Suggestions for Master Augs for classes that lack them.

[KnightErrant]

A bunch of classes lack Master Ego's Augmenters in the game...a few have ones that are kind of "blah" to put it mildly.....*cough* Blackguard *cough*......
Please post in this thread with ideas for classes that lack or for better versions of ones that do exist.


Classes without Ego/Master Augmenters:

• Champion of Torm
  
• Dwarven Defender
  
• Fighter
  
• Harper Scout
  
• Pale Master (can use Wizard or Sorc augs, tho)
  
• Purple Dragon Knight
  
• Dragon Disciple
  
• Weapon Master
  
• Staffmaster
  
• Divine Slinger
  

A generic melee one in the theme of the caster Raja one to get the ball rolling.



Master Augmenter: Weaponsmith.

Skill Bonus: Craft Weapon +10

Wearing this item will increase the critical threat range of any weapon wielded by +1.

This is a ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items.




Master Augmenter: Safecracker.

Skill Bonus: Listen +10

Wearing this item will increase the Rogues Treasure Scent ability by +1

This is a ego item and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items.





KE.

[Deleted]

Master Augmenter: Life

Skill Bonus: Heal +10

Wearing this item will increase the radius of life threading to 150% and add 1 spell level to all threads (capped at level 9).

This is an ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items.


Master Augmenter: The Drake

Skill Bonus: Discipline +10

Wearing this item will increase the radius of Dragon Disciple fear aura to 150% and grant its user full fear immunity.

This is an ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items.


Master Augmenter: Unscrupulous

Skill Bonus: Hide +10

Sneak attacks use d8 instead of d6 for damage dice.

This is an ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items.

[louisvilleslugger]

Fighter Class:
Master Augmenter: The Specialist

Skill Bonus: Craft Weapon +10

Wearing this item will increase grants weapon specialization in any wielded weapon. If the character already has weapon specialization, it will grant the next higher specialization bonus.

This is a ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items

[louisvilleslugger]

Master Augmenter: Hand of the Gods

Wearing this item will increase the damage of smiting by 25%

This is a ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items

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Master Augmenter: Swift Smite.

Wearing this item will decrease the recharge timer for smiting by 25%

This is a ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items

[louisvilleslugger]

Master Augmenter: Godshield

Skill Bonus: Craft Armor +10

Wearing this item will increase duration of divine shield by 50% and increase shield AC from divine shield by +2.

This is a ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic items

[louisvilleslugger]

Dwarven Defender
Master Augmenter: Clanggedin's Axe

Wearing this item will increase the shield AC bonus from Dwarven Waraxe Shield AC by +2

This is an ego item, and may not be equipped with any other ego or relic item.

[FunkySwerve]

Some solid suggestions, and to my surprise, most look fairly easy to implement.

First, though, would someone volunteer to draw up a list of the classes missing augs, so we have somewhere to start?

Thanks,
Funky

[chirality]

I have not seen a CoT master aug. If this does not exist, it would be nice to add a wrath +50% effect, just like the barb rage one.

Other than CoT, it looks like all classes currently lacking a master aug "for them" have been mentioned so far (maybe WM but not sure here?). Again though, some such as pal/bg CL seem pretty weak/useless; these, and SD (which is admittedly really cool to me) really pale in comparison to something like godswrath or DC ego (in terms of added power) or something like bard/caster CL in terms of build potential.

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--SD could have a fresh one added that improves shadow rift

(I always found the SD one to be kind of lame from a min/max perspective; sure it's a cool idea and fun but unlike most other masters it doesn't really translate into any solid improvement of any metric or "power" gain. The SF one could be viewed a bit similar to the shadowstep improvement, but again there at least that's a solid offensive benefit which translates directly into something substantial power-wise. I'm a big fan of shadowstep but being able to do it further should just be some kind of bonus given to pure SD imo, not a master aug (and if any other new tank augs are made, surely any SD would prefer something such as "better sneak dmg" or "improved threat range" or "weapon spec" over a bigger shadowstep). )

