Suggested SC Changes regarding Elemental Prodigy/ Master SCs

Age : 49 Posts : 1036

Looking over the Special Characteristics, something jumped out at me. While the various Prodigy/ Master characteristics say they give a 20% and 40% increase respectively in damage, we really don't have a solid of idea of how much extra damage or effect that translates into. For the old Hyuuga & Aburame it wasn't an issue because their techniques gave, well numbers. For everyone else they're pretty much fluff until A rank and that for the "perks" attached to each more than the primary effect. What I propose is changing them slightly to one of two options: increased rank or reduced CP use.

In the former case it would mean that if someone had used a jutsu whose element/ type for which they had the proper mastery, it’s damage/ defensive ability/ area/ etc would increase by 1 rank (C to B, A to S, and so one) if they had the Prodigy SC and 2 ranks (to a maximum of S or possible SS) if they had the right Mastery. If that alone is too much, one could also increase the amount of CP (say the 1 E, 2 D, 3 C, 4 B, 5 A, and 6 S) needed to get that extra damage. This is the closest to the current implementation with the big difference being that it is easier to see what the bonus translates into. I would link the “damage chart” that had a rough description of what each rank meant in terms of damage/ effect, but I can’t find it in the current chaos of reorganization.

The second option I’m proposing would have them leave the effectiveness of the jutsu alone and instead reduce the cost of using the jutsu. The idea being that if you can make something 20% more massive/ hotter/ etc you could instead reduce the amount of energy (CP) put into it by a certain amount to get the same effect as the unmodified version. In practice this would mean that those with this SC would be able to reduce the amount of CP needed to use a jutsu of an element for which they had the right SC. As a start I would suggest a 10% reduction in CP cost for Prodigy and 20% reduction in CP cost for Master, rounding all fractions up. The last being so that we don’t get into “well it’s .4 so I should round down. No, its .46 so you need to round UP” arguments.

In either case it makes the effects of the mastery easier to grasp when the jutsu doesn’t have numbers. And in some cases it might even have the same effect as the old one. Depending on how great the gap in power between jutsu, one could say that 20% would already make a strong jutsu of one rank as powerful as a weaker one of the next higher rank.

Thoughts?

Age : 29 Posts : 1797

The staff is currently working on modifying the entire SC system, due to various reasons. We have taken your considerations into effect, and they may be applied to the new system if the rest of the staff agrees. Thanks for the help, but since the staff is currently busy working on this;

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