Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life
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I'm gonna have to go with plague signet:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plague_Signet
If someone within 100 feet of me is bleeding, sick, or confused, I steal that adjective from them and apply it to myself.
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https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Impending_Dhuum
No resurrection spell can save you now. Your life has been banned.
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@ben_lubar said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
I'm gonna have to go with plague signet:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plague_Signet
If someone within 100 feet of me is bleeding, sick, or confused, I steal that adjective from them and apply it to myself.
I assume that it removes the status from the other people around you? Obviously it isn't the worst ability if you ask all those people that it heals.
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@dragnslcr said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
I assume that it removes the status from the other people around you? Obviously it isn't the worst ability if you ask all those people that it heals.
Plus it comes with the active ability to "curse" your enemies with your negative statuses. Description is ambiguous over whether this heals you or not.
Sounds not so bad now, but John Coffey may have a different opinion.
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@dragnslcr said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
I assume that it removes the status from the other people around you?
@xaade said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
Description is ambiguous over whether this heals you or not.
In both cases, the condition is transferred. The bleeding or whatever is removed from the source and added to the target.
It doesn't remove the damage the bleeding or whatever has already done, though.
@xaade said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
Plus it comes with the active ability to "curse" your enemies with your negative statuses.
That's an active ability, and is therefore not included in this discussion.
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Maybe Defect Lv.5 from Transformers Devastation: You do no damage ever. I imagine even opening doors would become difficult.
Or maybe the Veil of the Night's ability in Path of Exile, which makes it so everything beyond about two feet from your face is too dark to see.
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@ben_lubar said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
That's an active ability, and is therefore not included in this discussion.
I guess.
At that point, morrowind/oblivion's stunted passive is pretty bad too. Until you consider atronarch also grants magicka absorption.
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@ben_lubar said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
@xaade said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
Plus it comes with the active ability to "curse" your enemies with your negative statuses.
That's an active ability, and is therefore not included in this discussion.
It doesn't really make sense to separate the two. It's clearly meant to be a single ability with a "charge" phase and a "release" phase.
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@gąska said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
@ben_lubar said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
@xaade said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
Plus it comes with the active ability to "curse" your enemies with your negative statuses.
That's an active ability, and is therefore not included in this discussion.
It doesn't really make sense to separate the two. It's clearly meant to be a single ability with a "charge" phase and a "release" phase.
If you're in a situation with no combat enemies (like, for example, your house), you can't use the active ability for any reason other than putting the passive on cooldown anyway.
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I know there's at least one item in Path of Exile that causes poisons you inflict to be reflected back on you. You'd be unable to deal with pests in your house very effectively.
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@ben_lubar said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
I'm gonna have to go with plague signet:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plague_Signet
If someone within 100 feet of me is bleeding, sick, or confused, I steal that adjective from them and apply it to myself.
How does Aunt Flo feel about that?
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@magus Also, as a Berserker, you can take a thing that makes you build up rage, which normally you get enough regeneration and leech to deal with the negative effects of. If you had that in real life, if you got really mad, you'd just start dying.
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@magus that's the first game I ever heard of where rage has negative effects.
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@gąska It's very positive, since it increases your damage and movement and attack speed substantially, but you slowly get your life removed (% of your max life per second) through a mechanic that doesn't count as you taking damage, so you can't take advantage of it in any way. It's pretty much trivial to make up for it as a Berserker... as long as you're still fighting. Taken alone though...
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@magus said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
@gąska It's very positive, since it increases your damage and movement and attack speed substantially, but you slowly get your life removed (% of your max life per second) through a mechanic that doesn't count as you taking damage, so you can't take advantage of it in any way.
In contrast, in every game I've played that has rage mechanic, it increases your damage and movement and attack speed substantially, without any drawbacks whatsoever (or at most an accuracy penalty)
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@gąska Path of Exile is a game about balancing contradictory drawbacks. That's why its cool.
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@magus Chaos Inoculation would also be pretty bad in real life - always at deaths door but at least you're immune to poison(s).
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@lathun said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
@magus Chaos Inoculation would also be pretty bad in real life - always at deaths door but at least you're immune to poison(s).
This essentially makes you a StarCraft Archon
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@gąska said in Worst passive ability from a video game to have in real life:
In contrast, in every game I've played that has rage mechanic, it increases your damage and movement and attack speed substantially, without any drawbacks whatsoever (or at most an accuracy penalty)
Doom made your vision go red and hard to see.
