Light Manipulation

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Light Manipulation

	Mental
	4
	LightManipulation
	no

Light Manipulation

You manipulate light to your advantage.

You produce ambient light within a radius of (level based)
You may focus the light into a laser beam (doing so reduces the radius of your ambient light by 1)
Laser damage increment: (level based)
Laser penetration bonus: (level based)
Ambient light radius increases by 1 every 15 rounds until it reaches its maximum value
(level based)% chance to reflect light-based damage

Light Manipulation is a mutation that allows its user to fire damaging pulses of light, and to generate ambient light around them while they have lase charges remaining.

A creature with this mutation can gain up to as many Lase charges as their maximum light radius, which increases by 1 every two levels.

One Lase charge is regenerated every 15 turns. This does not scale with level or willpower and it is not measured from the last turn that a charge was fired - the timer runs continuously every 15 turns regardless of when any charges were fired.

Mutation Level	Damage	PV	Maximum Charges/Light Radius	Percent Chance to Reflect
1	1d3	4	4	13%
2	1d4	4	5	16%
3	1d5	5	5	19%
4	1d4+1	5	6	22%
5	1d5+1	6	6	25%
6	1d4+2	6	7	28%
7	1d5+2	7	7	31%
8	1d4+3	7	8	34%
9	1d5+3	8	8	37%
10	1d5+4	8	9	40%

Formulas

The following formulas are used to determine damage and AV based on mutation level.

	Formula	Applicable Levels
Damage	1d5+(Level - 6)	Level 10+
PV	4 + Floor((Level - 1) / 2)	All levels
Maximum Charges/Light Radius	4 + Floor(Level / 2)	All levels
Reflect Chance	(3 × Level + 10)%	All levels

Tips

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Never misses and has infinite range.
• Provides light without taking up an equipment slot, as other Light Sources do.
• Decent early-game damage and PV which scales with level.

Disadvantages

• Light radius is small at low levels.
• It is difficult to use Light Manipulation as both a weapon and a light source at the same time.
• Use of Mass Mind is the only way to regenerate charges more quickly.
• Cannot fire through forcefields.
• PV and damage scale poorly in the late game unless the mutation is leveled to 20-25 through ego modifier.