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RogerBacon 06-20-2013 07:18 PM

corrosive and super corrosive
 
Corossive attacks damage DR 1/5 pts damage done for a cost of 10/die. What would be the cost for an attack that damaged DR at a 1/1 ratio?

My thinking:
If corrosive is just like crushing with a +100% mod to damage DR at 1/5 then I could see a damage modifier of 1/1 being a +400% mod based on the ratio of limitation to DR for ablative and semi-ablative; ablative being four times semi-ablative. That would give the super corrosive attack a cost of 25 per die. However, that would be more than the +300% advanate of "ignores DR'. Now maybe it IS better than "ignores DR" since it would help your teammates attacks' after the first hit.
I'm thinking of pricing it at 20/die. What does everyone think? Too high? Too cheap? Just a bad idea all together?

Anthony 06-20-2013 07:55 PM

Re: corrosive and super corrosive
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by RogerBacon (Post 1600076)
Corossive attacks damage DR 1/5 pts damage done for a cost of 10/die. What would be the cost for an attack that damaged DR at a 1/1 ratio?

Corrosive is a somewhat problematic attack due to how it interacts with armor divisors (which are overvalued on a corrosive attack) and rate of fire (the reverse). I'd probably do it in reverse: buy a 5d attack and limit it down.

Sunrunners_Fire 06-20-2013 10:48 PM

Re: corrosive and super corrosive
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by RogerBacon (Post 1600076)
I'm thinking of pricing it at 20/die. What does everyone think? Too high? Too cheap? Just a bad idea all together?

One perspective:
Corrosive 1d [10] is essentially Crushing 1d (Cosmic 2, +100%) [10]. Super-Corrosive 1d could thereby be Crushing 1d (Cosmic 3, +300%) [20].

Another perspective:
Corrosive 1d (Link, +10%) [11] + Corrosive 4d (Link, +10%; Corrosion Only, -80%) [12] = [23].

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In any case, Super-Corrosive 1d [20] sounds close enough to be fine.

vierasmarius 06-20-2013 10:55 PM

Re: corrosive and super corrosive
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire (Post 1600181)
Another perspective:
Corrosive 1d (Link, +10%) [11] + Corrosive 4d (Link, +10%; Corrosion Only, -80%) [12] = [23].

...

In any case, Super-Corrosive 1d [20] sounds close enough to be fine.

I think No Wounding (-50%) is the proper limitation on this. I wouldn't bother with Link, since you're just limiting a portion a single power, not combining two powers together. This gives an upper limit of [30] per level.

vicky_molokh 06-21-2013 06:37 AM

Re: corrosive and super corrosive
 
Extra levels with Armour Multiplier (DR×10) and No Wounding seem to do the trick.


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