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QoL Improvements for Awakened Flame tactical and Overcharge Saber / Battle Readiness


DarthEndonae

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Discharge is consistently one of Deception / Infiltration's most powerful attacks and the entire rotation is built around getting 3 stacks of the proc to be able to use the ability, but it doesn't synergize at all with the (now optimal) Awakened Flame tactical or Overcharge Saber / Battle Readiness ability, which makes Discharge / Force Breach feel significantly worse to use.

Awakened Flame

Whenever you become able to use Discharge / Force Breach outside of getting the third stack from Ball Lightning / Psychokinetic Blast (so getting it from a melee attack, Phantom Stride / Shadow Stride, or Recklessness / Force Potency), Discharge / Force Breach has a higher priority, so Ball Lightning / Psychokinetic Blast gets delayed and the Awakened Flame DoT falls off. It would be nice if 3-stack Discharge / Force Breach refreshed the duration or was just also able to apply the Awakened Flame DoT. Also, the damage should be spread over an additional tick that occurs when the DoT is applied so it works like all other DoTs in the game.

Overcharge Saber / Battle Readiness
This is a burst cooldown, but you have an incentive not to use it at the same time as your other cooldowns because it does not interact with Discharge / Force Breach at all since that ability can't trigger Surging Charge / Shadow Technique, so if you want to get the maximum benefit, you have to use it outside of your burst. Rather than providing a more significant boost to Surging Charge / Shadow Technique, I'd like to see Overcharge Saber / Battle Readiness directly strengthen Discharge / Force Breach for Deception / Infiltration. I think the math works out where this would result in the same DPS and HPS increase as the existing version:

Overcharge Saber / Battle Readiness immediately heals you for 15% of your max health. Overcharge Saber heals you for 1% of your max health whenever you deal damage with Discharge / Force Breach or Surging Charge / Shadow Technique. While active, Discharge / Force Breach deals 30% more damage. In addition, Surging Charge / Shadow Technique deals 50% more damage and its chance to trigger is increased by 100%.

The only thing that would change is that Overcharge Saber / Battle Readiness would properly synergize with all of Deception / Infiltration's abilities, so it could be used at the same time as Recklessness / Force Potency and the adrenal without any sort of trade-off. Burst from Discharge would be increased, but it would be more in-line with what other burst specs are capable of at 66k per activation instead of the current 51k. It would not affect the overall amount of damage going out over those 15s. 

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