billiv15 wrote:
But you also ignored a critical difference as well that gives favor to dominate. You can dominate your own characters, which at all times was the much more significant and better use of dominate anyway.
Actually, I did not as my discussion is not the application of dominate or Master of Pain towards legal targets. As I have been playing the game for many years, I am well aware of the application of domination during game play. Several of us know full well the disappointment met at the Caamasi Noble card. So I was concerned initially an error may have been made and provided my reasoning why an error may have been made.
As I have been out of the game since August due to job consuming all my time, I am really getting my full exposure to the DotF during the past week; and have not been able to participate in any discussion prior. I enjoy designing my own custom characters and have been a part of several sites based on custom pieces. However, these sites seem to quickly descend into custom pieces which unbalance the game and turn into 'Billy-Badass-untouchable-pieces' and always end up with a cost well below what I would assign such a piece. Building pieces is more than just adding/developing cool abilities due to the need to account for all the other pieces/abilities existing in the game. Whenever a new set comes out with new abilities, I like to set the card side by side with similar cards and abilities in order to grasp the value differences in the pieces as it applies to the abilities/stats the various pieces have in various factions.
I hope this provides more insight as the the whys of my questions. Several of the responses to my questions...including the ones deleted...leave me with an impression that I am saying 'You guys really f'ed this one up', which I am not. I am fully aware the effort it takes in designing this set and am fully aware of the efforts of many others, well before WotC stopped making sets, to provide additional accessories to add variety and continued fun/challenge to game play (ie Jedicartographer's map development).
So to continue the discussion, I am curious to the value of domination as an ability vs cost. As it seems the Master of Pain is stating the value of domination is less than the original design. The downside of Master of Pain is not able to target your own pieces and requires a specific trigger (doing damage) but the upside allows potential movement, longer duration, an additional activation and a bear trap. Additionally, I am curious what should the cost be on the B'Omar monk.