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Lionheart Heroes: Hellion
Lionheart753  [developer] 9 Nov, 2018 @ 11:32am
LHH Hellion Balance and Updates
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Lionheart753  [developer] 9 Nov, 2018 @ 12:05pm 
Ok so I will start by sayng that the Hellion gave me the most trouble and redesigns for any class i have worked on so far. The main issue came from her main mechanic being high immediate output on two skills, yawp and bleed out, with a self debuff afterwards. I had many, many redesigns of her main skills-to the point of starting and scrapping editing fx, animations, and skill icons to better match some redesigned skills. Examples such as adrenaline rush becoming a skill that adds new effects and further buffs different skills-in place of strong skills debuffing her she would go beserk before to make the skills especially strong (ultimately that ruined her original design). I wanted to add natural bleed killer, but that directly undermined the debuff mechanic on bleed out. A second idea was instead of bonus bleed damage a self heal if target is bleeding-ultimately decided against that as well. I considered the purpose of Bleedout to be high damage now in place of a debuff after, and therefore higher raw damage and/or armor pircing would be better than a bleed effect-this however made me attempt redesigning the fx and skill icon. Changing Bleed out also encouraged changing hack further.

Long story short it was a huge mess that began feeling more and more overcomplicated. So, I decided there was no reason to overcomplicate her or ruin her original design. I still believe Bleed out should probably not bleed and instead deal more upfront damage, but it's current bahavior with Wicked Hack's debuffs felt fairly balanced and still useful enough to warrant bringing in some fights. In the end not a terrible amount changed about the Hellion, which when looking at my Crusader changes seems just fine to me. I am still very much open to further balance ideas especially regarding Wicked Hack, Bleed Out, and her Exhaust Debuff.
Enlonwhite 24 Jan, 2019 @ 8:48am 
Some one in another mod that tweaked her added a flat stress gain to her instead of debuffs from her skills that used to debuff her.

it was like 4 on one and up to 6 stress points on another.
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