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It's been bugging me since I found out Defense works by granting %phys reduction instead of a flat reduction and this affects guns which are built around the idea that your defense isn't a factor, resulting in specifically tuned damage numbers. I wand to get a discussion going about how/if guns...

As of right now, stat reduction skills are horrendously monstrous right now. Rampaging getting reduced was a step in the right direction, but certain things (and boosters) are huge.

Let's take Archer for instance...

Sure, they take a penalty to hit.. but against uh. Anyone.. that can't dodge.....

Aaahhh, Lunar Lunatism, the Super Vampire-jin transformation that leads them to go even further BYOND! It's a pretty powerful and unique skill right now, the way it is.

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The true power of the vampire is said to be linked to the moon, and...

With the addition and changes to some racial skills and the removal of growths, some races in the Beta have been left far behind the average. I will briefly outline the two I think are doing poorly, and potential ideas to buff them if I have any.

1. Humans

The additional +2 skill points and...

I realize it was just introduced, and it is only experimental, but I thought I'd show my immediate thoughts on the matter.

While good in theory for only some skills, it isn't very good in practice for all skills, cooldowns should only be placed on very powerful skills, (That one being Lunar...

Fire Breath's damage is pretty puny the way it is right now because % reduction and passive 10% Fire Resist from talents only.

Character LV + Sanctity? I've tested it with 80 SAN and LV60, supposed to do 140 Fire Damage, right? No, the max damage I could do against someone with 15 RES was what, 33...

So, since Expanding Ice got nerfed (which was fine), there needs to actually be a bit of a change to the Fox tree.

Namely that most of it doesn't actually do that much damage for the momentum cost and FP cost tied with it.

They all, at max rank, cost 42 FP.

Icicle Spear 90% Ice Atk, 110% Scaled...

Some 10 stars could deserve some better scalings in the new system, whilist keeping their UL perks, I thought up a simple list, what do you think Dev?

Razing Salamander: UL% on attack, instead creates a lance that deals str+Wpn power+Fire atk fire damage, and leaves cinders LV UL

Mortissimo: UL%...

So. With removing the +30 affliction chance from rustic/doomed etc, you've created a SLEW of problems.

Right now the attacker (in every case), will never actually afflict someone.

I have 50 SKI and 50 WIL. 50 scaled wil in combat and 48 or so SKI in combat. I've a net total of 147% Affliction....

Critical hits from Youkai are dealing 0 damage apparantly.

Not the right place to put this since this is nothing related to balance but eh, didn't find anywhere else to put this, here goes.
-LOOC finally, loved the addition because it makes IC a lot more comfortable and immersive (idk?), and it can be ignored too, so less efforts for the staff to take...

With the reckoning under-way i'd just like to say, with the new conversion system for the power of youkai spells, some youkai have GREAT power (seiryu, Byakko, Drowned Woman) but some might not so much with their elements being ones that don't scale with what they get, like Hatsu and Izabe... So...

Expanding Ice needs a nerf on damage and the way it can be spammed. Right now, it works like:

Faker takes 149 Ice damage.
Faker takes 28 Ice damage.
Faker takes 28 Ice damage.
Faker takes 28 Ice damage.
Faker takes 28 Ice damage.

Hits once for a nitrogen-cold nuke, then multiple times for a...

So, here's your bi-monthly installment of elemental resistance is unfair , and it's even worse now.

Base resistance acts as a percent reduction. Elemental resistance acts as a percent reduction again. Magic Armor flatly reduces the damage. I'm not exactly certain which order all of this is applied...

So, sneak does not list a benefit for putting it to rank 3 right now... That doesen't quite make sense to me but if it listed that there might be situations it comes in handy or something in the description it'd have SOME incentive...

Healing right now, for most everything, are in a good spot. However there are some issues wherein its capable for healing upward of 266 hp every turn (380 to allies within 1 square) and do it as a mass heal for 4M that is, suddenly, everyone near you is a lot healthier.

Normally, I wouldn't...

With the way that stats currently scale, anyone who decides to naturally hardcap a stat will see almost no returns on any stat boosts in that area: for Instance, a Shaitan with 80 base STR and +8 STR boost will be no better off than they were at 80 STR total. This creates a need to cherrypick base...

Armor of Eyes still negates the hit bonus received from Guile. This makes it the best armor in the game to try and hit someone, and to try and dodge someone. It already gives an enormous middle finger to rogues with daggers, there's no need for it to have this much excess power.

I know it makes...

For the sake of clarifying why Critical is considered to be so unfair (And has gotten worse), I've taken it upon myself to list the different sources of Critical vs Critical Evade, as well as methods of boosting Critical Damage vs methods of reducing it.

Critical:
Weapons, Weapon Materials,...

Currently Sanguine Crest gives WIL based off of essence gathered. This is a good thing, however it does not actually directly correlate to your stats outside of combat. Which causes issues when starting combat of your FP being lower than it is. In my case, I start with 467 FP (40 WIL out of combat)...

can we please have the bots scaling be to a point where the standard ( from a level 35 engineer) bots will be on average able to Hit and Damage players with average dodge and defense

tl;dr Soul Chain and certain other skills now completely kill FP regen for 3-4 rounds, which means eternal stun for Dullahans. I don't really know of a reasonable solution beyond 'these skills shouldn't work on Dulls'.

Below is a brief excerpt from a fight that I got the... oh so lovely fun to take part in. And by fun, I mean it was impossible for me to even fight back. Let alone the fact that you have to actually do stuff but... Here are the caveats for Ryeser's effect.

To get the benefit of a Ryeser Critical...

So, with Physical and Mental stamina being on the low and low, a lot of things pretty much instantly drain you. Like having 42 vitality and trying to dig up the 17th hole, and you just can't because your weak noodly arms are too noodly.

Can things that take up PHYS and MENT stamina get checked up...

they have roughly 35-45+ at 60 in ALL stats.

example

STR
48

WIL
47

CEL
48

SKI
49

DEF
35

RES
39

VIT
37

LUC
34

FAI
47

GUI
34

SAN
7

APT
20

not sure if this is fair and balanced.