• Kaldo@dormi.zone
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    11 hours ago

    To be honest i have no idea what pseudo exalted means, I saw some redditors getting hyped over balefire chargers with arcanes and just assumed it means all exalted? It’d be weird to draw an arbitrary line as what get an arcane and what doesn’t since they are all weapons in one way or another.

    • sandriver@dormi.zone
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      6 hours ago

      Pseudo-exalteds are abilities that draw from their associated weapon slot’s mods, for example Whipclaw and Landslide are melee attacks, so they draw from equipped melee mods. They’re called “pseudo”-exalteds for historical reasons: exalted weapons used to draw from their associated weapon slot’s mods, rather than being modded individually.

      This is a balance pass to make pseudo-exalted abilities function in line with true exalted weapons, and normalise the power curve between incarnonless and incarnon inheritance, pseudos, and true exalteds. The system should be more consistent and cause less psychic damage for people directly perceiving it.