a replacement or removal Chance to auto-tball if hit by a fatal shot?


//Mage Talents
case TALENT_ICE_BOLT: return "Ice Bolt";//decino: replace, add ice bolt to ability list Passive that gives cubes/level? level 3 = 10 cubes/level (affected by max ammo?)
case TALENT_MEDITATION: return "Meditation"; Make it actual "PCR" instead of "drop on your head regeneration"
case TALENT_FROST_NOVA: return "Frost Nova"; Lower cooldown
case TALENT_MANASHIELD: return "Mana Shield"; Lower % damage taken to 50%(from 80%)

//Engineer Talents
case TALENT_LASER_PLATFORM: return "Laser Platform";//decino: worthless, improve or replace "sticky sentry?" let's normal sentry be placed on wall/ceiling for bonus cost? (100%/66%/33% extra cost?)
case TALENT_PRECISION_TUNING: return "Precision Tune";//decino: replace, too strong with new level caps or cap abilities with this skill at level 20 Firewall - helps against conversion?

//Knight Talents
case TALENT_REPEL: return "Repel"; Buff/Fix
case TALENT_MOBILITY: return "Mobility"; Buff to 1.5s CD (NOT APART OF TALENT: also remove global cooldown from boost)
case TALENT_DURABILITY: return "Durability";//decino: general talent now, replace Old armor talent? 5% to hp 95% to armor?

//Cleric Talents
case TALENT_BALANCESPIRIT: return "Balance Spirit";//decino: too shitty, make it combine spirits without having the opposite one upgraded; lv 3: same level as opposite spirit level 3 = 75%(50/33%?) of level to opposite spirit
case TALENT_BOOMERANG: return "Boomerang"; 2/3/4 boomerangs

//Weapon Master Talents
case TALENT_BASIC_AMMO_REGEN: return "Ammo Regen";
case TALENT_COMBAT_EXP: return "Combat Exp."; 50% damage increase to enemies + self. (Eg. with 0 resist you take 1.5x damage)
case TALENT_TACTICS: return "Tactics"; OP remove - replace with armor pierce?
case TALENT_SIDEARMS: return "Sidearms"; Give spawn ammo for sidearm weapons
// case TALENT_MISSING: return "Placeholder";//decino: need a new weapon master talent Crits?

//Necromancer Talents
case TALENT_FLIGHT: return "Flight";//decino: replace with something usefull? reduce cube cost to 0/1? or a feign death? old plague radius talent?

//Shaman Talents
case TALENT_ICE: return "Ice";//decino: replace with erosion talent (earth+air) yes
case TALENT_WIND: return "Wind";//decino: replace with obsidian talent (fire+water) yes
case TALENT_STONE: return "Stone";//decino: replace with twilight talent (nature+darkness) yes
case TALENT_SHADOW: return "Shadow";//decino: replace, fury talent? yes
case TALENT_TOTEM: return "Totemic Focus";//decino: should increase totem health by alot yes

//Alien Talents
case TALENT_SUPER_HEALER: return "Super Healer";//decino: should heal armor and healer should always heal 150% health w/o talent yes
case TALENT_SWARMING: return "Swarming";//decino: shouldn't reduce damage, spores suck already yes

Sharpshooter wrote:I was thinking about a sword talent for knight. Something like this:

Lancing - 3pts. Increases sword length 33%/66%/100%.

Grape wrote:

Sharpshooter wrote:I was thinking about a sword talent for knight. Something like this:

Lancing - 3pts. Increases sword length 33%/66%/100%.

How about 25/50/75%

Grape wrote:For a WM talent, instead of armor pierce, could you just change the health/armor damage ratio? Like energy weapons do 80% dmg to armor, 20% to health. Other weapons do 90% damage to armor, 10% to health (using the values from KOTS).