Buff Lock
Some buffs cannot be dispelled. Recently, we saw the addition of little padlocks onto these buff icons. How about a new character with an ability to add these locks to existing buffs?
Dispellers, once rare, are not very hard to come by anymore. We now have a few that dispel with their basic attacks. As a result, some taunters such as St Han have lost all viability. Seems to me that some of our lost heroes could be restored by introducing a buff lock ability.
Enter General Rieekan with his Unwavering Resolve special ability, which cleanses all debuffs and locks existing buffs. For each debuff cleansed, reduce cooldown by 1. St Han makes his way back to the front line. Rebels come charging back to the meta. Palpatine is relegated to the shadows ... until he gets his zeta which applies debuff locks!
Then somewhere along the line, buff/debuff locks get added to a unique ability (General Hux!), so zPhasma teams start every encounter with locked Advantage and zKylo Retribution cannot be dispelled or even stunned because FOO gave him locked Tenacity Up and you just cannot ever stop him without Nihilus.
Yeah, sounds good to me.
Dispellers, once rare, are not very hard to come by anymore. We now have a few that dispel with their basic attacks. As a result, some taunters such as St Han have lost all viability. Seems to me that some of our lost heroes could be restored by introducing a buff lock ability.
Enter General Rieekan with his Unwavering Resolve special ability, which cleanses all debuffs and locks existing buffs. For each debuff cleansed, reduce cooldown by 1. St Han makes his way back to the front line. Rebels come charging back to the meta. Palpatine is relegated to the shadows ... until he gets his zeta which applies debuff locks!
Then somewhere along the line, buff/debuff locks get added to a unique ability (General Hux!), so zPhasma teams start every encounter with locked Advantage and zKylo Retribution cannot be dispelled or even stunned because FOO gave him locked Tenacity Up and you just cannot ever stop him without Nihilus.
Yeah, sounds good to me.
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It's really a way to buff First Order teams. You didn't see the part about Kylo?
Look, another way of saying this is: the thread sounds like you want to run a team without any dispellers and you think everybody else's dispels should be neutered because of your squad choice. How selfish and shortsighted is that?
Oh man, that would be sweeeeet!
Relax bro. What do you have against orange pajamas?
Can you not see the possibilities? This would open the door for a Buff Unlock ability, making it once again susceptible to dispel. It's an arms race!
Still, I would hate to go up against Baze with 13 locked HoTs over his head. But stick him with Buff Block so he can't get more and you would have room to work, after they expire.
By the way, Phoenix squadron now has a permanent effect that looks and acts like a debuff in Sabine's Armor Shred ability. It cannot be dispelled. Permanent effects have already arrived.
This is where you're wrong, padawan. Armor shred doesn't count as a debuff, it's clarified in the description
Yes, that's why I said looks and acts like a debuff. They call it a "unique effect." It doesn't "count" as a debuff, but it is. If it walks and talks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
Horrible, unfortunately the OPs example is one of the main reasons, lock sth with taunt up and he keeps granting tm, give him some hots and maybe retribution....
There would also need to be list of buffs this wouldn't work on such as foresight, tenacity up, and maybe others.
Again, I did not suggest permanent buffs, just locked buffs. They could still expire due to time (Taunt) or after performing their designated function (Foresight).
St Han with locked Taunt would not be that bad, what with all the Mauls out there Dazing everybody and preventing TM gain effects. And how would St Han with Taunt and Retribution be any worse than Fives with Taunt and Retribution? You can do that right now with the right team, no buff locks required. Sun Fac does the same thing only worse with his Dispel. Kanan is another taunter that counters, not to mention FOST.
It isn't such a bad idea. You guys can be very hard to please.
Because sth grants tm that's how it's worse. And with an ability like you suggest and the (possible ) bug where sth grants tm if he has buff immunity he would basically be able to grant tm under any circumstance. The current way around him is to remove his buff after he uses his ability or ability block him first.
Just not sure having a blanket lock in buff and anything associated with it, even for a time limit seems like a bad idea. Especially adding in a cleanse before hand.