note, 250% happens when I actually save up mana. Else it just restores 8 mana, which is just an enormous act for 100%. Which purely stats-wise, she can do anyway, I just am limiting myself here.
You know, actual limits, not like Sen who just spends a turn popping a succubus and suddenly has infinite mana and every spell you come up with.
and such a last ditch effort, funfact, can *miss*. It was PNs decision to give Selkhim 0 speed to simulate a huge target that can't be missed, so I went all in on strength. And its not like I just ditched it on smurf and PN just suddenly, smurf knew about this for months, and PN was not just warned by me about this, we discussed this well beforehand.
also geez, with all your hate outta nowhere I totaly feel all singled out and bullied by you, oh my gosh. Oh well, at least I didnt just dump the perk on a fresh character and threw that one into combat without as much as an actual introduction, then when called out on the endless train of super perks just claim "I would have patched them anyway". No you wouldn't, if everyone had just accepted your bullshit, you would have just sat back and enjoyed.
And don't you go full victim mode claiming that I am just the one always hacking around on your characters, it was USEC who first pointed out the nonsense on your charsheet, followed by Projeck and Kansa. If not for them, I wouldn't have even read your sheet. And now you try to nullify the critique that the 4 of us combined had, just because I happen to be more vocal on that stuff?
I am not singling you out, I am going on everyones bullshit alike. Your chars just happen to be the ones that constantly happen to stand out from the crowd, almost as if indeed, it is you who habitualy makes the characters with loads and loads of bonus stuff while everyone else tries to at least somewhat stick to the rules.
So yeah, I refer to the ass-pullery that is the entirety of Seras. I was having fun with Nomads plot, until the last moment where suddenly Sen threw in this character that must clearly be from another game, as it seems to be unrelated to the rules everyone else is playing by. So instead the cool and heroic moment PN and I had in mind got turned into a joke when suddenly the totaly unbalanced side-character is dumped into the final fight, without any reason to be there, and is for some reason immune to illusions and fear and stuns and makes the climax of a plot icarus was very involved in into a joke with badly rephrased anime quotes.
If you want to do cool shit in the game, get involved and play the game. Sen, despite my gripes, is a cool and original character, and deserves screen time, and getting involved with stuff and doing some really cool stuff occasionaly. Instead she sits back, belittles the PCs, but ultimately does nothing. And instead of trying to get her involved, you press the skip-to-the-awesome button and just throw out a side-character that with the speed and strength bonus perks alone already has a 75% stat boost on auto-on, somethign Icarus needs a level 5 perk for and first needs to almost die to be able to do, alongside a massive health perk (an extra 5 health sounds op? Seras gets 15 extra health from her perk, AND a boatload of mana while at it.
That's not only unfair for everyone else, but also unfair to yourself.
Anyway on topic, the problem is while we have the look at 5 in all stats being average, we don't actually have any look at how stats actually scale. How far above average is 8 points? How much 15? How much strength is needed to lift a car? Can someone with 10 speed wallrun and jump from wall to wall in the blink of an eye? At what point is it fair to say that the bullet was not dodged, but caught?
We know that the PCs are stronger than the average person, to the point where they can probably fight dragons (an average dragon I guess), and that can be caused either by loads and loads of training, Linda being the best example, or by maybe pure talent (like Dalia, though it seems super odd), or simply by design (super robot body ho) or many other reasons.
But how the PCs actually stand in the power-continuum of the world, is hard to assess. Point is, in numbers, something like 10, the PCs can with teamwork (being used very loosely here), pummel down entities with much larger statpools. The problem is with magic being so common, It should not be so hard to gather something like 10 reasonably experienced mages - which is a problem, because that kinda establishes that the PCs are just one of many many many that can just teamrush bosses, very much reducing the actual threat factor of the bosses. However if you put the bosses at stats where they are so super far above the Pcs that 10 of them together cant deal with them, well, that means 10 of us together cant deal with them. That makes the Pcs as a whole super useless and unimportant.
As such, I would like to settle 100 in stats as *extraordinarily high*, certainly heroes of legend tier for mortals, and at least somewhat decent even in the big leagues. Else plots like the vatican being held hostage by the king of hell, creation being destroyed by eldritch horrors, or an army of pro-magic terrorists that actually have the resources to openly fight the whole world are entirely out of Pc reach
as for the Orichalcum blade, well, I simply didn't want to just hand myself a +7 weapon so early in the game, when everyone else was still on low level weaponry. Since then however, weapon damage output and loot level have increased, and the HYDRA body will reflect that. Why else would Icarus refuse all the awesome loot that is being dropped?
Also, I kinda dislike the old system where you just roll and suddenly have masterwork stuff on your hands. Icarus is a robot, and Icarus rolled well, but Icarus is neither a smith, nor an engineer. On her own, even if she does everything to the peak of her ability, she simply can not create masterwork swords just because she saved all sword smithing tutorials avaiable on the internet.
This is why she is letting the Hydra body be built by a whole bunch of experts with decades of experience, merely influencing the design to her liking
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