Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25936766-20170120120637

Ghost of Anon wrote:

-Short description: The user absorbs sunlight to store energy that can be used to strengthen other things and people.

1-Range: Short (or would this be personal?) 3-Dust interaction (All): Increases the effect of the dust (only applicable from Tier Two+). For example, Burn dust would have a larger explosion and Freeze dust would have a larger radius of effect. Mmm.......well, the specifics are different, I guess.
 * 2-Tier One: The user "consumes" energy absorbed over time to increase their physical capabilities. The user gains a 1.5x boost to their physical capabilities. Consumes 1% per 1.5 minutes while the boost is active. The user can increase the energy drain to 1% drain per 1 minute for a 2x boost instead of a 1.5x boost.
 * 2-Tier Two: Can infuse energy stored into non-living, or no longer living, things, such as weapons and dust. The user gains a 2x boost and objects gain a 1.5 times boost. Consumes 1% every 1.5 minutes while the boost is active. The energy infused into objects are automatically consumed over time.

1-It would be Personal for Tier 1, Short for Tiers 2 and 3.

2-...First of all, what do you mean by %? 1% of the sunlight is absorbed? Or does direct sunlight in a normal day only fill 1% of the hypothetical maximun amount every 3 minutes?

Second, the energy is stored passively while the user is awake. And can be spent to multiply the user's strength. If the user has 10% of energy, they could, at Tier 1, increase their strength by 50% (1.5x) while spending 1% every 1:30 minutes, with a maximum duration of 15 minutes, not counting any amount of sunlight absorbed while at it which could slowly increase the duration.

It feels.....lenghty. Normally, it would be balanced by the fact it does take quite a while to charge an acceptable amount of energy, but....since it's done passively, and sunlight is everywhere in the outside, it would be charging constantly almost an entire normal day, so the user would frequently have a good amount stored unless it was spent just as frequently.

Besides, that, there's Tier 2: It gives a boost to objects, but: What boost? With living things, one can say that it strengthens their muscles, making them stronger, but with weapons? What does it do? Make them more endurant so they don't break so easily? Aura already does that. Make them hit harder? With the strength boost the user can get, that's already done. So what kind of boost would a weapon receive?

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3-......Isn't that something literally everyone can do just by improving their use of Dust? Feels superflous.