Talk:Empowered Blades/@comment-135.23.52.62-20161116121439

I think this needs a major rework, BUT the ability to increase status damage across the party could be OP. Imagine if this was simply +60% status damage... that combined with 100% status slash weapons would be new META. IMO it should never be made to affect primaries because of the Tigris Prime (Strong enough as it is). The +60% status damage to only melee would be reasonable (and fitting because "Empowered Blades"). The +60% status chance isn't that useful for an aura, simply because there's no benefit to over 100% status, so allies who have 100% status would gain no benefit from that. As for the shield drain, there really shouldn't be a negative effect on an aura. With new weapons that use a special attack for charge attacks, more ppl will be irritated by the negative effect and the only weapon I can think of, worth using this with is the Caustacyst.

New Empowered Blades as I imagine it should be: +60% status damage from melee. Simple and useful without silly negatives like losing shields and extreme niche things like "only on charge attack" and providing status chance to allies who could be using a weapon with bad status chance, or 100% chance.