Hello everyone. This topic will focus on improving Herr Kommissar's skill set to make him a potential favourite risky epic to use for high levels. This is purely out of personal preference meaning it is only right for me to make these for some of the epics near his proximity of time during which he entered the game. That is to not make any bias towards a certain epic with and not let other epics who need a buff stay weak.

When Herr Kommissar was first introduced to the game, I was very excited to get him because he is my favourite monster design-wise. I love his walking, waiting and magic attack animation. The only problem with me liking him more was...his skills. It is viable but VERY limiting given that he is an epic.

Currently, his skill set does accurately portray his philosophy in the training grounds. Use punishments to detect cowards/would-be traitors and make them think twice about defecting or chickening out. However, it seems that the cons vastly overthrow the pros in his skills which made him a joke to the ML community. (I think)
I would like to change that and make him into an epic worth using. I have some ideas for new skills to overwrite current ones and a skill where once ranked to rank 4, he will access the special skill. Here they are:

Skills Group 1:

Endless Loyalty and Punish Unloyalists stay the same.

Fire and Fury: Applies double damage, burn and ignite to one ally. Requies cooldown. Stamina: 19 Cooldowns: 1

This would be changed to:

Fiery Loyalty: Applies damage boost to all allies. Applies burn to all allies. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 20 Cooldowns: 1

Skills Group 2:

Rival purge stays the same.

Inspiring Sacrifice: Gives 100% of stamina to one ally. Removes 10% of stamina from itself. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 17 Cooldowns: 1

This would be changed to:

Inspiring Sacrifice: Heals one ally by 30%. Removes 50% of stamina from one ally. Gives one extra turn to one ally. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 45 Cooldowns: 3

Fiery Loyalty: Applies damage boost and burn to one ally. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 16 Cooldowns: 2

This would be changed to:

Invigorating Sacrifice: Removes 30% of life from one ally. Gives 50% of stamina to one ally. Gives one extra turn to ally. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 45 Cooldowns: 3

Skills Group 3:

For the General: Applies double damage and ignite to all allies. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 18 Cooldowns: 3

This would be changed to:

Herr Kommissar's Favourite: Applies Triple damage, burn and ignite to one ally. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 35 Cooldowns: 2

Horrible Punishment: Deals very heavy dark damage to one enemy. Applies nightmares to all allies. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 17 Cooldowns: 3

This would be changed to:

Horrible Punishment: Deals very heavy (60%) dark damage to one enemy. Applies nightmares to all enemies. Applies nightmares to all allies. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 25 Cooldowns: 2.

Now, the interesting one.

Exhausting Charge: Gives one extra turn to an ally. Removes 50% of stamina from one ally. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 16 Cooldowns: 3

This would be changed to:

We March Till We Die Gives 3 extra turns to one ally. Ally will die in 2 turns. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 67 Cooldowns: 4

Lastly, the rank 4 skill. One of these 2 skills will randomly appear when Herr Kommissar reaches level 110:

You'll March Till You Die: Activates all cooldowns on one enemy. Gives 3 extra turns to one enemy. Enemy will die in 2 turns. Requires cooldown. Stamina: 95 Cooldowns: 4

Or:

The Endless March Begins: Ressurrects all allies with 100% Health. Gives stamina regeneration to all allies. Requires Cooldown. Stamina: 170 Cooldowns: 6

Now for his Special Skill:

Endless March: Gives 3 extra turns to itself.

This would be changed to:

The Endless March: Gives 2 extra turns to one ally.

These skills have been designed to work with the supercharged amulet Herr Kommissar can equip hence why they have high stamina.
Currently, at level 90, his speed is at 2,940. This will be decreased to 2,600.
His life is currently at 17,855 at level 90. This will be increased to 20,035.
His power will remain the same.

I was eager to finish this so I might have left out some details. I will edit it in soon.

Please leave feedback on my suggestions and hopefully we can make Herr Kommissar great again.

Someone beat me to talking about Herr Kommissar, for I was planning to get around to talking about him in my improving older monsters posts. When I got around to epics. However this post was better worded then anything I could write. As for the ideas of buffs. I feel like some of these changes are kinda busted for an epic don't you think? However these skills could see on Warmaster for sure.

I'm thinking about what I would personally changed about him. I'm just gonna go over all his skills except default.

Ultimate
"Endless March"
Yeah I agree this is a pretty useless ultimate due to his nature as a supportive epic. However feel like it could be like Nishant's Bodyguard's Ultimate.

