[Revenant Rework Idea]

54 minutes ago, FrostedMike said:

I didn't understand your Mesmer Skin rework. It grants 50% damage resistance when you lose a stack, but as it is now you take no damage at all while you have at least one stack. You basicly nerfed it..

I meant that it will stay as is, but it has a cool down where you can’t lose stacks too rapidly, and the damage resistance is just a bonus to stay that little bit tankier.

[Valkyr is very lackluster and got broken(bugged) with the new melee]

On 2019-06-30 at 11:49 AM, (PS4)LoisGordils said:

Wukong had 3 useless abilities.

Vauban's problem is the redundancy of his kit coupled with the fact that he lacks damage. Wukong needed a rework more, followd by Vauban, then Ember and Chroma

Don’t forget Nyx and Revenant, being very lackluster and just needing improvements.

 

[Revenant Rework Idea]

Revenant is one of those frames that you want to enjoy, and have a good theme, but have bad mechanics or too many negatives.

Enthrall-

Horde cap should be increased, to at least 15, maybe 20. He’s meant to enslave a horde, not have a small friend group. 

Thrall cannot be attacked by allies, and the ability has no more duration. Instead, thralls lose health constantly (affected by duration) and will break free after losing 50% of their max health. Also, Enthrall can now be cast on Thralls to release them early.

Pillar now Triggers on release, not death.

Mesmer Skin-

Enemies that can be enthralled will be instantly captured after attacking you, rather than a stun and free Enthrall. Make him less active in this regards, to focus on other tasks.

Losing a stack will grant 50% damage resistance for 1 second, while damage will not take away further stacks (not duration based)

Reduced number of stacks given, but increases with power strength.

Reave-

Hitting thralls with Reave will still grant more Mesmer Skin stacks, but can exceed the amount produced by Mesmer skin up to 50% bonus. So if Mesmer Skin creates 6 then you can use Reave to go up to 9 simultaneous stacks. To balance this, make Reave cost less energy.

Hitting thralls with Reave will produce small AOE explosions that deal 500 radiation damage with a 50% to proc a status. 

Edit: Since Thralls can’t be damaged by you, this doesn’t affect them.

Danse Macabre-

Reduce the energy cost per second from 20 to 15, but increase cast cost to 50. This will make it more accessible.

Ability deals less damage, but damage while holding down fire is retained. This make the ability worse, but will provide an greater benefit for the new damage, as well as be more manageable with less drain by default.

Movement speed is reduced by 50% while active.

Hitting thralls will not kill them, instead making them glow brightly with Revenant’s energy colour. They are healed for 25% of the damage they would take and deal +50% damage that works how Danse Macabre does, matching enemies weakness.

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This should make Revenant a better frame in general, however, he will be more balance between his horde and his survivability. Both more thralls and easier enthralling will make it easier to retain Mesmer Skin charges by using Reave, which will be cheaper and have a reason to cast it. Being able to heal thralls as well as not have to worry about keeping the horde under your control will make him more passive, and Danse Macabre will be more efficient but will be more focused on evening out the battlefield rather than just having it on a walking around.

Either way, feedback or response would be appreciated.

 

[Nidus Augment for 4th Ability]

I think that if they added another augment for his 4 (no frame has 2 for the same ability), this would be unique enough to fit. Designing this like Revenant’s thralls would make sense, as they are being overwhelmed by Infestation, regardless of their species. You could still attack them, but maybe a confusion-like effect, where they get attacked by others? Turning an enemy into a decoy by overwhelming them would be a different approach for Nidus, a good thing. This would probably have a negative, like 4 costs 7/6/4/3 more mutation stacks to cost.

[Nidus 3 augment: Symbiotic relation]

Drains health from enemies attached to Nidus to heal him rapidly, at the cost of 2 extra mutation stacks. Attaching to allies drains Nidus’ health to heal them.

Heal rate scales with power, health drain scales with efficiency ( of how much health is consumed per second, and how much the ally gets healed )

 

I think that rather than boosting Nidus with damage, or an alternate way to gain mutation, it should follow his 2 augment, and provide a new play style. This is designed to be more supportive and healing oriented than originally, and should be a reason to build differently.