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<blockquote data-quote="Omnifarious Grey" data-source="post: 4670229" data-attributes="member: 81454"><p>One idea may be to instead of directly "stealing" a ability or power, you could instead hamper an enemy's recharge capability or resistance to instead gain charges (which could be a class power) that could be used to amplify your powers. This would mean that the spellthief could be a watered down rogue/wizard who can excel at those powers if he hampers foes to boost his abilities.</p><p></p><p>For example, lets say you have an at-will as a minor action against an enemy. If you hit you deal no damage but instead the enemy cannot use an encounter power until your next turn -or- cannot recharge a power until your next turn, and you can gain some static charge. Then lets say you use one of your at-wills that deal 1[W] + Dex damage and you expel a [charge] in order to deal an extra 1d6 damage for the attack.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Omnifarious Grey, post: 4670229, member: 81454"] One idea may be to instead of directly "stealing" a ability or power, you could instead hamper an enemy's recharge capability or resistance to instead gain charges (which could be a class power) that could be used to amplify your powers. This would mean that the spellthief could be a watered down rogue/wizard who can excel at those powers if he hampers foes to boost his abilities. For example, lets say you have an at-will as a minor action against an enemy. If you hit you deal no damage but instead the enemy cannot use an encounter power until your next turn -or- cannot recharge a power until your next turn, and you can gain some static charge. Then lets say you use one of your at-wills that deal 1[W] + Dex damage and you expel a [charge] in order to deal an extra 1d6 damage for the attack. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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