Expertise Augmenter T22 version

Art of/Ult Art of made different aug design

Ultimate Art Of Healing should have:
1) More trans power OR Include damage and lower trans power just a bit so that it's better than AoH.
2) Increase shield to be either equal to or a little greater than AoH.
3) It needs trans efficiency.
4) Maybe less RoF

Reasons:
1) UAoH has the same amount of trans power as an AoH (AoH: Damage 10% +25% trans power = 35% trans power = UAoH.) You get nothing better over the AoH. Only losing damage on other weapons, not that ShMs use damaging weapons in the first place.
2) Why does a T22 aug give less shields than its predecessor: a T20 aug?
3) Without eff that resist to damage (Although it includes all damages) is basically giving you 12% trans Eff vs the 20% that AoH has. You should increase the Trans Eff on the UAoH and keep the resist (If it's OP then lower the resist). Despite ShMs having a bunch of HPS and regen, I've seen setups still break because of not enough Eff.
4) Less RoF so it doesn't become too powerful an augmenter all on its own, especially since some T22 alien augs provide a good amount of RoF.

I haven't really looked into what other ShMs are augged with, but when I was crunching numbers and considering my aug setups for T22, I didn't even look at UAoH since it's basically a different AoH providing almost less benifit than an AoH would itself.

If it's for the sake of balancing and not being OP, then the other augs will have to fall in line behind the UAoH in order for UAoH to become a viable aug to consider. Sure there might be alien augs that could replace it (Like Vaidya Bhava), but it doesn't make sense for the UAoH to be on the same level as an AoH.

I talked with Hober and most of the people we communicated with agreed that if the class augs (Prof/Apt/Prow/Mast) give a strong foundation of stats, then the Art of/Ultimate Art of augs should give different stats and avoid the "I'm an upgrade to Mastery augs" vibe they currently give.

At the same time, the Ultimate Art of Sharpshooting should not be a Hantr Psu clone.

AoH was probably one of the very best shm augs between t20 and t21.

If the class rescalling is going to be the same at end game why are you even touching the ultimate augs? Most of those augs are completely balanced with the exception of UAoSs and UAoC and maybe UAoFk. Every other aug is commenly used in setups right now. So sick of all these unnecessary changes...

That's a good point. I'd recommend against making any changes to endgame class-locked augs that are somewhat broadly in use right now.

*cough* AoD is used on every zerker ever *cough*

No, because the aug is not used for shields or tanking, it is primarily used for Elec, which zerks desperately need, which you gutted. And the reason you gave me on Discord is "Because zerker class skills don't give -elec temp", which is a really dumb fucking reason because the art augs were not made to mimic class skills they were made to offer the things they needed that were not provided by class skills.

It is a beef for whatever specific setup you have in mind. But for players looking for a way to somehow sustain their setup? You made it into a hunk of shit.

Everything you added is easily obtainable through either a zerker mast or Combined Aspects. But a decent aug that gives considerable hostility and considerable elec temp, and weapon hold exists no where else in the game. So you took a unique and useful aug and made it into another boring one that does what all the augs around it already did.

Sounds reasonable.



I still wouldn't throw out looking over the augmenters. If Mast and related augs are a foundation stats, then some of those Art/Ultimate augs will need changes so they aren't just an upgrade to the Mastery augs.

Personally, I think those changes are beneficial to those Augmenters, no one that I know uses UAoSS, and I think the changes to that augmenter will make it far more useful. As for UAoG, I do know of a few individuals who use it as is, now I don't know their reasons for doing so over other augmenters, but from my point of view a beef of that augmenter is also in order. As far as I can tell those proposed stats appear to be acceptable. However, I probably missed something and someone else will give an opinion that brings to light an unforeseen issue.

- Chrono