Gestalt strengths

Lavinya

I realised I hadn't updated my gestalt for influencing in forever. My question is, does anyone know the order of strength levels? ie right now mine is robust, I -think- it's stronger than what it was, but I'm not sure.

Lerad

3 commons - "feeble"
4, 5, 6 commons - "weak"
7, 8 commons - "average"
9 commons - "potent"

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Not going to list all the possible permutations of the later strengths, but these are what I can make with the ikons I have. There should be one level above godly, made of full legendaries, but I don't have a full legendary set yet. You'll need to ask someone who does - Faragan might have.

strong
powerful
robust
awesome
godly
???

Akyaevin

Lerad said:

Not going to list all the possible permutations of the later strengths, but these are what I can make with the ikons I have. There should be one level above godly, made of full legendaries, but I don't have a full legendary set yet. You'll need to ask someone who does - Faragan might have.

I believe a full list of legendaries is still Godly.

Karlach

I'd hate to think how overpowered the upper tier ones are for amnesty ego DR, mine's only powerful and it already knocks near 1k off Cthoglogg.

Munsia

Do Gestalts do anything besides help ego hits? Also what EXACTLY do Gestalts do? 

Lerad

Probably diminishing returns. I'm using a godly gestalt, and it also knocks a little over 1 ~ 1.5k from cthog's usual hits.

Ssaliss

Gestalts reduce the ego used to influence, and possibly reduces the ego lost when getting hit by an influence attack (not that you should be hit by many, or any). It doesn't work for debating, and doesn't work for forcefield.

At least that's my understanding of it.

Lerad

Gestalts do nothing but help reduce ego loss during influencing, ie, if you hit cthoglogg with an influence attack and you should take 3k ego damage for attacking, the gestalt will reduce it based on its strength. Similarly for when you get hit. Gestalt strength affects nothing else in the game

You have to build a gestalt to have a psychodrama game with another player, though gestalt strength has nothing to do with how good/bad your gestalt actually is in a battle.

Enyalida

In fact, it tends to have an inverse relationship, doesn't it? I tend to find that for the game, common ikons are better.

Munsia

All I'm saying is I have 247 ikons from just turning essence in and there needs to be a better outlet for them...

Ssaliss

Y'know what would be awesome? The ability to combine ikons. And the more I think about it, the awesomer it becomes. Here's my thoughts:

You'd need three ikons to combine. Any three will do, but they have to be of the same rarity (so three common, or three uncommon, etc).

Combining three ikons will give you a random ikon of the next higher rarity (so common will become uncommon, etc).

You will also need gold. First thought is 3000 gold to combine three common, 9000 gold to combine three uncommon, 27000 gold to combine three rare and 81000 gold to combine three epic.

With these numbers, you'd need 3 common ikons to get an uncommon, 9 common to get a rare, 27 common to get an epic and 81 common to get a legendary. You'd also need 324000 gold in the process.

More limits could also be added. For instance, you could say that only ikons of the same type can be combined (so three characters or three scenes), or ikons of the same group, or even both. You could also make the results less random by saying that the resulting ikon will be the same combination of type/group as one of the combined ikons.

This would satisfy both the "problem" that there are a ton of common and uncommon ikons out there, and it would also act like a gold sink.