Warding Rune Prestige Power

[mechahamham]

My favorite arcs in the game are the Croatoa zone arcs. The whole thing just sits right with me. I even enjoy the 'Stop 30 Fir Bolg' mission from Skipper.

 

Unsurprisingly, my favorite temp power in the game is also the Warding Rune you receive from Gordon Bower during Skipper's arc. Moreso than the Nemesis Staff or the Blackwand, when I have the Warding Rune, I use it to pull with melee characters or supplement damage on low-dps characters. I find that it's on-brand for a surprising number of my characters in a way that the Nemesis Staff and Blackwand just aren't.

 

And then it poofs after a few in-game days. You can get it again by doing Skipper's arc through Ouro, and I often do that, just to refresh it.

 

I'd like a version of the power that works similarly to the prestige version of the Nemesis Staff or Blackwand, with their pseudo-scaling and unlimited time. I'm even okay with unlocking it by doing Skipper's arc or ALL the Croatoa arcs. (I'd do them anyway on every character.) It could even lock out the Origin-bonus version of those powers.

 

If the prestige version kept its anti-fae damage bonus, it wouldn't even be a terrible for balance since the only fae enemies you ever encounter outside Croatoa are the redcaps in the Holiday missions.

 

Difficulty: Easy-to-Medium

 

This would effectively be copy-and-paste from existing powers. It'd need a power icon, but those are relatively little work to create. The most difficult part I forsee is the changes to the lockout logic for the origin-bonus Prestige power awards. I think at least some of that must already be in place for the other power choices that have a lockout.

[Vanden]

Are you perhaps familiar with the Rune of Purification?

 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=temporary_powers.day_job_powers.archaelogist_rune

[mechahamham]

16 hours ago, Vanden said:

Are you perhaps familiar with the Rune of Purification?

 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=temporary_powers.day_job_powers.archaelogist_rune

 

I am, yes, but it has limited charges making it somewhat less usable in combat. For me, it's currently just a bit less headache to rerun Skipper's arc than it is to camp out in Graveyards... which I often do as well, anyway. The Striga base portal and Echo: DA are both fairly easy locations to camp out and both are immediately adjacent to graveyards.