Spiritual Orb

This ability is learned by purrfection at lvl 40. I like the skill but with one reserve. It's damage is lowered due to its ability to cause the debuff confusion. However unlike stomp and trample (physical abilities) and Ultrasonic (psychic), inflicting the enemy with confusion is not a garuntee. I agree with the reducing of damage but adding the "chance" of confusion makes it rather useless as you could easily waste a turn when it doesn't work. Also a matter to be considered is that it's a lvl 40 epic skill. It's proc rate should be consistent in my opinion and not chance based. This is unbalanced compared to other more easily obtained skills.

Stomp and similar skills are NOT a guarantee confusion as well.
Ultrasonic's only effect is the confusion but its accuracy is not that high.
I think Spiritual Orb is fine for now. Making the confusion chance 100% will just make it overpowered, in my opinion.

I have trample and every time ive used it, it has confused the enemy unless it was a finishing move. I have to agree with op here, ive seen spiritual orb used many times (mainly by lupa who learns it at level 40 as well) and have never seen it confuse. heck I didn't even know it did.

Yea spirit orb is hardly worth it, I replaced it immediately on my lupa. Especially for learning it at lvl 40, I think if you learned it earlier it wouldn't be so disappointing.

Stomp and similar skills are NOT a guarantee confusion as well.
Ultrasonic's only effect is the confusion but its accuracy is not that high.
I think Spiritual Orb is fine for now. Making the confusion chance 100% will just make it overpowered, in my opinion.

stomp, trample, and ultrasonic are garunteed to cause confusion if it successfully hits.

Stomp has 90% chance to hit intermediate skill
Trample 80% advanced skill
Ultrasonic 70% basic skill

Spiritual Orb is an advanced skill and it just doesn't work like its description describes. It needs to be fixed.

Well, I said that they weren't a guarantee because it says 'chance to confuse' in the description.
Also, I seem to recall not getting the confusion effect at least once with my Blocky, which is why I replaced it.

I might be wrong, though! You guys might be right and seeing that there are a few of you, most likely you are.

But having said that, attack + guaranteed confusion is, I think, too much. Probably if the accuracy is lowered, I might be on board.

Then again, partly the reason I'm saying this is because I feel like it might make Lupa more overpowered. :S

I wasn't aware Lupa obtained this skill as well, if that's the case then it must be an intermediate skill and not advanced. That was a mistake on my part.

I could be wrong but I think photosynthesis is an advanced skill, if that's the case than branchy shouldn't learn it, but he does. lupa could be the same type of exception. like I said though I could be wrong, I just recall someone saying that, I just always thought it was intermediate

Good point, I never thought about branchy learning photosynthesis even though he's only rare. I think if spiritual orb is intermediate then it's fine as is, but if it's advanced then it needs improvement. So I guess that's what we need to figure out, if anyone gets it from a book chest let us know what level it was.