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Double Invocation...

Why do they require 2 cast, why can it not work like Boon 1 cast?

Another reason why Invocation should never be ran such terrible design.

Comments

  • ChucksterMainin
    ChucksterMainin Member Posts: 41

    OP… OP was Boon healing when it came out this is not OP it is throwing the game

  • jmwjmw27
    jmwjmw27 Member Posts: 494

    Would it really be OP though? Permanent broken for the rest of the trial, 60 seconds in basement + killer notified on completion, and 2 perk slots in return for a BNP on every gen and situational aura read doesn't seem OP to me.

  • joel84
    joel84 Member Posts: 331

    You have to think further. Much further. These will not be the only Invocation Perks. More are guaranteed to come. Imagine 4 Invocation Perks all activated at once. Those are powerful effects for all survivors, and for the price of just one Broken effect and 60s (if you do it solo). That would be way too powerful. Not to mention SWF in combination with that.

  • AlexXHunter44
    AlexXHunter44 Member Posts: 122
    edited December 17

    How? Neither is worth running on its own already.

    Weaving Spiders is a good effect but not worth the drawback of being injured all match. The new one is basically useless in any form and provides little value

  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 6,992

    Because they all share the same downside already of being broken, it wouldn't make sense to also be allowed to overlap the time spent on them.

    The only reason it wouldn't necessarily be overpowered right now is because Treacherous Crows is a bad perk and needs a buff. But eventually if you could do 4 strong invocations (assuming all of them are as strong as they should be, which Treacherous Crows currently isn't) all in 60 seconds it could be too much.

    Weaving Spiders is almost in a good spot as it is tbh, it just needs to be changed to not get countered by gen blocking, there should not be a risk that you spend 60 seconds in basement for the perk to do absolutely nothing if Grim Embrace happened to be up when you finished it.

  • jmwjmw27
    jmwjmw27 Member Posts: 494

    If they release more then maybe, but no reason not to have them both activate at once for now imo. Given what has happened to teamwork perks I think it might be a while before we see another invocation.

  • SoGo
    SoGo Member Posts: 1,517

    Until that day comes, it will be 2030 already.

    Plus, they will probably just create something like "One random pallet gets rebuilt, but only if you do it on a Friday exactly at midnight. You also get broken. And the pallet can be also broken in 0.2 seconds."

  • Firellius
    Firellius Member Posts: 4,511

    It wouldn't at the moment, but if you could compress what would ordinarily be a 240 second time investment into 60 seconds by the time there's four invocations, that -could- potentially be overpowered. Especially since BHVR have now cemented that all invocations MUST take 60 seconds and HAVE to make you perma-broken.

    BHVR painted themselves into an absolute corner by doubling down on the garbage design of Weaving Spiders. They knew it didn't work and went 'what the heck, let's apply this faulty design to ALL future perks in this category'.

  • radiantHero23
    radiantHero23 Member Posts: 4,457

    Yes, Im thinking now. BHVR has made different perk types in the past and left them in the dust (teamwork). If this really becomes a big category of perks, then im willing to see that it might become goodish. Right now though? Even with both being activated at the same time its not worth it in my book. The risk is too high.

  • AlexXHunter44
    AlexXHunter44 Member Posts: 122

    Makes no sense.

    1. You're speaking if a future we don't even know exists, since both current perks aren't viable there is no reason to believe they will be buffed to the point of making this broken or that future perks will be stronger.
    2. More importantly, if you make them simultaneous you can balance the perks around that fact. It's not like going in blind, there are only two now and they aren't broken together so balance future perks with that in mind.
    3. They could limit the number of invocation perks allowed in a build if it was that broken at some point in the future, or look at the meta and revert. It's not a thing that can't be easily undone at some point.

  • Firellius
    Firellius Member Posts: 4,511

    Well, that's the thing. With the release of Treacherous Crows, BHVR has cemented that Invocations will always be below F-tier in quality. 60 seconds of invocation time + permabroken is a deficit that could only be made balanced by giving it some fundamentally broken effect on the other side. And they're not going to do that, because that would likely be horrid to play against. So they go big on the risk/investment cost, but then slam the brakes on the reward to ensure the perk gets buried below the bottom of the trashbin.

    As @Ayodam says, these are effectively killer perks, and as long as they have the investment cost that they do, the entire category of perks is a complete write-off.

  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 6,992

    The only way you could justify allowing them all to be done at once is if they all had a different penalty for completing them, which you could do, but then any future invocation perks would likely have to be weaker than Weaving Spiders as most realistic penalties you could impose aren't going to be as impactful as being Broken permanently. Then it would be fine to allow them all to be done in 60 seconds, as they each have their own separate downside.

    Combining Weaving Spiders and Treacherous Crows right now wouldn't be overpowered, because Treacherous Crows is an underpowered perk and should get buffed. But none of the invocations should be solely balanced around being combined with others, all of them should be able to stand up on their own (and Treacherous Crows currently doesn't).