--RDD could get +DC or other metric on wing buffets and such

--fighter could get +dmg on whetstone, or +conceal, or +DC on the crappy special disables, or 2nd use of greater parry, or (hmm could go on and on here although most of these holes should be filled by improving the base stats imo, much like XR subs, adding new items to make bad classes better is not a good thing)

--divine tanks could get +% duration for divine might and shield (similar to outkast's idea but imo would drop the +2 shield ac and just improve might/shield in other way) and +wrath for cots

--rogue, ok +TS is cool but how bout something more solid like +DC/dmg/effect on taunt or +1 "CL" for purposes of lockpicks, sneak imm, etc (ok sure, "that steps on pure rogue toes" but after all there's +1 CL for casters/bard/staffy opening up entire worlds of builds)

--WM +uses or +% duration of ki critical

--BG could also have something more "personalized" such as +duration/dice on corrupt weapon? or maybe huge +sneak dice improvement, similar to sneak pandect?

--likewise pal could get something like +1 use lay on hands/+duration, or even +1 bonus on clang enhance would not be out of order i think (if you sacrifice enough for pure and +15 anyway and rich/lucky enough for such an aug, then why not IoF yourself too? shrug, let em have it)

--monk could get something cool other than SF improvement, although not sure what has reasonable potential for power without too much abuse, shrug

[arek]

Classes without Ego/Master Augmenters:

• Champion of Torm
  
• Dwarven Defender
  
• Fighter
  
• Harper Scout
  
• Pale Master (can use Wizard or Sorc augs, tho)
  
• Purple Dragon Knight
  
• Dragon Disciple
  
• Weapon Master
  

BG and Paladin aren't on this list, since they do get CL augmenters, but I think I've only seen a few characters with 29 BG levels and none with 39 paladin levels in all my time here, and I'm not sure how useful that aug would be even for them.

Also, I'm not sure if the Monk QP augmenter is all that useful these days either.

IMO non-casting quasiclasses could probably do with ego items as well, tho some staffmaster builds can benefit from the Wizard CL aug, iirc (I don't know of any quasiclass that gets its own ego item currently).

I hope this list helps some folks come up with some ideas.

--Arek

[tank]

iirc, Staffmasters do not have an ego other than wiz egos, which aren't too exciting. perhaps an ego that somehow adds an extra attack to tensers?

[chirality]

what he really means is, an ego which allows 50% 2h dmg on staff again

"Master Augmenter of The Pre-Nerfed"

[Yojimbo]

I thought there was a highly elusive Staffmaster Aug that added 2 dice or maybe that was just a suggestion and if we want to go with QCs I'm not sure any really have Egos I could see some nice Egos for QCs though.

Staffmaster = Extra damage dice
Lash = Extra infliction per hit or boost to infliction cap
Gnomish Inventor = Profit!... I have no idea since the class could use a lot of general improvements
Life Threader = Bonus Thread DC and/or Extra Damage/Healing Multiplier
Pariah = ... What does this thing even need that doesn't get from other class egos
Theurge = Seems to get any reasonable bonus from Wiz & Clr egos
Herald = Same as Theurge but Sorc & Druid
Bane Knight = Sorc and BG egos would work for it but new BG egos would be nice
Bloodfire/Dragonstorm = Sorc and xDD egos not sure much they could get without making them OP
Warchanter = I think other than a DwD ego option this class is fine on egos

[Salek]

Don't forget......

Slinger!

Farseer not working for them.

Increase damage dice and/or bullet DC

[KnightErrant]

Aug 29, 2013 14:49:08 GMT Yojimbo said:

I thought there was a highly elusive Staffmaster Aug that added 2 dice or maybe that was just a suggestion

It was in the original master aug docs as released at one time but never made it into the game sadly...

KE.

[Torin]

Aug 29, 2013 12:46:09 GMT tank said:

iirc, Staffmasters do not have an ego other than wiz egos, which aren't too exciting. perhaps an ego that somehow adds an extra attack to tensers?

My Staffmasters have 1 monk splash and profit a lot from CL wizard ego.
Anyway, master augs for any class, quasi class would be very welcome.