Should Abilities Level increase the Toon Power ?
March 30, 2016 6:06PM
edited March 2016
A toon power is the add of the level, the gears, and the stars but NOT the abilities level ?!?
Should Abilities Level increase the Toon Power ? 47 votes
Yes, a full 7 abilities level is stronger.
72%
34 votes
No, it doesn't make stronger.
12%
6 votes
Others point of view
14%
7 votes
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I am sure I am not the only one who doesn't max abilities (if it's just 5% damage increase I usually save the mats). So while I am one who would have a lower power from this change, it completely makes sense. My character is not as good as someone else's who has higher abilities.. even if the power is the same.
Not mandatory by any stretch, but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
Level 2 to 3 is often +15% damage.
Why ?
That's where your logic is hindered its not 5% damage its 5% + 5% + 10% etc.. for EACH ability.
plus in order to get to that next countdown -1, or extra heals per round you HAVE to upgrade the abilities you can't skip them, so upgrade to 5 is per-requisitite to 6 to get 7 which is max ability, if you are only sitting on 5 because you are afraid of spending ability mats then all you have is a bunch of mediocre players and no pro toons.. it makes no sense..
Who doesn't do ability damage EVERY toon does some damage.. even healers, I don't understand your point
Oh, I am not staying at lvl 1 bro. I am talking about where the max is rank 7, i might stop at rank 6 because rank 7 is only 5% increase. I am just stating that I don't MAX every ability just because I can, I selectively pick which ones (especially if I am low on mats).
E.g. Imagine if you are facing a line-up of Sid (L), Qui-gon, Lumi, Daka and Dooku. All five have leader abilities, but only one would be active. A squad would still appear to have, confusingly, ridiculously high power.
2) Not all characters have the same number of abilities. Yoda and AV have 5; Biggs and JC 3.
All in all, toon power that takes into account ability upgrades would just muddy the water. The current system is fine - at least, you tend not to hear too many complaints about it...
However, power ratings themselves need to be reworked because they are not indicative of a characters true might.
I think changing this would result in issues with GW and right now you can click on any character you are about to face in GW or Arena so you can scope them out first anyhow and all their abilities.
Would [adding a % chance to get 10% more turn meter] be the same "power" as [-1 cooldown] or a leader ability [+1% evasion] even when they do not lead??
There should really be two categories(like power/resistance), lumping everything into power already confuses it.
1) only the active leader will get the leader Power ability.
2) they will have less power like some characters that are gear IX.
Then at a minimum it should take their basic attack into consideration since everyone has that. I do understand what you are saying, hopefully in this hypothetical situation they can make it smart enough to know who is the leader...
But changing it might affect matchmaking a lot, making it easier for those players that spread their ability upgrades around (having mostly L4-5) vs. those that packed them into their A-squad (all L7). So I'm not sure how I feel about it getting "fixed".