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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ComputerSherpa" data-source="post: 4865400" data-attributes="member: 83829">Most powers are sustained with minor actions, but this one is sustained with a standard (until the max-clanks limit is reached.) The minions are easy to underestimate. I could be screwing up these calculations, but if a level 1 character takes a race with a +2 to Wisdom, they can easily start out with Wisdom 18; by the time they hit level 20 so they can take this power, they can get Wisdom 22 or 23, which is a +6 bonus and gives them a maximum of, say, 12 clanks on the field at once.  At the peak of this power's ability, that's between 0 and 72 damage per round, depending on how many clank attacks hit. Depending on the opposing class, it might be difficult or easy to kill off the clanks faster than they respawn. Hmm, maybe they are a little underpowered. I think I'll change their damage type to Lightning (if someone can apply a Lightning vulnerability to the target, things will really get cooking) and add this effect: "Targets take a -1 penalty to all defenses for each clank in their space." This should help the clanks get their hits in, and the image of a big burly fighter completely covered in little clockwork bots, crawling up his armor and shocking him with little electric bursts as they go, makes me happy inside.</blockquote>