Proposed Wager with DracoSuave - Blurred Step

[UngeheuerLich]

What i just noticed: you can now use blurred step on your own turn! So two battleminds who have marked each other can blurred step in response to blurred step...

 

[Dice4Hire]

Every time I see my PHB3, I go 'BEEEEEIIIIBEEEERRRR!' and smash. My friends are concerned.

Your wager was one of the more interesting things I've read here for a long time. Kudos to both of you.

 

[Aegeri]

This part of the errata really pleased me. I had playtested Battleminds pre-errata and they were absolutely worthless defenders. This at least gives the battlemind a good way of staying adjacent to his target so he doesn't need to really "spam" a level 2 augment (lightning rush) to have any hope of being an effective defender. It's also another errata update that kills yet another one of my houserules to fix an issue. I had already ruled it to be a free action anyway and look, Wizards just makes that houserule irrelevant.

 

[Obryn]

Your wager was one of the more interesting things I've read here for a long time. Kudos to both of you.

Thanks. It's also the most fun I've had in the rules forum for years!

And thanks to Draco for being a good sport!

-O

 

[Dungeoneer]

Okay, so what's the wager for next month?

 

[DracoSuave]

Thanks. It's also the most fun I've had in the rules forum for years!

And thanks to Draco for being a good sport!

-O

Hey, it's only right, you were a good sport last time!

 

[Obryn]

Okay, so what's the wager for next month?

Well, the next updates are post-Essentials, so I think an obvious one would be, "Old races with extra stat choices." That's a pretty obvious conclusion to reach, though - so I would feel bad winning it

Were I to put money on stuff that will be changed, I'd guess Dishearten and/or Mind Thrust - specifically the Aug 2 versions of either.

If Psionic Power weren't coming out in the mean-time, I think that a general change to the power point structure would be best. Since it is, and I doubt they'd want to overhaul every single power from two books, my guess is that these two will receive direct attention of some sort.

-O

 

[keterys]

Part of me does think it'd be pretty easy to have a one line errata of:

All psionic augments cost 1 then 2 points. Here's the new power point chart.

Even if it would affect 3/4 of the psionic powers in actuality.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

Well, the next updates are post-Essentials, so I think an obvious one would be, "Old races with extra stat choices." That's a pretty obvious conclusion to reach, though - so I would feel bad winning it

Yeah, this is so going to happen. If it doesn't. I will be Disheartened.

Were I to put money on stuff that will be changed, I'd guess Disheartening Strike and/or Mind Thrust - specifically the Aug 2 versions of either.

Speaking of Disheartened. I'm fairly certain you mean "Dishearten" rather than the Rogue power "Disheartening Strike".

But, yes, I agree these powers both need to be fixed. I'm playing a 14 Psion and I feel really bad that I have never swapped an at-will power because those two powers are so good they never need to be replaced. I even looked ahead. If our game makes it to level 30, I don't believe I will EVER be replacing them.

 

[Aegeri]

That's precisely the problem.

I'm actually a bit worried Wizards thinks psionics are a "success", because the Battlemind was worthless pre-blurred step errata, the Psion is utterly broken and the Ardent wallows in abject mediocrity. All of them though have a degree of "abusive" at-wills that can be used to either make them decent (Lightning Rush), broken (Dishearten/Mind Thrust) or just okay (I forget the Ardent one that is a bit spammable).

I do have confidence this will be addressed, Wizards have shown a real dedication to improving the game and fixing issues. I'm just wondering if they will fix the real problem - the highly flawed PP system - without murdering the at-wills entirely that some of these classes actually (ironically) need to be competitive.