Suggestion: Extend targeting range to 3rd slot, then you've got a good skill instead of an OK one.Įmboldening Vapours suffers from the problem that a lot of this game's buff skills have - they don't last long enough, or provide enough of a boost, to justify the turn spent using them. It has the smallest damage penalty of all the doctor's non-melee abilities, and does respectable blight damage.

Noxious Blast is an OK all-around skill, by comparison. You could nerf Blinding Gas for being too good, but without buffing everything else, this is a bad idea. Not only would this free the skill from the shadow of Blinding Gas, it would also be mechanically interesting and help assuage the problems that delayed damage tends to have. One idea I came up with was to make it targetable anywhere, dealing damage and causing all built-up blight damage on the target to be dealt instantly. More damage, more blight, larger targeting range - anything. Suggestion: Buff or rework Plague Grenade. Stun spamming saves you so much health and stress in the long run that Blinding Gas basically salvages this class specifically as an anti-frustration feature. This is especially true with some of the absolutely agonizing backline NPCs you come up against, like spearmen, bandit arbalests and fusiliers, or cultists/courtiers. You can't beat a spammable two-man stun with a high debuff chance that can be easily amplified with trinkets. However, Blinding Gas beats Plague Grenade in almost every capacity, to the point that in almost every scenario where I've considered using Plague Grenade, Blinding Gas gives the better outcome. Plague Grenade: Both of these skills are cast from the back and hit the enemy's two backline slots. This might change with the eventual release of the Cove or Dungeon, but there are still other, lingering issues with his skills.īlinding Gas vs. Undead and Cultists, the notable exceptions, generally have low enough HP pools that DoT damage is less meaningful.

I suppose he's unique in that his damage is blight instead of bleeding (often starting off with stronger DoT values as well), but the majority of enemies seem to have immunity or resistance to blight. The long and short of it is that while I want to use my plague doctor, in almost every instance it ends up being the suboptimal choice.

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