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At this time, this talent seems like a cure-all for being labelled a Dark Avenger and Fallen. Because of this, and the fact that she has the opportunity to acquire other skills that do something similar except that they require work on her end, I would like to see you take your talent in a different direction. It is not supposed to be easy or possible for a Dark Avenger to hide who they are unless they have proven their faith to The Void and have the first Faithful Skill.

ok, so is going to make most of your class useless. You'll need to make some skills before we can move forward on this.

I'm also wanting to see what power is in the ammo. Those would be extremely helpful

And you do know you would have to follow ammo rules to keep it fair, right? Otherwise every shot will cost energy and make the talent a massive energy sink.

Rpc Name: Katia

Rpc Profile Link: not done yet

Rpc Rank: Trainee

Combative Talent or Non Combative: Both

Talent Name: Mage Eater

Description:

for most of her life, it was believed Katia had no magical abilities. No matter how hard she trained, no matter how many masters taught her, she was unable to cast even the most basic of spells. It wasn't until she came across a group of ruffians in the streets that she found out the true nature of her magical powers. After taking several magical blows, Katia felt an odd energy flowing throughout her body, mana. Though she was only able to escape through a simple flash spell, her latent magical abilities were awakened. After some small tests, it seemed that Katia actually had a larger mana capasity than most, but lacked natural mana regeneration and regained her mana through the absorption of spells and potions. With this new knowledge, she began her training to harness her abilities.

Skills:

Mage Eater
passive
Katia absorbs half the damage/healing from all spells as energy equal to half it's casting cost, (ie E-rank deals 100 damage for 10 energy. Katia would take 50 damage and gain 5 energy). This reduces damage taken from spell damage and healing by 50%. Any melee attack with an energy based effect has it's added magic damage reduced by 50%, but still does full damage from Strength. This gift comes with a hefty drawback, however: Katia is unable to regenerate energy through rest or other natural means. In addition, Katia receives an extra 100 energy per rank (after all other calculations).

Untamed Spark
passive
Most students of the arcane arts have honed their powers over many years of intense study, but Katia, having only recently discovered her magical abilities, has no true control over her powers. This gives her spells a wild edge to them. When casting a spell, Katia must make a D6 check. Rolling 2-5 allows the spell to cast normally, rolling a 1 fizzles the spell while still uses 50% of the spell's casting cost, and rolling a 6 doubles the spell's power while draining and extra 50% energy. Spells that rolled a 1-5 have cool downs as they usually would, but spells that roll a 6 have an extra X posts added to their cooldown where X is equal to it's level, ie E=1, D=2, ect.

I get what you're trying to say, but it really kills the essence of the talent. The whole idea behind it is to get an edge on magical users, hence the name...mage eater. Taking full damage, yet abosrbing it's energy doesnt make much sense. You took the full blunt of the attack, so nothing was taken into you. Asking me to take out that stuff is just asking me to remake the whole talent into something different. This is the entire idea behind it: a risky gamble to gain a slight advantage over mages. And yes, while I do have an edge over magical users, If i fight a pure melee character, my character is screwed. It might be that I go into a fight with half my energy. If all he does is swing his sword, I wont regain any energy, 0 damage reductions, and my spells might fail in the middle of a fight. I know a 50% damage reduction seems like a bit much, but concerning the draw backs, I dont see how it would be too much.

...I'm confused by your idea there....I absorb 25% as energy, then absorb another 25% of the damage? Isnt that till a 50% reduction? Also, in case you missed it, and not that it'd do much to sway, but i also only take 50% from healing as well...while not regaining energy on my own....while being effective against 1 character type is the idea, it makes me potentially weak to all others...and even casters at certain levels.

but the logistics in that makes no sense. I'm getting more for less. Like I said, I see why this would be an iffy subject, but the cons heavily outway the pros imo. I dont regen energy, I have a chance to totally fail my attack which leaves me wide open, I still lose energy (which is a very, very valuable resource for this RPC) when my spell fails, I only get 50% from healing and other beneficial spells, all for half damage from spell damage? If I'm hit with a sword, I still take all that damage. While a mage would have a harder time beating me, a melee character would utterly destroy this RPC. It'd be like I didnt even have the benefits, just the weaknesses, while fighting melee.

If it'd help my case, I could take out the overload part of Untamed Spark...