Guns are in quite the very weird state right now, they're extraordinarily weak except for 1 very specific build, they cannot deal damage to save their life unless you're abusing MLM + QD, not to mention that currently Akimbo is quite literally in a busted state, dealing 0 damage per shot, I believe...

So, I've found Painful Grip to be a bit oppressive. The 'it landed once, and now I have no recourse but to sit there and take 150 damage a pop until it fails' sort of oppressive. Mostly this issue crops up with combining it with spiked treads against most characters who don't have an option such as...

Kensei. The problem child that everyone has a pretty heated opinion about for various reasons.
I'm going to be that guy who gives their ideas for how to fix it here.

We're going to start with the active skills and work our way across.

Or should I say the one active skill that sees any use:...

Gigantys is one of the most, if not the most less used Boss Drop weapon out of all of the existant one, and there's a couple of fair reasons why. The weapon itself provides more drawbacks than benefits, and the constant STR dump you have to deal with to even wield the weapon without being over your...

Alright folks, it's me again. This time I bring up two talents which work quite awkwardly when compared to the others.

- Blade Expertise's Reliability grants bonus Hit and Durability reduction for nothing but simply wielding a Sword or a Dagger.
- Axe Expertise's Deadliness grants bonus Critical...

Just a bunch of Ghost buff ideas for the lesser loved skills so they'll see a bit more use.

Death Gaze
Suggested Changes: Changed FP Costs, Increased Damage, Removed Unmarkable Condition and Fear/Claret Call mandatory requirements, added additional Claret Call effects.

Death Gaze has been in a...

In light of how underrepresented the rail gun magi are right now, I wanted to make a few possible suggestions to help put Evoker in a better spot -- or at least generate productive discussion about other ways to do so. Strap into your seats and channel your inner Megablues, because it's time to...

The Two-Handed talent is leveraged wherever possible to stack % bonuses on top of % bonuses to unreasonable effect. One major component of all of the recent heartache associated with Duelists is their ability to use this talent alongside other multipliers like Bloody Palms, Crits, and (to a lesser...

Okay, I think we all know what I'll be talking about.

TACTICIAN

With the new addition of the new tactician spells, a certain combo is so oppressively strong that there is only one very specific way to counter it.

Before the addition of the new tactician spells, tacticians were still incredible...

Power Gradiation's usefulness has died down over time, what not with most weapons being able to interchange magical and physical damage on the fly, hell, swords just got a new skill in duelist that also does magic damage.

The only reason its not useful imo right now is because it costs 4m, it only...

Its not technically a bug but its a really annoying issue, nulls can cleanse off the Invoking status, most nulls in the game are 3m while invocations are at minimum 6m, this seems hardly fair and not even really thematic really.

I think like food/prayer buffs, Invoking should be an un-nullable...

Just as a disclaimer, this is mostly just a discussion and not something I have strong feelings about changing, but I thought I'd see what people thought of it. So remain civil and don't lose your minds arguing for or against this.

What if cinders behaved like ice sheets and disappeared once they...

Can Final Flare select which spells to consume in the explosion based on the order they're stolen? Without stealing only 3 spells, the skill carries with it a fairly high chance of throwing in one of the spells you don't want into the detonation.

This may be intentional, but, it would give us some...

Alright, so I've been mostly thinking about Ghost in the context of Kensei and Ghost side-by-side, and something people don't bring up often are the main class stats.

One thing I want to draw attention to is that going from Duelist to Ghost actually nets you a loss in stats, unless you invest in...

I don't have a witty name for this thread, quaking just isn't a very fun impact to use, its current effect is that it adds Rank*2 flat damage to a skill, which means it really just doesn't do anything special, and while earth is tied to the 3rd best defensive stat in the game I don't think it...

I've been hearing reports from just about everyone I know that jammers have been made waaaay too strong and that groups of jammers are taking upwards of 10-15 turns to actually defeat.

As annoying as that is, there's a bit more of a serious issue regarding this; the beginner stuff. The tutorial...

I never thought I'd have to make a post for the duelist update this soon. It's messed up because it's also one of my favorite class. This won't be as long as the other post (I'm bullshitting on the length) I've made so here we go.

It's about the new Crystal Rose -

WHO THOUGHT GIVING A CLASS...

Tainted (Cursed) - Wielder gains +3 Strength, but suffers -1 to all other stats.

So I think -1 to all stats is rather overboard for only 3 str and it pretty much makes just about anyone dump weapons cursed with this away. It is one of the most underused curses because of how prevalent the...

Some skill suggestions for Ghost, since Kensei is stronger than it is currently.

Blood Scent (Innate, 3 ranks max): Through sensing a wounded opponent, whether through literal scent or otherwise, you can avoid their killing intent in a more efficient manner. Gives 10 evade per rank against...