Illithid powers are weak and terrible.

[Nyaria]

Honestly. The Emperor likes to talk a big game about how powerful you'd become, but these powers are straight up god awful. There is like.. what? 2 Situational useful abilities, and none of them remotely get to the point they are any damn good.

I've tried a play through where I accepted evolution and I put everything into a character.. and now their just ugly, and have a bunch of honestly awful abilities that I'd just be better off using my class skills instead.

I really wish I could just drop kick the emperor from the start of act 3 and just chill with Orpheus the entiety of act 3. He keeps going on about how amazing illithid powers are, how amazing he is now, but both his ilithid powers and he himself are pathetically weak.

[Doomvora]

luck of the realms, cull the weak, freecast, psionic backlash and psionic dominance all beg to differ. Black hole and mind blast are also great.

Displacer beast is also quite good.

[Noin Trongaz]

Nah, they are super powerful, playing on Tactician difficulty.
A few talents are on the weaker side, but a lot are suuuper strong.

[Revan619]

The tadpole powers absolutely break the game and allow you to do crazy bursts of up to 1000 damage in a single turn. Even the ones you might not think are the best allowed my fire sorc to one turn Raphael

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Doomvora:

luck of the realms, cull the weak, freecast, psionic backlash and psionic dominance all beg to differ. Black hole and mind blast are also great.

Displacer beast is also quite good.

Dispalcer beast dope! You can just make 2 summons per turn lol

[Altogolik]

Need a powerful boost when you've learned all the available abilities on one character

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Revan619:

The tadpole powers absolutely break the game and allow you to do crazy bursts of up to 1000 damage in a single turn. Even the ones you might not think are the best allowed my fire sorc to one turn Raphael

There is a tadpole power that let's you use actions and bonus actions interchangeablely with that and the rest of my build calculations wise I could theoretically do over 2k damage in 1 turn rofl nothing last that long though...

[CloudKira]

They could indeed be stronger.

With some roleplaying cost of unlocking such power.

Also IMO the devs could offer some new quests or opportunities in the current ones to unlock the tadpole powers that were limited to a specific class in EA like Horrific Visage or Supernatural Attraction. Only Survival Instinct is available now.

[wei270]

well the class power are removed because you can freely mulit class and change class now. but i don't like the power either. other than luck of the far realm and cull the weak combine with psionic backlash, free cast, psyonic domanice, are like way too powerful.

the rest are not really worth an action point. mind blast and black hole is ok if you have the special upgrade that lets you cast them with free action but but is like less then 1/3 of the power that is usefull. 2/3 of them is something you will probably never you.

[Yuno Gasai]

People will always complain about anything.
Those powers are not bad. They are OP. Even simple luck of realms OP by itself.
The difference between character with or without it is humongus.
And that just 1 power.
If every power was so OP as luck of realms, whats balance in that?
They already super strong.
Like Fly, gosh flying half a map in a battle on any hight , really? U dont see OP in that?
Do u even play on higher than easy difficulty?
AoE stun that goes for miles range and do damage as well?
Black hole for that aoe stun or massive aoe sorc damage/disable?
Repulsor for edge fight combined with fall damage trait?
Rogue with 2 bonus actions which can be turned in 3 main actions? with multiclass like warlock or fighter that is 6 main attacks+ perk if u kill an enemy for extra action?
Thrall shield for aoe stun no action required?
There is like 2-3 perks that are objectivly weak.
All others are super strong. You are just not smart enough to appreciate it.

[Vexillarius]

Just fly by itself is super OP. Lots of other good stuff as others have already pointed out.

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Black hole – top and fly

[Myeteana™]

They must have changed things I guess because these powers being described are not in the tree not it's all minor useless crap half of which just hurts you...

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Myeteana™:

They must have changed things I guess because these powers being described are not in the tree not it's all minor useless crap half of which just hurts you...

They did not, these have all bin around since 1.0 most of the stuoid strong powers are tier 3, however some of the other ones used right like the changing of any 1 attack to a forced critical can be super powerful.
The push powers also quite strong in this game used em to beat the 400hp gold boss in act 2 in 1 turn lol
The diaplacer beast used right is phenomenal and only a few powers I find meh, like using half your hp to heal another party member, can't think of a good use for losing half your HP unless your stronger member took a bad turn maybe? Lol

[squat_instructor]

I like how literally no one brought up Perilous Stakes, which you can get with your second parasite and it straight up DOUBLES ALL DAMAGE target receives

that ability alone enables one turn killing anything in the game

[Nyaria]

A few breakthroughs later.

Still find the powers to be utterly pointless, even on a character I purposely went all in on the powers.

A few of them have niche abilities, but none of them are game breakingly good. Pretty garbage abilities overall.

None of them really offer anything you can't really get from just using consumables or playing your classes correctly. One free Crit a long rest? Wow. so impactful.