Quote:OOC Black Chaos X: ....huh
OOC Black Chaos X: so you can sit in tyrant's throne
OOC Black Chaos X: but not in the church throne
OOC Devourer Of Souls: sounds like a bug to me

Party members who are not leaders can dig holes. This allows the party leader to drag them into buildings, where they will finish digging the hole, leaving a mark on/in the ground.

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Here we are, episode 1.19 on this long-standing show. What do we have this week?

Just read the patch notes.

1.19
Attack Forecast Improvements - The attack forecast has been improved in several ways.

• Rather than showing up in the text box, the attack forecast will appear over the enemy (or enemies, if multiple targets).
  
• Only you will see the attack forecast, as it currently functions. You will also see your weapon's icon next to the expected damage/hit/critical.
  
• Click the spoiler below to see a screenshot of it in action.

• The layout of laplaceNET has received some visual changes as well.
  
• Click the spoiler below to see a screenshot of the changes. (Note that the Iahsus icon will 'glow' in-game.)

• Accel is a new battle style, similar to Stylish.
  
• In an Accel Battle, your turn comes based on your CEL, and everyone takes their turns independently of each other.
  
• This means that monsters can move while you are deciding which skill to use, or even attack you.
  
• Rounds will 'trigger' every 5 seconds; so a 3 duration skill will last about 15 seconds.
  
• Click the spoiler below to see a screenshot of an Accel battle. (Although it doesn't capture what it's like to be in one very well!)

• Added the Church DISCer expansion, featuring tiles from the Mercalan Church in Lispool.
  
• Contains about 43 tiles and a handful of new furniture craftables, including one that doesn't require an expansion.
  
• Tiles can be inserted as overlays on an existing tile by using Shift+Click.
  
• Tiles can be inserted as underlays on an existing tile by using Ctrl+Click.
  
• Note that the above effect is purely visual, and the original tile will retain its density/opaqueness.
  
• To see a preview screenshot, click the spoiler!

• Moved Woodcutting Axes to Tool Creation.
  
• Added 12 new items, including 4 types of Shovels and 8 types of traps.
  
• Now take a look at this! If you want to see a preview.

• Black Beasts will now attack Tannis sometimes in addition to Dormeho.
  
• Black Beasts that spawn during the raids on towns now have a chance to drop new items called Black Books. The chance to drop these items is higher for high level Black Beasts.
  
• Please send help to the location below immediately!

The crafting menu shows the 'White Bishop Statue' furniture item as 'White Knight Statue'. You can still craft the bishop, the name is just wrong.


Note: The lower one is the Bishop.

Right now, since his invoke skill scales off the Summoner's level, there isn't much of a reason to bother training a Firefox ( Or even having one, besides that nice fire absorb ), so I've been thinking, how about making the max number of Seeker Flames one can control based on the youkai's level, while still keeping the amount of flames summoned to 1 per skill use?

Or increasing the duration of the cinder tiles created by this youkai's passive by 1 per 10~20 levels, since they only deal 5 damage anyways. ( And giving it a toggle, since having fire and snow fall at the same time causes the user to leave cinder/snow tiles in a chess-like pattern, which is most likely intentional, but still. )

On a side note, Legumes give the user a rather powerful ( even more so on PvE ) AoE hp leech skill from the get go, without even having to train the youkai, so I suggest making it so synthesis also scale off the Youkai's level instead of the summoner's.

So as the name suggests, the topic is Spirit Mirrors. I have noticed more recently that the fact they reflect the damage of guns for full damage leaves gunners at a major disadvantage for the following reasons:

Once players know you are a gunner, they abuse this item hard. If they rely on CEL and you need to overcharge just to get a hit on them, this increases the chance of you criting yourself when you hit their mirror and thus dealing more damage to yourself.

Shotgun users, in particular, get the worst of this because in order to get past the mirror, they need to basically shoot themselves for huge amounts of damage. This uses 3 momentum and gives your opponent the reduction they need to finish you off, assuming they can hit you. Which is just an autohitter's best friend.

