Hello folks. I know home brew isn't the most popular forum around, but I would like to get some advice/brain storm an idea I've been working on. I thoroughly plan on committing to this, so I would love to make a balanced character
Quick background, finished the A4 with one party, now trying a different party. I've spent a lot time playing this game, really enjoy it. So I wanted to try something harder. Current party is now Ezren, Seelah, and Merisiel. (Hard party, harder to support each other, you should try it)
Point is, I've been playing Merisiel with daggers only. Instead of range, I've been rolling it as Stealth. Very hard, as the D4 act as a sort of checks and balance to her being really strong naturally. With the D4s, makes you really think about when to use "backstab". Also, final boss fight is interesting because I cannot use backstab, as the rest of my party is usually there.
I'm on Attack on The Dam ATM, close to being able to pick my role. I was thinking it'd be cool to change the roles a bit to focus the daggers as the main role. So one role could be Utility/Support one could be Weapon/Attack focus
In short, Acrobat title would become Thief, but keep the acrobat power traits.
The other role would be Assassin.
Evade
Backstab to add +1 +2 +3 +4
Add 2 to your noncombat check to close a location
When you play a blessing to add to your Dexterity check, you may recharge it instead of discarding it.
Now the potential add in powers.
Recharge daggers instead of the discard. You may add +2 ( +4 )for dagger recharge.
(So instead of the dagger discard power, recharge)
This would be still be hard to use, because it'd leave you weaponless
OR
you may treat 1's when rolled by a weapon with the dagger trait as "2's" ( or +3's )
OR simply add +2 to daggers in general
Thoughts? Feed back? let me know, I will being playing an assassin Merisiel one way or the other ^_^
You could think about having a feat for your dagger recharge power that shuffles the dagger back (instead of the +4).
Thanks Fenris. I decided to recharge instead of discard with the upgrade to shuffle into deck. Though I ultimately just went with acrobat after playing around some. Using just daggers hasn't handicapped me that much, and often don't even bother using "backstab". Blessing recharge is just so useful. Merisiel just does to much damage even with the handicap of daggers.