To summarize my suggestions (in order of importance):

1. Domain Lah Warrior
- change cost to 14
Reason:Game balance issues, NPE

2. Yun-Ne'Shel Priest
- change to this:

Reason: Game balance issues, NPE, against designer intent


3. Warrior Caste Subcommander
-change cost to 23, OR change Blast Bug damage to 10 and change cost to 17
Reason: Gameplay balance issues, NPE (probably the biggest we have currently)

4. Stormtrooper TK-421
-change to have "Why aren't you at your post?' function as optional for the receiving player
Reason: Gameplay balance issues
Acknowledging I am in the minority on this one, but I stand behind it.


No change needed:

Man Hierogryph
Reason: Not a big enough gameplay issue or NPE for enough people to warrant change
Conceding this one.

This would be great! no more near immortal Bodyguards and vong swarms that survive way longer than they should. shifts the focus to uniques and i think giving them +4 to saves is much better imo than making it +4 to everyone in the game. good design suggestion!

make it a save.

Bump

+1 to 2 and 3. Yuuzhan Vong Uniques should be more powerful than their support pieces and changing the Yun-Ne'Shel Priest to Tim's suggestion would solve a ton of problems, for instance, his #1 suggestion. (back to that later)

Also, changing the cost of the Sub-Commander cost to 23 would be a great call as well. It's either in or out.

As far as Suggestion #1, IMO, if you change the YS Priest to Tim's suggestion, you don't necessarily need to up the DL Warrior's cost. We have just made a huge statement in the poll about increased damage output. The chance that you'll need 60 to kill in one round greatly diminishes without the Priest boost.

Blast Bug is unbalanced because it gets around every defense. It is not an attack, so it gets around high defenses and Evade/Parry/LSDefense. It has no save, so FPRR and Survival Expert don't help. It ignores every type of armor, so it goes through Shields, Dark Armor, Crab Armor, Beskar'gam, Force-Attuned Armor, Force Bubble, etc. Some of those things wouldn't work anyway because it's a Vong ability so you couldn't spend FP to respond anyway. It's range 6, so Distraction won't help even though it's granted via CE. It's Vong, so Bastila won't help even though it's granted through a CE. Disruptive should help and might in some cases, but they have a CE to extend the range to 8. Shrouded also should help, but again the range can be extended to 8.

No other ability in the game does that or comes close.

Look at the other replaces-attack range 6 abilities. Many have saves - Grenades, Thud Bug. Some don't - Lightning (costs FP and Vong/Ysalamiri stops it), Flamethrower. But none of them go through armor.

Look at the other unpreventable damage abilities. They all have major drawbacks. Mostly they are either Force powers that use up your FP, or they are abilities that are on Huge or Savage pieces. And the one that makes crits unpreventable. Or Crack Shot where you have to combine fire to get it unpreventable. In all those cases, they are on attacks where you still have to hit, so a high defense could still help you. I may be forgetting something but I can't think of another non-attack ability that deals unpreventable damage (other than Ajunta Pall's new trick, which only works in response to getting shot).

Also, when you look at unpreventable damage, for the most part those characters are dealing lower damage than other similarly costed characters. Which makes sense. Most characters are preventing damage somehow. When you deal unpreventable damage, you should deal about half of what your equally-costed peers do. Since about half of what they deal gets negated.

Getting past every defense like that could be okay if it were balanced with its own detriments and a high cost, but it isn't. I can't see it being balanced without going down to 10dmg even after doing whatever is needed to the other pieces.

At 10 damage, I am not even sure it would be used.

Since you have (at least in most squads), double twin at a +10 (or 14 or 18 or whatever) with your guy for 20/30/whatever, Blast Bug is actually a lot less then what they "normally" do via attacks.

Very well put, in essenence a mistake from the start.



This specifically is a very salient point to me.

Blast bugs would not be nearly as big of a deal if they had to make an attack roll. A DL Warrior with an attack of 6 trying to hit a big bad jedi with 22 defence ain't gonna hit too often. It they do hit, THEN it can go through armor. Fine, Vong tech. But you have to be able to hit the guy first.

I like the idea that the damage is unpreventable, but you still get save 11 so it's not automatic. So then the Blast Bugger has to think - better for twin attack vs. parry or shields or 50/50 for 20 unstoppable damage.

+1



I think the Priest should get a change, but this looks a bit extreme. It's a change to the definition of Yun-Ne'Shel Devotion, remove one CE and add a different one. I'd rather just see a straight cost increase, but I think the current stat block should probably be around 25-30.

However, the above stat block is better than no change at all. Not sure what the best solution is.



I favor changing Blast Bug to 10dmg. No cost change to Warrior Caste Subcommander. (Fewer changes are better.)

Raising the cost would be another possible solution, but 23 is still too low. Closer to 30.


I don't think a change is needed. (Fewer changes are better.) But if there is a change, this should be the change. It can be implemented via glossary update - no new card needed.

EDIT: Actually, I'd vote for the change. But don't have a strong opinion either way.


Agreed - no change needed.