The only real way around this is through using a handgun. But why should you have to rely on using a specific gun or using Magic (such as Ryemi) to destroy a mirror?

Which is why I propose that Spirit Mirrors should do one of two things.

1. deal 50% damage to you rather than the full 100%
2. Have a percentage chance based on their opponent's Luc to reflect somewhere else and either not hit, or not redirect the attack for full damage (based on their LUC or possibly, CEL, although it seems more logical to be LUC)

When you have either a Spectre Sword or a Narcus equipped, its effect will activate no matter what weapon you're actually attacking with.

For example if you off-hand a spectre sword, then attack with whatever your main weapon is, it will fear on hit.

PvE as it stands, even with the recent addition of monsters gaining certain class skills, is monotonous and tiresome. Yet it's necessary if you want to be effective in other aspects of the game.

There's two issues I'll be addressing:

1. Dungeons as they stand are fairly dull. Once you've been in one, you've seen them all. Some dungeon types/prefixes mix things up or make things extremely frustrating without offering any real reason to go to them over a similar dungeon without the aggrivating qualities (i.e. crypts, spacey). There was a suggestion in the past to add new prefixes, which addressed this issue somewhat. (link)

2. Grinding in general is tedious as a result of the aforementioned issue, though with the semi-recent addition of training day and the exp-table changes, it was made somewhat less time-consuming. For people who cannot clear mobs optimally (I will not list examples to avoid silly arguments over who can clear fastest or 'oh i can do this') it can still be frustrating to reach the level cap. Some stats are just objectively better for PvE in terms of clear-time, and if your character lacks them, you -will- take longer without asking friends for help who -do- have those stats.


Onto the first issue. Going off the previous thread made on the topic, having dungeon prefixes be more varied, or simply give different rewards based on difficulty would be a start. Making dungeons somehow more difficult whether it be by giving monsters equipment/resists, or simply adding in some of the suggestions from that thread would be justified if said difficulty modifiers were followed up by making the rewards for clearing the dungeon, whether it be exp or items, greater than your average dungeon. Right now, the hardest dungeon you can get is simply more mobs on a larger map (or more mobs on a smaller map, depends on your build) and even then things aren't really any harder than having 3 or 2 mobs.

As mentioned in the thread regarding the Bands of x items, cores generally give very lackluster items, with a very slight chance to get what you actually want. The problem I see is that cores are pulling from literally every item in the game that meets its qualifications, thus narrowing in on what you want is impossible. A 0.12% chance to get an item while you're rolling for every single other item with that chance...odds are you'll never personally see that item. A suggestion to fix that would be allowing more core-crafting options, maybe make rarer items craftable but require cores? The recipes can be as insane as you'd want them to be, but it's better to have some kind of guarantee than potentially /never/ getting what you want. Another possibility is to make certain dungeons pull from certain tables of items, but, the point is there should be a way to better your odds beyond just getting more items.

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That's all I'll say on that for now, so, now for the second.

Grinding, is, as the term implies...grinding. It's to be expected to not receive instant gratification for it, but, after doing it over and over again, you have to wonder why there aren't any ways to make things go faster beyond 'nuke mobs more efficiently' which isn't an option everyone has. What I'd suggest is making ways to speed things up without necessarily making it so you have to clear the fights faster (although that will always be a quicker route, that's a topic for another day) which can be accessed by anyone. Something like increasing how many ranks you can buy of Deja Vu, so leing over and over will be slightly quicker. For people who don't plan to do more than a single run or two, adding in more 'green' items that boost experience is also valid, or any items really that'd effect exp gains. Or even a trait--the point is that the easiest way to make grinding faster, beyond overhauling pve, is to make exp gains easier and more abdunant. I'd also ask that, if these options were implemented, whatever the exp gain cap is should be lifted, or provide some way to lift it.

I don't have much more to say than 'add more exp modifiers' to fix grinding in general. How obtainable they are isn't too important as long as it's not overly excessive.

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TL;DR Dungeons need to vary more in difficulty and give greater rewards based on such, grinding needs to be less of a chore.

Blade Expertise isn't applying to Daggers, or at least not the Battle Weight reduction.