Super Serum Passive

vonqball

The idea here is basically a totally selfish AoPM. So, no aura just a boost to all your stats. Thematically, you've taken some kind of "human perfection serum", or some such thing. Make the passive work with DPS and Hybrid roles. However, give it an additional bonus to all damage in Hybrid.

My aim is to create a nice "jack of all trades" dps-ish option. And to help enable ranged/melee hybrid builds.

Numbers wise, it shouldn't provide the raw dps of some other damage-oriented passives. The well-rounded aspect of the extra stats should make up for having less total firepower.

notyuu

So.. what a version of Aura of Ebon Distruction, but without the crit effect and ally buffing?

and to balance it out to make it not just AoED but worse..make it give you a slight damage resistance.. so it'd be [for example] +50% all damage and +50% damage resistance?

jonesing4

Or maybe it could function as a jack-of-all-trades, but without the raw stat manipulation of AoPM. Minor(ish) boosts to Dodge & Avoidance, Crit+Severity, Offense, and Defense. Maybe add in some Energy Management help and a boost to HP. The effect would be much the same as bumping the stats, but it would be a different way of getting there.

raighn

vonqball said:

The idea here is basically a totally selfish AoPM. So, no aura just a boost to all your stats. Thematically, you've taken some kind of "human perfection serum", or some such thing. Make the passive work with DPS and Hybrid roles. However, give it an additional bonus to all damage in Hybrid.

My aim is to create a nice "jack of all trades" dps-ish option. And to help enable ranged/melee hybrid builds.

Numbers wise, it shouldn't provide the raw dps of some other damage-oriented passives. The well-rounded aspect of the extra stats should make up for having less total firepower.

An interesting idea, and wouldn't be terribly overpowered.

jonesing4 said:

Or maybe it could function as a jack-of-all-trades, but without the raw stat manipulation of AoPM. Minor(ish) boosts to Dodge & Avoidance, Crit+Severity, Offense, and Defense. Maybe add in some Energy Management help and a boost to HP. The effect would be much the same as bumping the stats, but it would be a different way of getting there.

This on the otherhand would be overpowered. The reason that an AoPM like stat boost is good bjt not overpowering is due to how passives scale and how stats work. A direct percentage boost to everything would result in substantial bonuses all around, while direct stat boosts only results in a small bonus all around with a seemingly more substantial bonus to your prefered stats.

jonesing4

raighn said:

This on the otherhand would be overpowered. The reason that an AoPM like stat boost is good bjt not overpowering is due to how passives scale and how stats work. A direct percentage boost to everything would result in substantial bonuses all around, while direct stat boosts only results in a small bonus all around with a seemingly more substantial bonus to your prefered stats.

Only if you made the bonuses too big. Most of those attributes I listed are boosted by superstats via spec trees, thus you're already getting bonuses to things like crit/severity, off/def, etc. when you slot AoPM.

servantrules

IMHO, it would have to be best locked to the Hybrid role, especially if the bonuses stack with AoPM from others. Small bonuses against Knocks and DoTs would be ok, as well as a minor Damage Resistance boost as part of the effects.

roughbearmattach

vonqball said:

The idea here is basically a totally selfish AoPM. So, no aura just a boost to all your stats. Thematically, you've taken some kind of "human perfection serum", or some such thing. Make the passive work with DPS and Hybrid roles. However, give it an additional bonus to all damage in Hybrid.

My aim is to create a nice "jack of all trades" dps-ish option. And to help enable ranged/melee hybrid builds.

Numbers wise, it shouldn't provide the raw dps of some other damage-oriented passives. The well-rounded aspect of the extra stats should make up for having less total firepower.

This is the most common reason I choose AoPM on toons, actually. I would really love a version of this that had no aura, but was perhaps slightly better, or . . . make it no better, but, like Congress of Selves, have no role restriction.

I think it would be great to have a passive like this that wasn't role locked.

vonqball

jonesing4 said:

Or maybe it could function as a jack-of-all-trades, but without the raw stat manipulation of AoPM. Minor(ish) boosts to Dodge & Avoidance, Crit+Severity, Offense, and Defense. Maybe add in some Energy Management help and a boost to HP. The effect would be much the same as bumping the stats, but it would be a different way of getting there.

Yeah, I thought about this option too... or some combinations of both a stat boost and various small bonuses. But, I decided that and overall stat boost gives good flexibility, since you can get extra stat effects from spec trees/superstats. Plus it seems like an easy passive to balance, since we already have AoPM to model it on.