Well, okay. What powers are unbalanced given how difficult it is to get inducted?

I thought the shadow powers were pretty weak given how infrequently imperial spies worked.

Blades...hmm. *shrug* Not like they have deathblow.

Divine...don't remember. Super-sanc doesn't really scare me, though it would make them harder to kill.

So is it the black sect powers?

As an aside - the scariest thing about Empire is "cb" and the fact that they group up together moreso than random non-caballed evils. If I spot an imperial and tangle with him but have to teleport, I have to worry about being flown to, gated to, etc. Rather than just having to worry about being flown to by a "normal" shifter, I have to worry about being flown to by a sanc'd invoker-shielded shifter. You get the idea.