Giant laser AoE that comes down from a mothership to burn units.
It’s purifier beam. Except purifier beam isn’t that good.
So buff purifier beam to make it like planet cracker.
(Surprised pikachu buff Karax thread)
At level 13, instead of boosting the speed by 200% have it boost speed by 50% and burn ground and air units around it for maybe 400 damage over 20 seconds. Maybe lock the firey part behind the solar Lance scorched earth upgrade. Give it an energy cost if it’s too op. Make it deserve the 450 sec cooldown time. Keep in mind this is the same laser that thanos-snapped all the zerg off endion in campaign.
It’s already pretty impressive. If you want to make it even more powerful use orbital strikes to take out a few extra targets while the purifier beam is giving you vision.
Currently does 1000 (2000 vs armored) over 20 seconds. It depends how big the burning AoE is. Something the size of the screen, like planet cracker in the campaign, could balance that out.
Its cooldown is 50% longer than artanis’s solar bombard, or almost 2x as long as time stop.
Solar does 6000 (12000 vs armored) over 10 sec, albeit there’s no way all of it’s going to be used.
Time stop, there’s no comparison in power. Time stop is just better.
A few orbital strikes doesn’t redeem that.
Time Stop is better for Vorazun because she has a glass cannon army that can wreak havoc among the enemy with impunity.
Karax’s army doesn’t have that kind of damage output so he couldn’t exploit Time Stop that much. Raw damage from Purifier Beam fits him better.
But I fully agree that the cooldown is way too long.
Ignoring the cooldown, I’d also take Purifier Beam over Solar Bombarment any day, because it has the potential to affect a much larger area and you can just hunt down every single damn Viper in a large enemy base with it. You can also follow a moving army with it, while with Artanis’ Bombardment they just walk through it unless you have your army holding them in place.
Karax’s bar is already good. You should play him sometime to try it.
The individual difference between Beam and Bombardment is fine, because they don’t exist alone in a vacuum; they’re both part of a complex system that includes not only the rest of the powers bar but also the forces, the defenses, the tech tree, the economy, the mastery effects, etc.