Powder Special Special Abilities.

While I was getting my weapon some elemental powders, I had an Idea. Basically the idea is that tier 6 powders give a special ability + the elemental ability. what I figured could be:

Fire: Courage regens 5% of max HP over the duration of courage
Water: +1/4 mana regen for the duration of the water ability
Earth: gain strength 1 for five seconds after earthquake
Air: Wind prison gives extra knockback for 5 seconds
Thunder: after chain lightning your next attack is guaranteed a critical + 100 thunder dmg

This can be changed around to be buffed or nerfed if needed. I was thinking this would give a good reason to use t-6 powders and spend like 12 le getting/applying them. It can also help with players who are fighting higher lvl mobs and bosses and need a quick boost of fighting power to get the edge back in a fight. This can also add more interest into the elemental abilities.

 

Fire: I want to say this is busted since it's also a team-wide heal, but sustain creep is so high already that it isn't even. I guess it's just 5% max but it's 5% MAX
Water: Minor and fine, ig
Earth: Sounds like it'll have issues with overwriting buffs,
Air: Another reason to avoid wind prison!
Thunder: Sure, it's not like it's going to do anything at all

tl;dr: I (personally) don't think this is worth implementing. They would have to be very minor to be balanced, and if they're minor there's little point to adding them.

 

Why though? Powder specials are already pretty powerful, why should they be buffed more? All of these are pretty imbalanced from utterly useless to insanely powerful to actually detrimental, but again, why?

 

ok but consider this: CIB key guardian flying from corkus to fruma

but yeah not really any point in adding these to powder specials

 

just why? Fire powder special is pretty powerful imo

I guess this is fine

nope nope nope. Not until they could deal with effect overwriting buff issues. (ahem archer speed assassin vanish)

Knockback is very very very very very very very very very very very very very annoying tbh, just no

The thing they have to do here is buff chain lightning