Advanced Diffusion Armor is going to be fun to break with healers. Their large base makes them sort of like massive diplomats that can bring a powerful punch.

What happens if they get DR10? Do you get to use it if take only 10 damage in the first place?

That's too bad. 1 more loss for Forn. Would have been nice if "may" would have been added.

Such as:
[Whenever this character takes damage, it may reduce the damage to 10. If this ability is used, this damage cannot be prevented or redirected. Adjacent enemies ignore this ability.]

oh well... I'm sure I'm the only person who thinks this way. I just badly want to find a useful way to use Forn and I was thinking this might have been it.

Thanks for clearing it up for me.

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^^ I was rereading this over and over again as well and found the wording to be pretty solid. From what it says, anytime you take damage, reduce to 10.

I was just hoping that you could pick the order in which they trigger. So if you take 10 damage, I would pick DR10 to trigger first resulting in 0 damage. If hit for 20, then it wouldn't matter which one triggered first and if hit for more than 20, armor would trigger first thus negating DR10 from getting a chance to work based on the unavoidable damage clause at the end of the armor ability.


Advanced Diffusion Armor [Whenever this character takes damage, reduce the damage to 10. This damage cannot be prevented or redirected. Adjacent enemies ignore this ability.]

Unless your wording is incorrect on page one of this thread, I don't understand your post..

We had 2 new Previews on last weeks SHNN.

I posted one with full stats on the original post. The other I will let someone else post here. Listened to the show? Feel free to share the stats here.

Wait wait wait... c3po isn't,gay...?

Nice Caedus counter. It also helps shut down silly intuition shenanigans (which are some of my favorite shenanigans I might add).

Defense Beacon needs a re-wording it's awful confusing.

And a question if I may… Why singular focus and stealth?

It looks like Pin Down is clear, but here's the glossary entry anyway

Pin Down
Glossary: If an enemy is both within 6 squares of this character and within line of sight, then that enemy cannot move before the first activation of the round. Allies within 6 squares cannot be moved by enemies' abilities or commander effects before the first activation each round.



That is the final wording based on ultra economy of words (as must be done for abilities). Here's the glossary that should clear things up:

Defense Beacon
Glossary: Enemies that begin their turn adjacent or become adjacent are affected for the rest of the turn. Affected enemies may not make a second attack this turn if they have moved more than 6 squares, and affected enemies who have made a second attack may not move more than 6 squares. If an enemy has already moved at least 6 squares and attacked more than once this turn when they become adjacent, they may not attack or move for the rest of the turn.


So - what it really stops are speedy multi-attackers. IE - strafe, galloping attack, etc.

If at any point during an enemies turn they are adjacent to this character, then they are effected (the signal has been sent and the defenses are raised).

Have they moved over 6 squares? They can only attack once total that turn.
Have they attacked more than once? They can only move 6 squares total (or less) that turn
Have they already moved over 6 squares and attacked more than once that turn when they become adjacent? Stop movement right there and no more attacks.


Strategic placement can give long strafes and gallops (and other speedy scissor abilities) difficulties.





Stealth so they don't simply get easily sniped across the board. In universe the idea is that they are akin to a perimeter unit, hiding on the border with the purpose of hindering enemy entry and early warning to allies about such enemies - allowing the allies to fortify and prepare for an imminent attack.


We really wanted them to be a purely defensive unit. They are cheap and have a lot of tricks. We never wanted them to have a use being spammed, especially as a piece with offensive potential. We hope that they'll be enticing enough to throw one or 2 in a squad - or bring some as a reinforcement.

Singular Focus currently really only stops Fire Support Mission (which is significant and the main intent). Beyond that, you never know what future buffs they can get, and it's quite clear that the majority of the community are not fans of uber-boosted cheap NU swarms.

It's also an ability that has high reusability. As this game goes on - since we don't rotate sets or make pieces illegal - everything expands exponentially. It gets harder and harder to not have an 'oops'. And what might have been a small 'oops' in the past could be a massive 'oops' now. This ability gives assurance in preventing that.

I really wish we could adjust "Attack". Things could be so much easier if an "Attack" was 1 "Strike" and "Twin Attack" meant an additional "Strike" per "Attack".

So that way things like "cannot make additional Attacks" would mean a person with double twin would make 1 Attack with 2 strikes.

Other confusing things like Leia giving "1 Rebel follower within 6 squares can make 1 immediate attack at +4 Attack and +10 Damage." This would mean that both strikes from Twin attack would get the bonus and if meant otherwise, the wording could be "1 immediate "strike"" which would not trigger twin attack.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I'm not certain that Defense Beacon stops twin attack from firing.
Defense Beacon [This turn, an enemy that started or became adjacent to this character cannot both move more than 6 squares and attack more than once]

Twin Attack [Whenever this character attacks, it makes 1 extra attack against the same target]

To me it would stop GMA and Double/Triple/Quadruple but not twin.

You run up 8 and are able to attack the mando player with twin. The mando player says, "you can only attack once". The Twin Attack player says, "that's fine, I'm only making 1 attack, but I'm going to carry out what Twin Attack says in the same method as if an extra attack was given as in the case with Leia's CE."

I know, I'm crazy...but this "Attack" term has always caused problems for me because of twin.