SM/BO suggestion: Give others Blade Enchants/Bellows?

[Greatwarden]

I'm hoping that this is a relatively easy thing to do, but is it possible to change all Blade Enchants and Bellows so that the SM or BO can cast it on other party members like an RP gives runes?

For example, what if a BO can give Da Biggest! on a Magus in the party, Da Greenest on the Choppa and Da Toughest! on a WE? It doesn't tamper with the SM/BO mechanic and it instantly improves our group utility.

Admittedly, it's not a particularly FUN way to increase utility, but it's still something.

From a balance perspective, having multiple members of a party with Natures Blade/Da Biggest! might actually mean that the ever-elusive Initiative steal becomes reliable.

[SilverWF]

Doesn't really needed
Also, this is pretty imbalansed suggestion.


just stick to stat stealing blade/belows and it will be pretty good in 99% cases

[jojomen]

Yep , to give whole party Bellows\Enchantment its too powerful .
BUT what if party ill share PROC (apply it on each member) within 30 ft, that was made by BO Da biggest, and absorb from SM ; so to give whole party buff , but only while BO\SM playing in aggressive offensive manner .

[Greatwarden]

Doesn't really needed
Also, this is pretty imbalansed suggestion.


just stick to stat stealing blade/belows and it will be pretty good in 99% cases

Do you mean imbalanced from a realm v realm perspective or a "party with SM/BO" v "party without SM/BO" perspective?

The stat-steal blade/bellows would be strong, but I don't think that, for example, different "strength steals" would stack, so it would really be more of a case of "if all our attacking party members have the stat-steal blade/bellow we will almost certainly be stealing stats we want to steal".

[Greatwarden]

Yep , to give whole party Bellows\Enchantment its too powerful .
BUT what if party ill share PROC (apply it on each member), that was made by BO Da biggest, and absorb from SM ;
so to give whole party buff , but only while BO\SM playing in aggressive offensive manner .

Arguably, there are a lot of classes with powerful party buffs in this game but that doesn't automatically mean that it's imbalanced.

I do agree that there are multiple ways to give SMs more group utility though. The thing I like about sharing bellows/enchants is that it focuses more on helping OTHERS be more effective rather than making SM/BOs stronger. If anything, the SM/BO would be comparatively WEAKER in the party, since the rest of the party would now have things that currently only the SM/Bo had.

It's a crazy idea, I know.

(BTW: the reason why I even had this idea was because, one day, when I was on my WL and I dinged 30 while JUST moving out the RvR zone and a weird bug appeared where my ability book contained both WL and SM abilities for about 15 minutes. I couldn't use anything that required the balance-mechanic, but the idea of enchants/bellows intrigued me.)