[quote=EldritchOne]
"I feel like it should be possible to break his gaze, but it would take a significant amount of willpower. You could keep the pain the gaze courses (if lower it a bit so as to not make it torture levels of pain) to even it up a little."-the reason its at that level is partly because I fully expect people just to ignore it, because that's such a frequent event in personal RP's for people just to bugger around with the less physical forms of magic/power. If I offer that possibility then EVERYONE will take it, and the power becomes utterly useless in all forms and essentially becomes a non-entity because nobody bothers to acknowledge the effects of it. unless you're happy being an observer of fights and enforcing the idea that it takes more than "Mah dood has eenar stranth" to get out of it, I ain't going to shift on that one. a final point that his gaze requires the other to look at his eyes in order for it to actually work, just avert your eyes from his face should work, and given that he is pretty god damn massive in his second there are plenty of other thing to look at. Also his gaze doesn't work over long distances or less than a second glances because he can't actually make eye contact, so whats to stop you just firebombing him from afar? or hell, just put an arrow in his neck? Alternately, don't be a doofus and tag team him, his eyes only work on one person at a time after all.
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Can I suggest perhaps having it be so that it begins with a paralysis of sorts, and working it's way to petrification, rather than full on immediate "You're a statue now!"
And maybe as a way to break it, a combo of strong willpower [i]and[/i] one or two people needed to rouse one from it? 

That or I read that totally wrong and am spouting nonsense, sorry.