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It is stronger than the caster. Don't ask how much stronger because I don't have a number for you.
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Quoting from the Worm Wiki, here's what a threat rating of one in any power should cover:
As a side note the current Olympic record for lifting is about 1.2 tons, which fits your example oddly enough.
- Poses a threat only just above human norms, an unexceptional individual may be able to cope with the ability or walk away unharmed from an altercation where the abilities in question were leveraged.
- The ability should be assumed to be a non-threat and need not be identified if other matters prove more pressing.
As a side note the current Olympic record for lifting is about 1.2 tons, which fits your example oddly enough.
A 1 rating for any classification is wholly unremarkable and can be evaded or dealt without difficulty by an average person.
Edit: Bah, Imp'd by @Nicholai by a matter of seconds.
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You are just… REALLY bad at following directions, aren't you? And you wonder why we treat you like you're an idiot.
EDIT: I also fail to see where you get the idea that Cast Fist is Brute rated unless you're accidentally combining CF and Strike Boost. Because they don't affect each other.
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So, now that Missy and Laura are officially magical girls, what skills do you think they should try to get next? I'm personally in favor of getting Missy's Champion and Siege Summons next, while for Laura saving up for her Buster spell sounds pretty good, even if we'd have to wait a while.
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Cast Fist isn't a parahuman power. It also is a ranged effect, so it wouldn't be affected by Strike Boost even if it was shard-based.
Laura already has her Buster. That's what Avalanche is.
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Ah, my mistake. I appear to have gotten the Buster and Breaker tiers mixed up somehow.
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Alexandria can only learn a single spell. Can she learn Strike Boost?
Were is the list that says what rank each spell is anyway?
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That makes more sense. You'll be saving for a while if you want her Breaker considering she's already in XP debt. You might also want some kind of Mastery to get more bang for your buck, which will put you further behind.
She can learn Strike Boost, but keep in mind that would be her using her time to enhance another Brute rather than herself. Unless you want her to have an "enchant item" spell like Mac's but more specific to Strike Boost. That would require her to talk to him directly, which… would be interesting.
There's an Informational post with the spell tiers. Many, many questions that have been asked can be answered either in one of those posts or in the FAQ.
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We could have Taylor (Or Dragon) mention the options she has and let Alexandria chose.
In fact Dragon would make more sence, Taylor doesn't like how pushy Alexandria has been. And Dragon priority is dealing with big threats. making Alexandria stronger helps with that.
Point out examples, please.
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You seem to have misunderstood me. The ONLY person who knows how to enchant objects like this is Mac, so if Alexandria (or any other character) wants to do the same, the only person who could teach them is Mac.
Not sure where you got this impression, but it's wrong.
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Didn't she complain about being pushed into the Wards/ Protectorate by Alexandria or that was just comments? This quest is over 500k words in story posts and Informational only, I am not going to read it again from start unless I have a few days with nothing else to do.
Don't make unsupported assertions then if you're not willing to take the efforts to back them up.
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That was primarily player comments. Alexandria told Taylor that if she wanted to change how the Protectorate worked, it was easiest to do it from the inside, but that was a single conversation at the start of Arc 11 that hasn't been repeated. No reasonable person would call one conversation "pushy".
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I don't think she's ever directly complained about being offered a position in the Protectorate, she instead was just dissatisfied somewhat with how the Wards were run (since that is where she would end up. The closest I can think of was when she was angry at Chevalier for reporting on her actual age when she'd asked him not to. The one time Alexandria (kind of) offered her a position was here
and as Alexandria stated, there's not really a good recruitment spiel, just some truth that Taylor is limited to making societal changes as an independent.
Missy has a Glucose-fueled mana generator, which In my mind means it takes her blood sugar, converts it to mana, and used that mana to power her robot arm/weapons. Now that she has a linker core, can she power her arm via her linker core instead of the generator in an emergency (say the generator is destroyed)?
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No. Manatech has to be built specifically to run off organic mana to do that, and Tim doesn't have that skill. It's in the Tech Knight cross-training.
All the more important to bring Mac and Epoch into the fold.
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Not… necessarily? Considering Epoch wanted to learn and teach magic and spread that knowledge, neither of them would have a problem teaching that spell to another mage. Though you are correct in that it would make it easier.
I assume this applies whether Alexandria knows she can breath the air or not to remove my fear of a Carbon Monoxide Tinker?
Out of interest what is the difference between Strike Boost and the "Spells that enhance some attribute of the caster, such as strength or speed." option in the basic spells? Is it purely the target choice or is one weaker/more limited than the other? If the Enhance Ability spell is weaker than strike boost by base how does the weakened version in the enchanted items stack up VS Enhance Ability?
Well darn. Well nothing ventured nothing gained.
Alexandria's weapon is whatever she wants to use as a weapon.
My Humor Matrix is indicating that there is an 82.932% probability that this is a "Joke". Regardless my protocols compel a response.
Yes Alexandria can use basically anything that she wants as a weapon however most things are just drastically less durable than her and can't withstand the forces she exerts for very long. Which is obviously what you want from your up front fighters but it does mean that her using a normal weapon or improvising most things as a weapon will be of marginal benefit at best.
However if she could gain a weapon with the same durability that she has then that would grant her a tool that could drastically improve her effectiveness both via increased leverage and the ability to impart more force into a single point as opposed to a more spread out area such as a fist.
I would favor a Halberd for her (I can hear the jokes already) as the spear tip could allow her to invest her super speed/flight into a devastating charge attack whilst the axe part would allow her to make cleaving attacks.
Well that's moved a long way up on my wish list for her. I wonder if the addition would be multiplicative or additive. Multiplicative would be awesome but either way it would be a strong ability for her. Particularly if combined with the Attack Mastery modification as that'd allow her to both use it and attack herself.
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Primarily it's the target choice, self-directed versus other directed.
Let me rephrase myself. It's stronger than a baseline human casting it, which is what Mac (the mage who was proposed to be casting the spell in the question I answered) is. It doesn't get a boost because of Alexandria's shard.
Alexandria can't learn both Attack Mastery and Cast Fist. Not unless she gives up her powers for a Device.
Hmm. Enhance Ability seems like a good choice to me.
Ah sorry I misunderstood. Probably not worth her learning it then unless she reveals a secret penchant for pranks.
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Could Tim and Dragon just ask for the data to Perfect Storm? Tim might not have an easy time with it but Dragon really has been pushing herself to learn manatech.
Granted that will probably mean a penalty about the tech taking longer but is worth a try.
Edit: Actually I am surprised Dragon has not asked for more data about magitech in general, I guess she is too busy with what she is already doing.
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