  • joel84
    joel84 Member Posts: 331

    This is not about whether the benefits are strong or weak. Have you not seen what happened to the blessings in the beginning? Have you learned nothing? That's right, you know everything better again. That makes no sense

  • radiantHero23
    radiantHero23 Member Posts: 4,457

    Sadly have to agree. It's a shame though. The core idea is definitely salvageable.

  • jmwjmw27
    jmwjmw27 Member Posts: 494

    nothing changed with blessings. Circle of healing was busted and got nerfed, none of the other boons ever played a part and none of them aside from COH have been changed since released.

  • joel84
    joel84 Member Posts: 331
    edited 1:02AM

    I TOLD YOU.

    This is not about whether the single benefits are strong or weak.

  • SidneysBane1996
    SidneysBane1996 Member Posts: 784
    edited 1:18AM

    How many times do we have to post this?

    Because Invocations are permanent effects that change the game. They're intended to permanently change the game in your favor in exchange for a mere minute of your time in the basement. You can snuff Boons, you can destroy Hexes, but the Killer can do nothing once an Invocation is cast. Because that's the point of Invocations.

    Why should we have multiple game-changing, game stacking effects go off together? If you want to have that much game-changing power, then bring your two Invocations and do them. I mean do you really think it's fair to subject a Trapper to forever aura read and also less charges on one gen? I don't think so. That sounds OP to me.

    There's an argument to be made for changing the effect doing an Invocation has, like maybe Treacherous Crows shouldn't perma Break you and should perma Blind you instead. But there is none, not one, except "Because I wanna win even harder and be superman against M1s that cannot handle it" for asking for Invocations to stack this way. I mean what if we get an even stronger one and Invocations can stack? Imagine Weaving, Crows, some Invocation that gives permanent 3% Haste, and some Invocation that permanently reduces the Killer's speed by 5% or something. Imagine that. And they all stack.

    If they want to do more Invocations in the future, they cannot have them stack. Because four people can bring them and then have a bunch of things stacked in their favor so the Killer can't do ANYTHING. Like it or not, Invocations need to stay unstackable. Or do you want Killers buffed even more to handle the possibility of an Invocation meta? I don't.

    Don't buff Invocations by making them stack. Buff them by buffing what they do individually so you only need to take one.

  • TheSingularity
    TheSingularity Member Posts: 252

    If I Invocate I just pretend the killer is Legion.

  • jmwjmw27
    jmwjmw27 Member Posts: 494

    Yes, and why do you think boons are allowed to be multicast and no others have been changed? Because combined they are still not a problem. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.

  • SoGo
    SoGo Member Posts: 1,517

    That would probably be the best.

    I hate the "one size fits all" way they are handling them atm. The broken is outweighing the advantages of both perks currently.

    But, the problem isn't in the timer, hell, I'd argue that 60 seconds is just right. But it's the drawbacks and weird conditions that drag them into uselessness.

    Weawing Spiders having a random chance of getting randomly blocked? Treacherous Crows only working based on a terror radius?

    I don't even think the numbers are that weak, it's just the downsides that drag it down.

  • Devil_hit11
    Devil_hit11 Member Posts: 9,050

    they're like hex perks on killer end. High risk, Low reward. i still think the invocations should have a looping effect where they trigger multiple times per match after being finished to make them high reward, high risk.

  • Tits
    Tits Member Posts: 370

    Future invocations being able to set 4 super weapons off for the rest of the round at the price of 1 person being slightly easier to catch. Killer cant reverse the effects either like breaking a hex or kicking a boon out. It would be pretty unfair.

  • Sunflower_Mage
    Sunflower_Mage Member Posts: 64

    I wouldn't exactly call these powerful: Brand new part on each generator that can't be regressed. Killer spooked a crow, you see their aura for 2 seconds if a survivor is in their terror radius.

    People tried to show that Weaving Spiders could be good, but that realistically required a SWF whose goal was to pop 5 gens that already had most of the work done and taking advantage of the limited gen regression a killer could do. Yet its more of a trap perk for solo play because of the lack of coordination and that if you do that, your just making yourself an easier target.

    The invocations injuring the survivor and applying permanent broken status is part of what actually holds them back from solo play. If it was a temporary broken status, you could work around that, just survive how many ever seconds and then heal up, meaning you could bring Strength in Shadows, or Self Care, or even just a Medkit to heal yourself up.

    This is also why Taurie is partly seen as Sable 2. As her perks follow a similar mechanical themeing (an invocation with permanent broken as a cost, a healing perk, a hook-related perk, and one of those gives aura reading to see the killer). In addition the healing perk and the invocation perk have anti-synergy with each other.

    Like what your really imagining is this kind of ideal scenario for it to be even remotely strong: Invocations applied a temporary broken status, you brought all four of them, all four would be completed at the same time, and that you brought a medkit with a syringe.

  • joel84
    joel84 Member Posts: 331
    edited 6:41PM

    You can't compare blessings with invocations.

    "You can snuff Boons, you can destroy Hexes, but the Killer can do nothing once an Invocation is cast. Because that's the point of Invocations"

    "It's about the whole package. You're comparing apples with bananas.