If you could fix one EPT...

By SirCormac, in X-Wing

Which one would it be? I'm not talking about nerfing 'broken' EPTs, but rather taking EPTs that are cool in some seminal form, but stumbled out of the gate in their card form.

For me, if I had to choose 1, it would be Daredevil. I WISH the card said this:

When you perform a Boost maneuver, you may use the 1 Turn template.

Cost: 2 points (3? maybe?)

My runner up would be this:

Cool Headed (Replacing Adrenaline Rush)

Treat all of your Red maneuvers as white.

Cost: 2 points (3 maybe?)

What would yours be?

PS - I also wish all of the discard EPTs (excluding Crack shot) cost 0 points.

I'd remove the stress from Opportunist. It's already 4 points and has a limited window of use. It doesn't need to ALSO give you a stress token.

There's a reason the 4pt EPTs before Expertise are barely/ever used.

Expose simply happens at the start of combat.

Its reducing your agility by 1 and is 4pts. Does it really need to be an action, which strips your mods as well?

Let's be honest, many of the 4pt EPTs are overcosted in that the "cost" to use them is too high compared to the actual points cost. The examples of Opportunist and Expose present above are both excellent examples.

Pilot Skill 7 or higher for PTL

(not my original idea, but it seems like it could dull the blade a bit)

Veteran's Instincts: 2 points.

Not an EPT fix per-se, but I wish a pilot card of every ship type has an EPT. As an Epic player, I want a generic pilot that I can customize as a squadron.

Elusiveness. Good concept but in this age of stacked mods, rerolling a single attack dice is not enough, particularly for a Stress token and the opportunity cost of the EPT.

Maybe allowing the user to reroll their Agility dice in exchange for a Stress token would be worth it.

Edited by Karhedron

Every single-use EPT would be replaced with a double sided card, with the front side changing "discard this card" to "flip this card over." The opposite side would read, "ACTION: Flip this card over." Would instantly make them more valuable than they presently are, as well as giving new life to Experimental Interface.

opportunist replaces "an additional die" with "an additional hit result"

nerf v omega leader, the horror

Push the Limit: A-Wing Only.

Edit: Oh. :(

Edited by Vandenberg

Push the Limit: A-Wing Only.

Veteran's Instincts: 2 points.

Pilot Skill 7 or higher for PTL

(not my original idea, but it seems like it could dull the blade a bit)

3/10 posts did not read the OP (or chose to ignore it). *sigh* He asked for buffs, people, not nerfs.

Well, my personal fix would be changing Outmaneuver to disallow modifying defense dice. Not sure how much that'd need to cost, though.

Let's be honest, many of the 4pt EPTs are overcosted in that the "cost" to use them is too high compared to the actual points cost. The examples of Opportunist and Expose present above are both excellent examples.

Especially with the best 4pt EPT in the game about to come out...

Elusiveness (cost 2 pts, no change here), just one word to fix it completely...

When defending, you may receive 1 stress token to choose 1 attack die. The attacker must reroll cancel that die.

If you have at least 1 stress token, you cannot use this ability.

If only...

Yeah Elusiveness is another one.

I could get behind the Stress to Cancel 1 die or still force a reroll w/o giving you a stress, but you cant use it while stressed.

Adrenaline rush would the maneuver to it to a a green instead of a white, let you pull all of the tricks out of the bag.

Push the limit: Can not be used to Barrel Roll or Boost.

If just one upgrade...Leia crew should just be x points (1 point per charge). Discard a charge to treat all red manuevers as white.

If I have to play with an ept....squad leader. 0 points, may be equiped to a ship with out the ept upgrade if it is the highest PS in your list (or tied).

Draw their fire, expand it to a hit or crit

Marksmanship. Now that Expertise has robbed it of all its glory, I'd change it to something like:

Marksmanship (EPT, 2 points)

Action. When attacking this round, you may change all blank results to focus results.

You're welcome, Norra.

Attani Mindlink. Remove the Scum only. Open up this awesome upgrade to the other factions. PTL would finally have some competition on Imps and maybe some of the synergy rebel pilots become useable. Garvin would be AWESOME with Mindlink!

Remove Push the Limit and buff every other EPT. Let everyone see the light that is EPTs that are not Push the Limit.

Make Expose not take an action, instead be an optional toggle at the start of the combat phase.

Maybe a dual card? Where you flip it from one extra attack/less evade to extra evade/less attack?

Reduce price on Outmaneuver to 2 points. Maybe it would see more play that way.

Expose: make the change permanent, and reversible:

Action: reduce your agility by one and increase your attack by one, or reduce your attack by one and increase your agility by one, to a minimum of 0 agility and 1 attack.