The Glory and Horror of Maul

I agree, maul seems to be too good.

If you upgrade your unit's accuracy at all, maul almost never misses

A 50% penalty to miss EVERY time would probably still be too OP. I killed the earth elemental lord ( the worm guy) with 2 attacks from a lvl 5 guy

I agree. Maul is to strong.

Maybe cap the number of attacks at 3 + (Dex / 10).

How much extra damage does Maul do?  If two times, then I would think something like number of attacks = 2 + (Dex/10), and the Dex/10 would always be rounded down.

Maul doesnt do extra damage. You just keep attacking until the enemy dodges.

Also, the bigger the monster, the less dodge they have, it seems. It makes sense somehow, but also makes them dead meet for anyone with Maul and a bit of Acc.

I've just realized the joy of Maul.

Then it got even better (worse?) when combined with the Growth spell. Imagine Maul at 2x the damage. I have a stack 2 guys which is pretty much wiping things out. Only mobs with a stack of creatures doing 85 or higher damage have a chance against my lvl 15 guy.

Yes Maul is definitely too strong, it should be nerfed or just put on highlvl creatures. And the items should be extremely rare.

However I did not come to enjoy Maul as it freezes my PC for an insane amount of time (often >= 30 seconds). But well since my hero does ~60 dmg per hit - no problem

I haven't gotten to the point where I've gotten it myself, but I've been on the receiving end of it.

I dread seeing "Maul" on my screen, at least when it's not followed up by "Dodge."

Yeah... it needs to be toned down a bit, even if it means that other aspects of "maul"-ing monsters need to be tweaked.

Maybe Maul should halve accuracy instead of a -3 for each hit?

I remember losing a good army of regular troops to some "maulers"... 

It's awesome ability and once you have some levels/gear to back it up, makes other special attacks pointless. But hey, it's a nice mob slayer so I can save turns.

You should see maul with the trait that gives +1 accuracy per level.  So overpowered it's silly.

I agree with others here.  We need a more aggressive reduction of accuracy or a % reduction to accuracy on each swing.  Maybe add a cap on the max number of swings.

Three swings max, first at 100% acc, second 50% acc, third 25% acc. Stop if miss.

Good call. Even two swings is very powerful, it doubles your damage, it's enough to make any other weapon or special attack that doesn't also double your damage redundant. So for balance purposes even the second swing needs a harsh penalty, and more than two should be rare if not impossible - Sir_Linque's suggestion would accomplish that nicely.

Although I wouldn't mind if you got a potential fourth swing at 12.5% accuracy if the first three hit, and so on at half each time - it'd better preserve the un-capped nature of the skill without adding much chance of swings over 3 in practice.

Isn't part of the problem that some monsters have very low dodge. If I am not mistaken accuracy vs dodge is used to calculate your hit chance.

Now, if your enemy has near-zero dodge, 12.5 percent attack is still going to likely hit. So, units with low dodge are still easy to kill in one turn.

Maul should work if both of these were implemented for each subsequent attack.

1/2 chance to hit

1/2 damage (round down)

It stops when you miss or when damage gets to zero