All along, I was hoping that Chrono Field (CF) would get a Mastery. It’s universal across the board (for the most part), something every CO appreciates as an ally, and since it’s passive, any Karax non-P3 player will automatically have it in use! No forgetting to use it!
OTOH, Chrono Boost (CB) and Chrono Wave (CW) both did. For CB, all other Protoss COs except for Zeratul also have Masteries for that. Chrono Wave actually did get one as well, although it’s tied to SoA energy regen (which thankfully got boosted from 1 to 3 per mastery point).
First question is, would it be too powerful to have a mastery for Chrono Field? How would you balance it? I was thinking in lieu of CB, just swap CF instead (if not a theoretical power set four). Probably +0.5% per point? I will acknowledge that P1 ended up using “the chronos” in a novel way… making your towers shoot faster. This may be too powerful for that as it seems overall better than doing the macro to slap on a CB when extra dps is needed.
If not increase the rate, any other ideas to boost it as a mastery?
I can only think of it also influence Units, or defensive structures. Either attack speed, or movement speed?
Chrono Field seems too bland to have a mastery. You never use the ability directly, and it’s effect is something you never really notice since it’s always active.
I fear that any mastery mods would befall the same fate as Artanis Guardian Shell-- having to be so weak that whatever the alternative pick is becomes the automatic choice.
What could be done is something like Mengsk’s indoctrination upgrade-- give the Solar Forge an expensive upgrade (like 300/300) to improve Chrono Field by 10% or something.
well Chrono boost mastery is already an auto skip for karax anyway because starting with 90 energy lets you spam so many more orbitals. Chrono field as a replacement would be a pretty neat alternative to chrono boost since every protoss commander gets chrono boost mastery except Zeratul i think. having it increase the chono field by .5% per point would be a decent option since its a global boost to all production meaning at max you would have a 30% production speed boost for you and your ally by just existing and any structure you chrono boost gains an extra 22.5% which would be about equal to chrono boost mastery. Not to mention Fenix and Artanis commonly use CB mastery over their energy/supply masteries so they could be getting something like an 80% increase to production and upgrade speeds to two structures. it would basically be a strict upgrade to the CB mastery karax has now but i still don’t think it would make energy mastery obsolete especially with p3 karax being popular as it is and his top bar abilities being very strong. I do think it would become to Go to for p1 karax though as it would just directly buff his turrets attack speed to a 30% passive boost.
I’ve experimented with more into CB and will say it’s nice having that extra boost in saturating, leveling up, research, etc. I sometimes sit on surplus SoA which is what prompted that change.
For P3, you don’t have “the Chrono trifecta” anyways so you’d want to put it into SoA energy.