Pretender Balance Mod

[Scott Hebert]

Originally posted by Endoperez:
You didn't post numbers about Earth Mother with those magics versus a human pretender most suited to the task, propably some kind of a druid for initial Nature magic. Also, I would be interested to see how Nagas compare. Could you please post the differences (in points) between the three?

Certainly. I thought people were basically ignoring the numbers, so I didn't include them in the Last post. But, to be thorough:

Great Mother: 75 points
Master Druid: 55 points
Great Enchantress: 55 points
Naga: 100 points
(I include the Great Enchantress even though she isn't optimal because her ability is much better than the human average.)

Increasing Nature to 4 --

Great Mother: 8 + 16 + 24 = 48 points
Master Druid: 8 + 16 + 24 = 48 points
Great Enchantress: 10 + 16 + 24 + 32 = 82 points
Naga: 8 + 16 = 24 points

Increasing Earth to 4 --

Great Mother: 8 + 16 + 24 = 48 points
Master Druid: 10 + 16 + 24 + 32 = 82 points
Great Enchantress: 10 + 16 + 24 + 32 = 82 points
Naga: 20 + 16 + 24 + 32 = 92 points

Increasing Astral to 3 --

Great Mother: 80 + 16 + 24 = 120 points
Master Druid: 10 + 16 + 24 = 50 points
Great Enchantress: 8 + 16 = 24 points
Naga: 20 + 16 + 24 = 60 points

Totals:

Great Mother: 75 + 48 + 48 + 120 = 291 points
Master Druid: 55 + 48 + 82 + 50 = 235 points
Great Enchantress: 55 + 82 + 82 + 24 = 243 points
Naga: 100 + 24 + 92 + 60 = 276 points

This is with the Great Mother having a Dominion 2 higher than the rest. If you give them all at least a Dominion of 3 (I hope no one has a problem with this), you get:

Great Mother: 0
Master Druid: 7 + 14 = 21 points
Great Enchantress: 7 + 14 = 21 points
Naga: 7 + 14 = 21 points

So we add 21 points to each of the other chassis, for:

Great Mother: 291 points
Master Druid: 235 + 21 = 256 points
Great Enchantress: 243 + 21 = 264 points
Naga: 276 + 21 = 297 points

This is at 3 Dominion. Any increase in Dominion at this point will give the Great Mother 14 points more than the rest. Working this up a bit... at 4 Dominion:

Great Mother: 298 points
Master Druid: 277 points
Great Enchantress: 285 points
Naga: 318 points

At 5 Dominion:

Great Mother: 312 points
Master Druid: 305 points
Great Enchantress: 313 points
Naga: 346 points

Human pretenders really seem to be wrecked when going for fours... Maybe they should have their base magic sttarting from two, this would give them a chance to let them take four in atleast one path.

If you subtract 65 points from the Naga's total, you will see what giving human a 2-path does for them. (65 = 45 to drop the Naga's cost to human levels, +10 for the extra cost for the first added path, +10 for the extra cost for the second added path)

Hope this helps.