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His trait. That adds a spell effect to whatever ability he uses while its active.

@Shadowman215

I'd be happy for you to have a trait which would allow you to utilise your Void Energy skillset as a passive boost somehow, but would you just be wanting something like a Weaponized or Armed effect (summoning a weapon made of void energy to boost your attacks) or something a little more complicated?

By the way, unless you post IC soon both you and @Behemoth542 are going to miss the deadline for this round.

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What if Vaerin had an an active that was like Kael'Thas's passive in HOTS?

@Shadowman215

You're going to help me out there, which passive ability do you mean? Mana Addict, Gathering Power, Flamethrower, Ignite, Presence of Mind..?

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It'd be a marker for an enemy, and every time that enemy took damage, it would increase the combo. 0.5 for standard actions, 1.0 for skills. Or something to that effect, anyway.

@KabenSaal

I wouldn't be entirely comfortable with an ability solely designed to increase XP rewards without causing damage itself, since it'd be too open for exploitation. If you had something like:

Unstable Vortex: Energy Cost 6;

Void shifts the molecules in the air around a target charging it with his power and increasing the damage taken by them. One enemy target becomes Destabilised, receiving 20% more damage from every source until the end of their next turn.

Since this ability would trigger every time one of the others attacked the same target you'd end up gaining extra co-op combos as long as they were using abilities to damage the target. For example, Void triggers Unstable Vortex at the beginning of the turn, Bumblebee then uses Sting Like A Bee on the same target gaining a x2 combo multiplier triggering Destabilised to take it to x3, Flare uses Heat Drain pushing the multiplier to x4, Destabilised takes it to x5 and Sigma uses Sonic Pulse taking it to x6 and so on.

One problem I can see is if there's more than one chain going on at the same time. What I mean by that is if Heretic uses Minor Mutation to boost the party's Attack then any skill used after that would grant both him and the other player a x2 XP bonus, but if Psy-Warp used Telekinetic Barrier and Void then used Void Burst on the same turn then that would also be a chain.

The simple solution is to just say that if a player triggers a skill which would allow them to link with more than one chain they only benefit from whichever is the greater multiplier, but would still count as another multiplier level for both chains.

Another problem would be skills which allow the same character to use more than one ability on the same turn, such as Heretic's Unconfined Rage and Deimos's Martial Prowess.

My answer to that would be that it's the number of cooperating characters which is counted as part of the chain, not the number of skills, and so in both cases they'd still only count as a single step on the multiplier ladder even if they managed to it a target twice. However they could be classed as part of two different chains if they used their skills to target different enemies on the same turn.

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What about Psy-Warp guiding projectile attacks?

@General Scales

She'd need to learn an ability giving her the power to do something like that first. The co-op combo system will be based off of triggering your special skills at the right times to support each other and unless you can think of a way to utilise what you have already (such as forming a barrier behind an enemy to act as a 'firebreak', increasing the effect of Flare's Fireball attacks) you'd need to come up with a new trait or ability to aid your companions.

Having said that, I've no problem with Psy-Warp learning a Guidance type ability which she could use as part of a combo with another player, and it would certainly suit her skill set to have something like that available.

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Hmm...I feel as if I've been missing out while I was gone coming back to find all this.

@General Scales

You know the lesson to be learnt from that? Screw real life and spend more time here!

Basically the only important thing is that I'm looking to introduce a new gameplay mechanic where players who coordinate their attacks with each other will get a multiplier effect for their XP bonuses. That way the support character will be able to pick up XP a lot faster, while the attacking players will be able to make the home run hits for the team.

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I thought that was the disarm to the bomb vest.

@knighthawk

It's the unlock code for the locker where they keep the strawberry-flavoured lube.

Top left was on duty, top right has a backdrop so most likely a photo shoot. Bottom left is from a Halloween catalog, bottom right is from baywatch.

@knighthawk

Good eye.¹ You win a million of the brand new Genni-bucks, which will be worth a fortune once I find someone willing to trade in imaginary currencies.

_{1 - The paramedic costume's actually from an adult cosplay catalogue, but close enough.}

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I was actually thinking of making an 'Open' skill, and then drawing up a combo chart, that gains buffs from how many times they are attacked by the others, and then the buffs could be cashed in with a 'Closed' skill.

@KabenSaal

When you say 'attacked by the others', do you mean in a similar way to Void's Void Burst ability, where you'd absorb the damage and then redirect it into other effects, or would it be more a case of gathering Energy to help power your other abilities?

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... If our service people looked like that, I'd remember whatever damn number you thought of >_<

@Leolycan

696969?

Two of them are service people in real life, can you guess which ones?

To be fair I'll tell you that one was photographed on duty while the second was shot as part of a charity calendar.

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Once again, I don't get what you're trying to reference.

@rush99999

In 329 posts time we'll be on 999, the emergency services number in the UK. Of course the Americans among us need only wait 241 posts, since they had difficulty remembering to dial three nines when in trouble and had to use 911 instead. :p

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So heretic gets a boss-killing boost and eats their souls, gaining their powers?

@knighthawk

That's when we get to 666 IC, right now @rush99999 is the one granted the demonic powers. At least he was, right up until you made your post and made the count 667 instead. XD

I'm just waiting another 331 posts before we get a visit from the emergency services.

Two of these girls are real emergency services workers, can you spot which?
And here's a clue, it's not Pamela Anderson.

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Amazing, astonishing, sensational, ultimate, friendly neighborhood, avenging, superior, giant-sized ;)

@knighthawk

If you're referencing something here, I don't get it.

@rush99999

I was referencing titles from Spiderman comic books, which tend to use adjectives similar to the ones @knighthawk listed.

Although the Giant-Sized Spiderman did not deliver on the advertisement.¹

_{1 - And that's a reference to the fact that Spiderman is usually drawn without a bulge at his crotch, which explains why so many of his girlfriends tend to leave him, and why Mary-Jane has had so many affairs.}