[DE]Momaw Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Pretty much nobody in the history of ever uses this psychic bolts. It does low damage, it's clumsy, it's not thematic or useful in any way really. What about replacing it completely with something more keeping in Nyx's theme of mind games? Most people who have played D&D should be familiar with the concept of Mirror Image. This creates visual copies of the spell caster so that enemies trying to attack must make a random selection from the available targets and so have a chance of attacking the wrong thing and wasting their attack. The same could work for Nyx. For the duration of the ability, holographic images of yourself are scattered around the area and enemies can react to them as if they were real. Enemies that engage a mirror image for more than a second or two realize that it's a fake and pick a new target. (But not necessarily the right one) This protects you and your team by essentially functioning as "chaff" and reducing the number of hits that you have to absorb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InariOkami Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Genius! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfessorRobledo Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 My only problem with this idea is that it just seems kind of like Loki's Decoy but on a larger scale. I will agree that it sounds infinitely better than Psychic Bolts and fits Nyx's theme much better though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace24 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 definitely a more fitting skill. decent combo with chaos, confusing the enemies further, and giving them extra targets. and mobile decoys/molts would be alright. but if enemies realize within a few seconds, it doesn't buy you much time. so the platoon of grineer shoot at the wrong target for a couple shots, then they just start firing at you. depends on the number of mirror images, though. if you basically spawn an army of copies like nekros's shadows of the dead, then it's way too powerful for a 2 skill. but if it's too much less, then it is utterly useless. but for a 2 skill, I think 2-4 would be on par for that energy cost, and 2 really isn't much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizarreFetalChimpanzee Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 All of my yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senketsu_ Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) How about as to not make it almost exactly like Lokis Decoy. maybe wall projections instead? or a nyx poll dancing decoy I could dig that to. :3 Edited April 9, 2014 by Senketsu_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyphe Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 It is too much like chaos, not identical but too close as another set of decoys she does not really need. but yes she needs something better than the bolts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfessorRobledo Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 or a nyx poll dancing decoy I could dig that to. :3 How does one go about dancing on a vote? I suppose it could just be swapping sides of the vote continuously, never giving a decisive answer about the vote. Or perhaps you meant a pole: a long, slender, rounded piece of metal or wood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senketsu_ Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 How does one go about dancing on a vote? I suppose it could just be swapping sides of the vote continuously, never giving a decisive answer about the vote. Or perhaps you meant a pole: a long, slender, rounded piece of metal or wood? yes im dyslexic and misspelled pole :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axterix13 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I'd far rather see the bolts made worth using, in terms of how they work, the damage they do, and the energy cost they have. Nyx needs a little something to do with her energy when CC isn't needed. Mirror images would be just another CC type ability, which translates to "just use Chaos". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyphe Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 yeah one of the few direct damage abilities I like in the game is soul punch, most are not worth using as your gun does it better. just a touch of utility would make them work, like if its a bolt then why does in not pin them to the floor or encumber them for a bit like the bolt we get pinned with from the gustags or debuf armor or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSDAkatsuki Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) They just need to improve the damage and make it a single target spell. From there add this property to make it a solid ability. When a group is chaosed, the primary unit hit by a bolt is linked to the rest of the chaosed group to take that damage as well. Make it pure damage so it bypasses armor, shields, etc and gives the same damage the main target gets to the rest, meaning higher class enemies take the same damage as well. Also what everybody else said already, just a copy of decoy. Edited April 9, 2014 by GSDAkatsuki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShazbot Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Loki already has that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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