Talk:Blood Idol (3.5e Equipment)
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| This is a very nice item, and appropriate for low levels, too. It'll be very useful for characters who spend a lot of time in the thick of the action, like barbarians and fighters. |
Higher level versions
This should have higher-level versions in order to scale with character level. Keep the penalty the same, but increase the healing while increasing the exponential of the price.
So 2 healed would cost something like 1000, then 3 healed for 2000, 4 healed for 4000, 5 healed for 8000, and so on, perhaps to a max of 8 healed at 64k (following the same cap as per-epic bracers of armor).
Formula for above is 2^(HP healed + 1) * 125. --Ghostwheel (talk) 17:55, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- While I considered doing that, I have yet to figure out a good way to do it. Getting 8 healed per hit is nice, but you'll end up with hasted dual/multi wielding builds abusing the hell out of it. Given enough opposition, such a character could have a dozen or more weak attacks at a high bonus and regain pretty much all their health in a single round of combat. They could even get their hands on, say, tiny sized shuriken or senbon needles, poke away at the party tank for 1 damage per hit to regain all their health and have the ally just quaff a potion or be healed back to full with one spell. While such recovery rates aren't necessarliy game breaking, 8k gold for 5 hp recovery per hit could come over as a little bit on the cheap. --Sulacu (talk) 18:09, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- It would be 64k, not 8k, for 8 HP per attack if you follow the pricing formula above, which also conforms to the way most items scale in D&D 3.5. --Ghostwheel (talk) 18:47, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- To Eiji: No, no you can't. That would be like having one's cake and eating it, too. The curse will just come back if you still wear it or put it in again.
- To Ghostwheel: Actually, most items in D&D scale quadratically, whereas your suggestion scales exponentially. That aside, I was talking about the 5 HP per attack version, which thanks to your price formula is 8 times cheaper than the 8 HP per attack version. Quite a leap I daresay, considering 5 HP per hit can still be extremely powerful. --Sulacu (talk) 19:15, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
