Pep Talk

[Sir Francis]

Please make it a 25% stress resist buff, just so that people start using this skill at all.

[Baywatch]

As someone who was very critical of the balance of camp skills in the past, this is one of the few things that I thought they got right. General/shared camping skills should always be inferior to anything provided by specific class skills imo.

With that said Pep Talk is a weird one since it's a stress resist buff and not a stress/health heal so there is never going to be a situation when you're desperate enough to use it. It's currently just a skill to use when you have 2 points and no other meaningful options. I'd honestly prefer it do something else entirely.

[Sir Francis]

I believe there should at least some instances in which one would consider using pep talk instead of encourage. As it stands, it is only worth as much if the buffed hero is the target of 100 points of stress dmg in the next four combats, which really is close to impossible if you dont play like the first man on earth...

[Baywatch]

I don't think we're in disagreement. I just think there are better ways of making it more attractive beyond tacking on another 10% to the buff. At 25% it would be a strong contendor for being one of the best stress resist buffs in the game when you consider it only costs 2 points and as a general skill I don't think that should be the case. Unshakeable Leader (a Crusader only skill) offers the same buff but, only for himself and for 3 points.

As I mentioned, doing something else entirely would be nice that isn't directly competing with the other two general camp skills. A small dodge or acc buff for 2 points is something I'd consider far more than a pointless 15% stress resist.

If they want to keep it the way it is now, an option you take when you have literally nothing else to spend your points on, then it could be reduced to 1 point and the buff could be dropped down to 10%.

[Sir Francis]

A 5 dodge, 5 acc buff, available for everyone would really be nice, maybe even add 1% crit for the hell of it :D And all for 2 respite points seems fair. You can consider me convinced.

[No One]

Obviously pep talk is supposed to be bad. It's RNG on the camp skills spawn. E.g. do you take the bounty hunter with the bad quirk but with bandage/encourage, or do you take the bounty hunter with pep talk?

[Baywatch]

Originally posted by shinydeath:

Obviously pep talk is supposed to be bad. It's RNG on the camp skills spawn. E.g. do you take the bounty hunter with the bad quirk but with bandage/encourage, or do you take the bounty hunter with pep talk?

Actually that's not obvious at all. Most of the camp skills went through a lot of reworks for the 1.0 release in an attempt to make them much more balanced.

I'm with you if you're comparing Pep Talk to a class skill but, there is no reason one shared skill should be inferior to another.