"Endless March" Removes all negative status effects from all allies. All allies gain 1 extra turn.

Skill Group 1
"Fire, and Fury"
This skill I would like changed. Due to it being kinda overkill for just 2x damage. However feel like it only needs a slight change.

"Fire, and Fury" Applies Double Damage, and Ignite to one ally. Requires cooldown.
Stamina=20, Cooldown=1

"Punish Unloyalists"
This skill kinda sucks, but it fits Skill Group 1, so it works. If I had to change it. Make it 45 base power instead of 30.

Skill Group 2
"Rival Purge"
This skill is really bad, and needs buffed in some way. I feel this.

"Rival Purge" Deals moderate Dark damage to one enemy. Removes all Positive Status Effects from one enemy. Requires cooldown.
Base Power=45, Stamina=29, Cooldown=2

"Fiery Loyalty"
This just a weaker version of the Skill Group 1 skill which is really odd. I think the change would be obvious.

"Fiery Loyalty" Applies Triple Damage, Burn, and Ignite to one ally. Requires cooldown.
Stamina=33, Cooldown=3

"Inspiring Sacrifice"
Even though the skill is perfectly fine. I got an interesting change to that could be done to it.

"Inspiring Sacrifice" Removes all Negative Status effects from one ally. Gives 100% of Stamina to one ally. Removes all Positive Status Effects from itself. Removes 100% of Stamina from itself. Requires cooldown.
Stamina=0, Cooldown=4

Skill Group 3
"Horrible Punishment"
I agree with the changes you want with the skill, and would make it alot better.

As for "Endless Loyalty", "Exhaustion Charge", and "For The General" these skills are perfectly fine being the same, but maybe need some rebalancing in stamina, and cooldown.

Hope not stealing your thunder, just wanted to discuss this "interesting" monster as well.

Yeeeaahh, sorry about that. I got a bit too excited while buffing him. Didn't realise that it would be absurd for an epic. The driving force behind it was that these moves would have required lots of stamina and I remember since the relics came out that he had the amulet slot so he could use the Supercharged Amulet. If not, then a stamina rune.

Also got a bit too excited while trying to name the skills like "We March Till We Die" and "The Endless March Begins". They just sounded too good for me to not consider putting them in.

While putting the stamina costs, I found it unnecessary to put a 0 stamina skill seeing that his current moves are already so cheap when it comes to stamina cost. I wanted him to be a high risk high reward monster. And what better way to do that than to put high stamina costs and high cooldowns. He could be a battle decider which is why I put his speed down a tad bit. I raised his life because I felt like he was quite squishy given the fact that he literally gives negative damage effects to his allies including him.

I think the "Give 3 extra turns to 1 ally. Ally will die in 2 turns" is a very interesting concept. You dont see alot of attackers with a self remove negative effect skill. So that skill should be used only in situations where you can utilize all 3 turns.

As for the enemy targeted version of that skill, I made it where the monster would to have a 0 cooldown remove negative effect to reap the benefit of getting 3 turns. Risk it for a reward.

I agree the resurrection skill was kind of a push. I just felt like bringing back your dead allies to start the march with stamina regeneration to never stop attacking was interesting.

As for your suggestions for skills, they make alot of sense. Your Inspiring Sacrifice also makes sense as well. While overwriting his current one, I wanted to shift the focus of hurting Kommissar himself, to hurting his allies. Seeing as he was the commander of many battalions, there would be no need for him to subject himself to punishment. The only reason I can see that happening is if his trainees get suspicious of his sadistic ways, then they'll question him which will prompt him to subject himself to punishment to prove that he can be treated just like one of them.

Just like Nemeses and Warmasters, I wanted him to get a special skill when he ranked up. I was originally gonna put it at rank 3 but that would be too close for a skill that good so I increased it to rank 4. Seems that might be too overpowered for an epic but at least it gives the user and incentive to use elementium to rank up more epics.

I don't have plans for another massive buff for an epic because i don't think any other epic right now needs it. I'm definitely not touching Sweeperion.

No you weren't stealing my thunder, I wouldn't have minded if you did it before me. Im looking to write over the "Improving Mr. Flaky" topic. Couldn't believe i deleted everything when I got to the last word. Lets Hope Carlos sees this and thinks about it.

@Eiwinskaller Yeah great ideas, just not the right monster to see them through. Maybe SP will use some of this stuff in the future at some point.