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Add lvl 3 to Link Skills that only go up to lvl 2

OdysseyTwoOdysseyTwo
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edited December 2017 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
The only classes, that are also available in KMS, whose unstackable Link Skills only have a max level of 2 are Cadena, Illium, Kinesis, Shade, and Xenon. I feel that adding level 3 to their Link Skills wouldn't cause too much power creep.

Cadena: Level 3 would imply 9% Damage per condition met, adding up to 18% Damage with both conditions. Although 18% Damage looks too OP for a Link Skill, there are 2 pieces of evidence that would push for a level 3. One, Demon Avenger's Link Skill has a level 3 that gives 15% Damage, only 3% less than Cadena's hypothetical level 3 link. And two, regular Damage has diminishing returns, meaning it's less effective the more regular Damage you have prior to activating Cadena's link.
Illium: Level 3 would imply 3% Damage per stack, adding up to 18% Damage at max stacks. See my argument with Cadena's link.
Kinesis: Level 3 would imply 6% Critical Damage. Before the V update, level 3 would have implied 12% Minimum Critical Damage, which would have been too OP, because most classes would only have a 3% Crit Damage difference, resulting in extremely consistent critical hits. With the Min Crit and Max Crit merge, the Crit Damage difference is always 30%, which made it strictly worse for most classes. Therefore, 6% Crit Damage wouldn't be very OP.
Shade: Level 3 would imply 15% Death Ignore Chance. 10% is the same rate as the most common success rate on Clean Slate Scrolls, and we all know how long and expensive it is to recover 1 upgrade slot. 15% is the same rate as the Weapon Spell Trace Scroll with the most amount of ATT, and it's barely easier than 10% CSS. Therefore, 15% Death Ignore Chance wouldn't be too OP.
Xenon: Level 3 would imply 15% All Stats. When Xenon was first released, GMS declared that his Link Skill at level 3 would be too OP. But one thing to keep in mind is his Link Skill has diminishing returns. Meaning the more All Stat percentage boost you have without his Link Skill, the smaller your overall All Stat increase will be when you activate his Link Skill. I feel that diminishing returns would make 15% All Stats not as OP as people would think.

As a bonus, Hayato and Kanna's Link Skills should also have a level 3, since I heard TMS was supposed to have level 3 added to them.

Hayato: Level 3 would imply 35 All Stat and 25 Weapon/Magic ATT. Diminishing returns says hi.
Kanna: Level 3 would imply 15% Damage. Literally the same as Demon Avenger's Link Skill.
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  • JushiroNetJushiroNet
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    edited May 2017
    Even with more level 3 links we'd still have a massive chasm between potential damage in gms and kms. It would not hurt at all to get this little boost, it would help us get a bit closer to what the content is balanced around.


    They could even consider removing the 12 link skill cap.
  • OdysseyTwoOdysseyTwo
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    edited December 2017
    I finally started playing on my Cadena and Illium characters and found out their Link Skills only go up to level 2, despite Demon Avenger's Link Skill, giving the same type of bonus as Cadena and Illium's links, can go up to level 3, and despite Aran and Evan's Link Skills, that directly precede Cadena and Illium's links, also have a level 3. WHY!?
  • PhantomMasterThiefPhantomMasterThief
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    edited December 2017
    OdysseyTwo wrote: »
    I finally started playing on my Cadena and Illium characters and found out their Link Skills only go up to level 2, despite Demon Avenger's Link Skill, giving the same type of bonus as Cadena and Illium's links, can go up to level 3, and despite Aran and Evan's Link Skills, that directly precede Cadena and Illium's links, also have a level 3. WHY!?

    Because that's the max level that link skills go up to in KMS.
    Level 3 link skills come from TMS and JMS.
    might be in CMS as well ( i'm not sure about that )

    i agree with you though, if we have the other link skills max at level 3 then all the other links should go up to level 3 as well.
    ( in TMS and JMS, Kanna's and Hayato's link skill level can go up to 3 )