What does everyone think about Touch of Nurgle?

[Indrid]

The global that makes everyone that faces it groan! Is it too effective against melee builds? My main problem though is not its effectiveness in general, but that it is so obviously geared to use with AC Heretics Doomblasting the crap out of stuff. Yes, you can get other uses out of it (combined with the Plague Marine death explosion it can be very nasty) but otherwise you don't often want to stay in engagements where you will lose models to get anything out of it.

I think if it was reworked into the following it would be kinda cool:

The target squad gains a kind of Icon of Nurgle effect, ie passive DoT, and also the KB and AoE heal on death but NO AoE damage on death. That way it is useful for all of your squads, because they would constantly be dealing damage, and if they die you get another benefit.

It also prevents the huge damage spikes that currently come from the death explosions that can easily happen without you realising ToN is up. You will probably eat one before you can retreat, which is really painful.

What does everyone think? Fine as it is? OP as heck?

[Lulgrim]

Technically the damage can be removed of course, and I think I could also make it skip the damage if you used Doom Blast (so non-suicided models would still damage). And it can also make different damage for different models - I always thought people might use it on say CSM or Letters if it was more effective on them than Tics. I am not sure what would be best balance-wise.

As for OP, I played most my games when it had the old CR era damage so people saying OP now make me <Yao Ming face.gif>

[Caeltos]

I dont' think people have quite figured out the cooldown on it yet. You can technically focus fire them and avoid damge, if it's working as intended.

[Lost Son of Nikhel]

Yeah, the DOT effect could be great and you can evade doomblast heretic for the TON damage effect. But now we have new balance problems.

- The DOT needs to do very small damage, and/or increase his effect when is applied in a non-heretic squad. (similar to the current TON damage effect, less efective in heretics).

- Needs to have very small AOE.

[Nuclear Arbitor]

i don't think it should work on non-nurgle demons, both because letters already do a lot of power melee and because it's unfluffy. worship is also still really great on demons.