Special Ability Poll

Your points have a lot of merit Lockirby! If theres anyone that understands game-balancing, its you.

A few potential solutions for what you mentioned, though:

• We haven't yet decided when we will get Iris, so scaling may be less of a factor
  
• My original idea for the ability (which i never posted, which is my fault) involved having to learn the abilities by being afflicted by them over time, granting that natural progression you talk about.
  
• Make utility-based abilities for curing/buffing party members or even debuffing enemies (perhaps through protection)
  
• Add an additional damage multiplier based on any number of incremental criteria that can happen with/without the player having to be involved such as level, game progression, key items, or even GP.
  
• Use percentage-based damage/healing
  
• Make the ability an overcompensation for the affliction, essentially making it a best-option for her at the very least. Such as a never-miss attack for blindness, or a draining attack for poison, a double strike or even quick-granting ability for slow. Or a magic attack that self-cures Mute.
  
• Upgrade the abilities over the course of the game (which in my mind is essentially a more deliberate and flashy version of adding an additional damage multiplier)
  

I don't tend to subscribe to the idea that any mechanic is simply broken and won't work, it's just a matter of figuring out how to make it fit what you need. Luckily, we have some really good ASM coders helping us with the project.

I really like the discussion guys, keep it up! I will seriously be happy with any of these abilities winning.